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Iossif Dorfman vs Vitaly Tseshkovsky
"Royal Discoveries" (game of the day Sep-22-2015)
46th USSR Championship (1978), Tbilisi GEO, rd 17, Dec-??
Zukertort Opening: Sicilian Invitation (A04)  ·  0-1

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)better is 4...cxd4 = -0.14 (28 ply)= +0.40 (26 ply) after 5.dxc5 Qxc5 6.O-O Nf6 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Bg5 Nc6 9.Bxf6 better is 6.c4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Qb4+ 8.Nd2 Nc6 9.O-O O-O 10.b3 Nxd4 ⩲ +0.58 (23 ply)better is 6...d5 7.Nc3 Na6 8.b3 O-O 9.Bb2 Bf5 10.Rc1 Qa5 11.h3 = -0.05 (20 ply) 7.c4 cxd4 8.exd4 d5 9.c5 Qd8 10.Nc3 Nc6 11.Ne5 Ne4 ⩲ +0.58 (20 ply)= -0.22 (22 ply)better is 12...Nb4 13.Qb3 Qa6 14.a4 Rfe8 15.Qc4 Qb6 16.Qb3 Qa6 = 0.00 (23 ply)better is 13.a3 Nc7 14.b3 Nfxd5 15.Nc4 Qa6 16.Nxd5 Nxd5 17.Bb2 ⩲ +0.61 (22 ply)= +0.10 (23 ply) after 13...Nb4 14.Qe2 Qa6 15.a3 Nc2 16.Qxc2 Qxc4 17.h3 Qa6 better is 14...Nb4 15.a3 Nd3 16.Bd2 Rae8 17.a4 a6 18.Ne2 Ne5 = 0.00 (24 ply) ⩲ +0.55 (23 ply) after 15.e4 Ne5 16.Bf4 Nxc4 17.Qxc4 Rfe8 18.Rfc1 Qb6 19.Rab1 better is 20.Rfb1 a6 21.bxa6 bxa6 22.Bf1 Qb5 23.Qb3 Qd7 24.Bc3 ⩲ +0.66 (27 ply)= +0.13 (28 ply) 27...Qb6 28.Qd2 Nb4 29.Qc3 Na2 30.Qf6 Qd8 31.Qf3 Qb6 = +0.15 (25 ply) 28.Qd2 Nb4 29.Rad1 Qf6 30.f4 Rb6 31.f5 Qd4+ 32.Qxd4 cxd4 ⩲ +0.96 (25 ply)= +0.08 (24 ply)better is 30...Qf6 31.Rd1 Kg7 32.Qe2 Re8 33.f4 c4 34.e5 dxe5 = +0.16 (23 ply) ⩲ +0.77 (25 ply)better is 32...Qg7 33.Kh2 Re8 34.Qe2 Kf8 35.Rd2 f6 36.Qb5 Qc7 ⩲ +0.56 (23 ply) 33.Kh2 Rd8 34.Qe2 Kg7 35.e5 Qe7 36.e6 Re8 37.f5 gxf5 ⩲ +1.10 (23 ply)= 0.00 (29 ply)better is 35.Qc1 Rb8 36.Rd2 Rb6 37.Bf1 Rb7 38.Qd1 Qc3 39.e5 dxe5 ⩲ +0.62 (26 ply)= 0.00 (29 ply) 40.Qxc5 Ne5 41.Bh3 Kh7 42.Rd6 Qe7 43.Kg2 Nd3 44.Qxa5 = 0.00 (28 ply) ⩱ -0.93 (29 ply) 48.Rc4 Kh6 49.Rc5 Qxc7 50.Rxc7 Ne5 51.Ba8 Ng4+ 52.Kg2 = -0.46 (28 ply) ⩱ -1.37 (26 ply) 49.Rf3 Rxf3 50.Bxf3 g4 51.Bc6 f4 52.gxf4 Qxf4+ 53.Kg2 ⩱ -1.19 (20 ply)-+ -5.55 (27 ply) 50.Qd4 hxg3+ 51.Kh3 Qxd4 52.Rxd4 Nxg5+ 53.Kh4 Nf3+ -+ -5.00 (24 ply)-+ -13.16 (23 ply)-+ mate-in-3 after 54...Ng5+ 55.hxg5 Kf2+ 56.Qxb356.hxg5 Qh8# -+ mate-in-10-1

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Jan-08-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Oginschile: What a problem finish. Great tactical vision by Tseshkovsky
Sep-09-09  WhiteRook48: should be 0-1, not 1-0
Feb-15-11  Cardinal Fang: Thanks CG for fixing the result of this one so quickly.
Dec-23-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: <Phony Benoni>The finish is lovely, featuring two consecutive discovered checks by his king.

