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| Jun-16-05 |
| sfm: Wow, 22.-,Rh8! Sooo cute. "Do ya wanna give me your bishop? Or would you rather put your queen a little outside events?" |
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| Jun-16-05 |
| nikolaas: <poisonpawns> Perhaps black could try 24.d5 Qxd5 25.Ne4 f5 |
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| Jun-16-05 |
| ughaibu: If black plays Qd5 in reply to 24.d5 doesn't 25.Re4 win? |
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| Jun-16-05 |
| nikolaas: <ughaibu> You do raise a good point. Perhaps the easier Qb6 would be better. |
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| Sep-20-05 |
| ChessMan94: Doesn't 25. ...Qa2 end the game quicker? |
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| Sep-20-05 |
| offramp: 25...Qa2, then 26.Be3 might give some resistance. |
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| Sep-21-05 |
| ChessMan94: Thank you offramp, I didn't see white could play 26.Be3. Now, one more question. Why 26. ...Qf3 and not 26. ...Qxg3+ If black would have played 26. ... Qxg3+, then 27.Kf1 is followed by 27. ...Qf2#, if 27.Kd1, then 27. ...Qd3+ 28.Ke1 Qe2# 26. ...Qxg3+ seems to force mate. How can black force mate with the actual move 26. ...Qf3 |
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| Sep-21-05 |
| brainzugzwang: <ughaibu: As far as I know there were 3 brilliancy prizes in this tournament, 1st for Auerbach-Kotov (recently discussed), 2nd Euwe-Najdorf and 3rd this one> There was at least one other, according to Bronstein's tournament book: Taimanov-Najdorf, this time with Najdorf on the plus side as he (and Yugoslav analysts, according to Bronstein) rewrote existing KI theory. Bronstein says nothing about the order of prizes except for Averbakh-Kotov taking first. This might be my favorite, too. Euwe's tactical defense, fighting off Geller's seemingly unstoppable attack while preparing such a quick and devastating counter, is rather Fischer-like. |
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Sep-21-05
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| WannaBe: <brainzugzwang> Great name. Love it! |
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| Sep-21-05 |
| ughaibu: Thanks. One for WMD's delectation. |
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Jan-31-06
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| Mating Net: This is a great game and 22...Rh8!! is an absolutely fantastic move. Black is able to find the move that thwarts the gathering mating attack on his King & creates an inevitable mate threat of his own. All those benefits and it only cost a Rook. This is why I love this site so much. The ability to see and replay games over and over is, for me, invaluable when it comes to crossing the psychological barrier of not wanting to give up material for "nothing." If White declines the Rook, he loses his h6 Bishop on the spot and his mating attack vanishes. Besides, psychologically it's awfully tough to decline a major piece when you're launching a mating attack, therefore declination isn't really an option. White accepts the Rook, so it begs the question, why did Black serve it up? The answer is the c2 square. After the Rook is captured Black played 23...Rc2 and he now has an unstoppable mate threat of his own. (24.d5 does create complications, but Black is still well on his way to victory.) All in all, a brilliant move and a brilliant transition from being the hunted, to the hunter. |
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| Feb-23-06 |
| alex97: nice game
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Apr-10-06
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| OhioChessFan: Tim Krabbe's site has an interesting story about this game:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/... |
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Apr-11-06
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| Boomie: Expanding on judokausa1 and Poisonpawns' fine line confirms that 24. d5 is white's best chance. 24. d5 Bxd5 25. Rd1 Rxg2+ 26. Kf1 Ra2
(26...gxh6 27. Qxh6 Bf3 28. Rd2 Rxd2 29. Qxd2 Bc6= -0.19/13 (29...Bg4 30. Qd4 Bh3+ 31. Kf2 a6= 0.00/13))
27. Bd2 Bc4+ 28. Kf2 Qd5 29. Qh5+ Qxh5 30. Rxh5 d5 31. Ne2 Rxa3  -0.41/13 With 4 pawns for a rook, black seems to have more winning chances. This position is an interesting study. Can black convert this to a win? Given the murkiness of this line, perhaps black has an improvement. 18...h6 looks promising. 18...h6 19. exf6
(19. Bxh6 gxh6 20. Qg4+ Kf7 21. Rxh6 Rg8 22. fxe6+ dxe6 23. Rh7+ Kf8  -1.50/13) 19...Nxf6 20. Rb1 Qc6 21. Qf1 Nd5 22. Qf3
(22. Qf2 Nc3 23. Ra1 Qd5 24. Bf4 g5 25. fxg6 e5 26. Nf5 Rxf5 27. Bxf5 Ne2+ 28. Qxe2 Qxd4  +) 22...Rf7 23. Rh5 a6 |
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| Apr-19-06 |
| EmperorAtahualpa: <http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/... > <OhioChessFan> Great story indeed! By the way, for future reference, we're talking here about entry number 312 in Tim Krabbé's open chess diary. |
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Jun-26-06
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| plang: I really like ..16 b5 as an example of an active counterattacking defense. It is a prelude to allowing white to attack with 22 Qh7+. I doubt many players would have that type of imagination in defense. Of course, ..22 Rh8 is a really cool move. |
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| Jun-26-06 |
| RookFile: This game is really amazing, because 9 time out of 10 when white gets in f5 like he did here, black gets blown right off the board. |
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Jun-26-06
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| plang: The knight at e8 is remarkably effective at holding blacks position together and the bishop on b7 has free reighn to assist in the counterattack. |
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| Feb-15-07 |
| matrix: Still one of my all time favorite games. Amazing how what took over a week of analysis to find in defense (according to Bronstein), my Fritz 9 finds in nearly no time. Just another indication of how much impact computers have (not that one would get to the position after23. ...Rc2 |
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| Mar-26-07 |
| sanyas: Bronstein preferred 22... c4 |
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Apr-02-07
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| aazqua: Wow. Come into my web says the spider to the fly. |
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| Apr-02-07 |
| Timex: <Sanyas: Bronstein preferred 22...c4>
Which prepares Rh8... That's what my book said. How does it prepare Rh8 though? |
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Apr-22-07
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| Gilmoy: <ChessMan94: Why ... not 26 .. Qxg3+> The Knight is protected: 27 hxg3 :) <How can black force mate with the actual move 26 .. Qf3> Threatens 27 .. Qf2+ 28 Kd1 (Bf3,Qg1)+ 29 N(e2,f1) Qx(e2,f1)#. White can't defend f2, so just count up his spite-checks and piece-discards, and it's mate in x+2. |
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Aug-18-07
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| zdigyigy: 22...Rh8 and whites' queen can no longer contest the light squares...Beautiful Bishops of Opposite Color struggle. Very instructive. |
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| Apr-21-08 |
| MaczynskiPratten: I first saw this game many years ago in "Chess with the Masters" by Martin Beheim and Leonard Barden, a book whose annotations really caught the spirit of the game for me. The introduction was; "The unity of defence and attack is nowhere so clearly shown as in this game. Black, in a position apparently irrevocably lost, retaliates with such sudden violence that one would like to name this magnificant battle 'the Drumbeat Symphony'". After White's move 22;
"However, Black now lands a punch which upends the game with one stroke; he sacrifices a Rook just to gain access to c2. In retrospect, the simple 22..Rc4 would have been more correct; but such sacrifices give a tremendous psychological shock to the opponent." After identifying 24 d5! as a possible improvement, the telling comment;
"However, it is a different manner to analyse in one's study than to find the right move at the board with the clock ticking away". And at the end of the game, "This is not only a piece of clever tactics; it is a work of art." |
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