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Oct-31-19
 | | tamar: You're Svane, you probably think this game is about you, you're Svane... |
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Oct-31-19
 | | saffuna: It was certainly about Svane's king taking a long stroll. How many times did white offer his bishop? Amazing. |
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Oct-31-19
| | tamar: agadmator has it as game of day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coc... |
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| Nov-01-19 | | spingo: The black king's wanderings on the queenside remind me a little of that Kasparov-Topalov piece of fluff. |
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Nov-01-19
 | | keypusher: <tamar: You're Svane, you probably think this game is about you, you're Svane...> Ooh, excruciating. So bad, it's good. |
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Nov-01-19
| | saffuna: This certainly is an up-and-down game.
According to stockfish, black would have had just a slight disadvantage with 29...Qxe6. |
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Nov-01-19
 | | OhioChessFan: That's awfully good. |
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| Nov-01-19 | | spingo: <saffuna: This certainly is an up-and-down game.
According to stockfish, black would have had just a slight disadvantage with 29...Qxe6.> After a few obvious moves that would probably lead to this position.
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White has some fearsome pawns on the e+f files, but Black has that pawn on g2. Black also has a lot of material for the queen. Dubov is a superb, Tal-like player and I hope he gets a crack at the title, say in 2028 or so. |
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Nov-01-19
 | | perfidious: From the diagram posted by <spingo>, 1.f6+ could create a few headaches. |
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Nov-02-19
 | | sackman: Wow. This is inSvane. |
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| Nov-02-19 | | goodevans: <perfidious: From the diagram posted by <spingo>, 1.f6+ could create a few headaches.> Indeed, but I imagine the 'few obvious moves' <spingo> refers to are 29...Qxe6 30.Nxe6 Kxe6 31.f5+ Ke7 32.e4 so it would be black to move. |
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| Dec-17-19 | | takchess: from a chess magazine advert---
That other inspiration of Magnus Carlsen, his friend Russian dare-devil GM Danill Dubov, annotates his fantastic win against Rasmus Svane at the European Team Championship. Dubov writes, tongue-in-cheek: “It’s my favourite kind of game: two strong players have no idea what is going on and neither do a very big number of so-called experts.” Mikhail Tal would have liked the fireworks! |
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Apr-18-20
 | | WTHarvey: White mates in 3.
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| Oct-17-20 | | Granny O Doul: <You're Svane, you probably think this game is about you, you're Svane...> You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself schachmatt. |
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| Oct-17-20 | | Granny O Doul: Oh wait, Svane lost. Let me think on this some more. |
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| Oct-17-20 | | Granny O Doul: Ok, let's say "you had one eye in the mirror as your rival said 'schachmatt'." |
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| Oct-17-20 | | Walter Glattke: Black is a rook ahead, and white hunts the black king, so 31.Bxc4+ (31.-Kxc4 32.Rc1+ Kb5 33.Qc6+ Ka6 34.Rc4 Bd7 35.Ra4# or similar) 31.-Ka5 32.Qc6 Bd7 33.Qb7 Bxa3 34.Qa6+ Kb4 35.Qxa3# 32.Qd5+!? c5 33.b4+ Ka4 34.Qc6+ Kxa3 35.Rd1 cxb4 36.Rd3+ b3 37.Rxb3# 32.-Bc5 in the match 33.b4+ Ka4 34.Qc6+ Kxa3 35.Rf2 Bf5+ 36.Kc1 e.g.Bxb4 37.Ra2# they played 34.Qg2 black should play 34.Bf5+ here. |
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Oct-17-20
 | | al wazir: What a combination!
I have to wonder how much of the last 15 or so moves (starting with 22. Rxf7) Dubov saw in advance. |
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| Oct-17-20 | | Brenin: 31 Bxc4+ was easy to see, but very hard to prove correct; OTB I would have played it and trusted that I would find a good enough follow-up (or that my opponent wouldn't). Up to move 22, looking at the number of sub-optimal moves, and the question marks awarded by Stockfish, you might think that these were two club players, with the advantage regularly changing sides. After the R sac, both players seemed to find the best moves, apart from Black's 29 ... Kc6, after which he was a dead man walking; 29 ... Qxe6 would have left him with 2R+2B vs Q+R and a good chance of survival. The finish by White, with clever non-forcing moves 34 Qg2 and 36 Bb3, was impressive. |
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| Oct-17-20 | | stacase: I missed 34.Qg2 but even so, it was pretty straight forward, hardly worthy of the "Very Difficult" label. After all, Black was in pretty bad shape. Over the board I might have seen that 34.Bb3+ didn't work, and that White's Queen was under attack and needed to get out of Dodge. |
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| Oct-17-20 | | Brenin: <Walter Glattke:> I think that your line 31 Bxc4+ Kxc4 32 Rc1+ Kb5 33 Qc6+ Ka6 34 Rc4 is refuted by 34 ... Rxg5, e.g. 35 fxg5 Bf5+ 36 Ka1 Bc2 37 Rxc2 Qe8 and Black's K escapes; instead 32 Qc6+ is needed, leading to mate. Similarly, after 31 ... Ka5 32 Qc6 Black can escape with Qe8 or Qd7, e.g. 33 b4+ Bxb4 34 axb4+ Kxb4 and White's attack is running out of steam; 32 Qd5+, as in the game, is correct. Your suggestion of 34 ... Bf5+ doesn't help Black, since White's 35 Ka2 simply adds another piece to the attack, e.g. 35 ... Bxb4 36 Qc6+ leads to mate. |
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| Oct-17-20 | | malt: Got stuck on 34.Qc6+, which went Black's way, found 34.Qg2! |
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| Oct-17-20 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Like other folks, I saw the first two stages of the puzzle: a. The bishop is poisoned after 31 Bxc4+.
b. The way to enforce b4 is to play 32 Qd5+ and cause Black to mess up his defense of b4 by getting a pinned interposer at c5. Also like other folks, I then missed 34 Qg2.
That said, while the puzzle probably should have started at Move 34, finding Moves 31-33 was fun in itself. |
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| Oct-17-20 | | Walter Glattke: BRENIN: You descrive not the only possible answers, I am not forced to play that way, that's the difficulty here. 31.-Ka5 32.Qc6 Qd7 (Qe8?) 33.Qa8 c5 34.Ne4 Qb7 wins a piece back by 35.Qxb7 Bxb7 36.Nxd6 Rxd6 37.Bxg8 Rg6, but good ides here. 34.-Rxg5 in first line 35.d5 Bf5 36.Ka2 Bc2 37.b3 Rxd5 38.Qxd5 c5 39.Ra4+ or the third line, there could be played 34.Qg2 Bf5+ 35.Kb2 Bxb4 36.Qc6+ b5, I understand the very good comment, but I only know, that stockfish is better than me, but has more variation to look. |
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| Oct-17-20 | | vonKrolock: 31.Bxc4+ suggests itself, as Kxc4 32.Qc6+ is mate in a few moves. So 31...Ka5. Now it's harder. |
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