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| Feb-27-12 | | goodevans: <WhiteRook48: why did Black continue after his Q got pinned?> Losing Q for R only leaves a small material deficit and perhaps some thoughts of survival. <34.c4> picks up at least another piece. |
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| Feb-27-12 | | Garech: Fantastic game and great pun. 12.e5! was a great conception. Cheers, -Garech |
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| Feb-27-12 | | Alphonse1973: Another great game from "Ljubo":
Larsen vs Ljubojevic, 1975 |
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| Feb-27-12 | | Limpin Kt: Agh! Can be a sunday puzzle for me :) i do not play sicilian defense often, cz i find in the resulting type o position one single tactical move equalises for black and i find such positions give white free space advantage- by al means i didn't prepare for sic, and may all the sic followers out these forgive me for the above comment, but hey, i also have heard that king's pawn openings got back seat in high-high-high level chess competition because of c5 reply- high success rate for black! |
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| Feb-27-12 | | Alphonse1973: Ljubojevic vs Ulf Andersson, 1976 Two decades ago Timman said it was the best game in 25 years. |
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| Feb-27-12 | | JohnBoy: <Alphonse1973: ... Two decades ago Timman said it was the best game in 25 years.> It may be hard for younger readers here to know just how stunning some of Ljubo's combinations were in the mid 70's. Pre-internet & pre-engine, trying to figure out what was going on in games like this was deeply consuming to the teenager I was at the time. While Ljubo could never quite best Karpov, he was far more fun to watch. |
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Feb-27-12
 | | kevin86: The "quiet" last move leaves the bishop no place to go and black's game falls like a house of old,wet cards. |
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| Feb-27-12 | | madlydeeply: < Jim Bartle: "Is this game not the ultimate <ROOK LIFT> game?"> my ultimate rook lift game. 2 Rook lifts and forget about castling. Bah! What a silly coffeehouse game! except it wasn't, it was the first game of world championship match. What balls! Tal vs Botvinnik, 1960 |
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| Feb-27-12 | | LoveThatJoker: I noticed that this was today's GOTD, but didn't click on the game as I was more enthralled with kibitzing and having some fun with Guess-the-Move. I played a game by GM Reshevsky and surpassed par by a decent margin which was nice. I then realized that I had yet to look at the GOTD so decided to specifically ask Guess-the-Move to find it for me so I could give it a shot. Par on this game is 35. I finished with 45.
It feels good to finish with a good/decent score, but man that was tough! I felt like I was playing a serious tournament game. Guess-the-Move is intense!
LTJ |
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Feb-27-12
 | | Penguincw: A fairly nice way to start the year of 1976. |
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Feb-27-12
 | | scormus: <Alphonse1973: Ljubojevic vs Ulf Andersson, 1976
Two decades ago Timman said it was the best game in 25 years.> Two decades, that was .... when Timman was a force to be reckoned with. If he thought it was that good it must have been special. I can only say I was in awe of Ljubos vision and tactical virtuosity as I played it through. Amazing play. <LTJ> 45, well done. A great score on such a game. No wonder you felt you were playing a tough match. I probably wouldnt have got much over 20 against a par 35. I think I only once beat par out of about 6 goes at guess the move, and that game didnt have this level of tactics. |
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Feb-27-12
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| Feb-27-12 | | GBKnight: In Timman's "The Art Of Chess Analysis" (1980) he suggests that Andersson showed 12 e5 to be premature, and comments that "If this is good then black can't play the Sicilian anymore". Still a fantastic game for all that. |
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| Feb-27-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <scormus> Thanks, man! Yeah seriously: It felt like playing a serious tournament game! Being like 99.99999% sure that it was the GOTD for today - as in the Guess-the-Move search function I typed 'Andersson' and '1976' (guessing that was the year due to the pun on the homepage) - it was like double incentive to do better and hence double the pressure! LTJ |
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| Feb-28-12 | | DarthStapler: Also once I recreated this game on ICC with some guy so we could trick his friends into thinking he won it |
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| May-16-12 | | recon: Why didnt black take white queen@ move19 |
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| May-16-12 | | recon: Pardon me. Black queen. |
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May-16-12
 | | keypusher: <recon> I think you mean move 20 -- but then 20....Nxe2+ forks white's king and queen. |
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| Apr-16-15 | | Howard: By the way, we do know that (contrary to what Chess Life & Review and also the Informant said back in '76), that
30.Qe4 did NOT force a win after all, contrary to its threatening appearance. No one here has pointed that out, though Timman's book certainly does. |
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Apr-16-15
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<Apr-17-04 dac1990: Analyzed by Timman is 30. ... Qxa2, which gives Black counterplay and drawing chances. Certainly better than 30. ... g5.> |
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| Jan-06-16 | | clement41: Amazing game; plenty of tactical sidelines! Such as after 17...Nxd3 & 21...b6 |
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| Mar-03-17 | | Olavi: The usual problem about nomenclature. It says Bastrikov variation, but after ten move it's the most classic Scheveningen possible. |
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| Sep-21-21 | | tinnderbox: Fun facts about Ljubojevic with white v Andersson. They played 27 times, this was #10. This result made the score: 5 wins to Ljubojevic and 5 draws. A very unbalanced score, given that they were roughly the same age and more or less of equal strength. Based on this game Ljubojevic would never have guessed he would never beat Ulf again with white. But that's exactly what happened! After this they played 17 more times and each and every one of those would be drawn.
Strangely, in 27 games with black Andersson was never able to beat Ljubojevic. |
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| Sep-16-22 | | thom0909: Crouch includes this in 'Great Attackers' and quotes analysis by Timman, Nunn and others.
He say 24... f5! would have been great for Black (but hard to prove in pre-computer days). So White should have played 24. Bxg7 followed by Qxg7, which would have lead to a threefold draw. |
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| Sep-16-22 | | Granny O Doul: I saw a couple of experts follow this through move 23, and then force the draw with Bxg7 and Qxg7+. I told them it was the best game in 35 years. |
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