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| Nov-25-04 | | Ultra: Nice finish. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | Dudley: That is my kind of combo- love those open lines with lots of pieces in the attack. Black has four pieces involved, everything but the king's rook. Blackburne got burned big time-usually he was doing the burning. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | shortsight: i think 15) O-O-O is a mistake. it caused the whole white defence collapsed. Blacburne was left to choose either a2 or f3 pawn. apparently, Blackburne valued the f3 pawn more but it turned out that Mckenzie have the brilliant 28) ... Nc4! I wonder if there's defence for white had Blackburne not replied 29) Qf2. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | erikcu: I missed again. I think that 29. Qf2 Nb6 also will eventually win (by forcing a series of trades and then cleaning up in the end game with better pawns) but it is no where as nice as the solution. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | akiba82: White gambled by castling long into the half-open a file. Black really has all five pieces involved in the attack as the King rook will come to the a-file to deliver checkmate. A beautiful queen sac. Mackenzie is one of those 19th century players who deserves a best games collection a long with Mason and Bird among others. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | sourcerer: way off target i missed so much that i can't even reveal what i saw?! |
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| Nov-25-04 | | BadTemper: Almost as beautiful as Rotlewi- Rubenstein. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | Shubes82: I think the real gem in that game was 31)...Ra1+. Taking the queen with the bishop (the move by someone of my caliber) leaves black up an exchange, usually good enough for the win. However, Ra1 is a forced mate and i must admit i didnt see that. Pretty combination. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | greystar69: <Dudley> Black's King's Rook is involved. Black's next move would've been Ra8# with white unable to do anything to either delay or prevent it. It's a beautiful position and the first puzzle I saw the entire solution of in a few days! |
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| Nov-25-04 | | TheSlid: Very nice finish. Unfortunately the chess engine that is Slid 1.0 also missed 31...Ra1+. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | patzer2: Today's puzzle solution primarily employs the "deflection" tactic with 29...Qxd5! and the surprising followup 31...Ra1+! However, it also employs a bit of the "clearance" theme in freeing up the diagonal for the critical bishop check 30...Bf5+. |
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| Nov-25-04 | | Nickisimo: I missed this one as well. I kept trying to find a knight fork on d2. Ra1+ was a particularly beautiful finish to the combo. "Sure I could take your Queen for my Bishop, but I feel like mating you right now Blackburne, I have things to do today." |
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| Nov-25-04 | | pkjohn146: OK, if anyone is feeling bad necause they missed this one, I read it as white to move and win... DUH!!! |
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| Nov-25-04 | | Everett: <erikcu> I also saw 29.Nb6 and stopped there. Not the proper thing to do. I guess we should take more time... |
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| Nov-25-04 | | kevin86: It takes a day like Thanksgiving to bring up this great puzzle! Mate is unavoidable at a8! This is the type of finish that Blackburne usually gives an opponent,he might have been secretly smiling at this one. Maybe that's why <pkjohn146>that you misread this as white's win. Happy Thanksgiving to all! |
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| Nov-25-04 | | flamboyant: I saw the sacrifice but didnt find the continuation after queen on c2, the finish is just awesome! |
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| Nov-25-04 | | dwojiow: Blackburne's 29.Qf2 was a trappish kind of move I think. He wants to provoke a time-wasting move from Black such as ...c6. White has in mind the maneouver Nf6 (blocking the B Queen's protection of h6) followed by Qh4 and Qh6+. This plan is very dangerous and White will get a big attack.
A better way to implement the same plan is with 29.Qh3, preventing the Qxd5 sac (30.Qh6+ Kg8 31.Nf6+ Kh8 32.Qxh7#) |
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| Nov-29-04 | | Magic Pawn: Here we have a creative mating combination. But what has made it possible? First, the loser's, White's, mistakes. As pointed out before, it seems that all bagan on move 13. when White created three weaknesses in succession: first, unprotected Bc4, then backwards pawn f3, and, finaly, poorely protected pawn a2. Black moved his Knight immediately on move 14... to set a fork on two of them. Then, on move 18., White could have secured the pawn on a2, but did not. (By the way, to prevent this, Black could have taken this pawn on move 16..., but he did not. Why? Is there something I don't see?) Now, what was special in the play of the winner, Black, that prepared for the decisive combination? As pointed out before, it seems that it was the active use of all the pieces. When one of them, the Queen Bishop, was blocked, Black simply sacrificed another one to clear the way. I would only add one thing I noticed: high activity of Knights and an interesting way in which they cooperate. Knights stay in the same rank, one square apart. Then, they move together one rank ahead. Do someone know if this technique is known and used? Overall, Black did play with inspiration. I like it. |
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| Nov-29-04 | | Marco65: <Black could have taken this pawn on move 16..., but he did not. Why?> White is threatening 17.f4 and then the fork 18.f5 |
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| Jan-12-05 | | PinkPanther: And I thought Mackenzie was a good player.... |
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| Jan-12-05 | | Knezh: Well, he did win, so you were not far off the mark. :) |
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| Jan-12-05 | | PinkPanther: Whoops, I meant to kibitz this on the page for the tactical puzzle :( |
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| Dec-31-05 | | syracrophy: A crushing mating combination full of brilliant sacrifices! I wanna notice some points of this game:
0-0-0? <How ilogical its to castle queenside with the a-file opened. But I think there was no secure place for the king> 20.g5? <Useless. Correct was 20.Kb1> 23.Ne3? <Another mistake. Correct was 23.Rhg1> 23...Na5? <Putting the knight on the edge with no activity. Correct was 23...Qf4> 25.Qg2? <Too slow. 25.f6! was correct> 29.Qf2?? <The decisive mistake. It allows the following crushing combination. Much better was 29.Re1> 29...Qxd5!! <This is a thunderbolt in a sunny sky. If white does not accept the queen, they lose anyways> <30.exd5 Bf5+ 31.Qc2 (31.Kc1 Ra1++) 31...Ra1+!! 32.Kxa1 Bxc2 and there's no way to avoid 33...Ra8++> |
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| Oct-26-06 | | kevin86: Blackburne is well known for his deep combinational play. This time,however,he is on the receiving end of a great combination. There is not thing one that he can do to prevent 33...♖a8# |
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| Oct-26-06 | | Castle In The Sky: This is kind of an Anastasia's mate. |
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sac: 29...Qxd5