Apr-05-11
 | | Phony Benoni: A swashbuckling game. Most of the pieces get burned up and thrown overboard until all that remains is a simple outside passed pawn and a superior minor piece. It's enough. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | picard: FIRE ON BOARD!! wow that is some nice early king movement by Shirov! His king ultimately stops the black passed pawns from advancing. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | NewLine: Can anyone please help me find a game that had been used once in a sci-fi TV show, when the enemies had to play a game of chess to decide the winner. I can't remember the show nor the game, and I am looking for it quite a while. I do remember it was GOTD a long time ago... |
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| Apr-05-11 | | jusmail: Blade Runner, released in 1982. ...
This James Bond film uses a position from Spassky-Bronstein, 28th USSR championship |
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Apr-05-11
 | | HeMateMe: "Ma-ma-ma-My Shirova" |
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Apr-05-11
| | HeMateMe: Pretty smooth, black is left with a Knight trapped on the rim. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | joupajou: I like 26.Kc3. Elegant, but also a very clever move. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | Garech: Superb endgame ideas from Shirov - great game.
-Garech |
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| Apr-05-11 | | KingV93: Watching the game play through the first time I couldn't believe that White was going to escape, it looks like Black has the upper hand and is moving in for the kill, especially after 11...Bf2+ Playing through a second time shows that Blacks problem is that too many of his pieces watch the game from their home squares, simply spectators! He doesn't move a Queenside piece until move 19. Terrible! I did not like 14...Nxd3 at all, exd4 and then some Queenside action would have been much better! |
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| Apr-05-11 | | SuperPatzer77: It is Pira Maniac?? How about it is "Piranha Maniac"??? Yiiikes!!!
SuperPatzer77 |
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| Apr-05-11 | | jonico: 20.Bh6 won before or not? |
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Apr-05-11
 | | Sastre: If 20.Bh6, 20...Qf6 21.Be3 cxd5 22.Raf1 Qe7 is good for Black. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | zealouspawn: KingV, fritz 10 thinks 14..Nxd3 was the lesser of the evils, and I tend to agree. After exd4, white can go up an extra pawn after the exchanges by 14.. exd4 15 Qxf2 dxc3 16 Kxc3, or on the 16th move just further develop and ignore the pawn. It seems black's real mistake in the opening was 13..Nf2. He should have developed |
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| Apr-05-11 | | Morten: "Ein Springer am Rande ist stetz eine Schande" Very well illustrated here. The poor sod makes a single jump on move 27, chooses a horrendous square and is never heard from again. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | kevin86: The knight is pinned in and the king cannot stop the pawn. It's game,set,and match... |
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Apr-05-11
| | Phony Benoni: <NewLine> This probably isn't the game you're looking for, but it was used in a Sci-Fi movie and was GOTD: Roesch vs W Schlage, 1910 |
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| Apr-05-11 | | JG27Pyth: That is some complicated middlegame hi-jinx with the exchange sac disdained more than once, definitely NOT simple chess... but the finish is textbook -- man that N is dominated. It's one of those positions where at first glance you think... oh come on fight on a bit more... but the more you look for a move for Black the more you realize it's well over. |
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Apr-05-11
 | | scormus: I think more than anything this sort of game illustrates the gulf between the GMs and ordinary mortals. If I were W in this game at about move 10 I'd be worried about the B and N penetration around my K, and if I were B I'd think I'd got my opponent on the run. Shirov must have assessed the position, maybe even prepared for it, and realised B's fireworks will quickly burn out leaving W with a clear positional edge. Great judgement and mastery by the young Russian |
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| Apr-05-11 | | KingV93: <zealouspawn> Interesting, thanks for the insight. It seemed like hacking off a blocked in bishop was pointless; but I agree, the lack of development by Black is the real issue. That and some powerful chess by Shirov. |
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Apr-05-11
 | | Peligroso Patzer: The link below, I believe, is for the game mentioned above in a post by <jusmail>: Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 |
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| Apr-05-11 | | dotsamoht: <Peligroso Patzer><jusmail> Spassky-Bronstein, referred to as the Blue Bird game in Bronstein's 200 Open Games, was used in the James Bond film From Russia with Love. Blade Runner, not a James Bond film, used the Immortal Game, Anderssen-Kieseritzky. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | NewLine: Well, my desperate research already revealed all of those games (and more), thank you very much, but the game I am looking for... like if it was never existed... but I can even describe the magnificent attack... The black king hunted to the white queen side when he became the hunter and blocked the white king... Did I dream all of that? |
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Apr-05-11
| | Phony Benoni: <NewLine> There's a famous game where White's king does just that (R Steel vs NN, 1886), but offhand I can't think of one where Black does something similar. |
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| Apr-06-11 | | NewLine: OMG I've found it!
Frels vs Klute, 1979
<Phony Benoni> You are unbelievable! I have just noticed (read actually) it's the SAME game with reversed colors! |
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Kibitzing
