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| Jan-22-04 | | aulero: The critical point was the 24th move.
It has been established that 24...♕d6+ was a fatal error. The right move was 24...♘g4+! followed by:
25.hxg4 ♕d6+
26.♕g3! (26.g3 ♕h6+ 27.♔g2 ♕h1#)
26... ♘xg3
27.♖d7+ ♔f8
28.♗xg7+ ♔e8
29.♖xd6 ♘f1+
30.♔h3 (30.♔g1 ♘d2+)
30... ♖xd6
31.g5 ♖d2
32.♗g8 ♖xf2
33.♗xh7 ♖f7
34.♗g6 ♔e7
35.♗xf7 ♔xf7
and the ending is draw. |
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| Jan-22-04 | | aulero: Another - perhaps better - try was 29... ♖e1+ (instead of 29... ♕e2+) with the following fantastic finish: 30.♔d5! ♘e3+
31.♔d6 ♘c4+
32.♕xc4 ♕b6+
33.♔d7 ♖d1+
34.♗d4! ♖xd4+
35.♕xd4 ♕xd4+
36.♔c8!
and White wins! |
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Jun-09-05
 | | TheAlchemist: A brilliant game by Shashin, who virtually destroyed Korchnoi. 3rd best game of the Chess Informant 1/2 of 1973 |
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Jun-09-05
| | TheAlchemist: I guess AsShashin would be appropriate. :-) |
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| Jun-09-05 | | MrSifter: <TheAlchemist> He did not virtually destroy Korchnoi. Look at the game, Korchnoi made a few serious innaccuracies in his strong attack. He probably had at least a perpetual without any obvious blunders. |
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Jun-09-05
| | TheAlchemist: <MrSifter> I don't think there was any perpetual, but I could be wrong, I haven't checked it with a computer. It seems Shashin played just the only moves to avoid it. In the end if 34...Rxg5 35.hxg5 Qe8, with this pin, black is temporarily still hanging on, but he will sooner or later be out of tempi, after which Bxg7 and Kf6 will win. Maybe I should have said Korchnoi destroyed himself? :-) Maybe 26...Nh4 was too ambitious. |
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| Jun-09-05 | | acirce: 24..Ng4+! 25.hxg4 Qd6+ 26.Qg3 Nxg3 27.Rd7+ Kf8 28.Bxg7+ Ke8 29.Rxd6 Nf1+ 30.Kg1 Nd2+ was a draw but after 24..Qd6+ White is always winning. The king march may look dangerous but if Fritz in such a position doesn't find anything for Black that saves him or more then there isn't. |
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| Jun-09-05 | | Boomie9: Black may have also had a slight chance of swindling a draw after 29...Re1+ 30.Kd5 Ne3+ 31.Kd6 Nc4+ 32.BxN Qb6+ 33.Kd5 Qe6+ 34.Kc5 Qb6+ect.. but in this variation after 32.QxN! Qb6+ 33.Kd7 Rd1+ 34.Bd4 RxB+ 35.QxR QxQ 36.Kc8 Qd2 37.Rf2 dis+ 1-0 In any event Korchnoi didn't have a 'strong attack' here since the threat of mate meant every move had to be a check...and the threat of discovered check by interpolating a rook limited the checks he could give! Korchnoi's 'attack' is desparation in an inferior position. |
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| Jun-09-05 | | Boomie9: And what else besides 26..Nh4 Whites threats are so numerous black must play all checks since allowing white even one tempo would lose. |
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Jun-09-05
| | TheAlchemist: <acirce> Thanks for that line. I only looked at the position after 26...Nh4. |
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Jun-12-05
| | TheAlchemist: This game should be the correct one (in the Chess Informant of 1973 it ends with Rxg7), but the game below might be a duplicate: A Shashin vs Korchnoi, 1973. |
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| Feb-01-06 | | Jim Bartle: Pun alert: A Shashing=Assassin
The last ten moves are pretty amusing, black acting like a male spider trying desperately to escape the black widow, looking for check after check while white has checkmate waiting. |
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| Mar-30-06 | | PolishPentium: Any merit to sacrificial Knight checks for Black on move 22, either 22...Ne2+ or Nf3+ ?? If 22...Nf3+ 23 QxNf3, then 23...Qxb2, snapping up one of the bothersome White bishops, and 23 gxf3 allows 23...Rd1+ to at least cause some complications. If 22...Ne2+ Rxe2, then the same Rook check 23...Rd1+. // Again, not saying Black will end up doing great, but at this may least ameliorate the situation a little. Or am i totally off base again? Some feedback for the benefit of a duffer would be appreciated... |
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Jul-11-08
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Recently a chess player found this game in some book ... and wrote me an e-mail asking me to annotate this game. (http://www.angelfire.com/games3/lif...) |
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| Jul-11-08 | | Gejewe: Gejewe: <LIFE Master AJ>
It might be interesting to compare with Shashin's own notes. http://www.gmchess.com/gmschool/tea...
Nowadays he is a trainer in Khalifman's chess school in St. Petersburg. Shashin developed his own method of assessing positions, based on the "density"... Here is one of his thoughtprovoking articles where he asks himself about the usefulness of having a plan .. : http://www.e3e5.com/article.php?id=... |
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| Aug-12-08 | | DarthStapler: This was in Larry Christiansen's "Rocking the Ramparts". GOTD material if you ask me |
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Aug-05-09
| | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.angelfire.com/games3/lif... |
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Aug-19-09
 | | Jimfromprovidence: 29...Re1+ 30 Kd5 Nf6+!? 31 Rxf6 (forced) gxf6 and black has some fight left in him.
click for larger view |
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Aug-19-09
 | | al wazir: Discretion is the better part of valor: 22...Ne6. And if 23. Qb4, then 23...Rd1+ 24. Kh2 Qxf2, with a much stronger attack than that in the game. |
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| Aug-19-09 | | DarthStapler: I saw this game in a book once. I forget which one. |
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| Aug-19-09 | | birthtimes: Beautiful example of the power of the 2 Horrwitz bishops with a queen battery and attack on weak point f7 with the assistance of a rook...wonderful coordinating of the pieces by White. |
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| Aug-19-09 | | leow: did 22 ..Ne6 have any merit? |
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| Aug-19-09 | | randomsac: Great play weathering the storm then delivering a crushing blow. Actually, the title reminds me of Barry Manilow. |
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| Aug-19-09 | | screwdriver: I thought Korchnoi was winning this game until the very end. I expected to see 26... N(g4)e3+ instead of Korchnoi's 26... Nh4+. If white captures the Knight on e3 with his pawn on f2, then 27... Qxg3mate. White can take the knight on e3 with his queen , but then 27...N(f5)xe3+ and this opens up the d2 and c6 squares for the attack. If white doesn't take with the queen on move 27 then black can just play Nf1+ and possibly pursue the attack further or just repeat moves for the draw. I haven't analyzed it all the way through or checked on Fritz. |
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| Aug-19-09 | | kevin86: A fantastic game! White was to win,if the king suevived his troubles-and he did. The lethal discovered check-like Christmas in THE GRINCH-did come. |
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