| Sep-09-04 | | pawn52: Nice game. Regardless of what Black does next move, Whit echeckmates by Rh7 next turn. If Black decides to put the Queen in the way, he'll lose it. And Whit will eventually promote the pawn and slaughter Black with it. |
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| Sep-09-04 | | themindset: this is a great example of reckless pawn grabbing by black. |
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| Sep-09-04 | | Eatman: Actually Black can prolong the agony here with Qe5+ g3 Qxg7 Rxg7 Kxg7 c7 and white queens, but thats a completely trivial win then so better to resign here. |
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Sep-09-04
 | | Annie K.: Suggestion for alternate pun: "Not Tonight, Gyozo"
(the Hungarian name Gyozo means "Winner") |
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| Sep-09-04 | | kevin86: How about Axel Greece?-great name for an Olympic athlete,right? Or a Flintstones' auto racer:Wheels Axelpole. I loved the whimsical way how one white pawn held black's queen at bay-while the other gobbled up both rooks?! |
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| Sep-09-04 | | noone2: 19 ...Qa5 looks like a lemon
Instead can someone tell me what's wrong with 19...Qb3 (with the threat N:c5). E.g. 20 Nd4? Qd5! will win easily. If 20 Rc1 a5 with the idea of either Ba6 or a4 |
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| Sep-09-04 | | patzer2: White's 20. Bxh6! is a demolition of pawn structure combination on g6, which "removes the guard" to set up a winning "double attack." |
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| Sep-09-04 | | themindset: you of course meant 20.Bxg6! |
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| Sep-09-04 | | patzer2: Thanks for the correction. I did indeed mean "removing the guard" with 20. Bxg6! Also, the more obvious 22. Nxc8 also falls into that category (removing the guard). |
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| Apr-24-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Very cool game from today's player of the day!
LTJ |
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| Apr-24-12 | | vajeer: 19...Ba6 seems to thwart white's attack. Or am I missing something? |
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Apr-24-12
 | | OhioChessFan: I don't think Qa5 was bad. What was bad was not making the obvious followup 20...Qxc5. |
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Apr-24-12
| | OhioChessFan: <vajeer> I'm too tired tonight to look at this and just tossed it in Fritz. He came up with 19..Ba6 20. b4 Qa4 21. Bxa6 Qxa6 22. Rc2 Rab8
click for larger viewFritz is giving it an eval of .25 which is negligible. Black has an extra Pawn, but the outposted Knight is a problem. In general, White has some pressure on the Queen side but Black is pretty solid. As for the game, I still think fxg6 was the problem for Black. |
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| Jul-17-12 | | vinidivici: guns n roses rocks!!! |
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| Oct-11-24 | | stacase: 25.b4 Was reasonably obvious for a Friday. |
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| Oct-11-24 | | mel gibson: I didn't see that.
Stockfish 17 agrees with that line:
25. b4
(25. b4 (1.b4 Rxd6 2.cxd6 Qb6 3.dxc7 Qxc7 4.Rd1 Kg8 5.Re8+ Kf7 6.Red8 Ke7 7.R8d3
Ke8 8.Nh4 a5 9.bxa5 Qxa5 10.Re3+ Kf8 11.Nxg6+ Kf7 12.Nh4 Qa7 13.Rf3+ Kg8
14.Nf5 Bf8 ) +3.72/45 769)
score for White +3.72 depth 45. |
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Oct-11-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Incidentally, Ornstein finished 2 points ahead of the field in this tournament, which included a few GMs. Not bad for a career IM. |
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| Oct-11-24 | | Swedish Logician: It seems to me that the playing strength of certain IM:s in Ornstein's generation (or before) was higher than that of many GM:s today. |
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Oct-11-24
 | | chrisowen: I quick it is hotel jazz it is b4 fo it is aof jufa guff it is hug go it is a bit lib axiom ji i it is adh it is nah it is b4 it is off; |
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| Oct-11-24 | | TheaN: I kind of did solve this, though I wasn't convinced White's clearly winning. White's second best is 25.Qg3 ⩲ with a minor plus as Black will win back c5, but it's relatively harmless. The played line is an all-in from White: <25.b4!> attempts to take out the defender of c7 or trading ♕:2♖ <25....Rxd6> Qxb4 26.Qxc7 +-, perhaps a bit of a hidden line is attacking Re2: 25....Qb5, but White can simply follow the plan: 26.Qxc7 Qxe2 27.Re1 +- and White invades the seventh. <26.cxd6 Qb6 (Qxb4 27.dxc7 Qb7 28.Re7 +-) 27.dxc7 Qxc7>:
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Show this to a relatively new to moderate chess player and they'd probably say it's even. As advanced player I find it tough to claim I'd play this flawlessly to a win. Yes, the rooks are better here, but it's far from finished. <28.Rd1 +->: I was considering 28.Rfe1 personally but then 28....Bf8 ± kind of holds. The idea of Rd1 is to keep aim at the seventh and back rank with both rooks so Black's play is limited, but I'd be lying to claim I saw all subtleties. The played 28.h4?! is okay as he followed with Rd1 after. |
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Oct-11-24
 | | perfidious: <Thea: I kind of did solve this....> Whatever that means. |
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| Oct-12-24 | | Rosbach: I didn't get it. I played 25. Re7 Rxd6 26. cxd6 Rc8. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 25.b4