| Feb-16-22 | | Brenin: Easy for a Wednesday: 32 Qxe7 Qxe7 33 Nxe5, and there is no defence against the threat of 34 Ng6+, winning the Q or R. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | awfulhangover: I cannot remember having seen such a situation before. I had to smile when I realized that black is in zugswang with so many legal moves at hand. I can imagine black becoming so surprised and frustrated when he saw what the naughty donkey on e5 was doing. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | landshark: What <Brenin> said.
Normally the quiet move solutions are harder to find than that. |
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Feb-16-22
 | | al wazir: 26. Qxe6 looks winning: 26...Qxb7 27. Qg6 Kg8 28. Qh7+ Kf7 29. e6+ Ke8. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | mel gibson: Wow -
I didn't even consider that move with the Queen.Stockfish 14 says:
32.Qxe7
(32. Qxe7 (♕h4xe7 ♕c7xe7 ♘c4xe5 ♗g8-f7 ♘e5-g6+ ♗f7xg6 ♖e1xe7 ♗g6xb1
♖c1xb1 a7-a6 ♖e7-e5 f4-f3 ♖e5xc5 f3xg2 ♖c5-d5 ♖f8-f6 ♔g1xg2 ♔h8-g8 ♖b1-c1
♖f6-g6+ ♔g2-f1 d4-d3 ♖d5xd3 ♖g6-g5 ♖c1-c7 ♔g8-h7 ♔f1-e2 h6-h5 ♖d3-d4 ♔h7-h6
♔e2-e3 ♖g5-g1 ♖c7-c6+ g7-g6 b3-b4 ♖g1-a1 ♖c6xa6 ♖a1-h1 h2-h4 ♔h6-g7 ♖d4-d6
♖h1-h3+ f2-f3 ♖h3xh4) +9.07/34 142)
score for White +9.07 depth 34. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: I found the puzzle easy, because I could pretty quickly eliminate all themes EXCEPT Black's lightly defended e5 knight. In particular, it was easy to see that giving up the queen for rook and knight would quickly become at least giving up the queen for two rooks. Checking the line then showed that, due to a discovered check, White in fact got a tempo to with which to save the knight that would take the f8 rook, adding a further piece to the haul. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | saturn2: Black threatens f3.
32. Qxe7 and white gets back material with interest.
2 R+N for Q or after 33...Bf7 a plus rook. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | agb2002: White is one pawn down.
The white knight would like to go to g6. Therefore, 32.Qxe7 Qxe7 33.Nxe5: A) 33... Qc7(d6,f6,g5) 34.Ng6+ Kh7 35.Nxf8+ wins decisive material. B) 33... Bf7(h7) 34.Ng6+ Bxg6 35.Rxe7 wins a rook. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | Refused: eventually found
32.Qxe7 after eliminating everything else.
32.Qxe7 Qxe7 33.Nxe5 and black has no good response to 34.Ng6+ Nine men's morris on the chessboard.
33...Qd8 34.Ng6+ Kf7 35.Nxf8+ Kh8 and the mill is grinding. |
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Feb-16-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Games like these make me wonder if Kottnauer was actually much stronger than a "mere" IM. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | saturn2: In one if my first chess books by a Mr.Mueller about the Olympiad in Helsinki Kottnauer is the top scorer ahead of Smyslov, Geller, Bronstein, Boleslavsky, Kotov etc. |
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Feb-16-22
 | | Dionysius1: What I didn't see was that the white knight escapes, giving more than enough compensation for the queen, not just the 2 rooks. Pah |
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| Feb-16-22 | | beenthere240: If you back the game up a move you will see that Black had a slight edge but decided on a cheap pawn grab - Nxe4?? Q x e7! is simply the refutation of a blunder. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | beenthere240: Typo the blunder was Nxe5. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | whiteshark: After <32.Qxe7 Qxe7 33.Nxe5> Black also loses further material: either the ♕ after <33...Bf7/Bh7 34.Ng6+ Bxg6 35.Rxe7> or the 2nd ♖ on f8 <33...Qf6 34.Ng6+ Kh7 35.Nxf8+ Kh8 36.Ng6+ Kh7 37.Re8>, after which the ♗g8 will also fall. |
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Feb-16-22
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| Feb-16-22 | | TheaN: I would argue that the situation of 2R+N vs Q is playable for Black, is it not that his position is so horrible as well. <32.Qxe7 Qxe7> else worse <33.Nxe5> and Black will either throw queen for piece, going a piece down, or a full rook. After either bishop move 33....Bf7 34.Ng6+ Bxg6 35.Rxe7, and <33....Qd8 34.Ng6+ Kh7 (Qxg6 35.Bxg6 +-) 35.Nxf8+ Kh8 36.Ng6+ +-> and White controls the board. I will say this is probably Black's best try, to try and push the d-pawn. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | AlicesKnight: Saw the gameline fairly quickly; the tasty family fork after Nxe5 ensures material gain. |
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Feb-16-22
 | | dorsnikov: It took a while but I got It. Not bad for an eighty year old. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: <Refused>'s post made me smile, because it reminded me of something I mention from time to time: When she was a little girl, perhaps in 1910 or so, my grandmother played some games of Muehle -- i.e. 9 Man's Morris -- with Emanuel Lasker. |
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Feb-16-22
 | | offramp: I think there was a POTD about a week ago but Emil Richter lost that game. |
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| Feb-16-22 | | 0ZeR0: <An Englishman: Good Evening: Games like these make me wonder if Kottnauer was actually much stronger than a "mere" IM.> Agreed. Kottnauer seems very skilled. He also won some nice scalps in his career including victories against Smyslov, Najdorf, Averbakh, Kotov (twice), and Simagin. |
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Feb-16-22
 | | perfidious: In my opinion, laying aside the fact that Kottnauer was awarded the IM title when it was created, in 1950, while he very clearly was of IM strength, I do not believe his results of the period quite justify his making the jump to grandmaster, though he was a tough, solid professional. Without the war, who knows? |
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Kibitzing
sac: 32.Qxe7