| Oct-07-07 | | syracrophy: 28.♔h2 ♗g1+ 29.♔h1 ♗d4+ wins the queen, and now the promotion is possible |
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Apr-03-13
 | | Phony Benoni: Queen, schmeen. It's a forced mate after 28.Kh1 Bg1+ 29.Kh1 Be3+! |
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Apr-14-20
 | | HeMateMe: hmm...Christianson, a GM, loses to a much lower rated (2265) player here. |
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| Apr-14-20 | | Granny O Doul: Christiansen, not quite 18 here, was still several years from his GM title. I guess he was probably a senior master, though I'm too lazy to check. |
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Apr-15-20
 | | fredthebear: <Phony Benoni: Queen, schmeen. It's a forced mate after 28.Kh2 Bg1+ 29.Kh1 Be3+!> The Be3 interferes with the White queen's coverage of the e1-promotion square. 29...Be3+! allows Black to promote the pawn with check ...31.e1=Q+, forcing the White rook to give itself up 32.RxQe1 QxRe1+, and the Black queen cleans up with the support of the Be3. Black must be careful to properly time ...Qf2+ twice or he'll screw up the mate. <syracrophy>'s line 29...Bd4+ is easier to find, perhaps easier to play in some sense, having removed the pressure of White's checkmate threat. |
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Apr-15-20
| | HeMateMe: How would a senior master get invited to a tournament that invites karpov and korchnoi? Lone pine was a strange animal. I liked the movie made about the event, <the great chess game>. |
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Apr-15-20
 | | perfidious: <HMM>, in the earliest Lone Pine events, even USCF Experts were allowed to play if certain preconditions were fulfilled; the rating requirements were gradually revised upwards--understand that I am going on (less and less reliable) memory, but by 1979 or so, even juniors had to be 2300 US. By the bye, Karpov never played at Lone Pine. |
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Apr-15-20
| | Phony Benoni: The introduction on the tournament page, Lone Pine (1974), states that the minimum rating was 2250, or 2200 for Juniors under 18. This had been raised fro previous years. Jacobs was well over 2300, but not a Senior aster as yet. |
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Apr-15-20
| | HeMateMe: So Karpov was never a player at Lone Pine. Seems odd...in the movie <The Great chess Game> I think the interviewer is asking Karpov questions at the Lone Pine locale, and I think Korchnoi is playing that year. Perhaps Karpov was just visiting the USA. I saw the movie in 1983, long time ago. The usual Soviet system was to send two of their players to events. They often sent two players to Hastings, back when that tournament was a happening event. Perhaps they sent two (Karpov and Korchnoi) to Lone Pine but only one (korchnoi) was participating? |
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Apr-15-20
| | Phony Benoni: Korchnoi played twice at Loone, Pine, Lone Pine (1979) and
Lone Pine (1981). Both were after his defection, so obviously he and Karpov were never sent together. In 1979 the Soviets boycotted Lone Pine due to Korchnoi's participation, but in 1981 they sent Yusupov and Romanishin. It seems unlikely Karpov would have been at Lone Pine in 1979. In 1981, the timing seems very unlikely;; Lone Pine ran from March 29 - April 8 and Karpov played in a Moscow tournament that began April 4. However, I have no direct verification whether he was there either time. By the way, if you're interested Lone Pine (1981) includes a complete list of players at Lone pine. |
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Apr-16-20
| | HeMateMe: Thanks PB, spot on as always. Was karpov a non-playing visitor at san Antonio or some other american event? Im guessing his interview was cut and pasted in, had nothing to do with the lone pine event. |
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| May-29-25 | | mel gibson: I saw that the f2 pawn was weak and double attacked so the first ply was easy -
take the pawn on e2.
Stockfish 17 says:
23. .. Rxe2
(23. .. Rxe2 (1. ... Rxe2 2.Rxd3 Rxb2 3.Rxd8+ Nxd8 4.Bxb2 Qa5 5.Rc2 Qxa2 6.Re2 Ne6 7.Bxg7 Qxe2 8.Bxe2
Kxg7 9.b4 Bc7 10.Bd3 Nd4 11.b5 h6 12.Bc4 Bd8 13.h4 f5 14.f4 Ba5 ) +5.78/48 362) score for Black +5.78 depth 48. |
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| May-29-25 | | mel gibson: If we follow the game line and White accepts the Rook with 24. Bxe2
then it's mate in 16:
Stockfish 17.
24. Bxe2 Qxf2+
(24. .. Qxf2+ (1. ... Qxf2+ 2.Kh1 dxe2 3.Rxd8+ Nxd8 4.h4
Qf1+ 5.Kh2 Bg1+ 6.Kh1 Bd4+ 7.Kh2 Bxb2 8.Bxb2 Qxc1 9.Bxc1 e1Q 10.Kg2 Qe2+
11.Kh3 Ne6 12.g4 Qf3+ 13.Kh2 Nd4 14.g5 Ne2 15.h5 Qf2+ 16.Kh1 Ng3+) +M16/72
311)
Black wins _ mate in 16. |
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| May-29-25 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: The king goes with the sacrifice: 23...Rxe2 24. Bxe2 Qxf2+ 25. Kh1 dxe2 26. Rxd8+ Nxd8 27. Bc5 Bxc5 28. Qc3 Qf1+ 29. Kh2 Bg1+ 30. Kh1 Bd4+ 31. Kh2 Bxc3... (win the ♕). Refusing the ♖: 23...Rxe2 24. Rf1 Rxb2 25. Bxb2 d2 26. Rcd1 Rd3 27. Bg4 Qd5+ 28. f3 Bd4... etc. |
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May-29-25
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Already knew this game, but still impressive, especially considering the tournament as a whole; Jacobs tied for 8th place, maybe his greatest result when you consider the competition. |
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| May-29-25 | | Granny O Doul: The Great Chess Movie is apparently freely viewable on YouTube. I'd post a link but it's a bit awkward from my phone and I'm always afraid I'll link the wrong thing. |
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| May-29-25 | | Walter Glattke: a) 21.-Rxe2 22.Rd2 Nd5 23.Rxe2 Qxf3+ 24.Kh2 Nxe2 25.Rf1 Bxf2 26.Bf8 Qxg3+ 27.Kh1 Qxh3# b) queen sac with 22.Rf1 Rxb2 23.Bxb2 Ne5 24.Bg4 c) 21.-Ne5 22.Rxd3 Rxd3 23.Bg4 Qxf2+ 24.Kh1 Rxg3 25.e3 Nxg4 26.Qxf2 Nxf2+ 27.Kh2 Rxh3+ 28.Kg2 Bxe3 29. Rf1 |
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| May-29-25 | | cocker: First move is obvious, even to me. White made it easy for Black by taking the rook (24 Bxe2). |
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May-29-25
 | | takebackok: Opposite color bishop cashes in Thursday, 23...Rxe2 one way to go however, 24. Bxe2? easy game line now. Looked at (24. Rd2 Bd4 25. Rxe2 Bxb2 26. Rxb2 Nd5 27. Bxb7 Qd7 28. Be4 f5 29. Bxd3 Qd5+) now 30. Kh2 or Kg1 Nf3+ and Qxd3 or 30. Kf1 Qh1#. Take your pick white is busted, think 23...Ne5, Bd4 and Rxe2 are all wining. |
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| May-29-25 | | Thegamelover: Should have been a Monday POD |
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Kibitzing
sac: 23...Rxe2