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Hao Wang vs Sergei Rublevsky
Karpov Poikovsky (2008), Poikovsky RUS, rd 5, Jul-12
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense. Main Lines (D27)  ·  0-1

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Jul-12-08  apple pi: The combination starting with 18. ♘xf7 would have worked if not for the mate threat ...♕xg7#.
Jul-12-08
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  al wazir: After 27. e8=Q+ Rxe8 29. Qe7+ Kb8 30. Qd6+, white can probably get a draw.

If this attack had succeeded it would have deserved to be a Sunday puzzle.

Jul-12-08  Hesam7: 18.fxe6 looks more promising 18...hxg5 19.exf7+ Kd7 20.Bxg5


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Jul-12-08  Wild Bill: Would anybody like to take a look at <22.R1f3 Rh7 23.Bxg5 Qxf3 24.gxf3 hxg5 25.Qxg5+>?
Jul-12-08  4tmac: The attack deserved to work but blacks threat on the long diagonal ruined it. I was rooting in favor of whites enterprise. Maybe around move 27 he should have gone for the draw with opposite colored bishops.
Jul-12-08  perkychesscat: How about 21. Bxb4?
Jul-12-08  Wild Bill: On <21.Bxb4> Fritz gives <21...Qxg2+ 22.Qxg2 Bxg2 23.Bxf8 Rxf8> with equality.
Jul-13-08  perkychesscat: Thanks Wild Bill. I guess equality is better than losing.
Jul-13-08  mathematician: why not 27.e8/Q ? I think 27... Re8 is forced and then Qe8 forces Kc7 (if Qd8 it should be a draw I think) and then Qe7 should draw. (Qd6 is next)
Jul-14-08  Gilmoy: <27.e8=Q+ Rxe8 28.Qxe8+ Kc7 29.Qe7+> Kb6 30.Qd6+ <30.Qxb4+? (loses touch with g2) Ka7 31.K(f1,f2) Qxg2+ 32.Ke1 Q(g1,h1)+ collecting the h2 and e5 pawns> Qxd6 31.exd6 a5. Black threatens Bc6 winning a pawn (b3? Bd5). White's d6-pawn is weak -- Black can collect it, or ignore it and march his K toward c2 (hence one White idea is an immediate 32.d7 just to deflect Black's K for a tempo). White has h4 to activate his B, with Bg5-Bd8+ in some lines, which should win back either Black's a- or h-pawn. Black still emerges a pawn up, with a Q-side majority, and his "extra" d4-pawn shadows a1. That's not a clear draw for White.
Jul-14-08  Demostenes: Would there be any defence to 22.Bxg5?
Jul-14-08
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  Stonehenge: <Demostenes> There's always ...Qxg2+
Jul-14-08  ex0duz: <Demonstenes: Would there be any defence to 22.Bxg5?>

22. Bxg5 Qxg2 i'm guessing. 23.Qxg2 Bxg2 and white is still down a piece, but now with queens off the board..

Jul-14-08  Planik: 22.R1f5!


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Jul-15-08  DeltaHawk: Wang Hao missed the power of black's knight on 10. ...Ne4 which forces him to use his bishop instead of his queen to finish the exchange. If he uses his queen instead, the bishop on b7 would strike down the knight, only protected by the pawn and leaving the white king exposed. This leaves black with one more pawn than white. The point is to keep white's queen from protecting the crucial pawn on d4. If 11. dxc5, then 11. ...Bxc5 and the white king is threatened by both the black knight on e4 and the bishop on c5.

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