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| Jan-01-08 | | griga262: Happy New Year, everyone!
Indeed, it's great to see Evans Gambit to start the year. Even more pleasing was that my hungover brain still figured this one out in a minute or so. |
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 | | fm avari viraf: To be candid, I couldn't get the right move very quickly as I tried 12.Nc6+ but Black simply grabs the Queen ...Nxe2 Again, 12.Qxf2? fails to ...Nxc2+ & wins the Queen ...Bxf2. Now, 12.Bc4 if ...Nxe2 then 13.Bxf7# But Black can perry the threat by simply playing 12...d5. Atlast, I could spot 12.Nxd7+ & it's all over for Black. Have a Great New Year 2008! |
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| Jan-01-08 | | patzer2: <zenpharaohs> You're correct. I missed 11...Ne7 holding the position for Black. After 11...Ne7, I suppose White could try 12. Rf1 = or even the dangerous looking 12. 0-0!  to  .So I guess the point of missing 10...Bxf2+! would be that Black missed a winning chance, but not that it was his last chance to survive since 11...Ne7 was still playable. |
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| Jan-01-08 | | zenpharaohs: patzer2: "So I guess the point of missing 10...Bxf2+! would be that Black missed a winning chance, but not that it was his last chance to survive since 11...Ne7 was still playable." True. And, 10 ... Bxf2+ is definitely the correct move for black. But the real self-destruction was 11 ... Nd4?? |
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| Jan-01-08 | | patzer2: Perhaps this particular rare Evans Gambit line is worth a try in OTB or blitz play for White, but after 9. Ba3 Nxe4 10. 0-0  (better than 10. Qe2 Bxf2+  ) or 9. Ba3 d6 Black apparently has no significant problems holding the position. |
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| Jan-01-08 | | alshatranji: Happy new year everyone.
Nice finish, although I don't find it as breathtaking as some here do. |
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| Jan-01-08 | | DarthStapler: Got it, not bad |
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| Jan-01-08 | | TrueBlue: OK, ng6 was my first guess (yes, I know why it doesn't work, it loses the queen), and I don't even drink, honest (can't blame it on the hangover). OK, need sleep, need sleep. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! |
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| Jan-01-08 | | Terry McCracken: <zenpharaohs: patzer2: "Thanks for the deep Rybka analysis of 10...Bxf2+! . It underscores the decisive blunder as 10...Nxf2?."> <zenpharaohs:True. And, 10 ... Bxf2+ is definitely the correct move for black. But the real self-destruction was 11 ... Nd4??> Indeed! 11..Ne7= was Black's best after tossing the win. But missing 10..Bxf2+ may have been the root cause for Tenner to go wrong with 11..Nd4?? |
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| Jan-01-08 | | SAINTAMANT: New Year's day dementia. Took too much time to solve this tidbit. |
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| Jan-01-08 | | RookFile: If there was a more beloved man in American chess history than Herman Helms, I don't know who that was. |
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| Jan-01-08 | | znprdx: good 'evans...from an easy win to a dead loss ...such is Chess ....Happy New Year to one and all... |
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| Jan-01-08 | | aazqua: Trivial. This really should be a Monday puzzle. |
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| Jan-01-08 | | vibes43: I initailly (and too quickly)considered 12.Nxd7+ losing for white. Took a while to reconsider. Finally got it. Good puzzle. |
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| Jan-02-08 | | kevin86: A simple and brilliant mate in two moves. The first discovered check can be met by the capture of the checking piece-the second cannot as TWO pieces are checking. Not how both players have pieces working together-too bad black's knights are attacking pieces while whites bishops (and knight) are mating the king. |
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| Jan-02-08 | | alphee: Very smart and the final position with the 2 black knights side by side in front of the white king whislt the black one is mated by a white one on the 6th rank looks "surrealistic". In a 3.100.000+ games DB I did find only one game that includes the following position: 
click for larger view and it is a game between A.KARKLINS and E.MARTINOVKY in 1988 (C42) that finished as a draw. |
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| Jan-04-08 | | DukeAlba: I can't believe I missed this one! I went for Nc6+ winning the queen but I completely missed the combination...Damn. |
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| Jan-05-08 | | MostlyAverageJoe: < DukeAlba: I can't believe I missed this one! I went for Nc6+ winning the queen > ??? 12.Nc6+ Nxe2 13.Nxd8 does not win a queen. It loses the game an lets the black win. |
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| Jan-05-08 | | DukeAlba: I can always count on <MAJ> to prove I'm an idiot... |
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| Jan-17-08 | | RookFile: I think this was a blitz game. |
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| Jan-11-09 | | WhiteRook48: what a checkmate |
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| Nov-05-09 | | WhiteRook48: hanging knights |
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| Mar-04-12 | | sevenseaman: Very pretty. I knew it was going to end in a double check, asking an <immoveable> K to move. "Can You Break a Tenner?" Yes, you wanna sweep it up all in cents? |
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| Mar-04-12 | | rilkefan: Was this played in public? |
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| Mar-04-12 | | Once: There is something deeply wrong about excessive pawn grabbing in front of your own king. Here we have the black king temporarily stuck on e8, and so the last thing that black should do is willingly allow the e4 and e5 pawns to be gone. Instead, black could have played ...
9...d6 followed by 0-0; or
9. Nxe4 followed by Nd6 and 0-0
And as lots of people have pointed out, 10. Qe2 should have been punished by 10...Bxf2. Pretty finish, to be sure, but iffy opening play. A skittles game in the park? |
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sac: 12.Nxd7+