Jun-08-08 The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 
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| mallocks: <pferd> Is that position even a possible one to arrive at? How would the 2 g pawns get behind the black line? I'm not saying it's impossible, I just can't work it out myself. |
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Sep-16-07 Hjartarson vs Kasparov, 1989
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| mallocks: I let Rybka ponder 30.fxg4 for a while
23-ply (5.09) 30...Qxg4+ 31.Kf1 Qh3+ 32.Kg1 Rb5 33.Nc5 Bf4 34.Bd4+ e5 35.Qd3 Qh2+ 36.Kf1 Bg3 37.Qe4 At 18-ply it gave the position following 30.Bd4 a much lower score for black (1.83), so it seems the played line was the better one. |
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Sep-15-07 T L Petrosian vs A Minasian, 2006
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| mallocks: <al wazir> Rybka suggests the following line following 28...Qc5: 17-ply (+7.22) 29.Raf1 b6 30.R1f3 Ba6 31.Rxc5 Bxd3 32.Rh5+ Kg6 |
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Sep-13-07 Lasker vs P Romanovsky, 1909
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| mallocks: <PolishPentium> To answer why not 26.Rxc2?, it leads to 26...Qc5+ 27.Kb3 Qb4#. Not the jaws of victory perhaps but certainly he snatched defeat from the jaws of a draw, 25.f4? was highly suspect. |
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Sep-13-07 Polugaevsky vs Shamkovich, 1960
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| mallocks: That's very interesting. Drawn until 39.Rb2? (better 39.Kc1 Qc4+ and it's perpetual mate) at which point it's mate in 7 [39...Qe1+ 40.Kc2 Qe2+ 41.Kc3 Be5+ 42.Kb3 Qd3+ 43.Ka4 Qc4+ 44.Ka3 Bd6+ 45.Rb4 Qxb4#] . Time problems, perhaps? On further (Rybka-assisted) analysis I noticed that |
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Sep-13-07 T Ghitescu vs Z Ljubisavljevic, 1988
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| mallocks: <latebishop> In your line 32...Qc7 is a highly suspect move for black, walking into a mate in 3 [33.Nh6+ Kh8 34.Bxg7+ Kxg7 35.Qf6#] . There are certainly alternatives, for example 32...Qxd4 (33.Nxd4 Nxe5) which at least prevents an imminent checkmate threat, even though it ... |
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Sep-11-07 N Gurieli vs N Lakos, 1999
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| mallocks: I'm not surprised that <MAJ> found this to be easier than the Monday average, I found this far faster than I'd ever got a Tuesday puzzle previously. |
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Sep-10-07 K Hamppe vs P Meitner, 1872
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| mallocks: I know it was ages ago but I was looking at the 7. Qe1 idea in Rybka. Suggested line goes:
7...Nf6 8.g3 Qg4 9.c3 Bf5 10.exf5 Qxf5+ 11.Ke2 Qe4+ 12.Kd1 Qxh1 13.Qxe5+
and things are far more balanced and it's looking (comparatively) more like a typical chess game. [DIAGRAM] For what |
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Sep-04-07 Shirov vs O Renet, 1991
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| mallocks: Well, just another post to say thanks to all who replied to my question, it's appreciated :) |
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Sep-02-07 Kupreichik vs I Radulov, 1980
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| mallocks: Being somewhat new to chess puzzles I still start to struggle at about Wednesday, consequently I leave the remainder of the week to chess engines; after last week's puzzle where computers failed (almost) entirely I'm interested to see how quickly they manage to find the solutions. ... |
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