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| Feb-05-06 | | joeaverage: The website reved at noon on Feb 4 instead of midnite? |
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| Feb-05-06 | | guidomiguel: wow i got the first 3 moves, but then forgot the black queen had no good squares and couldnt find a continuation.... very well done by Suetin. |
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| Feb-05-06 | | Fan of Leko: Didn't get it (but might have if I wasn't so lazy). Play through the whole game- Excellent play by white from start to finish. |
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| Feb-05-06 | | Fan of Leko: g5 loses of course, but is there anything better? gxf6 looks a little better, but white gets open lines for his bishops in any case eventually. |
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| Feb-05-06 | | Madman99X: Black's defense is crushed. I don't even try on Saturdays any more. I think it might drive me to substance abuse if I did. |
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| Feb-05-06 | | dakgootje: didnt get whites 43th move, however the first few were obvious, so maybe it would have been better if it had been placed earlier in the weak. post scriptum: Did chessgames.com besides seemingly changing the days with puzzles, now also messed up the time of when it is midnight? =P |
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Feb-04-06
 | | al wazir: I didn't come close to seeing 43. Rxa5. I thought white would win by somehow promoting a pawn. But maybe that wasn't totally off the mark. Suppose black plays 44...Nc7 instead of Qc7. Does white have anything better than 45. f7 ? Black has to give up a piece with 45...Bxf7 in order to stop 46. e7, with the double threat of exd8 and f8=Q. |
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Feb-04-06
 | | Moondoll: I actually saw the first few moves on this one. Pretty sure Rxa5 wasn't in what i was looking at but this is a nice play for Suetin. I was pretty much looking at getting the connected passed pawns. |
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| Feb-04-06 | | sfm: sfm: <<al wazir> Suppose black plays 44...Nc7 instead of Qc7. Does white have anything better than 45. f7 ?> 45.Rb5 looks real nasty. Also 45.e7 wins a full rook back (45.-,Rd7? 46.f7). What to put on c7 was "a choice between plague or cholera" as we say in Denmark. :-) |
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| Feb-04-06 | | dzechiel: Great combination. I wanted to play 41 ♖xa5 first and then the ♘ sacrifice. I'm not sure if that order is sound or not. In any case, I certainly didn't see everything in this position. A very pretty finish to this game. |
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| Feb-04-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: My first guess for White's 41st move was 41.Bxd5?! I guess I did see the importance of breaking Black's pawn chain, but taking the d5-pawn with the knight is indeed much better. I simply chose the bishop to take d5 because usually knight are slightly better in closed positions..but actually Nxd5 opens up the position, so my thinking was not clear. Also, like many others, I didn't even come close to seeing Rxa5 :( Here's a deep analysis by Crafty after 40...fxg6:
41.Nxd5 exd5 42.e6 Qc6 43.Rxa5 bxa5 44.e7 Rd6 45.Qe5 Kd7 46.Rb7+ Kc8 47.Rxa7 Re6 48.Rxa6 Rxe5 49.Rxc6+ Kd7 50. Bxe5 Kxc6  (eval. +2.50; depth 18 ply; 865M nodes) |
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| Feb-04-06 | | vizir: I saw the first 4moves but didnt see d5 could be taken great combination |
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| Feb-04-06 | | Greginctw: can you reverse the order by playing rxa5 first? this is what i did. |
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| Feb-04-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <can you reverse the order by playing rxa5 first? this is what i did.> <Greginctw> Crafty's evaluation after 41.Rxa5: 41...bxa5 42.Nxd5 Rxd5 43.Bxd5 exd5 44.e6 Qd8 45.Qe5 Nc7 46.e7 Qd7 47.f7 Bxf7 48.Qxh8+ Be8 49.Qe5 Nb5  (eval. +1.80; depth 15 ply; 32M nodes)
So Crafty thinks this is almost as good as 41.Nxd5! |
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| Feb-04-06 | | TTLump: <dakgootje: didnt get whites 43th move ...> 43.Rxa5 clears the way for the potential Rb8# after White removes the Knight on a6. This was made possible by 42.e6, clearing the diagonal for White's Bishop. White never actually gets to play Rb8#, but the constant threat of it keeps Black tied up in knots! The two passed pawns on the sixth rank also added to Black's worries; he must have known he was finished after 42.e6! 44.Qe5 renews the mate threat on B8.
