| Jan-30-06 | | cuendillar: Very interesting game, particularly the opening. How often do you see black sacrificing two pawns in the opening - on the third rank!? Puzzle-like ending too. (20... ?) |
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| Feb-01-06 | | Ziggurat: Very neat! The e3/g3 maneuver on moves 9 and 10 creates serious dark-square weaknesses in white's camp. If 6. Ngxe4, black is planning 6...Nxe4 7 Nxe4 Qh4, when white has to contort himself to try to retain the pawn. For instance 8 Qd3 Bb4+ 9 Kd1 f5. |
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| Feb-03-06 | | jamesmaskell: This game won Best Game of the Tournament. Well deserved too. Rather beautiful. |
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| Feb-03-06 | | iron maiden: I would've given my vote to Bologan vs Korchnoi, 2006, but this game is nice also. |
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| Feb-04-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Beautiful!! <chessgames.com> should definitely make this GOTD some day, or create a puzzle out of the last few moves. |
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| Feb-06-06 | | Miacat: Definitely candidate for GOTD. Nice ending with the rook sac 20...♖xh2+ if 21♔xR ♕h5+ 22 ♖h4 ♕xh4+ (as the g pawn is pinned) 23♔g1 ♗c5+ with either 23 ♕d4 ♗xd4+ followed by or just ♔f1 ♕h1++ or as the game 21..♕c5 22♔f1 ♖h1++ or 22♔xh2 leads to mate as above.
Possible pun of the day "Shaken not stirred"
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| Feb-06-06 | | Jarlaxle: <iron maiden> i agree, though both games are very interesting. |
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| May-09-06 | | notyetagm: 20 ... ♖xh2+! and Black forces mate, combining the themes of <attack down the h-file> to mate on the back rank and <weak dark squares>. White's inability to meet checks on the dark-squared a7-g1 diagonal doom his king to mate. A really well-played game by Black. First he won the bishop pair, gaining an unopposed dark-squared bishop. Then he played imaginatively to create dark-squared weaknesses in the White position. Finally, he cashed in on all of White's dark-squared problems with a mating combination. |
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| Jun-10-06 | | Whitehat1963: Beauty of a finish. This will have to be a puzzle one day! |
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Aug-23-07
 | | egilarne: Very interesting game, to see black creating weak black squares, changing knight for bishop and going on to exploit the weaknesses. |
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| Dec-31-09 | | ounos: 16. o-o-o doesn't look particularly dangerous to me. Why Be2 instead, allow the Rook to b2, and get your king opposite to the other rook? |
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| Dec-31-09 | | zanshin: I would have castled long with <16.O–O–O>:
click for larger viewand Rybka 3 evaluates it as a decent move.
[+0.27] d=17 16.O–O–O Bf6 17.Qc2 Qe7 18.Bd3 Rb6 19.Rde1 Be5 20.Qd2 O–O 21.Nd5 Bxd5 22.exd5 Qf6 23.b3 Bc3 24.Qe3 Bxe1 (0:03.55) 7868kN |
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| Dec-31-09 | | zanshin: I agree - this is an interesting finish. What sets it up is <19.Rf4?> (maybe Rf5 was better) although Black had already gained a slight lead:
click for larger view [-0.21] d=17 19.Rf5 Qe3 20.Raf1 Qxd3 21.Bxd3 Bd6 22.Rg5 g6 (0:14.59) 43056kN [-1.32] d=16 19.Rf4 Bd6 20.Qe3 (0:12.41) 37620kN |
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| Sep-24-11 | | wordfunph: fantastic 20...Rxh2+!!!
GM Arizmendi won a brilliancy prize of 1k pounds for this game alone --- equivalent to 17 days of my factory work in Leeds in 2007 :) |
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Jul-05-19
| | MKD: Beautiful finish. Black played with great imagination, from start to finish. |
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Feb-10-21
 | | FSR: Gorgeous game. |
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Feb-10-21
 | | perfidious: The first line offered by <zanshin> is objectively better than the seppuku of the game continuation, but subjectively a depressing position to defend. |
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