Laurent Fressinet vs Nicolas Brunner (2011) Murder on the Laurent Express

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Laurent Fressinet vs Nicolas Brunner
"Murder on the Laurent Express" (game of the day Sep-10-2020)
French Team Championship (2011), Mulhouse FRA, rd 4, May-29
Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Variation (D47) · 1-0

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Sep-10-20		Jamboree: The tactics continue after 23. Qh8+ -- so I think black resigned prematurely. After 23. Qh8+, black can try 23. ... KxQ 24. Nxf7+ Kg8 25. Nxd8 Bd5!, and now, momentarily, the knight is trapped, and white must play precisely to rescue it, because in two moves black will snap off that knight and the material will be back to almost even. One complicated line is 26. Rc1 Ne4!? 27. Be1 Kf8 28. Kf1 Ke7 29. f3 Bxe3?! and now everything's hanging on both sides, and white must find the correct line (if it even exists). I would not be surprised if white can save the piece eventually, but there are multiple ways to go astray (a funny line is 30. Rc7+ Kxd8 31. Rxg7 Bc4 mate!), so black should at least make white prove he can win it. Probably black was just so stunned by the combo that he just threw in the towel blindly, and didn't really consider whether or not there could be a counter-combo on the rebound.

Sep-10-20		Brenin: <Jamboree>: After 23 Qh8+ Kxh8 24 Nxf7+ Kg8 25 Nxd8 Bd5 26 Rc1 Ne4, White can play 27 f3, rather than 27 Be1, forcing 27 ... Nxd2 28 Rxc5 a4 28 Nc6, and the White N is saved.

Sep-10-20		Ironmanth: Thanks for this one, chessgames!

Sep-10-20		KevinDenelsbeck: I'm a patzer, but I would've fought a little bit longer as Black. White has a material advantage after all the fireworks but are all drawing opportunities squelched here?

Sep-10-20		vladimir85: @Kevin. Like you said you are a patzer

Sep-10-20		HeMateMe: Terrific pun! Almost seems like home prep variation, the attack was so smooth.

Sep-10-20		Brenin: <Kevindeneisbeck>: At ordinary club level, many would have played on as Black, in the hope of generating some counterplay or forcing a blunder. However, at this level Black would have easily seen that White comes out of the combination the exchange and two pawns ahead, and that he can extricate his N from d8, giving him a routine win.

Apr-02-23		Brenin: I thought this looked familiar., and indeed it was. Still a very pretty combination.

Apr-02-23		jrredfield: Missed this one, going for 16 Nxf7 thinking to prevent Black from castling. After more analysis, I saw that there's really no good follow up for White to take advantage of the Black King out of position. I never considered the text move. I think that 16 ... hxg6 would have been better for Black and kept the game fairly close.

Apr-02-23		mel gibson: I saw that ply within 20 seconds but I wasn't sure if I would have played it. I then considered a central pawn move of one of the 2 pawns there but I wasn't 100% sure. Stockfish 15 says: 16. Bg6 (16. Bg6 (Bd3-g6 h7xg6 Qh3xh8+ Be7-f8 b2-b3 Nf6-e4 Ng5xe4 Ba8xe4 Rf1-d1 Qd8-g5 Qh8-h3 Qg5-f5 Qh3xf5 g6xf5 d4xc5 Nd7xc5 Rc1-c4 Be4-d5 Rc4xc5 Rc8xc5 Na4xc5 Bf8xc5 Bd2-c1 f7-f6 Bc1-b2 Bc5-d6 Bb2-d4 Ke8-d7 ) +4.51/41 235) score for White +4.51 depth 41. But what if Black takes that Bishop with f7? 16. Bg6 fxg6 (16. .. fxg6 17. Nxe6 (Ng5xe6 Ke8-f7 Ne6xd8+ Rh8xd8 b2-b3 Ba8-c6 Na4-b2 Rc8-a8 Rf1-d1 h7-h6 f2-f3 Bc6-b5 Qh3-g3 g6-g5 ) +6.22/34 96) score for White +6.22 depth 34 as Black loses his Queen ! Then what if we follow the game line so Black castles? 16. Bg6 O-O 17. Bxh7+ (17. Bxh7+ (Bg6xh7+ Kg8-h8 e3-e4 e6-e5 Bh7-f5+ Kh8-g8 d4xe5 Nd7xe5 Bf5-h7+ Kg8-h8 Bd2-e3 Nf6-g4 Rf1-d1 Ng4-h6 Rd1xd8 Rc8xd8 Bh7-f5 Kh8-g8 Ng5-h7 Nh6xf5 Nh7xf8 Be7xf8 Qh3xf5 Ne5-d3 ) +9.14/31 54) score for White +9.14 depth 31.

Apr-02-23		An Englishman: Good Evening: Egad--3/7 for the week. Might do better to trade me five remaining brain cells for a shot of a single malt.

Apr-02-23		agb2002: Black's f-pawn is overloaded with the defense of e6 (Nxe6 would win the queen) and g6 and the h-pawn is overloaded with the defense of g6 and the rook on h8. This suggests 16.Bg6: A) 16... hxg6 17.Qxh8+ wins decisive material. B) 16... fxg6 17.Nxe6 wins decisive material. C) 16... 0-0 17.Bxh7+ Kh8 (17... Nxh7 18.Qxh7#) 18.e4, threatening e5 and protecting the knight on g5 against Nh5, looks winning. For example, 18... e5 19.d5 followed by f4.