The combined threat of the mate on B8 and the two passed pawns on the 6th rank are just too much for Black. |
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| Feb-04-06 | | ckr: 23 minutes and I was proud as a peacock!
41.Rxa5 bxa5 42.Nxc4 dxc4 43.Bb7+ Kd7 Bxa6 and Black's goose is cooked. but as usual, I blew it.
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| Feb-04-06 | | TTLump: I just can't stop thinking about how good move 42.e6!! was. 1. It unleashes a discovered attack on Black's Queen and also on Black's b8 square which as we will see, plays a huge factor in Black's ultimate demise. 2. It puts two passed pawns side-by-side on the sixth rank, which by itself is often an insurmountable obstacle for the opponent. 3. It controls d7, the Black King's only escape square, if and when White plays Rb8, which both of the next two moves are working towards ... I have to say, this is one of the finest combinations I have seen here in a while. |
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| Feb-04-06 | | Kelvieto: The quote of the day was right... |
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| Feb-04-06 | | ckr: We must however, remember that not everybodyis suited to the French defense. The person who does not have real chess character, who does not have the talent of a researcher or is not prepared to work hard better play something else!! The French is a difficult and dangerous opening! - <M. Botvinnik, July 1975> |
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| Feb-04-06 | | TTLump: <al wazir: Suppose black plays 44...Nc7 instead of Qc7. Does white have anything better than 45. f7 ? Black has to give up a piece with 45...Bxf7 in order to stop 46. e7, with the double threat of exd8 and f8=Q.> I think 45.e7 works better than 45.f7, as follows:
45.e7 Bf7 (not Rd7, else NOW 46.f7 and White threatens the H-rook, threatens the bishop and threatens to Queen one of the pawns - Black can't avoid the loss of major material in just a few moves - the Rook on D7 instead of D8 turns out to be a fatal weakness in this position) 46.exd8=Q+ Rxd8 (better than the alternative after 46.... Rd7) 47.Qe7 Be6
48.f7 Bxf7,
and White quickly converts his considerable positional advantage into a material advantage, not as spectacular as the main line in the game but convincing nevertheless. |
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Feb-04-06
| | al wazir: Thanks, <sfm> and <TTLump>. I guess the answer to my question is "yes." |
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| Feb-04-06 | | Cogano: <sfm> & <TTLump> Thanks much for the analysis. Much obliged, as always. I wonder if either of you, or anyone else
for that matter, would be good enough to explain some-thing to me: Given the actual position of the game, as it stands after 47.Qxa5, is a mate by White imminent (within a few moves)? & if yes, then how? If not, then what would his best line be? Thank you kindly. Take very good care & have a great weekend. Cheers! |
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| Feb-04-06 | | HannibalSchlecter: castling queenside looked suicidal, what was black thinking? |
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| Feb-04-06 | | ex0duz: Cogano, black cant stop Rb8++. For instance;
47. Qxe6 48. Qxa6+ Qxa6 49. Rb8++
47. Nc7 48. Qxa8 with the same threat of mate at b8 with 2 passed pawns on the 6th rank just prove to be too much for black. |
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| Feb-04-06 | | Cogano: <ex0duz> Thanks for the explanation. But, if 47... Qxe6, then 49.Rb8 is not mate, since 47...Qxe6 freed up the d7 square for the King to escape to! &, 47...Nc7, 48.Qxa8? What ever happened to Black's a7 pawn? I'm sure you meant 48.Qxa7. Thanks again. If I may trouble you further, what do you think of 47...Rh7? It seems to give Black a chance: 47.Qxa5 Rh7, 48.Qxa6+ Rb7, 49.Rxb7 Qxb7, 50.Qxc4+ Kd8, 51.e7+ Kd7 & White's checks run out. But I may have missed something. Thanks much again. Take very good care & have a great week end. Cheers mate! |
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