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Emil Szalanczy vs Thi Mai Hung Nguyen
"Sixth Sense" (game of the day Nov-28-12)
First Saturday oktober IM-B 2009  ·  Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. English Attack (B90)  ·  1/2-1/2
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Nov-28-12  vinidivici: Nice....so many queens making me dizzy
Nov-28-12  The17thPawn: With all that power on the board its almost impossible to think that the game score represents best play, but stranger things have happened.
Nov-28-12
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: After 58.a8/Q we see three times as many Queens as pawns. And it just occurred to you that it never occurred to you that it never occurred to you that you never realized that you never thought you would ever read that previous sentence.
Nov-28-12
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  Abdel Irada: <An Englishman: And it just occurred to you that it never occurred to you that it never occurred to you that you never realized that you never thought you would ever read that previous sentence.>

I have to admit that sentence wouldn't have occurred to me.

Nov-28-12
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  Infohunter: Never before have I seen a (non-spurious) game with six Queens on the board--and it ends up a draw yet!
Nov-28-12
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  Gilmoy: 66..QfxP+ 67.QxQ QgxQ+ 68.QxQ QxQ+ :-O

A lot of work to win one pawn!

Nov-28-12
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  Abdel Irada: <Gilmoy: 66..QfxP+ 67.QxQ QgxQ+ 68.QxQ QxQ+ :-O

A lot of work to win one pawn!>

A lot of Q's, too.

Nov-28-12  vardeep: Initially...white's 22.Bc5 offering bishop seemed an unsound sac. i couldn't see any reason why black can't immediately capture with dxc5.if white responds after the capture with 23.Rd7 attacking both queen and bishop... then black can respond with the simple Rd4..white is a piece down and has no compensation for the bishop sac.. much later i realised that after Rd4.. white can reply with excellent 24.Qxd4 and now black is lost...
Nov-28-12  bengalcat47: This game reminds me of the 8 queens logic puzzle.
Nov-28-12
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  Garech: Impressive game! I've always hoped that I will get to play a "multiqueen" in proper tournament conditions; it's pretty cool.

I couldn't resist putting this thru Fritz just to get an idea whether anyone missed anything - to my surprise, it was accurately played by both sides - at least when all the queens were knocking about.

After 23.Bxd6, white is virtually winning, but Szalanczy followed up slightyly wrong - apparently correct was 25.Rd8+ where after ...Rxd8 26.Qxd8+ Qxd8 27. Rxd8+ Kg2 28.Nd2 Rc6 29.bxc4 white is up two pawns without much compensation for black:


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54.Qec7, apparently, was also an inaccuracy, with Qd8 being preferable:


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and an eval of +0.6 instead of 0.0

Nguyen, for his part, missed pretty much only 72...Ng4:


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with an eval of -1.3 instead, again, of an almost dead level game.

Great stuff!

-Garech

Nov-28-12
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  Travis Bickle: Same old boring Sicilian games ya know with three Queens apiece endings. ; P
Nov-28-12
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  kevin86: Wow! Six queens...no waiting!
Dec-30-12
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  Check It Out: Talk about king's with harems!
Jan-02-13
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  perfidious: < Abdel Irada: <An Englishman: And it just occurred to you that it never occurred to you that it never occurred to you that you never realized that you never thought you would ever read that previous sentence.> I have to admit that sentence wouldn't have occurred to me.>

For the record, it wouldn't have occurred to me either, but that's another story for another day.

After White lets the advantage slip through his hands, as pointed out in <Garech>'s kibitz, this game eventually takes a fascinating turn from the prosaic exploitation of an advantage by the stronger player to a Daliesque bit of surrealism.

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