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| Sep-15-04 | | Wood Mover: Kasparov is a machine! |
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Nov-01-06
 | | kellmano: This is good to see. I hate the French defence and here it gets whipped. From move 17 until the end if the game e6 is a headache for black. Shouldn't have opened the game by putting his pawn there. |
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| Nov-01-06 | | setebos: So the French Defense is in chess terms an oxymoron? |
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| Mar-12-08 | | ToTheDeath: Complete domination. |
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| May-13-10 | | SpiritedReposte: If I played the French Defense this game would make me not want to anymore. Kasparov just sacs pawns like a madman. I like 18. f5! |
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| May-13-10 | | whatthefat: This is brutal. |
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May-13-10
 | | Fusilli: <<whatthefat>: This is brutal.> I just looked at the game before looking at the comments and was trying to find an appropriate word to describe it. You nailed it right on the head. Perfect word choice. |
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| Oct-01-11 | | indoknight: What is the purpose of 21...Qf6? |
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Oct-01-11
 | | Shams: <indoknight> Here is the position after White's <21.gxf3>: 
click for larger viewKasparov's Queen on d6 is just killing Black's game. Black's rook can't leave the a-file without dropping the a6-pawn. This pawn can't be lost; it's the reason White has, for the moment, zero passed pawns instead of two connected. The Bc8 is obviously frozen, and the Nd7 is stuck defending the e5-pawn. Lastly the Queen must defend the e6-pawn, the loss of which would be quickly fatal for Black. So basically, nothing can move. Black's <21...Qf6> is an attempt to cover the e5 pawn, freeing the knight to move. The ensuing move-pair <22.Bh3 Kf7> renews Black's "threat" to free the d7-knight. Probably Short didn't really expect that Kasparov would allow him to crawl his pieces out, but there was nothing else. |
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| Oct-22-11 | | serenpidity.ejd: The title of this game is: "SHORT: I CAN'T UNDERSTAND KASPAROV." |
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Nov-23-12
 | | Phony Benoni: Short must be getting tired of this pun: Carlsen vs Short, 2010 |
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Nov-23-12
 | | Check It Out: Good catch, <PB>.
<Shams> Nice rundown of the position. Very instructive. |
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| Nov-23-12 | | offramp: In England there is no French toast. |
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Nov-23-12
 | | pawn to QB4: eh? just for a minute I wondered if my mum had come upon an idea unknown to her fellow English. But here's the Daily Telegraph well aware of the concept of French toast: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodandd... and the BBC's heard of it as well. |
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| Nov-23-12 | | ossipossi: <e6> first and last |
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| Nov-23-12 | | Eric Farley: If you think that tv sitcoms don't amuse you, turn to chess: you'll have lots of fun:
1)Khalifman Fide world champion.
2)Janowsky trying to defeat Lasker.
3)Bogoljubov trying to defeat Alekhine.
4)Short trying to defeat Kasparov.
5)To a lesser extent, Gelfand trying to defeat Anand.
6)You'll also have a lot of fun reading the books by those bloated egos
who add their names to the titles of the books as if chess were their own creation. They're nothing but My-Fritz-said-so would-be authors who are keen to criticize moves by players and give suggestions without having the decency to say that their suggestions are actually Fritz' or Rybka's. |
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Nov-23-12
 | | Abdel Irada: What's the current thinking, in this line, on 14. ...Qa5, maintaining more tension on the queenside? |
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| Nov-23-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @<Abdel>
not sure it is a help....In his ground breaking series "Opening for White According to Anand", Khalifman mentions Black has a universal plan of Bxd4 so suggests 11. Nb3 and thus does not even get here! OK.... Whilst the latest edition of ECO C (from 2006) notes that Short's 15...f6 is bad and gives 15...a5 16. Bb5 Rb8 unclear. Shirov played black in a game against a certain Langheinrich, Germany 2003 here. |
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Nov-23-12
 | | Once: Vincent: And you know what they call a... a... a french toast in England? Jules: They don't call it a french toast?
Vincent: No man, they got the English channel all round them. They wouldn't know where France is. Jules: Then what do they call it?
Vincent: They call it eggy toast.
Jules: Eggy toast. What do they call a bagel?
Vincent: Well, a bagel's a bagel, but they call it an American style bagel. Jules: An American style bagel. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a sandwich? Vincent: I dunno, I didn't have lunch. |
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| Nov-23-12 | | wildrookie: Mr Nigel fell short in this game, didn't 'e? |
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Nov-23-12
| | Fusilli: 18.f5! is such a Kasparovian move. |
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Nov-23-12
 | | Jimfromprovidence: In response to 27...Kf8, below, in his book, Nunn comes up with a difficult line that is also a puzzle position.
click for larger view
It begins 28 Nxh7+ Kg8 29 Ng5 Bb7 30 Bxe6+ Kh8, below. 
click for larger viewWhite's queen appears trapped, but there is a way forward. |
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Nov-23-12
| | Fusilli: <Jim> What I see is 1.Qxb6 Be4+ 2.fxe4 Rxb6 3.Rd8+! Qxd8 4.Nf7+ Kh7 5.Nxd8 Rd6 6.Nf7! and the endgame favors white. Did I miss something better? |
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Nov-23-12
| | Jimfromprovidence: <Fusilli> <What I see is 1.Qxb6 Be4+ 2.fxe4 Rxb6 3.Rd8+! Qxd8 4.Nf7+ Kh7 5.Nxd8 Rd6 6.Nf7! and the endgame favors white. Did I miss something better?> You've posted something that is tremendously solid, but Nunn finds something different (I have no clue if it is better), namely 31 Qd6! 
click for larger viewHe does not say this outright but the idea is that black has to accept the queen exchange, not only because of the threat to his rook but if 31...Qf8, then 32 Nf7+. 
click for larger viewSpecifically, his continuation is 31...Qxd6 32 Rxd6 Ba8 33 Kc2. 
click for larger viewHe then states: "Black is totally tied up and soon must start shedding pawns". |
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Nov-26-12
 | | kevin86: The extra piece will win. |
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