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| Aug-14-02 | | refutor: i love these "attacking the uncastled king" miniatures. this game had it all, castling with check, queen sacrifice, you name it ;) if i was playing the black side of this position, with White's lead in development, i probably would've played 7. ... O-O (of course hindsight is 20-20). if you're gonna play ...exf4 v. the king's gambit, my opinion is that you play it on the 2nd move :) |
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| Aug-14-02 | | pawntificator: I especially enjoyed the ending of this game, given that Alekhine specifically made a point to eliminate the bishop with 7. Na4 8.Nxc5, thereby taking possesion of the a7-g1 diagonal away from black, and enabling him to castle. From there it's almost reminiscent of Legal's mate, except that it is the bishop on c5 that gives check to the king on e7. Of course, since it is the bishop rather than the usual night to d5 the king has a path of escape on f6, and when that beautiful check by castling sent the black king running again, he greedily takes the horse, which Alekhine willingly gave, perhaps because he was angry that the horse deserted the queen, although it was surely because he knew that taking it was instant death. And even if Black had taken flight instead with 14....Kg5 it was far too late anyway, because 16. Be3+ with mate soon after, not 16. Rf5+ because I think that Black could slip away with 16....Kh5, and then it is too late to play 17. Be3+ because 17....g5 and Black can escape by sacrificing his own queen to save his arse and then Black would be winning. I think refutor was right saying that black should have castled at move 7, but it wasn't totally hopeless until 10....Ne5?. Black could have gotten away with 7....exf4 if he had castled on the 9th move. I wonder if black was holding a grudge against Alekhine taking his bishop that caused him to play 9....Nh5, a pointless move, though not as bad as blacks next. Regardless, the effect isn't the same as when Alekhine sent his Knight to the furthest edge of the board. A thoroughly enjoyable game!!!:) |
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Aug-14-02
 | | Sneaky: All I can say is, WOW! |
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| Aug-15-02 | | bishop: By the way if 14...Kg5 the fastest mate is 15.Be3+ Kh4 16.Rf5! Qd4 17.Bxd4 Ng3 18.hxg3+ Kxg3 19.Bf2 mate. |
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| Aug-15-02 | | pawntificator: I guess black could have also saved himself with 13...Qd6, although he would have ended up a piece down... |
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| Jun-10-03 | | patzer2: If 14...Kg5, instead of 14...Kxe5, then easier for me to see is 15.Rf5+ when if 15..Kh6 16. Be3+Nf4 17. BxN+ Qg5 18. BXQ#
if 15...Kh4 16. Bf2+Ng3 17. Bxg3# |
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Jun-10-03
 | | Honza Cervenka: If 14...Kg5 15.Rf5+ Kh6 16.Be3+?, then after 16...g5 white's position is not very convincing. But 16.Bd5 (instead of 16.Be3+) threatening with Nf7+ or Be3+ seems to be sufficiant. Of course, the best way to win the game after 14....Kg5 is 15.Be3+, for example <yes, I see the line mentioned above but I have found another one:-)> 15...Kh4 16.g3+ Nxg3 (16...Kh3 17.Be6+ Bg4 18.Bxg4#) 17.Rf4+ Kh3 (17...Kg5 18.h4+ Kh6 19.Rf6#) 18.Be6+ Nf5 19.Bxf5+ Bg4 20.Bxg4+ Kh4 21.Nf3#. |
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| Jun-10-03 | | chessamateur: Reminds me of Legal's Mate but he doesn't have the 2 knights. |
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| Jun-10-03 | | patzer2: <Honza Cervenka> Appreciate the correction. Bishop's win with 14...Kg5 15. Be3+Kh4 16.Rf5!Qd4 17.Bxd4 Ng3 18. hxg3+ Kxg3 19. Bf2 is indeed the fastest mate. However, as you pointed out 14..Kg5 15.Rf5+Kh6 16. Bd5 (not 16. Be3? g4 and black wins) also works but is not as quick or sure a way of securing the win as Bishop's line. Went to chesslabs.com for computer analysis and after 14...Kg5 15. Rf5+Kh6 16. Bd5, the computer gives the following six white-side winning variations: 16...Qf6 17.Be3+g5 18. Bxg5+Kg7 19. Bxf6+Nhxf6 20.Rxd1Nxd5 21.Rf7+Kh6 22.exd5Rc8 23.Kf2Kg5
(4.09 plus score for white)
16...Qxd5 17.exd5 g5 18.Rxd1 Nhf6 19. Be3 Re8 20.Bxg5+Kg7 21. Bxf6+ (3.71 plus score) 16...Qe8 17. Nf7+ Qxf7 18.Be3+ g5 19. Bxf7 Ng3 20. hxg3 Bxc2 21. Rxg5 (3.34 plus score) 16...Qe8 17.Be3+ g5 18.Rxd1 Kg7 19. Rxg5+ Kf6 20. Ng4+ Ke7 21. Re5+ Kd6 22. Rxe8 Rxe8 (2.60 plus score) 16...Qe8 17. Rxd1 g6 18.Be3+ Kg7 19. Rf7+ Qxf7 20. Nxf7 c6 21. Nxh8 cxd5 (2.32 plus score) 16...Qe8 17. Nf7+ Qxf7 18. Be3+ g5 19. Bxg5+ Kg7 20. Rxf7+ Kg6 21. Rxd1 Kxg5 22. Rxc7 (2.08 plus score) The last variation is black's best attempt, leading to a lost endgame with white having the advantage of four pawns (mostly passers) for a knight. Again, I appreciate your correction to my analysis and your own initiative in finding a saving line for white after 14...Kg5 15. Rf5+Kh3, with your recommendation of 16. Bd5! I personally found the computer analysis of how to win after your excellent recommendation to be a useful study in how to proceed with minor pieces versus queen in the middle game. |
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Jun-10-03
| | Honza Cervenka: I guess that (after 14...Kg5 15.Rf5+ Kh6 16.Bd5 Qe8) 17.Be3+ g5 18.Rxg5 threatening 19.Rg6# is also sufficient. |
