| Jul-09-06 | | Rama: With 21. Be3 ..., white threatens Rf3!. (Perfect symmetry.) There follows a series of maneuvers that result in the diagonals opening up for white. The pseudo-exchange-sac 34. RxN! wins a piece after the recapture because of the double-attack on the B + mate-threat. Rubinstein was not at his best this late in his career, although 1930 was a good year for him. |
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| Dec-17-08 | | YoungEd: I also noted the near symmetry throughout the game, <Rama>. I think Black erred when he broke it with 30. ...Bxe5. |
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| Jul-08-17 | | whiteshark: "The only occasion on which I saw that wonderful grandmaster <Akiva Rubinstein> play was at the 1930 Scarborough congress. The delusion he had had since before the First World War that his person was objectionable to his fellow man was becoming an obsession; after each move, no matter how little time he had left, he dived under the rope surrounding the master tournament and went and sat in a corner beneath a potted palm. <On this occasion he lost one game by exceeding the time limit> [vs. Ahues], which was always a danger." ... - R.N. Coles in British Chess Magazine, 1980, p.336. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | Brenin: 34 Rxe4 fxe4 35 d5, threatening 36 Qh8 mate, 35 ... Q moves 36 dxe6, repeating the threat, and if 36 ... Qxe6 then 37 Qg7 mate. |
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Mar-14-22
 | | Phony Benoni: If the puzzle seemed to show up an hour late, it's because you went on Daylight Saving Time this morning. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | GoldenKnight: I was driving George Koltanowski to lunch one day (in the eighties) and asked him about several of the older masters, including Rubinstein. He just sadly told me that "he was afraid of his own shadow." That is sad. |
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Mar-14-22
 | | perfidious: For all his greatness as a player, one can only read of Rubinstein's difficulties through much of his life with a sense of sadness. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | mel gibson: Very easy as expected for a Monday.
Stockfish 14 says:
34. Rxe4
(34. Rxe4 (♖e5xe4 f5xe4 d4-d5 ♕f7-f6 ♕c3xf6
♖f8xf6 ♗b2xf6 ♖d8-f8 ♗f6-g5 ♗e6-f5 c4-c5 c6xd5 ♗a2xd5+ ♔g8-g7 ♗d5xb7 ♖f8-e8
c5-c6 e4-e3 c6-c7 e3-e2 ♗g5-h4 ♖e8-e3 ♗b7-a6 ♖e3xa3 ♗a6xe2 ♖a3-a4 c7-c8♖
♖a4xf4 ♗h4-g5 ♗f5xc8 ♗g5xf4 ♗c8-e6 ♖c1-c7+ ♔g7-f6 ♖c7xh7 a7-a6 ♖h7-h6
♗e6-d5 ♔h1-g1 a6-a5 g2-g4 ♗d5-e6) +8.83/38 270) score for White +8.83 depth 38. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | stacase: I thought that 35... Black would interpose his Queen and I was looking to see if White would be material ahead after trading Queens, but as always when your opponent resigns, always accept the win graciously. Yeah, clearing the long diagonal to threaten mate seemed like the obvious thing to do after less than a few seconds of analysis. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | ChessPlayerJeshan: This game is a case study in the power of fianchettoed bishops on open diagonals! |
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| Mar-14-22 | | saturn2: White wins a piece and forces change of queens. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | Caissas Clown: Very easy. So why did I miss it ? I 'solved' it by Rxe6 followed by c5 , not seeing the White Q was en prise.Amaurosis scacchistica ! Or fatigue , on a hot day after a tough week ! |
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Mar-14-22
 | | raymondhow: More of a Tuesday level puzzle, with all the mix of pieces bearing down on the center. |
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Mar-14-22
 | | agb2002: White has the bishop pair for a bishop and a knight. Black threatens Nxc3.
The white queen and the bishop on b2 suggest 34.Rxe4 fxe4 35.d5: A) 35... Bc8 36.Qh8#.
B) 35... Qe7 36.dxe6 wins decisive material (36... Q(R)f6 37.Qxf6, etc.). C) 35... Qf6 36.Qxf6 wins decisive material. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | goodevans: <agb2002> You didn't mention <35...Qd7> which is different to <(B) 35...Qe7> because now <36.dxe6?! Qd1+> puts a small spanner in the works. Of course this doesn't save Black. White still has several convincing ways to win. Probably simplest is 36.Qh8+ Kf7 37.dxe6+ (with check). |
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Mar-14-22
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| Mar-14-22 | | TheaN: <34.Rxe4> and Black is toast, given <34....fxe4 35.d5>. There aren't really any alternatives to consider. Now, White threatens Qh8#, and the only reasonable way to prevent this is to move the queen along the 7th (else Qg7#). 35....Qc7 is probably the worst alternative because it allows Qh8+ and Qxh7+ winning her, but similar to 35....Qe7 it allows 36.dxe6! +- threatening Qh8# once again. Then, the ways to cope are done. <35....Qd7> perhaps throws some mud in White's engine. As <goodevans> states, 36.dxe6 allows 36....Qd1+, but this isn't a problem because of 37.Qe1. If 37....Qxe1 38.Rxe1 Rd2 39.e7, threatening c5+, 39....Rxb2 40.exf8Q+ Kxf8 41.Bb1 +- and White keeps a piece. Better however, would either be 36.Qh8+ Kf7 37.Qxh7+ Ke8 38.Qxg6+ +-, simplest, but even stronger is <36.Re1! +-> and White questions Black's defensive idea of 36....Qd7. Hint: there isn't any. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | DrGridlock: < There aren't really any alternatives to consider. Now, White threatens Qh8#, and the only reasonable way to prevent this is to move the queen along the 7th (else Qg7#).> It's a bit trickier than most Mondays.
Black's best alternative on move 35 is to block the a1-h8 diagonal with his queen: 35 ... Qf6. Still winning for White, but there are enough subtleties to check that this could easily qualify as a Tuesday puzzle! |
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Mar-14-22
 | | dorsnikov: Rubenstein was said to be plagued by an imaginary fly that was always stuck to his forehead. He also suffered from Zenophobia. |
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Mar-14-22
 | | gawain: At first I saw nothing for White. Then I took a few minutes off to sit in the shade of a metaphorical potted palm, and looked again. This time I saw Black's vulnerability on the long diagonal. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | johnnydeep: Saw the game line pretty quickly. Rook capturing backwards yet setting up an attack on the next move. |
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| Mar-14-22 | | TheaN: <DrGridlock: < There aren't really any alternatives to consider. Now, White threatens Qh8#, and the only reasonable way to prevent this is to move the queen along the 7th (else Qg7#).> It's a bit trickier than most Mondays.
Black's best alternative on move 35 is to block the a1-h8 diagonal with his queen: 35 ... Qf6. Still winning for White, but there are enough subtleties to check that this could easily qualify as a Tuesday puzzle!> That's definitely the most direct counter to 35.d5, but after 35....Qxf6 36.Qxf6 Rxf6 37.Bxf6 Rf8 (else BxR) White has plenty of ways to win. The fact that the lines that keep both bishops on the board are best doesn't mean the 'simple' 38.dxe6 Rxf6 39.c5 +- doesn't work. I don't qualify that as Tuesday: the starting combo won a piece, and that's it :> |
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Mar-15-22
| | agb2002: <goodevans: <agb2002> You didn't mention <35...Qd7> which is different to <(B) 35...Qe7> because now <36.dxe6?! Qd1+> puts a small spanner in the works.
Of course this doesn't save Black. White still has several convincing ways to win.> For some reason, I didn't find 35... Qd7 interesting. Even 36.h3 is winning. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 34.Rxe4