| Jul-27-09 | | The17thPawn: Been quite some time since I've posted but coming across this Old Horowitz - Reshevsky game peaked my interest. Why did Sammy decline the rook on move 29? The best continuation I can come up with for white on 29.)...,cxd5 is 30.)Rb1,Qxb1 31.)Bxb1, Rxb1 32.) Qc7, Rxh5 33.)Qxc8+, Kf7 and this does not seem decisive to my less than masterly eyes. Did I.A. bluff the 19 year old wonder into declining this sacrifice or has Sammy seen something dire I could not? I would appreciate any input from titled or computer assisted players. I am frankly at a loss to explain how 29.)..., e5 betters black cause. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | AnalyzeThis: Just taking a super quick look, but I believe it's all about whether or not white can play queen to d6. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | The17thPawn: <Analyze> - After 29...,cxd5 the Black queen covers d6. Then 30.Rb1,Qxb1 31.Qd6+,Ke8 seems to default to a version of the previous variation I posted unless white is looking for perpetual. If white takes the queen the rook takes and I see no obvious clincher for white. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | stoy: This game is one of the very few that Reshevsky did not reply to 1 e4 with 1...c5 or 1...e5, which he later stated were the strongest replies. Al Horowith did not have many wins against S. J. Reshevsky. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | davegras: <The17thPawn> - What about this. After Qxb1 31. Qd6 Ke8 32. Bg6 QxB 33. PxQ....
If 33...RxB, then 34. QxR; if black moves the rook to avoid capture by the white queen, then white saves the bishop. It is about even with maybe white having some positional strength. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | The17thPawn: <Davegras> - I like the deferred capture and the way the pawn recapture takes another square from the king but 33...,Rb7 protects the rook and keeps the Q out of blacks second rank. 34.Qc6+,Ke7 allows perpetual but Black is by no means lost due to the H rook protecting the bishop. |
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| Jun-14-14 | | BwanaVa: Without proof one way or the other I suspect that this is a classic Reshevsky time trouble decision. I would not be surprised to find that Reshevsky, after 29...c/exd5 30. Rb1, facing the loss of a Rook if he moves his queen or facing an unbalanced position with unconnected rooks facing a highly mobile queen, chose to decline the sacrifice because he could not analyze it conclusively in time trouble. |
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| Jul-24-14 | | jerseybob: The17thPawn; I think you hit on the right continuation in your very first post but drew the wrong conclusion from it: 29..cd5 30.Rb1,Qb1 31.Bb1,Rb1 32.Qc7!,Rh5 33.Qc8+,Kf7 and now after 34.Bg3,Rhh1 35.Ke3 count the men: black has 2 rooks; white has an active queen - which by itself should equal the rooks - AND a bishop. White for choice. And by the way, Reshevsky wasn't 19, he was 25. |
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| Feb-26-16 | | Resignation Trap: As Chess Review summarized: "Prodigy picks pawn, pays piper". |
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