Mar-26-15
 | | ClassZPlaya: Position after 26. ... Rf8 would make a good puzzle. |
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Mar-26-15 | | LEPORNO8: ClassZPlaya: Position after 26. ... Rf8 would make a good puzzle. Why not after 25... f6 ? |
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Mar-26-15 | | patzer2: Yes indeed (26. ?) would make for a good puzzle, as 25...f6? loses the game to 26. Qd2!! Instead, 25...Rd1! = forces off the rooks and eliminates the back rank weakness. |
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Mar-26-15 | | bugoljubow2000: Congratz Mariya for excellent finish |
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Mar-26-15 | | Gilmoy: Like that (non-Judit) Polgar game with an early h6(?) deflection to lure White's Q away, and Qb6+ Kh1 Qf2 0-1 with Re8-e1 overwhelming the lone Rf1. Too busy to search for it this week ... |
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Mar-26-15 | | Nerwal: This is not the first time Koneru collapses tactically. I wonder if Muzychuk went for this dubious plan 15. f4 16. b3 17. h3 19. b4 20. g4 just as a pure provocation because she knew she would likely be outplayed in the technical position that would occur after normal continuations. |
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Mar-26-15
 | | Penguincw: And Mariya Muzychuk snaps Koneru Humpy's perfect streak. Since losing her first game, Muzychuk has been playing pretty well actually (8-2, including this game). Muzychuk trying to become the first 8-seed to ever knock off a 1-seed in WWCC knockout history... |
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Mar-26-15 | | notyetagm: M Muzychuk vs Koneru, 2015 Humpy dies on the <BACK RANK>: 26 ?
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26 ♕f2-d2!!
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29 ?
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29 ♕d5-f7! 1-0
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Mar-26-15 | | whiteshark: <Position after <26. ... Rf8> would make a good puzzle.> Here you are:  click for larger view |
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Mar-26-15 | | Mating Net: What a great game! The double declined Queen deflection/sacrifice perhaps? With both the Black Queen & Knight in exile (in Siberia)on the Q side, it's not surprising that a tactical solution was available. I agree wholeheartedly with all the kibitzing suggesting that this game has multiple puzzle possibilities. |
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Mar-26-15 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Very nice chessgame !! |
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Mar-27-15 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Queen and Knight, one of the most lethal combinations in chess !! |
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Mar-27-15 | | Baron Harkonnen: b5!, Qd2! lots of fireworks |
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Mar-27-15 | | ALKINAN: Ivanchuk vs Leko, 2007 |
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Jan-08-16
 | | OhioChessFan: Wow. Love the fireworks here. Q+N are a brutal combination. |
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Jan-04-17
 | | Richard Taylor: 25....f6?? loses otherwise Black had a small edge most of the game. A pity as Black had played well up to there and White had diminished her own position somewhat. Then the obvious Bd5+ any amateur would find, perhaps not the Q sac but it doesn't look good for Black after that... |
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Jan-04-17
 | | Richard Taylor: But, I have to concede as someone alerted me to it in the comments above, that I was looking for a combination at the end and to my annoyance didn't see the beautiful 29. Qf7!! 26. Qd2! was a nice move also. |
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Jan-04-17
 | | Richard Taylor: << whiteshark: <Position after <26. ... Rf8> would make a good puzzle.> Here you are...> This player already said this above...Here it is: <ClassZPlaya: Position after 26. ... Rf8 would make a good puzzle.>> |
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