| Aug-17-10 | | patzer3844: i cannot find out what white miscalculated and made such a useless sacrifice...?????? |
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| Jul-01-12 | | Cushion: I think that students should be shown this game rather than Topalov-Kasparov 1999 |
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Jul-02-12
 | | Honza Cervenka: 24.Qb3+ Ke7 25.Qf3 was still a playable option. Of course, black was busted in the opening here. |
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Dec-01-12
 | | waustad: http://www.grandcoach.com/thumb.php... vs
http://www.chessbase.de/2012/wijk/8... |
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Dec-01-12
 | | xthred: Can someone recommend a PGN viewer for the iMac? Thanks. |
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Dec-01-12
 | | Snehalshekatkar: On 20'th move, I think Qd5+ was much better option so that queen would have taken pawn on f7 and would be in advantageous position. |
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Dec-01-12
 | | Meistro1: after 10 moves all of black's pieces are on the back rank... ha ha |
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Dec-01-12
 | | Abdel Irada: <Honza Cervenka>: This depends on what you mean by "playable." In the line you cite, 25. ...Ke6 should suffice for a draw, if Black can find nothing better. I also tend to agree with <Snehalshekatkar> (completely irrespective of my ability to pronounce his username): 20 Qd5† does look preferable to the text. This game offers an excellent example of dynamic balance: White's queen versus Black's three minor pieces represents material parity, *all other things being equal*. However, the pieces are scattered, undeveloped and hard to coordinate, so White retains a temporary practical advantage. However, White made several moves that seem unnecessarily slow, and thereby let her opponent off the hook. I'm thinking particularly of, for example, 16. h4. Here, I would expect 16. f4, with the idea of opening more lines so White can break through before Black's pieces can be developed. |
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Dec-01-12
 | | Stonehenge: The pronunciation of 'Haast' is entirely different from 'haste', but the words mean the same. |
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Dec-01-12
 | | scormus: <Abdel Irada: .... 20 Qd5† does look preferable to the text.> Definitiely, and a good assessmsnt of the game. I suppose with 20 Qa5 W saw what she thought was a decisive combination. I wouldn't want to criticise W's play too much, her style is so much like my own :-\ |
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| Dec-01-12 | | The Last Straw: Black was busted... until white played 21. xd6+?? and suddenly saw she couldn't continue the attack. |
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| Dec-01-12 | | The Last Straw: White simply missed the fact that black can block the check with 23... c6 or 23..c6. |
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Dec-01-12
 | | kevin86: White's attack just plain runs out of gas.... |
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Dec-01-12
 | | Chessmensch: This is one of the poorest GOTDs in a long time. |
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sac: 16...Qxc7
