| Jan-29-06 | | notyetagm: What a great combination by Gallagher in the middlegame! |
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| Jun-07-08 | | Xeroxx: indeed |
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| May-23-22 | | Brenin: Does Black have a win after 25 Kg1 rather than 25 Qxf2, e.g. Nfe4+ 26 Kh2 fxg3+ 27 Kh1 Nf2+ 28 Kg1 Rxd8 29 Bxc5 Bxc5 30 Kf1 Bf5 31 Ne4, and White seems to have survived? |
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May-23-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Wondered for a moment why White didn't play 45.Nd6+; then saw 45...Ke6; 46.Nxb7,g5+; 47.Kxg5,Kxe5 and Black will eventually pick up the rest of White's Queen side pawns. |
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May-23-22
 | | FSR: <Brenin> Stockfish 15 (depth 34) says that 25.Kg1! wins (+2.68), the main line running 25...Nfe4+ 26.Kh2 fxg3+ 27.Kh1 Nf2+ 28.Kg1 Ng4+ (28...Rxd8 (as you gave) 29.Nd5 is roughly equivalent) 29.Kf1 Nh2+ 30.Ke2 Bf5 31.Bxc5! Bxc2 32.Bxd4 Rxd8 33.Nd5 Bxb3 34.Kd3. White is likely to eat Black's queenside while keeping his c-pawn, which he will then push toward the promised land. The alternative 28...Nd3+ is scotched by 29.Kf1 Nxe1 30.Qd2!, which still looks a bit messy to this human, but the engine says Black is dead meat (north of +5.5 in all lines). |
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| May-23-22 | | Sally Simpson: Good choice for game of the day. I like messy middle games. Though 25.Kg1 has been computer endorsed it still takes some nerve for a human, with a clock ticking, to walk into a discovered check. I thought perhaps White may have feared a perpetual... 
click for larger viewKg1,Ng4+, Kh1 Nf2+ etc.
...and as this was a team event his side needed him to win so took on f2 with the Queen to avoid the draw. But move 25 is too early for such thinking unless his team mates suffered opening disasters or a bunch of defaults. However I went off to get more details and move 25 being too early for must win play was confirmed when I saw; 'On Sunday only two games are over after three hours.'
So a win was not mandatory for White at that time. Played at Bochum. Joe's team 'SV Castrop Rauxel' won 6-2. USC Magdeburg 2 - SV Castrop Rauxel 6
1 Alexander Onischuk - Eduardas Rozentalis draw
2 Roman Slobodjan - Paul van der Sterren draw
3 Vladimir Georgiev - Daniel King 1 - 0
4 Dorin Rogozenko - Joseph Gallagher 0 - 1
5 Holger Proehl - Michael Hoffmann 0 - 1
6 Alexander Naumann - William Watson 0 - 1
7 Heiko Machelett - Ralf Appel 0 - 1
8 Frank Darnstaedt - Dirk Hennig 0 - 1
https://www.teleschach.com/berichte... |
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May-23-22
| | FSR: <Sally Simpson> Nice research, though I'm not sure how Gallagher's team got 6-2 out of that. Presumably they were White on the odd boards (scoring 1.5-2.5) and Black on the even boards (scoring 3.5-.5), which would make a total score for them of 5-3. But that's just an aside. USC Magdeburg 2 - SV Castrop Rauxel 6
1 Alexander Onischuk - Eduardas Rozentalis draw
2 Roman Slobodjan - Paul van der Sterren draw
3 Vladimir Georgiev - Daniel King 1 - 0
4 Dorin Rogozenko - Joseph Gallagher 0 - 1
5 Holger Proehl - Michael Hoffmann 0 - 1
6 Alexander Naumann - William Watson 0 - 1
7 Heiko Machelett - Ralf Appel 0 - 1
8 Frank Darnstaedt - Dirk Hennig 0 - 1 |
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| May-23-22 | | Sally Simpson: Hi FSR,
I copied and pasted it. It is the way the results are displayed that looks odds. 0-1 does not mean a Black win, it means the player on the right (Joe's team) won. Joe's team won 5 and drew 2 = 6 pts.
The other lot won one and drew 2 = 2pts. |
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| May-23-22 | | spingo:
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This a mind-boggling position, and I think Gallagher gets the credit for his strong play. White played 25. Qxf2, but in just a few moves there is an ending with Black two pawns ahead. 25. Kh2 probably leads to a draw. There is a good response for Black: 25...Ncd3!=. But there was the third move, and who would have the nerve to play
25. Kg1!
Who could have thought through the variations? No way. Do have to take a punt.
25. Kg1! would have won. GG.
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| May-23-22 | | goodevans: Joe Wicks just happens to be featured on the cover of this week's Radio Times with the heading <No Ordinary Joe>. https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/radio... (need to scroll down 3 - 4 screens). Can't be a coincidence. Must be some sort of conspiracy. |
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| May-23-22 | | goodevans: Oops, that's last week's RT that I forgot to chuck out. Guess that makes a conspiracy even more likely as an explanation. |
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May-24-22
| | FSR: <Sally Simpson> Oh, I see. So the other team scored 2-1 on the top boards and got blanked on the bottom five. Thanks. It seemed odd that Black had done so well. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 21...exf4