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Horst Vonthron vs Melissa Greeff
"Get Greeff" (game of the day Jun-11-2015)
Gibraltar Masters (2008), Gibraltar ENG, rd 3, Jan-24
Sicilian Defense: Fischer-Sozin Attack. Flank Variation (B87)  ·  1-0

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Jun-11-15
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Fascinating game and an example of how hard managing either side of the Q vs. 3 pieces struggles in the Sicilian Defense can get. Would like to know how the silicon monsters evaluate the positions after each move because I don't know where Black went wrong.

My first guess lies with 27...Qc5 instead of 27...Qf1+; 28.Nd1, tying up White a little. Second guess lies with the central pawn storm, which allowed White to disrupt the entire pawn formation. Third might be the Queen side pawn advance followed by swapping Knights and Rooks. Black might have done better to settle into a fortress. But the game is well beyond my powers of analysis.

Jun-11-15  ASchultz: Entertaining game--I was surprised where my engine thought Black went wrong. I too thought the pawn storm was an overreach, but the control of the center seemed to hold White's pieces back nicely. That d1-knight just takes forever to extricate.

...d4 was stronger than I thought--the knight has nowhere to go. But 36 ...e4 Bxe4 Qxg3 gives Black a nasty passed pawn with the b2-knight totally out of play. Same with Nxe4 h4. Black had a lot of tactics to keep White in the cramp but lost the thread once pawns were exchanged.

41. ...a4 also had me baffled. ...Qh2 would hold things together and let Black bring the king in.

46. ...Qg3 also looks good, forking the White pawns and getting closer to a draw.

But I learned so much from Black's play until then!

Jun-11-15
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  al wazir: Why did black unblock the position by trading ♙s? And why did she continue playing after move 55?
Jun-11-15  morfishine: Quite an interesting and unique game, though I echo <al wazir>'s comments

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Jun-11-15  gofer: "Good Greeff" would be a better pun...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry...

Jun-11-15  pedro99: She took some convincing that she was lost.
Jun-11-15  JonathanJ: <al wazir> probably because she was 14 years old by then and is "only" 2125 now.
Jun-11-15  7he5haman: I think 34...Kf6 instead of 34...Qc7 - 35.h5 felt like the beginning of the end.
Jun-11-15  kevin86: Here, three pieces defeats a queen...with the winning pawn.
Jun-11-15  beenthere240: Ms Greeff is now 2125 years old?
Jun-11-15  Pballa: Black should've resigned on move 49.
Jun-11-15
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  offramp: The pun is based on the title of the Argentinian kinematographic feast called "Het Hreef" about a Dutch man who was bequeathed a valuable dog when his friend died and whose bank manager was also an aficionado of that type of dog and the dog won a major prize in Argentina.

I cried my @#$%* eyes out.

Jun-11-15
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  perfidious: Black came to Greeff in the end, to her misfortune.
Jun-11-15  garuffa: I hate queen piece but it is so difficult to exchange with other pieces. Q=r+r, q=r+b or n. But q=3 minor is rare occasion.

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