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| Aug-31-05 | | YouRang: Yes, 39... Rxa3+ was indeed a great move. But perhaps the greatness is diminished just a tad, since black really had no other move! He was facing an immediate mate threat from white, and he had no other way to keep the attack going. In other words, Rxa3 *might* have been a 'deperation' move where things happened to "work out well". Perhaps. |
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| Aug-31-05 | | Happypuppet: <YouRang> Or the player conceived of it in desperation, but calculated and found it worked. =P |
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| Aug-31-05 | | YouRang: <Happypuppet> Sure, that's possible. But my understanding of clock management is this: If you see that a certain move MUST be played, then you should play it first and calculate later (while your opponent's clock is running). I don't doubt that Levitt calculated the winning line at some point -- but he might well have done so sometime AFTER 39... Rxa3+. |
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| Aug-31-05 | | azaris: <If you see that a certain move MUST be played, then you should play it first and calculate later (while your opponent's clock is running).> The trick is knowing which moves MUST be played. |
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| Aug-31-05 | | YouRang: <azaris> Sometimes it's a trick to know which "move" (singular) must be played. But in this game, on black's 39th move, is it really a difficult trick? |
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| Aug-31-05 | | azaris: <YouRang> No, but he had to calculate that 35...Rd1 leads to a king hunt, at which point you can stop analyzing. |
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| Aug-31-05 | | YouRang: <azaris> Perhaps he did calculate some or all of the king hunt at 35...Rd1. On the other hand, he might have just calculated that 35...Rd1 wins a knight and a bishop for a rook -- with check! That alone might have made it look like a good move. Did he necessarily calculate 37. Rf3? (I thought this was a good move by Howell: threatening mate and blocking Black's queen on h1). After that, Black has little choice but to keep checking the white king -- even if it costs him a rook after 39...Rxa3+. (All other reasonable Black moves seem to lead to a king hunt for White.) |
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| Sep-02-05 | | lopium: Ahahahaahahzzz!!!!!!! ahahahzzz!!!!!! God, that's a very funny game!!! Come on! |
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| Sep-11-05 | | JohnBoy: Now this game, as compared to yesterday's GOTD Paulsen-Owens, is not that big of a deal. The king hunt is very nice and well executed, but aside from that there is nothing exceptional here. White agresses, over-extends, and ends up playing a queen and bishop down. |
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| Sep-12-05 | | Ulhumbrus: 14...g6 attracts suspicion as it disturbs the king side pawns. 14...a4 offers the b pawn but opens the b file and takes a step towards ..a4. |
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| Sep-12-05 | | Ulhumbrus: 26 a3 disturbs the queen side pawns. 26 Rh3 threatening Rxh5 may be better. |
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| Sep-12-05 | | Ulhumbrus: In the final position the threat of 48...Qd7 mate has no answer. |
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| Sep-14-05 | | YouRang: <Ulhumbrus: In the final position the threat of 48...Qd7 mate has no answer.> Yes, at least no GOOD answer. There's always 48. Qxf7+ Qxf7 49. Rxf7 Kxf7. After this, it's an easy endgame win for Black, who is up a bishop for a pawn. |
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| Sep-30-10 | | sevenseaman: One who rides a tiger cannot afford to dismount. This is so for Black after Whites 37th move, but he rode it till it fell exhausted. |
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Jun-03-11
 | | Domdaniel: < 26 a3 disturbs the queen side pawns.> - < 14...g6 attracts suspicion as it disturbs the king side pawns.> It's a French. If the pawns aren't deeply disturbed - traumatized, even - then something is very wrong. To address the actual pawn moves: White's 26.a3 is a standard ploy to give the King some air while potentially slowing Black's a/b pawns: if it isn't played, 37...Rxc1+ is mate. And Black's ...g6 *strengthens* his kingside, by letting the Bishop reach the long diagonal while supporting ...Nh5 to slow White's h-file breakthrough. Also standard, also good. |
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Jan-30-22
 | | GrahamClayton: Always nice to see a "quiet" winning move (47...Ke8) after the forced checks. |
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May-13-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Funny how after all that ruckus drummed up by the Black Queen, the King decides the game with a single quiet move. |
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May-13-24
 | | offramp: Bronstein played a similar move.
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39. Rxh6+.
Bronstein vs Korchnoi, 1962. |
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| May-13-24 | | goodevans: The SF annotations award the brilliant 35...Rd1 a <?>. Yet another example to show that these silicon-based pronouncements need a carbon-based sense check before they are published. A fabulous King hunt and, as others have already said, the final move is exquisite. |
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May-13-24
 | | FSR: Stunning. But why <Beaver>? |
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| May-13-24 | | FairyPromotion: <FSR> It is a pun for "Leave It to Beaver," an old American sitcom title. Clearly not the most inspired pun, but the game was worth bringing it to the attention of those who have not seen it before. |
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May-14-24
| | offramp: Have you seen the film Naked Gun? There is a scene where Priscila Presley takes a stuffed animal from a shelf, and Frank Drebin said, "You have a superb beaver.' There's an even better scene in "The Birdman of Alcatraz". Burt Lancaster said, "I have a really beautiful pair of tits." In the audience that line often provokes laughter. |
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May-15-24
 | | HeMateMe: I remember staying up until 3am one night, as a kid, to watch <Birdman of Alcatraz>. Good Burt. The real guy, prisoner, was finally released, late in life. So was acclaimed bank robber "Machine Gun Kelly." <https://www.bing.com/images/search?...> upon parole, Kelly lived out the rest of his life in Canada. <George Kelly Barnes (July 17, 1900[1][2] – July 18, 1954),[3] better known by his nickname "Machine Gun Kelly", was an American gangster from Memphis, Tennessee, active during the Prohibition era. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun. He is best known for the kidnapping of oil tycoon and businessman Charles F. Urschel in July 1933, from which he and his gang collected a $200,000 ransom (equivalent to $4.71 million in 2023).[4] Urschel had collected and left considerable evidence that assisted the subsequent FBI investigation, which eventually led to Kelly's arrest in Memphis on September 26, 1933.[3] His crimes also included bootlegging and armed robbery.> |
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May-15-24
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi HeMateMe,
The film should have be called the 'Birdman of Leavenworth.' that is where he had the birds. He was not allowed to keep birds at Alcatraz. He was kept in solitary confinement for most of his prison sentence but was allowed to play Chess with one of the guards. (I wonder if he opened 1.f4.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rober... |
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May-15-24
| | offramp: <Sally Simpson> Good old Leavenworth. Do you remember the recently charity football match? A nine-goal thriller. Firth of Forth v Forfar on the 10th at Leavenworth, 5-4 for second place playoff. |
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