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| Jul-11-02 | | Dirac: FYI guys,
Chernev considered this THE most beautiful game ever played in chess. Soltis ranked it the 4th best game ever played in the entire 20th century. |
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| Jul-11-02 | | refutor: i just wanna know how many vodkas alekhine had in him ;) |
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Jul-12-02
 | | Sneaky: Dirac, I've read that myself in the book "The Chess Companion" by Chernev. I enjoyed his analysis of the game, but frankly, I don't see what the fascination is. I could name half a dozen Alekhkine games I enjoy more than this one. |
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Jul-12-02
| | Sneaky: Here's my vote for best game ever -
D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 |
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| Jul-12-02 | | Dirac: "but frankly, I don't see what the fascination is." I know! That's what I thought too, but I just put it down to a beginner's inability to perceive beauty in a high level game. |
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| Jul-13-02 | | bishop: Alekhine analyses this game in his book "My Best Games of Chess". He gives exclamation marks to eighteen! of his moves. Two moves, 31...c2!! and 40...Qe2!! get two exclamation marks. |
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| Dec-08-02 | | pawntificator: Exclamation marks to 18 of his own moves! heh heh, what a guy! I am reading Chernevs wonders and curiosities of chess and he mentions this game again as his choice for the greatest game of chess ever played. |
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| Dec-08-02 | | pawntificator: Three queen sacrifices by black!! |
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| Dec-08-02 | | PVS: I am sure this is one of the first games I ever played through, a few months after I learned the game. It was in The Chess Companion by Chernev. I had forgotten it. |
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| Dec-08-02 | | ughaibu: Alekhine said in his second collection that he considered this and his game with Reti at Baden Baden (I've forgotten the year) to be his two best games. Personally I find it too one-sided. |
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Dec-10-02
 | | Honza Cervenka: The position after 40...Qe2 is very nice zugwang. |
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| Dec-10-02 | | drukenknight: Boguljubow is almost the perfect foil for Alekhine, a fierce competitor no matter how many times he gets beat by alek. Alek beat him 44 times according to this database; and lost 20. I am almost convinced Alek. could have beat him blindfolded. Of course it would be bad form to defend the world championship blindfolded. Anyhow, it seems Bogo. has done well to reincarnate his Q on c1. WHere it pins the N. THen he goes pawn grabbing. It seems that the attacking strategy is better suited to blacks position. Why not 35...Nh5? |
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| Dec-10-02 | | pawntificator: Because that doesn't seem to threaten anything. |
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| Dec-10-02 | | drukenknight: well if 36 Nxg3 Nxg3 37 Nf3+ looks devasting |
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| Dec-10-02 | | drukenknight: so I guess 35...Nh5 36 Rh3 which seems that black is winning the battle for space; I dont know if this will win but it seems to keep the pressure on, whereas 35...QxP seems to let off all the pressure. |
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Dec-10-02
| | Honza Cervenka: 35...Nh5 is weak for nice shot 36.Nxe4! Instead of 35...Qxc4 black can play also 35...Nc2 with intention 36...Nxe3. |
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| May-18-03 | | kevin86: This game includes the longest series of forced moves involving queen sacrifices-other than Marshall/Marco.Decide for yourself. |
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| Jun-20-03 | | Sylvester: This is a real swashbuckler! |
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| Dec-09-03 | | kevin86: An oddity of oddities-black gives up both rooks and three queens and wins the game with AN EXTRA PAWN!!! |
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| Feb-01-04 | | Catfriend: :) The pawns queen knights bishops and rooks are the pawn of chess |
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| Feb-01-04 | | Benjamin Lau: Lol, that's a great play on an old quote, I'll have to remember that. ;-) |
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| Feb-01-04 | | Calli: <ughaibu> wrote "Personally I find it too one-sided." I agree. Bogo's poor play around 20-25 loses a clear pawn. In addition, he has the worse position. Its a win for Black already. Alekhine can easily grind out a victory through normal moves. I suspect he saw the opportunity for a brilliancy prize at no risk because he rejects much simpler lines. Even today, this is a common "business practice" according to Larry Christensen. I have no problem with that. However, his annotations with all those "!!" are a bit of shameless sef-promotion. He doesn't point out other, possibly shorter winning lines. |
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| Feb-01-04 | | Dick Brain: I wonder if Chernev considered it the best game ever basically because the annotator used the most exclamation marks ever. |
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| Feb-01-04 | | Catfriend: First, there was no beauty prize there, it's a well-known fact. Second, Alekhin DID mention other lines, he just didn't speak too much about them. And last - Alekhin always was an artist. The idea of his games is not to win - it's to create art. Often, the two contradictional tendentions tortured hum... So here he decides to create an artful game - can you blame him?! And don't forget AA often was very self-criticising.. |
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| Feb-01-04 | | Calli: Chernev contributed a great deal to chess literature and promoted the game fervently. He is, however, guilty of too much hero worship. He often presents games like they were played by Gods who make no mistakes. If you read his Capablanca's best endings book, you think that not only did Capa never error but neither did his opponents! Its like the opening position is a forced win for JRC. |
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