Apr-02-23		Dionysius1: I'm pleased I got the key move. The threat to Black's Q reminded me of Polgar vs Spassky, 1993 click for larger view When, Kavalek points out, Polgar missed 12.Bxf7 Kxf7 13.Ng5+ Kg8 14.Ne6 https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnu...

Apr-02-23		chrisowen: I pass v knoll cajole it is wig q dutch Bg6 hobble a duck nack bid cc iota abe it is leeway agh quench it is a cuff muff v arrived it seem block tackle Bg6 aeon;

Apr-02-23		nalinw: Lovely combination. I scrolled through all the kibitizing - nobody has pointed out that the pun when this was GoTD refers to Nimzowitsch's comment "travels by express" regarding a similar sacrifice by him - Nimzowitsch vs Alapin, 1914

Apr-02-23		Dionysius1: Thanks <nalinw>. Knowing that, makes the pun a lot funnier.

Apr-02-23		King.Arthur.Brazil: Hopping that it is 'insane', I wonder the move: 16. Bg6 because if 16... fxg6 17. Nxe6 to win the enemy's ♕, which I love it! However, Black can escape with: 16... hxg6 17. Qxh8+ Bf8 18. dxc5 or 18. NH7 with a quality at hands. Good Sunday everybody!

Apr-02-23		MissScarlett: Back in 2014, this was a Thursday puzzle.

Apr-02-23		Lambda: Thursday seems about right. You don't need to decide what to do after 17...Kh8 right now, winning a pawn and exposing the enemy king are perfectly good reasons to play the move.

Apr-03-23		vajeer: As a few kibitzers have suggested, I also think that Black can try to fight a bit longer here. I played a fun game against computer from this point on, and while I am sure I may not have made the best moves always, it was a bit tough against Black's bishop pair. 23...Kxh8 24. Nxf7+ Kh7 25. Nxd8 Ne4 26. Rd1 Bd5 27. Bc1 Bxa2 28. Nb7 Bb6 29. f3 Nc5 30. Nxc5 Bxc5 31. Kf2 Bd5 32. Bd2 a4 33. Rc1 Bd6 34. e4 Bb3 35. Rc6 Be5 36. Bxb4 Bxb2 37. Ra6 Be5 38. Bd6 Bd4+ 39. Kg3 Bc3 40. Kg4 Bd4 41. Kf4 Bc3 42. Bc5 Bb2 43. Ke3 g5 44. Kd3 Kg6 45. Kd2 Be5 46. g3 Bf6 47. Ra5 Kh6 48. Bd6 Kg6 49. f4 gxf4 50. gxf4 Bh4 51. Ke2 Bd8 52. Ra8 Bh4 53. Rg8+ Kf7 54. Rf8+ Kg6 55. f5+ Kg7 56. Re8 exf5 57. exf5 Bc2 58. Re5 Kf6 59. Ra5 Bg5 60. Ba3 Bh4 61. Bb2+ Kg5 62. f6+ Kg6 63. Kf3 Be1 64. Ra7 Bb4 65. h4 Kf5 66. f7 Bd1+ 67. Kg3 Kg6 68. Kf4 Bf8 69. Ke5 Bg7+ 70. Kd5 Bb3+ 71. Kc6 Bh6 72. Kb5 Kh5 73. Bf6 Kg6 74. Bc3 Kh5 75. Bb4 Bg7 76. f8=Q Bxf8 77. Bxf8 Kxh4 78. Rg7 Bd1 79. Kc4 Bb3+ 80. Kd4 Kh5 81. Ke5 a3 82. Bxa3 Kh6 83. Bf8 Kh5 84. Kf4 Ba2 85. Rg5+ Kh4 86. Be7 Kh3 87. Kf3 Bf7 88. Rg3+ Kh2 89. Bd6 Bd5+ 90. Kf2 Bg2 91. Ra3+ Kh1 92. Ra1+ Bf1 93. Rxf1#

Apr-03-23		sorokahdeen: An incredible game. At first, when you see, 16. Bg6, you think that black has lost it and is simply "castling into it," for no reason then you look for another second and realize that capturing the Bishop with the f-pawn allows the queen to be trapped after 17. Nxe6 and that the immediate threat is 17. Bxf7 and then Nxe6 doing other horrible things to black ans his position. It really is fantastic to see so much bad happen to one position so quickly and you have to wonder if ...Be7 is the fatal mistake. Definitely keeping this one.

Apr-04-23		Korora: The pun references one of Agatha Christie's masterpieces.

Feb-10-24		Sally Simpson: The Pun and the Agatha Christie connection. In 1926 Agatha went missing for 11 days from the 3rd to the 14th December. The 1926 ladies British Chess Championship was being held at Hastings during that period and was won by Mrs. Lisa Pem a first time entrant who never played in it again nor is there any record of her ever playing chess again. Here is a clipping from the January 1927 BCM (page 94) https://web.archive.org/web/2011072... Mrs. Lisa Pem is a perfect anagram of 'Miss Marple.' (!)

Feb-10-24		HeMateMe: I heard that if you play her audio books backwards you hear "Paul is dead."

Jun-20-24		keypusher: <jamboree> < One complicated line is 26. Rc1 Ne4!? 27. Be1 Kf8 28. Kf1 Ke7 29. f3 Bxe3?! and now everything's hanging on both sides, and white must find the correct line (if it even exists).> Just 26. Rc1 Ne4 27.f3 wins. Resignation was not premature.

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