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| Jun-11-03 | | drukenknight: 10...BxN 11 QxB Qh4+ may offer a chance. |
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Jun-11-03
| | Honza Cervenka: <drukenknight> I don't think so. After 10...Bxf3 11.Qxf3 Qh4+ 12.Bf2 black loses a piece at least as the point f7 and the Queen are under attack. 12...Ne5 doesn't work for 13.Bxf7+. |
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| Jun-11-03 | | drukenknight: I think you are right what about: 10...Nd4? |
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Jun-12-03
| | Honza Cervenka: If 10...Nd4, then 11.Bxf7+ Kxf7 12.Ne5+ etc. |
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| Jul-25-03 | | pawntificator: Wow, I can't believe it has almost been a year since I was looking at this game! I'm getting old!!! AHHHHH!!!!! |
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| Sep-12-03 | | ughaibu: I think this game was one of Alekhine's wannabes, it was post mortem analysis that he somehow transmuted into history in one of his books. |
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| Sep-12-03 | | ughaibu: http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/a... |
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| Sep-12-03 | | pawntificator: ooooh!!! That dirty rat!!
Gosh, I think this is the first game I ever kibitzed about, and it was all a sham!! Oh, the tragedy of it all!!! |
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| Oct-31-03 | | Benjamin Lau: This game was actually a post mortem analysis of the following game: Alekhine vs O Tenner, 1911
It is the reason for the quote of the day by Alekhine: "Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!" |
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| Nov-01-03 | | Calli: I wonder if there is a list of Alekhine's ficticious games. This one and the "five queens" game are well known. Have seen others mentioned, but never seen them listed all in one place. |
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| Nov-01-03 | | Danilomagalhaes: After months, I´m back! Hello, pawntificator, Honza Cerenka and the others I don´t know(yet). Very nice your commentaries about this game, and I think I don´t have anything to say about this game more you´ve already said. Just see how Alekhine in the beggining of this game plays through principles of chess, like developing knights before bishops and not away from the center, and after some moves he had only the major pieces behind his pawn structure. His opponent allowed him to develop his pieces quickly and with almost nothing to worry about, that gave Alekhine the chance to get his c3knight out of there, as well as sacrifice his queen later. At this point of the game Alekhine had his army structure so well-positioned and developed that gave him the beautiful chance of sacrificing his queen, and later, get the black king to a non-protected place. It´s also important to see how brave he was, because the advance of chess nowadays most of the times doesn´t allow us to play so risky moves and play such a beautiful game. One more thing: Forgive me for my bad English, I don´t speak it very well... |
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| Sep-17-04 | | Knight13: I've learned this kinda <loose a queen and checkmate> from a book by Bruce Pandofini. |
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| Sep-17-04 | | Cerebrate2006: this is really simliar to legals mate....sure there is the fact that u dont get mated from a knight, but the attack is simliar |
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| Oct-08-04 | | The Analyst: <Cerebrate2006> Here's a Legals' mate in which a bishop delivers the mate: 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Nxe5 Nc6 4 Nxc6 dxc6 5 d3 Bc5 6 Bg5 Nxe4 7 Bxd8 Bxf2+ 8 Ke2 Bg4 mate. |
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| Nov-12-04 | | malbase: The above game never took place.
It appeared as a note to a Teichmann game in Alekhin's first volume, was indicated as being played in 1907. Tenner indicated to Herman Helms he did not know Alekhin in 1907.
The first correction was made in 1925 by Herman Helms in the Brooklyn Eagle. The original game
is listed in Chessgames.com and is correct.
The history of the actual played game was that a relative of Kernesky, the Russian Foreign Minister wanted the two to play in an off game. The Relative's name was Tereschtschenko. The game was played and ended in a draw. The game above was a post mortem analysis by Alekhin.
For more commentary go to The Development of A Chess Genuis-100 Instructive Games of Alekhine by Fred Reinfeld, Dover Books, 1959.
Tenner was a Berlin amateur who later was member of the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan, New York.
Reinfeld in 1948 met with Tenner.
Following points were established:
1. No international event took place in Cologne, 1907. (The above game was originally dated 1907 by Alekhin).
2. The first time Alekhin played outside of Russia was in 1908 Dusseldor.
3. It was well known that Alekhin was in Cologne in 1911 for the Tarrasch-Schlecter Match.
The other game listed in Chessgames.com was Tenner's version.
The above game is Alekhin's version.
See also the game Alekhin-Teichmann, Berlin 1921 which started this who controversy. |
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