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| Feb-17-05 | | GreenDayGuy: Now I'm the first one to kibitz and I actually have something useful to say! I am positively certain that black should have kept his kingside pawn structure intact for as long as possible. That would have slowed down white's attack and would have allowed black some time to defend or even create counterplay. Some possibe other 22 moves are a) Rd8 , or b) Kf8. a) 22... Rd8
23. RXR KXR and black will move his king over to the queenside, or b) 22... Kf8
23. Rd3 Kg7
24 Rad1 Kh8 and the king should be safe enough in the corner, but 22... Rd8 is a better move as the attack is neutralized. |
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| Feb-17-05 | | aw1988: 22...Rd8 23. Ng7+, 22...Kf8 23. Nxh6! |
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| Feb-17-05 | | JohnBoy: Actually, <GDG>, on 22...Rd8, 23.Ng7 still wins big. And on 22...Kf8, the king cannot get to g7 next move. White can play 23.Qh5 and black's position is seriously breached. |
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| Feb-18-05 | | Cyphelium: <all below> Regarding 22.- ♔f8: <JohnBoy's> 23. ♕h5 is not entirely clear after 23.- gxh4 24. ♕xh6+ ♔e8, since 25. ♘g7+ ♖xg7 26. ♕xg7 ♗c8!? seems playable for black. <aw1988's> suggestion of 23. ♘xh6 leads to a very difficult position for black after 23.- ♕xg4 24. ♘xg4 gxh4 25. ♘xf6 ♖g7? 26. ♘d7+ ♖xd7 27. ♖xd7. But black has the stronger 25.- ♗d4, after which 26. ♘xg8 ♔xg8 doesn't seem so easily won for white. The third (and best?) alternative is to play 23. ♘f3, since black actually has no way to cover the h6-pawn. 23.- ♗c8 is of course met by 24. ♖d8+ and on just about every other move white just plays ♘xh6, winning a pawn and maintaining his edge. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | capa5: Too easy. Double attack with check. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | dr.roho: i am new to this site and this is my first monday puzzle. are all monday puzzles this easy? i caught it right right away. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | dzechiel: I found this in a couple of seconds. What's the story on Fritz Samisch here? How does he capture that knight? Doesn't he suspect that his opponent might have something in mind? Was he in time trouble or was this a case of amourosis schachistica? |
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| Aug-07-06 | | dzechiel: <dr.roho> Yup, the puzzles start on Monday and are pretty easy, getting tougher as the week goes on, until Sunday, which are notoriously difficult to solve for mere mortals. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | chessmoron: I didn't get Unzicker's 22. Qg4 move. Should it be Nxh6 or something? If Samisch play 22...Kf8, the game could have played even longer. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | whatthefat: <chessmoron>
I believe the threat is 23.Qh5 (and the subsequent possibility of capturing on h6 with the queen). |
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| Aug-07-06 | | pebble767: very easy monday puzzle |
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| Aug-07-06 | | goldfarbdj: Hm. I'm not sure if I count as solving this one...I saw Ng7+ instantly, of course, but it seemed to me that after 23. ... Rxg7 24. Qxg7 Qf7 that Black was not obviously busted. It was only just before starting to write this comment that I noticed the Q on e6 was hanging! |
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| Aug-07-06 | | prinsallan: Yep - easy. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | Marco65: How can Samisch miss something a patzer like me got in one second? Maybe in time trouble he thought White's "trick" was only the other check, 23.Nd6+? Ke7 24.Qxe6+ Kxe6 25.Nxb7 Bd4 when I prefer Black. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | patzer2: In the opening, there is a reason Masters overwhelmingly prefer development with 7...Be7 over 7...Na5 (moving a piece twice a bit early in the opening). Instead of the ugly 11...Qe7?!, restricting the Bishop's development, Black might consider the old line 11...g5= as in Tarrasch vs Schlechter, 1911. With 16...Qe6, Black makes a third Queen move in the opening and is terribly behind in development. After 19. Nh4!, White owns the weak White squares on the Black Kingside, giving him a positionally won game.
The followup moves 20. Nef5! and 21. Qg3 are winning, though the simple 21. Ng6!
 with a crushing positional bind appears even stronger. Black's 22...gxh4? was immediately losing. However, the better alternative in 22...Kf8 23. Nf3 still leaves the second player in a weak position and only seems to prolong the loss for Black. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Got this very easily. What a disgrace for a player like Samisch. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | RandomVisitor: 21.Ra5 also wins for White. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | patzer2: <RandomVisitor> Indeed 21. Ra5! Bd4 22. Nxd4 exd4 23. Qxd4 wins a pawn and still leaves White with complete domination of the position. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | Chris1Clark: Easy puzzle. Interestingly black seems to find very little activity even though he has dynamic pieces available in the two bishops. Back to move 18 why not a6 giving the a5 sq for the white bishop and disrupting some of the queen rook doubled file. or 18...c5 or Bc5 then. This mid section just looks like a passive 'no response' to a strong white attack. Hey what do I really know, history of the two players may dictate some of this as might clock stuff. Easy like monday morning though. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | lentil: samisch was notorious for his addiction to time-trouble. he came last in one tournament (0-11), losing every game on time. (read this in jon berry's chess column in the toronto globe and mail -- anybody got a better reference?)
this looks like a time-pressure blunder. no doubt he had only seconds to go to make this move. that being said, this puzzle was so simple that i almost missed it! |
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| Aug-07-06 | | sataranj: is there any way to learn the middle game moves such as 12. .. c6? |
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| Aug-07-06 | | Richerby: <lentil> The cg.com player page for Friedrich Samisch says that he lost all thirteen games at Linkoping 1969 on time. |
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| Aug-07-06 | | siilarsi: I was starting to panic, since I had problems finding the solution to this monday puzzle, apperently i have been playing too much 1.m. bullet recently. Maybe that was Friedrich Samisch problem as well, since such a strong player could be tricked by such a simple looking combination? :P |
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| Aug-07-06 | | ChessVip: half second to find it! :) |
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| Aug-07-06 | | dalbertz: <patzer2: <RandomVisitor> Indeed 21. Ra5! Bd4 22. Nxd4 exd4 23. Qxd4 wins a pawn and still leaves White with complete domination of the position.> What?? Why not 22. ... Qxg4 threatening mate on Qxg2 or winning the rook on d1? |
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sac: 22.Qg4