| Sep-16-06 | | Poisonpawns: It was found later that black was wrong to accept the Draw.Black has forced mate with 41..Rh3+ 42.Kf4 Rf3+! 43.Qxf3 Qe5 mate! |
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| Jan-26-09 | | hms123: Black missed an earlier mate by not playing <36...Qc4+ 37.Qxc4 Rh3#> or <36...Qc4+ 37. Rg4 Rxc3 38. Rxc4 Rh3#> |
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| Jul-22-15 | | zydeco: What a deeply weird game. |
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| Aug-23-15 | | schizoidman: hms123. The quicker mate does not work. 38.Rxc4 is not forced. Your line wins, but it is not mate. White can play 38.g7 or 38.bc for example and play on for a while. |
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| Aug-24-15 | | hms123: <schizoidman> Well-spotted. Playing on for a while seems unlikely, however. |
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| May-18-16 | | sachistu: The controversy over this finish stems from the fact the score as given here; which is used in the Swedish tournament book, Chessbase, and others is probably not correct. The British Chess Magazine, CHESS, and Rabar's book of the tournament all give 5...dc6. This makes all the difference wherein the final position is indeed drawn. If one compares Golombek's notes in BCM with Stahlberg's in the Swedish tournament book, it is easy to see something is not right. My suspicion is Stahlberg was working from the 'correct' version (5...dc6) when composing his notes, but the publishers of the book inadvertently used 5...bc6. In the final position, even if Pilnik was in zeitnot and overlooked the mate, I find it hard to believe Stahlberg, working without such pressure would also miss it. |
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May-18-16
 | | Pawn and Two: <sachistu> If 5..dc6 was played, is Black's 7th move then 7...b6? |
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| May-18-16 | | sachistu: Yes <Pawn and Two>. I neglected to include that in mentioning the score variance. This also has significance for the Rook maneuver (...Ra7). Later, on move 22, it appears both Golombek and Stahlberg seem to overlook 22...Rxh2! Obviously, the difference in score affects the logic of some of the notes by those two annotators. And, of course, there were other possibilities along the way. However, I mainly wanted to point out the key ending position, which would have a different potential outcome depending on which 5th move was played by Black. As you rightly point out, this also means there was a different 7th move as well. |
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| May-16-23 | | Jonathan Berry: I forget who told me, but Stoltz was reportedly an extreme time pressure addict. Perhaps both sides were in Zeitnot by move 22, leaving 18 moves before the time control. Sure, 22...Rxh2 is obvious and strong, but doesn't the move in the game, Rg7, look just as strong at first glance? "White's position is about to collapse" would be my time trouble take. Black's 23rd and 24th moves suggest that the pawn is at b6 rather than d6. |
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May-17-23
 | | perfidious: With the game score now corrected, it is clear that the forced mate given by <Poisonpawns> was not on, as well as that the variations noted by <hms123> and <schizoidman> kept the game alive. |
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