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Sep-26-10
 | | Fusilli: I had a teacher when I was a kid who always said "if your opponent leans on the board too much, threaten his rook on a1". Reshevsky was short and I doubt he was leaning on the board so much that the bishop on b1 fell out of sight, but one way or another, he forgot about that bishop. |
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| Aug-06-11 | | Tigranny: WhiteRook48, I liked what you said about the black king screaming for the bishop to capture the queen. |
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Nov-25-11
 | | kbob: I had forgotten what an amazing attacking game this was by Reshevsky until the blunder. He had qualified for the candidates in the previous cycle, but at this interzonal I think he fell two games short, so it didn't really change things. I remember a quote at the time from someone who saw both players several hours later, Savon looking "sheepish" and Reshevsky appearing "absolutely distraught". |
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| Nov-25-11 | | King Death: < kbob: I had forgotten what an amazing attacking game this was by Reshevsky until the blunder. He had qualified for the candidates in the previous cycle> Reshevsky was lost for most of this middlegame until his opponent let things get away, and he finished in the bottom half of the table in Palma 1970. He did qualify at Sousse 1967 though because of the rules that applied then. |
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| Nov-25-11 | | Darek: Samuel can play nice finish
40 Rh8+ Kg5 41 h4+! Kh4 42 Rh5+! gh5 43 Qh5 # ! |
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| Jul-21-12 | | Pulpofeira: Well, at least is a consolation for SR that he`s been favoured by serious blunders of his opponents in more than one occasion; Szabo missed a mate in two and Boleslavsky a forced draw, both in Zurich 53. Although he hadn`t any possibility to win that tournament, but that`s another story... |
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| Sep-26-12 | | brankat: <Qxg6+>, a Super-blunder for ages! :-) |
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| Oct-29-12 | | master of defence: This is the case of don´t see a defence to checkmate. |
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Oct-29-12
 | | Eggman: <<Darek>> Yes, but there's a faster mate: 40.g5+ Kxg5 41.h4+ Kxh4 42.Qf4#. |
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Oct-29-12
 | | perfidious: That story involving Wolff and Anand is most amusing, and reminds me of my first game with Maxim Dlugy. In a complicated Saemisch KID middlegame, I sacrificed a pawn and had decent play for it, though probably no more. At one point I played Ra1-a3 and got the strange feeling Dlugy would play ....Be3, leaving that piece en prise. To my amazement, several moves on he played that very move and looked shocked when the rook snapped it off! |
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Aug-04-13
 | | maxi: The mate Reshesvsky had at hand and missed, given by <Darek>, 40.Rh8+ Kg5 41.h4+! Kh4 42 Rh5+! gh5 43 Qh5#, is one of the most beautiful forms of the x-ray theme I have ever seen. |
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| Sep-26-13 | | Abdel Irada: <SwitchingQuylthulg: Something very similar happened to me here (to my credit, it was an online blitz game...)> Slightly different story for me. Mine was also a blitz game, but OTB, and my opponent didn't *quite* blunder after all. With a knight on g5 and queen on d3, he threatened mate on h7. I then played ...Qxc2, and my opponent triumphantly picked up his queen and menaced h7 ... and then a look of consternation overspread his face when he saw that my queen could simply follow his over and take it. Luckily for him, he hadn't touched the pawn, so he exchanged queens on c2, and I was forced to win a grueling endgame. That endgame was a story in its own right.
