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| Apr-24-03 | | Giuoco Piano Man: Is there an error in this last position? How in the world is this a draw? (I know Garry sometimes takes a draw when he should play for the win, but come on!) |
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| Apr-24-03 | | jrmortz: It's a stalemate. Black cann't move withut being in check. |
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| Apr-24-03 | | JustAFish: White either loses his queen when he moves his king or submits to a draw by stalemate. |
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Apr-24-03
 | | Sneaky: This is a real nice combination. Very hard to see and yet clear and undeniable. A good game for suenteus's Game Collection: Never Resign! |
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| Apr-24-03 | | BLD9802: This is certainly a noteworthy game. Here, McDonald is a British player playing in Britain. I can picture him and the home crowd celebrating (and Kasparov sizzling) after he snatched one from the World Champion with a surprise tactic. |
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| Apr-25-03 | | Giuoco Piano Man: Now I see it after White takes the Queen. Thanks! When you just don't see it- it drives you nuts! |
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| May-31-04 | | Bobsterman3000: I wonder how long it took for MacDonald to find 55...Qe5+ Kasparov is my favorite player, but I must admit that this ending is hilarious... |
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| May-31-04 | | MoonlitKnight: Is the R for Ronald? |
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| Jul-23-04 | | kevin86: Even the best can fall into a trap! Sorry Garry! |
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| Jul-23-04 | | masterwojtek: Anyone looked at 55.Kh4? |
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| Jul-23-04 | | themindset: i remember this was the problem the first time i saw this site, and i've never forgotten this position, i often show it to people. |
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| Jul-23-04 | | alexandrovm: nice stalemate by McDonald. This time my favorite chess player, Kasparov, was cought by this one in a winning position. I think he relaxed, because he was winning, a little distraction and .5 points out of a point. I've looked the position with Fritz and the position by move 52. ...Kg7 is favorable for white if he pushes the pawn 53. c5-c6, but white has to play with exact moves or he'll get nothing better than a draw. And white has to be able to mate with only the pair of bishops. |
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| Jul-23-04 | | Gypsy: If this theme gets much harder than this, it will be above my head. Great escape! |
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Jul-23-04
 | | tpstar: <masterwojtek> 55. Kh4 is a good idea, yet Black has 55 ... Rg4+! and if 56. Kxg4 Qd7+! establishes the stalemate resource. Otherwise 56. Kh3?? Qxe4 and Black won't be playing for the draw anymore. |
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| Jul-23-04 | | Calculoso: I wish I could spot these kind of beautful draws like the gms... Maybe my wisdom will come with age... Speaking of which, happy 18th to yours truly! |
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| Jul-23-04 | | bob725: So far 5/5 this week!
It's relatively easy when someone says ' xxx to move and win or draw'.
But in a game situation I feel a lot of us would have missed it. We wouldn't put the time needed to find a win/draw because we weren't aware that it was possible.
Is there anything we can do? |
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| Jul-23-04 | | azaris: <bob725> If you're losing a game and not looking for a draw, why are you playing anymore? |
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| Jul-23-04 | | RonB52734: <bob725> in addition to what azaris said about finding a draw, a rule of thumb I hear frequently is that you should always look at the available checks, no matter how silly they first appear. Every move, every game. This won't find every "mate in x moves," but you won't find many if you don't do it. |
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| Jul-23-04 | | bob725: Used the wrong word.
Instead of saying put in the time I should have said that we don't have the time to analyse every position of winning / drawing combination. |
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| Jul-23-04 | | Gypsy: Happy birthday <Calculoso>! Congrats on 5/5 <bob725>. Here is a simplified (Gypsy) theory of thinking up combinations: There are two main aspects of it--- alertness and concentration. They fight against each other similarly as running or swimming hard fights against the technique requirements of the sport not to tense up. Concentration lets you visualize correctly sequences of moves. Alertness lets you in on good sequences to visualize in the first place. It is best to have ballance. Some of us--eg. those with technical background (includes me)--tend to overemhasize concentration. We need to relax more, and consciously break ingraned habits and become more alert. The good part is, that being alert is fun and much less hard work than concentrating down 16 plyes. |
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| Jul-23-04 | | Chesspatch: what if Rxg3+ Kh4??? Well?? Well?! |
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| Jul-23-04 | | Gypsy: Check <tpstar> posting, <Chesspatch>. |
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| Jul-23-04 | | EyesofBlue: Man, this one baffled me. That and I knew, judging by the "stalemate" theme of the week, how this was going to end (stalemate, of course!). Very Clever! |
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| Jul-23-04 | | socrates: <Chesspatch> what if Rxg3+ Kh4??? Well?? Well?! Ok, check this out: if 54...Rxg3+ 55.Kh4, black then plays Rg4+! Now white must take the rook or else simply drop the bishop and be down a rook and losing. After 56.Kxg4, black plays the cunning Qd7+! forcing the stalemate through a different implementation of the same tactic!! |
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| Jul-23-04 | | ezumpf: I saw 54. Rxg3+, but missed the queen sac. I was looking/hoping it was a perpetual check by the queen. Might that have worked? |
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