<Phony Benoni>,
An amazing finish - I can't think of another game with two consecutive discovered checks uncovered by the King.

Sep-22-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  An Englishman: Good Evening: Beautiful finish, almost like a composed problem.
Sep-22-15  Abdel Irada: <An Englishman: Good Evening: Beautiful finish, almost like a composed problem.>

Exactly my impression of it. Might make a good POTD; for which day would depend on which move it started on. (If it's move 48, for example, it could even be a Sunday puzzle.)

Sep-22-15  nalinw: Yes - and therefore a GREAT pun - if one can call this a pun.

By the way I can't think of another game with even one discovered check resulting from a King move.

Sep-22-15  ColdSnowman: Not a very skilled chess player, so I'm sure there is a reason, but why move 41 Qxc5 and not Rxf6?
Sep-22-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  beatgiant: <ColdSnowman>
On 41. Rxf6 <Ng4+> 42. Kg1 Nxe3 43. Rd6 Nxg2 44. Kxg2 Kf8 etc. and Black will soon pick up the d-pawn and end up a pawn ahead in the endgame.
Sep-22-15  ColdSnowman: <beatgiant>

Thanks

Sep-22-15  The HeavenSmile: black had an absolute monster knight in that game. causing white all kinds of queen-side problems during the mid-game, pulling some defensive duty on move 45 before finally delivering a check sacrifice that leads to mate in 1! good stuff
Sep-22-15  kevin86: The mate here looks like the mate in the problem...the queen mates on the file.
Sep-22-15  Once: What vision! Very impressive. It is the sort of finish that should have both players chortling.

Unique? I've never seen anything quite like it.

Sep-22-15  thegoodanarchist: White is forced into a "helpmate" because his only move after 55...Ng5+ is 56.hxg5, which will be answered by 56...Qh8#
Sep-23-15  Abdel Irada: <Unique? I've never seen anything quite like it.>

By an interesting coincidence, that's what "unique" means. :-D

Oct-30-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Alex Schindler: @nalinw

Lasker has an extremely famous miniature where he delivered checkmate by discovered check moving his king for the first time - Kd2# is a very strange bit of notation.

That said, he had the option of an even cooler finish, an unheard of (to my knowledge) 0-0-0#.

Not only is that how the miniature ends, but that move - his nineteenth, I believe - was the culmination of a remarkable combination that began with a queen sac on h7 on move 11. He sacrificed the queen on move eleven recognizing that the king on g8 was to be mated on the first rank by a discovered check!

Oct-30-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Alex Schindler: This one
Ed. Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912
It was the eighteenth move (duh, the king was chased through seven ranks to mate. I dunno why I thought 19).

Phony benoni posted some more beautiful ones such as this one Prins vs L Day, 1968

May-14-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Great game, great pun. I'm having a look at some of Tseshkovsky's games and he had some serious talent.
Oct-06-18  newzild: Added to my collection Game Collection: The Best Games You've Never Heard Of on account of the unique mating combo.
Oct-10-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp:


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White now plays 50.g6.

It is incredible that the Black king now strolls from g7 to f2 in just 5 moves. It reminds me of Barium dripping through an intestine.

Mar-07-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Black's king winds up where he belongs: at the head of his troops.

Lovely stuff.

Sep-09-21  LoveThatJoker: "53...? Black to Play and Win" would make for a good Wednesday/Thursday puzzle.

LTJ

Sep-09-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  0ZeR0: Very impressive conception and vision in this endgame by black.
Nov-18-21  ndg2: <offramp><..reminds me of Barium dripping through an intestine.>As a former chemist I like this analogy!
Apr-09-22  syracrophy: The sequence of the last three moves belongs to the highest list of weird: two discovered checks by the King (!) and the sac of the last piece for a Queen mate with the aid of the King.

Jewel!

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