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| Jul-01-10 | | kingfu: How about calling this game "The Last Maginot Line" instead of making a lame pun on the poor guy's name? Did he know he was playing Alekhine?
Or did he think he was just playing a "regular" game? |
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| Jul-01-10 | | JohnBoy: So <kingfu> gripes about name-based puns here as well. (See today's GotD.) Are references to cultural folly, like the Maginot line, any better? Are we supposed to walk on egg shells to protect Feldt's long-dead feelings? Maybe we should prohibit comments noting that Alekhine was an alcoholic. Rather, say I, a good Alcoholics Anonymous pun is more than welcome... Get over it, already.
BTW - thanks, <Chessical>, for the analysis. |
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| Oct-10-10 | | Lil Swine: good game < BARF>! oh, sorry! |
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| Jan-15-11 | | jdc2: FYI, the position after move 14...c5 is
problem #794 in Reinfeld's book, "1001
Brilliant Chess Combinations". |
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| Feb-25-11 | | Sharpen Your Tactics: A Knight in a good outpost square is worth a little trouble! alot of moves to get there. |
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| Oct-21-11 | | whiteshark: <Calli> Wouldn't your serious questions regarding this game vanish into thin air if you'd reconsider this post: May-20-06
<Quirinus: In his book "Meine besten Partien 1908-1923", Berlin / Leipzig 1929, Alekhine gives the following information: <"Gespielt in einer Blindlings-Vorstellung von 6 Partien im Militärspital zu Tarnopol im September 1916".> His opponent's name is given as "M.Feldt". Here the game ends with 18.Nh4#.> ? At least the publication date in Moskovskiya Vedomosti on 3 December 1916 (Gregorian calendar) would have been within the realms of possibility. |
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| Jan-28-12 | | alfons: nice moves from alekhine |
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| Mar-29-12 | | andrej1tomas: why he give the queen?????? |
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| Oct-02-12 | | billyhan: It sure makes vun vunder how Von Feldt at zis point. |
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| Sep-25-16 | | mulde: A.Schulz on ChessBase' Alekhine-DVD points out the game wasn't played by Feldt or von Feldt, but by a lawyer named Dr.Fischer.
Schulz's source were some articles by Dr.Buschke in "Chess Life" during end of 1949 until December 1952. Unfortunately, I can't find these articles in the net.
Alekhine's time during and after the WW I seems to be unclear. Some say he was seduced to death by the Russians, others say he worked (peacefully ...) for the Red Cross as a driver. And Dr.Fischer? A medical doctor in the Polish / Ukrainian camp? A captive "by random" as a lot of people in those war-times? We will never know.
But the game is absolutely beautiful. Have in mind it is played BLINDfold by "Ali" in a simul! |
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| Apr-25-19 | | Woodrow887: Nice combination! |
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Feb-02-22
 | | Jonathan Sarfati: See this attractive copycat combination M F Noble vs A F Ker, 1994 The loser of this game authored a chess column in the Evening Post in Wellington, and had previously shown the Alekhine win of this page. He wrote that no one should fall for this again. But in a later column, he sportingly included this game, repeating what he had said, then wryly added, "Boy, was I wrong!" |
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| Jul-14-22 | | ChessHigherCat: Alekhine's finish is a bit faster than 17. Bxf5+ Kh5 18. g4+ Nxg4 19. Bxg4#.
<mulde> Thanks for explanation, I was thinking Alekhine must have hijacked a red cross truck and was running down Poles on the streets of Warsaw! |
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| Jul-26-24 | | FM David H. Levin: <mulde: A.Schulz on ChessBase' Alekhine-DVD points out the game wasn't played by Feldt or von Feldt, but by a lawyer named Dr.Fischer. Schulz's source were some articles by Dr.Buschke in "Chess Life" during end of 1949 until December 1952. Unfortunately, I can't find these articles in the net.> Back issues of <Chess Life> that are at least one year old are accessible through https://new.uschess.org/chess-life-.... |
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| Jul-26-24 | | BxChess: I was wondering at the continuation after 15...Bxf3 16 Qxe6 Nf8.
