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| Apr-06-11 | | picard: a crazy game from a quiet opening. what a nice little gem! |
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Apr-06-11
 | | HeMateMe: "Mieses, Mieses, where are my PIECES?" |
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Apr-06-11
 | | Phony Benoni: Perhaps a U.S.-centric pun. "Hefty Bag" is a brand of trash bag, noted for size and strength. As a result, I fully expect someone to say White's play was garbage. I'm not so sure myself, and it will be interesting to watch Engines for the Defense. Mieses is generally good for some fun. The whole game has echoes of two of the most famous queen sacrifices: La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834 and Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857. White has to accept the queen; after 11.Bxd5/exd5 Bxf3 he will always be a piece behind in the desperado game. 15.a4 seems to quicken the end, but a defense for White is not obvious. |
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Apr-06-11
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Another one of Mieses' "what in heaven's name is he DOING???" specialties. I wonder when White was truly helpless, no matter what defense (so far I can't find an improvement on 15.a4). Perhaps 12.0-0 was the final error; would 12.Bg5,Nxg2+; 13.Kd2,Nxf3+; 14.Kc3,Nxg5; 15.Qg1 at least delay the defeat? What of 12.Be7? Letting Black take the only piece that might have defended the d8 square looks suicidal. |
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| Apr-06-11 | | Oceanlake: Don't like White moving QB twice. Might have been a good idea after Black castles to move h3 before doing Nd5. |
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| Apr-06-11 | | scormus: As a young novice player I'd get into trouble when I played this opening as W. Always the same theme, the pesky pin on my Nf3 .... |
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Apr-06-11
 | | piltdown man: I hate those Mieses to pieces. |
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| Apr-06-11 | | Garech: Very interesting game, for sure. As <An Englishman> pointed out, castling was the mistake. Playing instead 12.Bg5 is the correct continuation, although white has to play accurately to retain the advantage. For example: 12.Bg5 Nxg2+ 13.Kd2 Bxf3 (stronger than Nxf3 where white simply plays Kc1 and he's fine) 14.Qf1! and white survives: 
click for larger viewalthough it's going to be a tricky middlegame, but he can simply aim to simplify to a winning endgame with his queen against two minor pieces. Black's extra pawn is fairly irrelevant, and the g file will be good for the white rooks. -Garech |
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| Apr-06-11 | | psmith: <Garech> Fritz 5.32 suggests in your line 12. Bg5 Nxg2+ 13. Kd2 h6!? This surprising move seems to give Black chances. But I can't carry out a full analysis now. |
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| Apr-06-11 | | Garech: <psmith> I'm using the same engine! Apparently white can play 14.Bxh6 e.g.: ...gxh6 15.Rg1 Kh7 16.Rxg2 Bxg2 17.Qxg2 Rg8 18.Qh3:
click for larger viewand white has a sizeable advantage but the position is still tricky. Black has a knight and rook against the queen and the pawn structure is symmetrical. The g file now looks good for the black rooks an it's not completely clear how white will continue - black is pretty solid. He can aim to advance the centre pawns with c3 and d4, play Rf1 and f4 etc. In any case there is probably good play for both sides - but it's hard not to favour white with the queen. The pawn advances should create some weaknesses to attack and most exchanges will favour white for the endgame, in my opinion. -Garech |
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| Apr-06-11 | | janatoli2: Mieses was a very strong master for that time and his opponent an amateur. I think that Mieses wanted to play in a showtime style. Against a strong master he would never have sacrificed his queen like that I believe. Most likely it was just a casual game... (Or has anybody more information about that?) |
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Apr-06-11
 | | kevin86: Black sacs the queen for a minor piece attack vs the enemy king. When the rook enters the fray,it is time for white to make terms. |
