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Boris Gelfand vs Nigel Short
Tilburg Interpolis (1990), Tilburg NED, rd 10, Sep-18
Dutch Defense: Rubinstein Variation (A84)  ·  0-1

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Given 28 times; par: 41 [what's this?]

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Nov-10-04  Poisonpawns: Nice game of how to play stonewall against h3,g4 system
Oct-16-05  Poisonpawns: Nigel just destroys Gelfand,I dont know what to say about this game.Nigel sure knows how to hold the iniative once he gets it! I mean he did not let up.
Jun-27-12  LoveThatJoker: Powerful game from GM Short!

LTJ

Jun-10-13  Bowen Island: Black's more active pieces end up dominating the board, for example, Black's Queen goes from d8 to a5 to d5 to h5 to h4 to f2 to e1 in the final 15 moves!
Nov-04-23
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  chrisowen: Gips its ok its wu q v tax Rxf2+ ace its o c either ein aah its hark its glock its finish bug farm Rxf2+ its off.
Nov-04-23  mel gibson: That was as simple as a pimple.

Stockfish 16 says:

26... Rxf2+

(26. .. Rxf2+ (Rf6xf2+ Kg2-h1 Rf2xe2 Qc2xe2 Qh4xe4+ Rh2-g2 Ba6xc4 Qe2-g4 Qe4-b1+ Kh1-h2 Nc7-e8 Rg2-g1 Qb1-b3 Be3-f4 Bc4-d5 Qg4-d1 Qb3xd1 Rg1xd1 Rf8xf4 Rd1-b1 Rf4xd4 Rb1-b8 Kg8-f8 Rb8-b4 Rd4-d2+ Kh2-g1 Rd2-d3 Rb4-h4 Rd3xa3 Rh4xh7 c6-c5 Kg1-f2 a7-a5 Kf2-e2 Kf8-e7 Ke2-d2 a5-a4 Rh7-h5 c5-c4 Kd2-c2 Ra3-b3 h3-h4 a4-a3 Rh5-e5 Ne8-d6 Re5-e1 Rb3-b2+ Kc2-c1 c4-c3 Re1-g1 Nd6-f5 Rg1xg7+ Nf5xg7 Kc1-d1 a3-a2) +12.89/41 488)

score for Black +12.89 depth 41.

Nov-04-23  Brenin: Black is the exchange up, and has all his heavy artillery aimed at White's poorly defended P on f2, so 26 ... Rxf2+ 27 Bxf2 (27 Kg1 Qg3+ with mate, or 27 Kh1 Rxe2 28 Qxe2 Qxe4+ 29 Rg2 Bxc4 30 Qxc4 Qxe3 with an easy win) Qxf2+ 28 Kh1 Qe1+ 29 Kg2 Rf2+ 30 Kg3 Rf1+ 31 Kg4 Rg1+ with mate in a few moves. Black was probably winning by move 25, but White's odd-looking 25 Rh1 and 26 Rh2 hastened his demise.
Nov-04-23  Allderdice83: A nice easy one. A Tuesday level puzzle as a Saturday bonus. Took me a while, though, cause I kept thinking of retaking with the rook instead of the queen.
Nov-05-23  Granny O Doul: I remember Short's annotations where he repeatedly referred to his opponent as "Bob". I guess it helped diminish Gelfand's aura, in his eyes.
Nov-05-23
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  saffuna: < I guess it helped diminish Gelfand's aura, in his eyes.>

Maybe so. Short defeated him 5-3 in their candidates match the next year.

Nov-05-23
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  Breunor: This seemed pretty straightforward.

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