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| Mar-09-07 | | Fisheremon: 26...Ne5? If played 26...Ne7 instead, how would White continue ? |
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| Mar-09-07 | | orior: Man, it's really easy to miss that rook on h6.
and yeah, I should have been suspicious, it definitely looks like a tuesday puzzle without that rook there. |
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| Mar-09-07 | | pggarner: <wolfking: why not 29. Na6+ ? and if 29... Kc8 then 30. Qc6> Yeah, I was looking at 29.Na5+ (I.m sure that's what you meant) and then 30.Nc6 answering 29....Kc8 or 29...Ka8. Black has to play 30...Rxc6 and after 31.dxc6 White has mate in 2. |
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| Mar-09-07 | | uuft: Yeeha! I totally found all the right moves. And in the right order, too. Well, kind of. !ahctoG q: |
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Mar-09-07
 | | fm avari viraf: A beautiful game by the World Champion Khalifman. With 2 Rooks sac. Black's fortress is in shambles & all Black's pieces watch in agony. |
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| Mar-09-07 | | YouRang: I didn't see it either. Lesson: The queen is a strong piece. It doesn't need much support to deliver mate. |
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| Mar-09-07 | | Tacticstudent: got it pretty pretty fast. In fact, this is not a "difficult-finding" combination. |
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| Mar-09-07 | | aazqua: This must be painfully obvious week. Maybe the whole puzzle thing is just too easy in general. |
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| Mar-09-07 | | OneArmedScissor: I understood the theme of blasting open the black king's position, but I missed the subtle move of the pawn. |
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| Mar-09-07 | | Larsker: <euripides: Just in case you're wondering how Botvinnik would pay this position> Rubles? |
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| Mar-09-07 | | Fezzik: Thanks Chessgames, for making difficult puzzles seem easy. This week's theme has been Rxg/b7 sacs, but the nuance this time was the relatively quiet d6. I think I would have found the solution to today's puzzle even without knowing the theme because of the forcing nature of the attack. Still, Khalifman's gem deserves to be remembered. |
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| Mar-09-07 | | ALEXIN: Very impressive but note that the black long castle is under heavy pressure. There are 4 pieces attacking and only two defending. Moreover the black queen is a little far from the struggle. |
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| Mar-21-09 | | WhiteRook48: and Serper once played a tremendous sacrificial game himself |
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| Aug-25-13 | | NewLine: It's raining rooks, hallelujah! |
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| Aug-25-13 | | nisarg1: The pun is 'Seek and Destroy', I guess. |
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| Aug-25-13 | | shivasuri4: <nisarg1>, isn't it "Cease and desist"? |
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| Aug-25-13 | | nisarg1: my bad, i matched it with the only phrase that came to mind. |
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| Aug-25-13 | | RandomVisitor: As mentioned earlier, 13...Nc6 is not best, and is the start of the downfall. Better were either:
click for larger view Rybka 4.1 x64: <d=19> 0.00 13...0-0 14.Be2 c6 15.Bxg4 Bxd2+ 16.Kxd2 Qa5+ 17.Rc3 Nd7 18.a3 Nb6 19.Bxc8 Nc4+ 20.Kc2 Qa4+ 21.Kc1 Qxd1+ 22.Kxd1 Rfxc8 23.Bf4 Kg7 24.Kc2 b5 25.Kd3 a5 0.00 13...c6 14.Bd3 0-0 15.0-0 f5 16.f3 Qe7 17.Nb3 Bb4 18.fxg4 Qxe3+ 19.Bf2 Qf4 20.Be1 Qe3+ 21.Bf2 Qf4 22.Be1 Qe3+ 23.Bf2 Qf4 24.Be1 Qe3+ 25.Bf2 Qf4 26.Be1 Qe3+ 0.00 13...f5 14.Qc2 c6 15.Bd3 0-0 16.Bf4 Qf6 17.h5 Nd7 18.0-0 Bb4 19.Rb1 a5 20.f3 Qg7 |
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| Aug-26-13 | | kevin86: two rooks...to go. |
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| Nov-17-14 | | disasterion: Such a beautiful finish.
"Of course it is not complicated, but ... when I discovered the combination, for a long time I couldn’t believe that such a thing could actually happen in a real game." - Khalifman, quoted here: http://www.crestbook.com/node/1233 |
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| Dec-05-14 | | kia0708: beautiful attack on the King |
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| Apr-03-18 | | cunctatorg: Valery Salov and Alexander Khalifman; I don't think there are nowadays players of such quality, such artists and ideal, extreme lovers of the game!! Well, to be fair I do believe that that a rainbow of such extreme quality was a by-product of the Fischer-Korchnoi-Karpov-Kasparov era and the establishment in the summit of the Chess Pyramid of such players as the last two K have been!!... |
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| Sep-03-22 | | Saniyat24: When your opponents' rooks have room to roam around the board, and then decide on a suicide attack blasting away your King's defense wall, there's not much you can do...! |
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| Dec-21-23 | | Gaito: A fantastic attacking game by Grandmaster and former World Chess Champion Alexander Khalifman. He played with great energy throughout. After analyzing the game with the aid of a powerful and reliable engine (Komodo 13), we find very few instances where Khalifman's moves could have been improved. The following position is perhaps one of them:
click for larger viewWHITE TO MOVE
Khalifman played 20.Qa4 which was good and won quickly. However, the engine found some even better alternatives, like 20.Rc5 or the exchenge sacrifice 20.Rxd7!
For example: 20.Rxd7! Qxd7 21.Ne5 Qd5 22.Bxc6 bxc6 23.Qa4, and Black's game is in dire straits. |
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Dec-21-23
 | | HeMateMe: It's fun seeing chess like this. |
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