| Nov-07-04 | | shakespeare918: Great game!This is another gem played by korchnoi.He is old but he still gots it. |
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Dec-31-04
 | | kevin86: Scarborough Fair conversation:
Was Father thyme a sage,Rosemary?
Parsley,I mean partially.
A real neat game with a great finish-Korchnoi is still good after all these years. Happy New Year,everyone! |
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| Dec-31-04 | | Avion: Nice one by Korchn, but I still think that Vlad played roughly bad on the end. Maybe time was a factor, but I think I could improve his play, so there is really a problem if I can do something... |
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Dec-31-04
 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: How would black continue if white plays 44.Kg3? |
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| Dec-31-04 | | MindlessOne: <Mandel>
I would respond 44...Rbf2 most moves here hurt white, then black plays 45...Rhg2+ forcing 46.Kh4. At this point whites king has but no squares to retreat and this essentially ties down whites pieces to protect against a mating attack. 46...Rf3 followed by 47...Rh2 48...Rhxh3+ 49.Kg4 49...Rfg3++ If you look at this I think youll notice that most things white can do either a)make no progress or b)quicken the mate threat. If anyone has a rebuttal post it, but this is the best I could find for a plan. I think it is sound positionally because it ties down whites pieces,and gets rid of whites kings escape squares
Have a happy new year everyone and dont party too hard |
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Dec-31-04
| | Gregor Samsa Mendel: What happens after 44.Kg3 Rbf2 45.h4? |
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| Dec-31-04 | | MindlessOne: 45...Rfa2 with ideas of Ra3+ setting up a mating net and really tying blacks rooks down. I liked this question. I spent like an hour looking for a way to continue with a similar attack, finally I realized that f4 is ver weakening and a pawn can easily be won. Have anything against this? |
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| Dec-31-04 | | noone2: <MindlessOne> 46 Ra3 + is met by interposing a white Rook. White still wins the pawn with
44 Kg3 Rbg2+ 45 Kf3 Rg1 |
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| Dec-31-04 | | hintza: After 44.Kg3, 44...Rbg2+ looks better than 44...Rbf2. For example, 44.Kg3 Rbg2+ 45.Kh4 Rf2 etc. |
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| Dec-31-04 | | MindlessOne: <hintza>
44.Kg3 Rbg2+ 45.Kf3 See the king will go right back
<noone>
When white interposes his rook what is wrong with capturing his a-pawn? |
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Dec-31-04
| | Gregor Samsa Mendel: How about 44.Kg3 Rbf2 45.h4 Rfa2 46.h5?
I'm surrprised I don't hear more people singing praises about Korchnoi's endgame skills. From what I've seen of his games, he is one of the best ever. |
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| Dec-31-04 | | MindlessOne: 46...Rxh5 im not sure why you chose to move the pawn again seeing as how it merely loses it. Do you have a continuation for white after Rxh5? |
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Dec-31-04
 | | Benzol: "And Father Time would grin
And Mitress Fate would beckon me in"
The old fella's still got it where it counts. For a similar sort of exploit have a look at
P Garbett vs Korchnoi, 1990 |
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Dec-31-04
| | Gregor Samsa Mendel: <MindlessOne>--whoops, I must have thought the h2 rook was on f2 or something like that. |
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| Dec-31-04 | | Andrew Chapman: It looks at first like 26..Rc7 wins the knight but this fails to 27.c4. Therefore Rc3. 23..Rc6 seems to be a pawn sacrifice to immobilise the knight. |
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| Dec-31-04 | | hintza: <MindlessOne:<hintza>
44.Kg3 Rbg2+ 45.Kf3 See the king will go right back>
If 45.Kf3, then 45...Rf2+ 46.Ke3 (46.Kg3?? Rhg2+ 47.Kh4 Rxf4+ 48.Rxf4 g5#) 46...Ra2  etc. |
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| Jan-01-05 | | patzer2: Indeed 23...Rc6!? sets a nice positional pawn sacrifice to keep White's Knight out of play and exploit his weak backward pawns. Avoiding the trap 26...Rc7?? 27. c4!  as pointed out by <Andrew Chapman>, Black exploits White's weak backward pawns with 26...Rc3! and 28...d3! |
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| Jan-14-07 | | dramas79: I think resignation would save time instead of entering a rook ending with Korchnoi. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 39...Rbb2