May-31-11 | | TheRavenPK: In addition to the material advantage, the direct threat is 26.Qxg7+ Qxg7 27.Bxg7+ Kxg7 28.Rxe6. So black has to move bishop. I think that the lines are:
25..Bg8 26.Qxg7+ Qxg7 27.Bxg7+ Kxg7 28.Re7+ (any) 29.Rxb7. 25..Bf7 26.Qxg7#.
25..Bd5 26.Rd1 with exchange of the queens and winning another pawn. I really like Réti :) |
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Jun-21-22
 | | OhioChessFan: Against my better judgement, I really like this groaner of a pun. |
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Jun-21-22
 | | FSR: Presumably the pun is both a play on Reti's name and an allusion to the fact that Black is the father of the physicist Lise Meitner, one of the co-discoverers of nuclear fission. |
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Jun-21-22 | | Brenin: An enjoyable pun for an enjoyable game: <OCF> and <FSR> beat me to it with both comments. |
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Jun-21-22 | | Z free or die: Gotta know your physics to get this one.
It's a good-un! |
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Jun-21-22
 | | perfidious: Meitner left his mark in this corner of the world with the Immortal Draw, but his daughter bequeathed a far greater legacy. |
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Jun-21-22 | | Granny O Doul: If only the game had been played in Ireland.
The career of the Black king's knight helps explain why this variation has fallen into desuetude. |
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Jun-21-22
 | | al wazir: 25...Nd8.
Now what? If 26. Bxg7+, then 26...Qxg7 27. Rxe6 (27. Qb8 Qd7 28. g3 Bf7) Nxe6 28. Qb8+ Qg8 29. Qxa7. Is this a win? |
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Jun-21-22
 | | Breunor: Al Wasir,
It’s a win. Stockfish at 30 ply scores it as +11.43. White plays 26 Qg5. Black has no satisfactory answer. The queen is overloaded defending d8 and g7. If black moves the bishop, say
26 … Bxa2, then
27 Bxg7 and if Qx g7
28 R e8 check wins.
If black plays
26 … Kg8
27 Bxg7 and if Qxg7 Qxd8 ch
There are a lot of variations but they do all end with white wins. |
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Jun-21-22
 | | 0ZeR0: <al wazir: 25...Nd8.
Now what? If 26. Bxg7+, then 26...Qxg7 27. Rxe6 (27. Qb8 Qd7 28. g3 Bf7) Nxe6 28. Qb8+ Qg8 29. Qxa7. Is this a win?>
Instead of 27.Rxe6 white can play 27.Qd6 Qd4 (27...Qf6 or 27...Qg8) 28.Rd1 and all of black's pieces are tied down. If after 27.Qd6 black plays 27...Qg5 than 28.Qf8+ Bg8 29.f4 Qg4 30.Qf6+ Qg7 31.Qxd8. |
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Jun-21-22 | | nalinw: Wow yes - the Lise Meitner connection makes this a great pun ..... |
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Jun-21-22 | | SeanAzarin: White already has a winning material advantage, up the Exchange and 2 Pawns, and is threatening to win another Pawn and swap off most of the remaining material with 26 Q x P ch Q x Q 27 B x Q ch K x B 28 R x B. I'm surprised Meitner hadn't resigned several moves before. |
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Jun-21-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: A good pun if you don't know about Lise Meitner. A *great* one if you do. |
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Jun-21-22
 | | scormus: Yes, great pun!
I knew "The (Hamppe-Meitner) immortal draw", and also about the Meitner/Hahn discovery, but I never made the connection.
They say you learn something every day. |
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Jun-21-22
 | | Breunor: I don't know why in my post above, Qg5 got written with weird characters! Anyway, please put in Qg5 in the unreadable part! 25 ...Nd8
26 Qg5
And black had no answer as above. |
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