click for larger view
It took me a while to spot the pretty smothered mate 17. Nh6++ Kh8 18. Qg8+ Nxg8 19. Nf7#
click for larger view |
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| Jul-26-24 | | Allderdice83: 16. Qxe6+! is spectacular, but 16. Ng5+ wins as well, just more slowly 16 ... Kf8 17. Qxe6 and Black can't stop Qf7# without giving up a lot of material, eg., 17 ... Ne5 18. dxe5 Bd5 19. cxd5 Qxd5 20. exf6 Qxe6 21. Nxe6+ Kf7 22. fxe7 Kxe6 23. Bc4+, or White could just play 17. Nxe6+ winning the queen. 16 ... Kg8 17. Qxe6+ Kh8 18. Nf7+ Kg8 19. Nh6+ with the classic Q-sac smothered mate coming. 16. Kg6 Kh5 18. Be2+ Ng4 19. Qf7+ Kh6 (or 19 ... g6 20. Qxh7#, or 19 ... Kh4 20. g3#) 20. Ne6+ Bg5 21. Qxg7+ Kh5 22. Qxh7+ Bh6 23. Qxh6# |
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| Jul-26-24 | | devere: Not "difficult", just "famous". I remembered it in a split second. |
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| Jul-26-24 | | mel gibson: I saw that - Black can't take the Knight - LOL. Stockfish 16.1 declines the Knight and says:
15. Nf7
(15. Nf7 (1.Nf7 Qc8 2.Qxe6 Ne5 3.Nh6+ Kh8 4.Qxe5 gxh6 5.d5
Qd8 6.Rfe1 Bf8 7.Qxf5 Rxe1+ 8.Rxe1 Bc8 9.Qe5 Bg7 10.h3 Qf8 11.Qe2 Bd7
12.Ne5 Be8 13.Bc2 Qg8 14.Qd2 Qf8 ) +5.82/53 971) score for White +5.82 depth 53.
If I force SF to accept the Knight it's mate in 19: 15. Nf7 Kxf7
16. Qxe6+ (16. Qxe6+ (1.Qxe6+ Kf8 2.Ng5 Ne5 3.Bxe5 Qd5 4.cxd5 Bxd5 5.Nxh7+ Nxh7 6.Qxd5 Rad8
7.Qe6 Bg5 8.Bd6+ Rxd6 9.Qxd6+ Kg8 10.Qd5+ Kh8 11.Qxf5 g6 12.Qxg6 Nf8
13.Qxg5 Ne6 14.Qg6 Re7 15.Rfe1 Rg7 16.Qf6 Kg8 17.Rxe6 Rg6 18.Qxg6+ Kh8
19.Re8+) +M19/66 841)
White wins _ mate in 19. |
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| Jul-26-24 | | Allderdice83: In that last line, 17. Qxe6 is missing after 16 ... Kg6. Also, if instead of 18 ... Ng4, Black tries 18 ... Kh6, then not 19. Nf7+?? Kg6, but 19. Qxf5! threatening 20. Nf7#. Since 20. Nf7 is a double check, the only defense, with no checks available for Black and no way to capture any of the attacking pieces, is 20 ... g6 providing an escape square. But now, 21. Ne6+! taking away the escape square, 21 ... g5 22. Qxg5#. Note, 20 ... Ng4 or 20 ... Bf3, blocking the bishop on e2, runs into 21. Nf7#, unblocking the queen. And of course, if 15 ... Qc8, there is 16. Qxe6 threatening both a Q-sac smothered mate and (if 16 ... g6 to avoid the smothered mate) 17. Nd6+ winning the queen. |
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Jul-26-24
 | | chrisowen: Yue v it's tom jig Nf7 hub aka it's food had affable it's off a duck nack bane it's eu bo it's effort Nf7 bug :) |
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| Jul-26-24 | | TheaN: I think I have seen this before, but couldn't recall exactly. The motifs are very clear however: central pressure, we want to get the Black king out and we can on penalty of a smothered mate otherwise. <15.Nf7!> without taking a pawn even <15....Kxf7>. 15....Bxf3 16.Qxe6, we play that on pretty much any move anyways (else Nxd8), and Black has no proper defense against the discovered check with potential smother. Black should try 16....Kf8, but now the simple 17.Nxd8 +- wins or the menacingly slow 17.gxf3 ++- is even better. I looked at 17.Ng5? also and wasn't sure but no, Black can reinforce the defense with 17....Bh5! and White's only slightly better after 18.Bxf5 ⩲. <16.Qxe6+!> okay, admit, of those that didn't know the game, who missed this? I did :>. 16.Ng5+ is not that much different though. Black can hold on with 16....Kf8 17.Qxe6 Ne5 18.dxe5 +- etc, saccing the house to not be mated. 16....Kg6 17.Qxe6 is #4. However, after immediate Qxe6+ <16....Kg6 (Kxe6 17.Ng5#) 17.g4> threatening Bxf5# that can only be prevented by <18....Be4>. Alas, <19.Nh4#> and that's how the game ended. |
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| Jul-26-24 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: A famous game, though I failed to remember instantly, only when I saw "Alekhine". For 16...Kg6 17. Bxf5+ Kh5 18. Qf7+ g6 19. g4+ Nxg4 20. Qxh7+ Nh6 21. Qxh6#. But 17. g4!! is killer, as Nh5# next. |
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| Jul-26-24 | | Whitehat1963: Impressive as hell for a blind simul. I think so anyway. |
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| Jul-28-24 | | FM David H. Levin: My Jul-26-24 kibitz on this thread should have mentioned also that the back issues of <Chess Life> are in PDF format and downloadable for free even by non-members of the US Chess Federation. |
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| May-28-25 | | SacMaster13: nice one |
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