Mar-15-06 Averbakh vs V Osnos, 1965 
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| zhentil: <fezzik> I think you are slightly confused. This is not a positional exchange sacrifice. It leads by force to a winning material advantage. It is difficult to say that it is a precursor to anything, since Anderssen and Morphy were sacrificing material for forced wins a hundred |
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Mar-13-06 P H Nielsen vs Goldin, 2001
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| zhentil: <emperor> I think the probability that white calculated this to the pawn promotion is zero. The sacrifice (queen for rook and knight) is minimal, and white obviously got a lot of play after it. This (along with the meandering in moves 36-40 (time trouble, I presume)) points to |
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Mar-01-06 Timman vs Karpov, 1979
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| zhentil: <seeminor> I think this is why Karpov was so dangerous at his peak. As he aged, Karpov developed almost a mannered disdain for pawn weaknesses. In this game, he showed no hesitation in accepting them. A very powerful display. |
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Mar-01-06 A Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914
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| zhentil: <morphymatt> It's actually mate in 10.
1... Qxa2+ 2. Kxa2 Bd3+ 3. Kb3 c4+ 4. Kb4 Nc6+ 5. Kb5 Nd4+ 6. Kb6 Rfb8+ 7. Kc7 Nb5+ 8. Kc6 (8. Kd7? Ra7+ 9. Kc6 Rc7#) Ra6+ 9. Kd7 Ra7+ 10. Kc6 Nd4# |
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Mar-01-06 Botvinnik vs Ragozin, 1940
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| zhentil: After 43... Nxe2 44.Qxe2 Qxh4 45. e6 Qf4+ black takes control of e5 and white can lay down his king. |
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Mar-01-06 Petrosian vs Y Kotkov, 1946
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| zhentil: <Karpova> As the notes indicate, 5... cxd4 would equalize at once, when a3 looks more and more like a wasted tempo, and the knight belongs on c3. Petrosian was not known for his incisive opening play, but in this instance, the weak reaction by his (apparently) much weaker ... |
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Mar-01-06 Koneru vs Z Nemeth, 2005
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| zhentil: <viky> In your line, you hung your queen. |
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Feb-28-06 R Maric vs Gligoric, 1962
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| zhentil: <patzer2> The Complete Bg5 Najdorf by Nunn is great (if very, very dense). It demonstrates the forced draws in the PP. I think that this is the main reason that Kasparov explored Qc7 against Bg5. There are just too many forced draws in the PP, and the "main line" (Be7) is ... |
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Feb-24-06 Janowski vs Capablanca, 1916
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| zhentil: <offramp> Yes he does. 5. cxd5 refutes it. Read the above comments again. |
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Feb-22-06 De Wind vs Timman, 1965
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| zhentil: <emperoratahulpa> A number of grandmasters who have made a career out of playing the Fianchetto Variation against the Benoni would, I'm sure, take issue with your simplistic indictment. Ask Viktor Korchnoi if he thinks fianchettoing against the Benoni is a mistake. |
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Feb-22-06 Keres vs Gligoric, 1959
Feb-21-06 Yanofsky vs Uhlmann, 1966
Feb-15-06 L Day vs J Yoos, 1996
Feb-15-06 D Gurevich vs C Hansen, 1986
Feb-10-06 Evans vs Uhlmann, 1971
Feb-09-06 Kasparov vs Petrosian, 1981
Feb-08-06 Nakamura vs A Volokitin, 2006
Jan-27-06 Ivanchuk vs Topalov, 2006
Dec-30-05 F D Hupp vs A J Goldsby, 2003
Dec-29-05 A Speijer vs Alekhine, 1910
Dec-21-05 Pachman vs G Gunnarsson, 1967
Dec-20-05 Kramnik vs S Volkov, 2005
Dec-20-05 J Silman vs J Bonin, 1987
Dec-20-05 Tal vs Spassky, 1965
Dec-20-05 N Fullbrook vs J Silman, 1985
Dec-15-05 Ponomariov vs Aronian, 2005
Dec-09-05 D Baretic vs B Cafferty, 1962
Dec-07-05 Kosteniuk vs G Lazhevsky, 2001
Dec-06-05 Duchamp vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1931
Nov-28-05 Milov vs L Pantsulaia, 2005
Nov-11-05 S Bernstein vs Fischer, 1957
Sep-01-05 Rossolimo vs C Kottnauer, 1948
Jun-29-05 Petrosian vs Keres, 1952
Jun-08-05 Gligoric vs Tal, 1959
Apr-16-05 E Tate vs Shulman, 2001
Nov-08-04 S Shipov vs V L Ivanov, 1995
Oct-22-04 Janowski vs Saemisch, 1925
Oct-22-04 Gulko vs A Volovich, 1968
Sep-28-04 Keres vs Kotov, 1950
Nov-11-03 Kasparov vs X3D Fritz, 2003
Nov-06-03 Fucini vs Olivari, 1895
Nov-04-03 B Larsen vs Tal, 1969
Nov-04-03 E Korchmar vs Y Polyak, 1937
Oct-07-03 Morozevich vs Korchnoi, 2003
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