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| Aug-11-05 | | ARTIN: Beautiful combination starting from 46.h5!! |
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| Oct-23-05 | | Granite: Very nice attack! Queen and rook vs king on an open board can be very troublesome! Very nice play by Petrosian |
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| Oct-19-06 | | technical draw: Amazing game. Petrossian must be thinking like 12 moves ahead on every move! |
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| Nov-03-06 | | fgh: This is the best game I have seen for a long time! |
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| May-02-07 | | Rubenus: The combo was 17 moves long.
A marvellous combination. |
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| Oct-23-07 | | Davolni: yup, what a game!!!! |
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| Oct-25-07 | | dabearsrock1010: now this game is crazy awesome. |
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| Jun-02-09 | | totololo: I do not think that he calculated the whole combo but the position was ripe and promising so that 8-10 moves should be largely enough... Or was after adjournment?! - home analysis |
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| Jun-03-09 | | arsen387: exchange sac followed by a 17 move mating combination! a slashing attack |
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| Jan-15-10 | | lentil: <arsen387> not just an exchange sac: after move 49, W was down a R and N (for 2 pawns)! But <totololo> may have a point: this combo DID occur after adjournment. Awesome nonetheless: I used to thing Petrosian was a passive 'sit-and-wait' predator, but this game just blew me away. At move 30, I was sure that P was worse: his Bs were bad and Ws Ns were very potent. The exchange sac at moves 31-35 completely turned the tables: suddenly the W Bs were lasers! Activate your pieces! |
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Feb-12-10
 | | Fusilli: Amazing indeed.
Position before 46.h5!!
click for larger viewCan anyone guess that in ten moves the Black King will be over on the a-file??! |
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| Jun-07-11 | | qqdos: Supposedly, this was one of Petrosian's favourite games. According to Peter Clarke's 1964 Collection of Petrosian's Best Games, this was the most brilliant combination he ever played and a game of "heroic proportions"! Without this victory, Petrosian could have been hard pressed to reach the Candidates' Tournament. |
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| Jun-08-11 | | qqdos: <totololo> 41.Qe5 was the sealed move which achieved nothing much and was apparently intended to gain time for study. Next day, play shuffled forth and back for 2 moves until they reached the same position, at which point Petrosian produced 43.h4! the fruits of his "home-brew" analysis! |
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| Jul-30-12 | | TheFocus: <Petrosian can play combinatory games excellently. One of the best combinations in modern chess is expressed in his game with Guimard> - Isaak Boleslavsky. (With 46. h5!! Petrosian chases the Black King from h7 to b4.) |
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Aug-03-12
 | | perfidious: < qqdos: ....Without this victory, Petrosian could have been hard pressed to reach the Candidates' Tournament.> Had the outcome been different, maybe Petrosian would have tried a little harder in his remaining 'games' with White: three draws, totalling 51 moves. That said, this was one of Petrosian's finest games. |
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| Aug-08-12 | | backrank: This may have been the longest combination ever made! If in the final position
click for larger viewBlack had played on (and for aesthetic reasons, it's a pity he hasn't done so), the finish could have been 62 ... Ka3 63 Rd3+ Ka2 64 Qxa6+ Kb1 65 Rd1+ Kc2 66 Qd3# 
click for larger viewThe whole combination from 46 h5 to 66 Qd3# then spans 20 moves (which are 40 half-moves), an achievement which seems indeed unique, not to mention its sheer beauty. |
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| Sep-16-12 | | Conrad93: White had 50.Bxd4!
The queen check is even worse. |
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| Sep-16-12 | | Conrad93: If black had played 55...Qxa5, what then?
It wouldn't be a mating net. |
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Sep-16-12
 | | beatgiant: <Conrad93>
Agreed, but on 55... Qxa5 56. Qxd4+ Kc7 57. Rf3, Black is still in dire straits. |
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| Nov-01-12 | | Anderssen99: The Late World Champion regarded this game as his best ever. |
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Nov-01-12
 | | OhioChessFan: 55..Qxa5 56. Qxd4+ c5
and White has some work to do. One of those positions GM's can see in a glance if there's perpetual chances, and I think "Maybe Black has something."
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| Nov-12-12 | | Anderssen99: OhioChessFan: White has 57.Qd6+,Nc6 58.Rc1,Re1+. 59.Kh2!!,Rxc1. 60.Bxc1,Qc3. 61.Bf4!!,Qg7 (To prevent 62.Qc7+. If 61...,Qxb3?? - to establish material equality - then 62.Qc7+,Kb5. 63.Qb7+ wins the N.) 63.Bxh6 with an easy win. |
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| Dec-15-12 | | Kikoman: A beautiful move by White h5!! :D |
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Dec-15-12
 | | Richard Taylor: I tried to work out the whole combo in myhed so tosapek adn itwas veryhard to remeber aht hte c5pawnws and where the knightwas but it was possible. But OTB it would be almost impossible without an hour to spare. But it was a great combination using positional and tactical nous. Petrosian was quite young then so maybe he dis see most of it. Very creative. This shows he had a deep overall view of chess (as do all the great players). Spassky even said (notes about Tigran on here)you never knew when he would play like Tal. Could Tal play like Petrosain and Botvinnik? Probably but his "bent" was combinations. Yes h5 undermines White's k-side
[Another amazing game is Fischer -Petrsian that was a draw but both players got two queens! |
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| Dec-15-12 | | Abdel Irada: <dabearsrock1010>: I knew the Bears were among the oldest teams in the NFL, but I had no idea they were *that* old. Then again, I never considered that perhaps Pope Sylvester II proclaimed the NGL (National Gladiatory League) in A.D. 1000 as an act of thanksgiving because the world didn't end, pitting the Bears against the Pagans in Gladiator Bowl DCLXXVIII. Then, upon his election, Pope Sergius IV carried on the tradition with slight modifications, resulting in the earliest NFL Thanksgiving game. |
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