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| May-11-14 | | Whitehat1963: Missed it by a mile, but first! |
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| May-11-14 | | mel gibson: I missed it too - because it's a draw. |
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May-11-14
 | | al wazir: Why is this a draw? What does black play after 29. Qe2 ? |
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| May-11-14 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: As one might expect on a Sunday, I'm starting out stumped. Material is dead even.
Black's queen is attacked and almost trapped.
Black's LSB is under threat of being exchanged off.
White has h2 well-defended, albeit only so long as his bishops stay off the second rank. Also, White has the potential to close the b8-h2 diagonal. 26 ... Qxg4
27 Nxc6 Qxf3+
28 Bg2 Qh5
29 Nxe5
looks hugely advantageous for White.
My inner Rudolph Spielmann suggests that Black should go for: 26 ... Bxf3+
27 Nxf3 Qxg5
but if White calmly plays 28 Nd4, I don't immediately see how Black brings home the attack. |
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May-11-14
 | | Gottschalk: 26...Rxf3! seems the best. |
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| May-11-14 | | patfoley: Perhaps after 29 Qe2, black plays Rf8, threatening Bc1 followed by Rf2. After, say, 30 Rd1, e5 with threats of Ne6, withdrawing the black squared B, Nd4 etc. It looks good for Black |
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| May-11-14 | | devere: <Gottschalk: 26...Rxf3! seems the best.> Black is lost after 26...Rxf3? 27.Nxc6!
26...Bxd4! is the only move, and it really does equalize the position; at the end if White plays 29.Qe2 or Qd1, Black holds equality with Raf8. It is a remarkable combination. |
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| May-11-14 | | patfoley: It looks like a win for Black to me. White takes too long to untangle his pieces, and cannot remove either the blacksq B or create luft for his king. |
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| May-11-14 | | Gilmoy: Homage to Rubinstein! |
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May-11-14
 | | offramp: Boshku does really well. |
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| May-11-14 | | diagonalley: ...er ...um ...er ...pass |
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| May-11-14 | | Steve.Patzer: Well, I chose 26....Bxd4 without giving it much thought. |
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May-11-14
| | offramp: It is strange to see a solid player like Ribli playing 26.g4. |
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| May-11-14 | | abuzic: 26...?
While Black has many forces attacking the White King, he is in critical position His Q is trapped, and trying to save it loses material, like:
26...Ne4 27.gxh5 Nxd2 28.Rxd2
26...Qh4 27.Nxc6 bxc6 28.Bg5 Ne4 29.fxe4 Qxg4 30.Bxe7 26...Qxg4 27.Nxc6 Qh5 28.Nxe5
He can make an offer white cannot refuse
26...Bxd4! threat ...Bxf3+ and ...Bxe3
White cannot refuse
27.gxh5 Bxe3 28.Qxe3 Rxf3 pinning the Q and forcing 29.Qxf3 Bxf3+ followed by ...gxh5 |
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| May-11-14 | | morfishine: Black wins with the simple <26...Rxf3> and now 27.gxh5 Rxf1# Unfortunately, as <devere> points out, White spoils the fun with 27.Nxc6 and Black's
Queen is really hanging
So yes, 26...Bxd4 is best and yes it really is a draw, a remarkable draw at that .....I think
***** |
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| May-11-14 | | gofer: At this point in time Bc6 is valuable - more valuable than Qh5! <26 ... Bxd4!>
<27 gxh5 Rxf3>
<28 Bg2 Bxe3>
click for larger viewIf white trades back its queen then black will be a piece up and
the game will be over. So white has to hold onto its queen. 29 Qe1 Nd3!
29 Qc3 Raf8
29 Qe2 Raf8
It all looks pretty horrible for white...
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Hmmm, didn't think this was a draw!!!! |
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| May-11-14 | | hoodrobin: <Maybe> the point is... the ELO gap between the two players. |
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| May-11-14 | | goodevans: Even after I'd played through the remaining moves it took me a full five minutes to convince myself that white couldn't wriggle out from the final position. Truly insane. |
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| May-11-14 | | mel gibson: al wazir: Why is this a draw? What does black play after 29. Qe2 ? I put it into DR4 64 bit & it confirms all the
moves after 26 as played above.
Yes it's a draw. |
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May-11-14
 | | Richard Taylor: I saw 34. ... Bxd4 (although at first I liked 34. ... Rxf3 but then 35. Nxc6) but I thought Black was winning. I saw the idea of bringing the R on a8 to f8 and by judgment decided Black was winning. I'll put it on my machine and see what it thinks! I thought White had to give back the Q. |
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May-11-14
| | Richard Taylor: Well Komodo agrees with the result. This was a great game by both players though. Black put pressure on White's Q-side with threats such as around move 16. to even, at the right moment sacrifice on e4 after taking on c3 - or maybe a4 although perhaps Ribli should have played 17. Bd4 but maybe then Bxd4 18. Qxd4 Ne6 and if 19.Qd2 Qc5+ with 20. ... f5 to follow or if 19. Qf2 f5! - so Ribli put his pieces in a good (?) defensive position, wisely. Then Black switched to the K-side via Qf8 and played the thematic and very good 21. ... f5 and began a good attack. Ribli defended well. I recall seeing Ribli and say Adorjan playing as GM Murray Chandler used to send a weekly report to the Listener in New Zealand in the 80s, and games by Kasparov, Anderson, Chandler himself and Ribli et al featured. he even put my first game prize win - in the NZ Corresp. Champs ca 1982 or so in: R Taylor vs L F Talbot, 1980
Not quite in the insane league though! |
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May-11-14
| | Richard Taylor: To draw White eventually blocks the B on c6 after taking on g6 first and so on. But it was pretty close. But they might have been in time trouble. Sometimes it is a good idea to bail out while the going is good if the opponent is quite higher rated. |
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May-11-14
| | Richard Taylor: I looked up Boshku and instead of a picture of him there was an advert for the new NZ (electric) trains! I should go on a train haven't been on one for years or and aeroplane either. But old Boshku is a good old terrorist for sure! Here is another devilish game: D Fekadu vs H Boshku, 2008 |
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| May-11-14 | | Once: A truly insane puzzle. My solution was similar to Eric Morecambe's description of playing Grieg's piano concerto... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zH...
In other words, I thought of all the right moves ... I just didn't get them in the right order. Turning on Fritzie and a couple of unexpected things emerge. After 26...Bxd3 27. gxh5 Bxe3 seems to work just as well as 27...Rxf3. Then play might continue 28. Bxe3 Rxf3 29. Qxf3 Bxf3+ Better silicon might come up with a different conclusion, but Fritzie doesn't call this (or the game continuation) drawn. Very level but not absolutely drawn. Incidentally the Once household is on cloud 9 at the moment. The Best Boy in the World has just won an academic scholarship to Charterhouse School. That's the culmination of several years of study, hard work and more than a few shredded nerves. |
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| May-11-14 | | morfishine: <Once> Congratulations! That is really great! |
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