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| Nov-03-15 | | Pulo y Gata: I was about to invoke the same time factor, but I think you are right. Should we expect WBS to be called a worthless father, sued and shamed by one of his offspring in, say, 20 years? But that's taking things quite far, right? |
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| Nov-04-15 | | epistle: not really. life is short |
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| Jan-31-16 | | SimplicityRichard: <Domdaniel: A film by Aki Kaurismaki.> Thank you for that hint. A great discovery!!# |
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| Aug-05-16 | | Whitehat1963: What's best play after 37...Kxf1 38. Ne3+ Qxe3 39. Qxe3? It's not exactly what I'd call an easy win for either side at that point. |
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Aug-05-16
 | | perfidious: < Whitehat1963: What's best play after 37...Kxf1 38. Ne3+ Qxe3 39. Qxe3? It's not exactly what I'd call an easy win for either side at that point.> But it is: 37.Kxf1 is answered by 37....Qf2 mate. |
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| Aug-05-16 | | Whitehat1963: Oops!! |
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| Dec-04-23 | | Brenin: 36 ... Rf1+ 37 Kxf1 Qf2 mate. Thank goodness for Mondays! |
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Dec-04-23
 | | Korora: I was thrown off by the fact that the key to most Monday puzzles is "Take my wife--Please!" but this time not. |
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Dec-04-23
 | | NMABQjmgChess: Must be Monday as even I was able to find the answer. |
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Dec-04-23
 | | takebackok: No think rook sac Monday, |
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| Dec-04-23 | | Brenin: 36 Ne2 was a terrible blunder. After 36 Qxd1 Rf2 37 Qf1 Rxf1+ 38 Rxf1 White has R+2B+N for Q+3P, surely with winning chances? |
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| Dec-04-23 | | Mayankk: White light-squared Bishop is pinned, so 36 ... Rf1+ 37 Kxf1 Qf2# is all forced. The Black Knight does an effective job at cutting off the oxygen supply on the back rank for a hapless Black King. |
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| Dec-04-23 | | mel gibson: So easy - LOL. |
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| Dec-04-23 | | saturn2: Rf1 So? |
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| Dec-04-23 | | Mayankk: What's wrong with the simple 35 Rxd1 instead of 35 Qc1? I must be missing something obvious. After 35 ... Rf1+ 36 Rxf1 Qxe3+ 37 Kh1, White has 4 pieces for the Queen and Black's back rank weakness means it doesn't have the initiative either. |
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| Dec-04-23 | | stacase: After spending too much time figuring out that 36...Qe1+ wasn't productive, I finally noticed that White's Bishop was pinned and, "Oh how nice, Black's Knight supports the mate after the Rook sacrifice." |
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| Dec-04-23 | | Brenin: <Mayankk>: I think that both 35 Rxd1 and Qe2 give good winning chances, but after 35 Rxd1 Rf1+ White does better to recapture with 36 Kxf1, so that 36 ... Qxe3 isn't check, allowing the safe 37 Ne2, protecting the P on c3. |
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| Dec-04-23 | | TheaN: <36....Rf1+ 37.Kxf1 Qf2#> is a classical magnet tactic. Giri was dead lost in this game and it turned around in two moves. Incredible that it happens at this level. |
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| Dec-04-23 | | Refused: 36...Rf1+ game over.
I remember this game. It was funny as hell, because the rabid pinoy brigade were banging the So drum as hard as tourist in Angeles City... So poor Wesley snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and thus giving the victory in the Wijk B was just <chef's kiss>. |
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Dec-04-23
 | | chrisowen: Na v biffy its took quo its z cj Rf1+ if awooga job about lo at crib Rf1+ da |
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| Dec-04-23 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: After long thinking, the very strong Dutch GM Anish Giri finally found the mate in 2 moves with the nice rook sacrifice 36.-,Rf1+! 37.Kxf1,Qf2#. This is exactly the way how to play the "drawish" Petroff with black! Boris Gelfand said once about the Russian GM Alexander Kochyev: "If he wanted to draw with black, he played the Sicilian, if he wanted to win with black, he played the Petroff!" |
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| Dec-04-23 | | jffun1958: 36. ... Rf1+! deflecting the black K to f1 and Qf2# next. |
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Dec-04-23
 | | PawnSac: < Sally Simpson: Both ..blunders ..Knight moves. What comes around goes around. > or, as we say on this side of the pond..
"What goes around comes around" .
And speaking of going around, a bit of trivia. How many moves does it take each chess piece to enclose a geometric shape? Let's see.. A pawn can make a triangle in 7. For example..
A pawn on d2 can queen in 5, then go d8-a5-d2 in 2 moves. A rook or bishop can make a rectangle or trapezoid in 4 moves. A king or queen can make a triangle in 3.
But ONLY a knight can make a rectangle in 2 moves. For example:
Nb1-a3 (via a1). The return trip is via b3. "L7" That's why I've always been fond of horses.
They find their way around or over things. |
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Dec-05-23
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi PawnSac.
I do not mind answering an 8 year old post but triangles, rectangles and something called a trapezoid(?) Is that when you trap a zoid in a two mover. (I googled 'zoid' and got; 'Zoid can refer to either an asexually reproductive spore or a sexually reproductive gamete.') I'll try and fit in ,a sexually reproductive gamete.'
next time I note up a game but I might get arrested. A pawn on h2 can capture on g3, f4, e5, d6, c7 and on b8 then promote to a Rook and go from b8-h8-h2. That is a triangle and from h2 to b2 to b8 is a rectangle....this is fun! |
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Dec-05-23
| | PawnSac: < Sally Simpson: > Now see?! I knew I could rely on you for a colorful post! lol creative pawn promotion to rook! yes..
good 8 move solution!
Oh.. and not just any ole' ordinary zoids !
I wouldn't call them asexual as their
counterpart can lean either way.
These are special zoids from the planet Rhombus, dude!
The pairs always lean the same way together,
at the same angle no less. It's like dancing!
And they never disagree, or have a different slant on life.
Always harmonious. |
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