| Jan-17-23 | | Brenin: The hanging Q on c7 suggests 27 Rxg7+ Kxg7 28 Rg1+, e.g. 28 ... Kh6 29 Qg6 mate, or 28 ... Kh8 or Kf8 29 Qxf6+ with mate in a move or two. |
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Jan-17-23
 | | Check It Out: 27.Rxg7+ 28.Rg1+ does the trick. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | jrredfield: 27 Rxg7+ leads to two paths I see right away. 27 ... Kxg7 28 Rg1+ Kf8 Qxf6+ or 27 ... Kxg7 28 Rg1+ Kf7 29 Qh7 Ke6 30 Qxc7. Either way, Black is toast very quickly. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | Brenin: I left out 28 ... Kf7 29 Qh7+, picking up the Black Q (the whole point of the combination). Black's main error was 24 ... Be6, when defending c7 with Rf8 instead would have kept him in the game. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | Mayankk: It's easy once you realise you can win either by grabbing the unprotected c7 Queen or an actual mate. Black can protect against one threat but not both. 27 Rxg7+ Kxg7 (forced to save Queen) 28 Rg1+
A) 28 ... Kf7 29 Qh7+ and the Queen is anyway lost
B) 28 ... Kf8 29 Qxf6+ Qf7 30 Bh6#
C) 28 ... Kh8 29 Qxf6+ Qg7 30 Qxg7# |
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| Jan-17-23 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Everybody happy: 27. Rxg7+ Kxg7 28. Rg1+ Kf7 29. Qh7+ Kf8 30. Rg8# or Ke6 30. Qxc7 (you know the King loves to take enemy's ♕)! While, 29... Bg7 30. Qxg7+ Ke6 31. Rg6#, although the King prefers 31. Qxc7 (yeah!, lgs). |
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| Jan-17-23 | | mel gibson: I saw the first 3 plies straight away.
The Black King is left helpless facing 2 major pieces
and a minor piece.
Stockfish 15 says:
27. Rxg7+
(27. Rxg7+ (♖g1xg7+ ♔f7xg7 ♖d1-g1+ ♔g7-f7 ♕f5-h7+
♔f7-e6 ♕h7xc7 ♖e8-e7 ♕c7-c4+ ♔e6-d7 ♕c4xb4 ♖a8-d8 ♕b4-b7+ ♔d7-e8 ♕b7-d5
♔e8-d7 ♖g1-f1 ♖e7-e6 ♕d5-b7+ ♔d7-e8 ♕b7xa6 ♔e8-f7 ♕a6-c4 d6-d5 e4xd5 ♖e6-d6
♕c4-g4 e5-e4 c2-c4 ♖d8-g8 ♕g4xe4 ♖d6-a6 c4-c5 ♖g8-g2 c5-c6 ♖a6-a8 ♕e4-e6+
♔f7-g7 ♕e6xf6+ ♔g7-h7 d5-d6) +18.76/32 1035)
score for White +18.76 depth 32. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | saturn2: 27.Rxg7 Kxg7 28.Rg1
28...Kh8 Kf8 or Kf7 are all hopeless |
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| Jan-17-23 | | agb2002: The black queen is defenseless. Therefore, 27.Rxg7+ Kxg7 28.Rg1+: A) 28... Kf7 29.Qh7+ Ke6 30.Qxc7 wins decisive material. B) 28... Kf8 29.Qxf6+ Qf7 30.Bh6#.
C) 28... Kg6 29.Qg6#.
D) 28... Kf8 29.Qxf6+ Kh7 30.Qh4(6)#. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | Vermit: 26...Ke7 would have also led to 27. Rxg7+ but for a different reason . 27...Bxg7 28.Bg5+ |
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| Jan-17-23 | | Brenin: The combination actually starts with White's 25th move, but the start 25 Nxe6 Kxe6 26 Qf5+ is fairly obvious. As <Vermit> has pointed out, Black's only alternative to the game move, namely 26 ... Ke7, also loses to 27 Rxg7+, the main continuation being 27 ... Kxg7 28 Bg5+ Bf6 29 Bxf6+ (not 29 Qxf6+ Kd7 with an even game) Kf8 (or Kf7) 30 Bxe5+ Qf7 31 Bxd6+ Kg8 (Re7 32 Bxe7+ Kxe7 33 Rd7+) 32 Rg1+ winnng the Q. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | sfm: Velimirovic - it's certainly easy to lose with Black. White has just played 24.Qh5:
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The Engine suggests 24.-,Rf8, and while White is much better, Black might survive.
That there is no crushing continuation seems clear when the engine's next suggested moves are 25.b3 and 26.Kb1 But the natural played move was surely 24.-,Be6??. Activates the bishop into the defense, and if White grabs it, well, at least we got rid of that dangerous knight.
Unfortunately, natural moves do not beat tactics. We have seen the rest. Enrico Paoli once was 3 times Italian champion. A huge talent, one of the very few that got anywhere despite not starting as a kid. He was 80 when he played this game in '88, he got an honorary GM title when he was 88, and managed to play draws with Death until he was 97. |
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Jan-17-23
 | | chrisowen: Jump no its would a vibe Rxg7 abridge like choose ignoble back grow its wag Rxg7 efface :) |
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| Jan-17-23 | | TheaN: <27.Rxg7+ Kxg7 28.Rg1+> and now the main line would be <28....Kf7 29.Qh7+ +-> the alternatives are way worse. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | AlicesKnight: Found the correct line(s). <sfm> is right - but those two woeful black bishops are something ... |
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Jan-18-23
 | | perfidious: <sfm>, as Larsen wrote long ago, the trouble with playing such sharp variations is that sometimes you get cut yourself. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 27.Rxg7+