Some three/four moves later, we'd traded down to a minor-piece ending, and my opponent offered me a chance to take a free bishop with check — and lose! The trick was that if I took the prelate, I couldn't get back in time to stop his passed b-pawn. In fact, I had to sac the knight to stop it. But that wasn't all, because I had a passed c-pawn of my own, and my opponent had to sac in turn to stop it. This left me exactly a pawn ahead again, but in a simplified position, and I won some 30 moves later. For an endgame played in blitz, this surely felt like a dozen games compressed into one. By the end of it, we were both exhausted and trembling with post-adrenal letdown, and I proceeded to lose my next game in nine moves against a C player (who proudly showed that game to anyone who'd look for the next two months). :-S ∞ |
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| Sep-26-13 | | A Square: <Abdel> Amazing! Definitely, a chess player life deserves to be lived. |
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Sep-26-13
| | Eggman: I see yet another win that Reshevsky missed here, with the simple 39.g5, though this is a tad slower simply because Black can prolong things with checks, e.g. 39...Qxf2+ and 40...Bc5+, etc. |
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| Nov-17-14 | | drleper: Of the two mating options:
<40. g5+ Kxg5 41. h4+ Kxh4 42. Qf4#>
and <40. Rh8+ Kg5 41. h4+ Kxh4 42. Rxh5+ gxh5 43. Qxh5#>I would definitely take the latter. Although one move longer it is much more satisfying (and certainly more satisfying than the howler 40.Qxg6?? ;). |
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| Apr-20-15 | | FairyPromotion: This is how I imagine the final moves of the game. Reshevsky grabs his queen, says "Check," plays 40. Qxg6, looks Savon in the face saying "... and Mate." Savon sees the move, looks at Reshevsky, looks back at the board in disbelief, and says... *drumroll please* GOTD: <Eppur Si Muove> ;-) |
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| Sep-07-16 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I quite like 39 g5 !!
It prevents the black king from escaping via g5
and he is shortly mated. |
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| Nov-22-19 | | TheBish: I think maybe what happened here is that Reshevsky forgot he wasn't in time trouble for a change! It's hard to explain otherwise, other than the proverbial chess blindness. If this were the case, you would think Reshevsky would have mentioned that at some point, but maybe he was just so disgusted by the whole episode that he never wanted to speak of it again. |
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| Mar-17-21 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I have just noticed that Eggman anticipated my solution by nearly three years!
I think he is wrong about it being slower than the variation ending with Qf4 mate. After
39 g5 Qxf2+
40 Kxf2 Bc5+
41 Kg2
whatever Black plays next, there follows
43 Qxf7 or Qf7 mate
If it were not for the spite checks, this would be the fastest finish. |
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| Dec-27-22 | | Allderdice83: I had an opponent who had me down 2 pawns in a Q and P endgame with the position pretty well closed so I couldn't harass his king. He left a pawn en prise on a4 which he could have defended or shielded (I forget exactly). I played Qxa4, and in that position, Black had K on f7, Q on e5, and pawns on f6 and d6. I had pawns on g4 and c4. Sure enough, he played Ke6. I sat there slack-jawed, unable to believe my good fortune, and also a little guilty that I didn't deserve the win, wrote down "Ke6???," played Qe8, and announced checkmate. 2 "?"s aren't enough for walking into immediate mate in a won position, and it was still won for Black if he just played almost any reasonable move. That win gave me a clear $100 prize -- a lot of money for a 16 year-old in 1983. My opponent was an 1800-something, no GM. I did play Reshevsky once, though, in an exhibition. He crushed me in about 20 moves. |
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| Aug-06-23 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I think
37...Kf6
was the right move
E.g.
38. Qf4+ Bf5 39. Qxh6 Nxd5 |
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| Aug-07-23 | | Granny O Doul: Reshevsky annotated this game for his book "Great Chess Upsets". I don't remember much, though, aside from his reporting that he was not in time pressure. |
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| Jan-19-24 | | daladno: I am curious how this one made in the list of Savon's notable games. Being saved by such terrible blunder is not a special accomplishment, especially on GM level. |
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Jan-19-24
| | perfidious: The reason is that nineteen members have chosen this for a game collection, more than any other in Savon's praxis, with those next on the list featuring in 17 and 15. The other criterion is the player in question did not lose. |
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| Feb-04-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: Wow, I've never seen this one before. |
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