| Aug-05-19 | | guaguanco: This is a heck of an attack! |
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Oct-01-19
 | | fredthebear: Yes, indeed! |
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Jan-19-20
 | | FSR: Korley Fries. |
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Jan-19-20
| | FSR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQI... |
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Jul-25-20
| | FSR: Alina Kashlinskaya fell into the same trap against Eric Rosen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qx... (game begins at 1:11:02). |
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Aug-21-20
 | | Alex Schindler: that 19Re5 is magnificent. not sure it's even the best move in the position, but it must be psychologically devastating because it's certainly keeps the pressure up and probably isn't expected. this whole line is awesome. thanks for the Eric Rosen game, that was very enjoyable as well! he did it again recently in the context of a silly challenge where he was asked by streamers to sacrifice his queen. so he got a significant advantage with this line and was able to give her away without too much consequence. |
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| May-11-22 | | Albertan: The five most brilliant times when an IM smashed a GM: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... |
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| Mar-10-23 | | ZoneChess: I just saw him on the 2023 Documentary Mind Games. He drew Martirosyan. But this one is a jewel for the history books! |
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Mar-17-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Very good pun, but after a game like this, perhaps this Kassa is no one's Kassa but his own. What an attack! "Korley Fries" was also very good. |
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Mar-17-24
| | FSR: This game struck terror in the hearts of all of us who play the Exchange Variation against the Queen's Gambit Declined. After the end of the 2021 U.S. Masters, in which we both played, I ran into Kassa in the lobby and talked to him for about 20 minutes. I commended him on this game. I should have asked him how much of it was home prep. |
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Mar-17-24
 | | HeMateMe: "My house is your house" ? |
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Mar-17-24
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: Fun fact--in the database you will find three more games, all played *after* this one, where White ran into 15...Nfxe4. Black won all of them. |
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Mar-17-24
 | | Teyss: Hi FSR,
Indeed, would have been interesting to know how much was home prep. I would say most of it because one doesn't launch such an attack against a GM unless one is confident it might work.For lazy users or those who don't have a paying account, here are the three games mentioned by <An Englishman>:
Gracjan Grzesik vs T Keinanen, 2022
V Grinev vs T Keinanen, 2022
V S Raahul vs H M Teo, 2023 For memo 15.f4 ended in White winning: A Vardanyan vs A Kozak, 2020. It's the only game, also played after this one. Maybe White saw the game and wanted to improve? When the game was played Alexander Moiseenko was rated approx 2630 and Kassa Korley approx 2430. Following yesterday's S Jensen vs F Urkedal, 2013 the theme of the weekend is "A lower-rated player crushes a present or future GM with a bold opening". Great game, decent pun. "Korley Fries" was also good. |
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| Mar-17-24 | | goodevans: <... in the database you will find three more games, all played *after* this one, where White ran into 15...Nfxe4. Black won all of them.> What this database doesn't have is a remarkable 2020 game between M Amin Tabatabaei and Jason Liang where White somehow survived the onslaught, found an equalising resource (40.Nd5!) then went on to win the resulting endgame. The game can be found here: https://lichess.org/bHogpCYz ... and here's the PGN:
[Event "PNWCC Online Masters WOO"]
[Site "Chess.com INT"]
[Date "2020.07.05"]
[Round "4.14"]
[White "Tabatabaei, Mohammad Amin"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2629"]
[BlackElo "2340"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation"]
[Termination "Normal"]
1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Qc2 h6 9. Bh4 Re8 10. Nge2 a5 11. h3 Na6 12. a3 Nc7 13. O-O Ne6 14. f3 Ng5 15. e4 Nfxe4 16. fxe4 Nxh3+ 17. gxh3 Qxh4 18. Rf2 Bxh3 19. e5 Rxe5 20. dxe5 Bc5 21. Ne4 Bxf2+ 22. Nxf2 Qg5+ 23. Ng4 Qxg4+ 24. Kf2 Qg2+ 25. Ke3 Re8 26. Kd2 Rxe5 27. Qc5 Qg5+ 28. Kc2 Bf5 29. Qf2 Qg4 30. Kd2 Bxd3 31. Kxd3 c5 32. Rf1 Qc4+ 33. Kd2 d4 34. Nc1 Re7 35. Qf5 Qb5 36. Nd3 b6 37. Rg1 Qc6 38. Nf4 Qd6 39. Kc1 Qe5 40. Nd5 Re6 41. Qxe5 Rxe5 42. Nxb6 h5 43. Nc4 Rf5 44. Nxa5 h4 45. a4 Kh7 46. Nc4 Kh6 47. a5 Rf6 48. Ne5 Ra6 49. Nxf7+ Kh7 50. Rg4 Rxa5 51. Rxh4+ Kg6 52. Nd6 Kg5 53. Rh7 g6 54. Kc2 Kf4 55. Rf7+ Kg4 56. Nc4 Rb5 57. Ne5+ Kg5 58. Rc7 Kf5 59. Nd3 g5 60. Nxc5 g4 61. Nd3 Ke4 62. Re7+ Kf3 63. Rf7+ Kg3 64. Rd7 Kh2 65. Rxd4 g3 66. Rh4+ Kg1 67. Rg4 Kh2 68. Rh4+ Kg1 69. b4 g2 70. Ne1 Kf1 71. Nxg2 Kxg2 72. Kc3 Kf3 73. Kc4 Rb6 74. b5 Rf6 75. Kc5 Rf5+ 76. Kc6 Rf6+ 77. Kb7 Rf7+ 78. Ka6 Kg3 79. Rc4 Kf3 80. b6 Rf6 81. Ka7 Rf7+ 82. b7 Ke3 83. Ka8 Kd3 84. Rc8 Rf1 85. b8=Q Ra1+ 86. Qa7 Rxa7+ 87. Kxa7 Kd4 88. Kb6 Kd5 89. Rc5+ Kd6 90. Kb5 Kd7 91. Kc4 Kd6 92. Kd4 Ke6 93. Rd5 Kf6 94. Ke4 Ke6 95. Rd4 Ke7 96. Ke5 Kf7 97. Kf5 Ke7 98. Rd5 Kf7 99. Rd7+ Ke8 100. Ke6 Kf8 101. Kf6 Kg8 102. Rf7 Kh8 103. Kg6 Kg8 104. Rf6 Kh8 105. Rf8# 1-0 |
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Mar-17-24
| | Teyss: Hi goodevans,
Good catch. I'll submit it unless you already did it. Very surprising Black kept on playing for 18 moves with K vs K+R. Maybe White was short on time and Black was hoping for his flag to fall?PS: nice to see you back. |
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Mar-17-24
| | Teyss: Well, we can say lots about CG but they're fast: Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei vs J Liang, 2020 |
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| Mar-17-24 | | BxChess: Twisted pun: Su kassa mi kassa. |
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