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| Apr-06-11 | | janatoli2: I just took a closer look. Seems like things are much more complicated and the queen sac is really interesting. 14.Bxh6 is not good I think because of Nxf3+ 15.Kc3 (forced) Bd4+ and Bc5. 14.Qf1 looks more solid but I do not see an advantage after 14. ... Nxf3+ 15.Kc1 Nxg5 16.Qxg2 Bf3 followd by 17... Bxh1 and 18.... Bxf2. 15.Kc3 looks dangerous after Bd4+ and b5. Trying to give back the queen with advantage does not work that easily, either: 12.Kf1 Nxg2 13.Nxd4 Bxd1 approx. equal. Seems like it is not so easy to show that white is doing better after the queen sacrifice ... |
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| Apr-06-11 | | ThatsTriflin: Heftye, Heftye, sick sac! |
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| Apr-06-11 | | psmith: <Garech> <janatoli2> After 12. Bg5 Nxg2+ 13. Kd2 h6!? 14. Bxh6 Black should play Nxf3+ as <janatoli2> notes, but 15. Kc3 is not forced. Instead we can have 15. Kc1 gxh6 16. Rg1 Bxf2 17. Rxg2 Be3+ 18. Kb1 Nd2+ 19. Qxd2 Bxd2 20. h3 Bf4 with advantage to Black. Further in <janatoli2>'s line 15. Kc3 Bd4+ 16. Kb3 Bc5 things aren't all that clear... if 17. Kc3 does Black have better than a draw (17...Bd4+) for example? Not to mention the complications after 17. Qf1. Still this is all pretty unclear and in need of further analysis |
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| Apr-06-11 | | theodor: 13.h3 - very unclear! |
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| Apr-06-11 | | lzromeu: <psmith: <Garech> Fritz 5.32 suggests in your line 12. Bg5 Nxg2+ 13. Kd2 h6!? This surprising move seems to give Black chances. But I can't carry out a full analysis now.> 12.0-0 = 12Ooops! |
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| Apr-06-11 | | David2009: Fascinating game. Let's join it at move 13 (White to play):
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Feed this into Crafty End Game Trainer: can I win as White? Link:
http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-t... It's past my bed time, I'll find out tomorrow...but at the moment it's not looking good- best I can do is to bail out into an ending a Pawn down. Change the task - can I draw the game? Open the free Internet link and try your luck. You are white, drag and drop the move you want to make. |
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| Apr-06-11 | | WhiteRook48: wow, 12 0-0 was just bad |
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Apr-06-11
 | | FSR: The queen sac with 10...Nxd5 11.Bxd8 Nf4 reminds me of J Augustin vs Nunn, 1977 |
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Apr-07-11
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: The lines after 12.Bg5 are quite interesting, but has anyone run 12.Be7 by the silicon monsters? |
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| Apr-07-11 | | janatoli2: I agree to <WhiteRook48> that 12. 0-0 loses the game. 15.a4 looks bad but there was no serious defence possible, e.g. 12.Kh1 (idea is Rg1) Bg2+ and 13... d5 similar to the game or 12.Bd5 (to prevent d5) c6. Also 13.h3 as stated by <theodor> does not change much. The extra square h2 for the white king is not helpful, e.g. 13... Bxf3 14.gxf3 d5 15.Bxd5 Rd6 16.Re1 Rg6+, 17.Kh2 Rh6 18.Rh1 Rxh3+ 19.Kg1 Nde2+ wins. Indeed 12.Bg5 and 12.Be7 need to analyzed in more detail but it is already clear that black is not better in the best lines for white. The queen sac did not refute whites weak opening (tame Giuoco Pianissimo, Bc1-e3-g5, Bf1-c4-b5-c4). Moreover, white could have played 10.Bxf6 to destroy blacks kingside and then maybe prepare to castle longside - no queen sac here. Hence maybe also Mieses did not play so convincingly despite the fantastic 10. ...Nxd5 of course (even if he move is not as strong as it looks like). Finally the pseudo sac 4. ... Nxe4! (idea 5.Nxe4 d5) is well known to be good for black - already in 1902 I believe. |
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| May-03-11 | | sevenseaman: One good thing leads to another. I came here via the POTD. |
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May-03-11
 | | perfidious: <janatoli2: Finally the pseudo sac 4 ... Nxe4! (idea 5.Nxe4 d5) is well known to be good for black - already in 1902 I believe.> Here's the earliest example I've seen, along with a better-known game: Chigorin vs Rosenkranz, 1900, and Tarrasch vs Lasker, 1916. White has two further options in 5.0-0, which transposes to the Urusov Gambit after 5....Nxc3 6.dxc3, or the weaker 5.Bxf7+. |
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May-03-11
| | Phony Benoni: <perfidious> It's much older, of course. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
I wouldn't be surprised if 4...Nxe4 5.Bxf7+ was considered good for White during much of the 19th century. |
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