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Jun-28-04
 | | Gypsy: <A grand game by Alekhine. In the last-round of the tournament, Alekhine needed victory to tie Junge for first place. Alekhine sacrificed a pawn, then exchange; then he anounced mate-in-7.> (Ludek Pachman) An abreviated version of Pachman's comments in "Modern Chess Tactics" is this: 11.a4!?... interesting pawn sacrifice; Qb6 was a good way to decline it;
14...e5! would have put the pawn sac to a real question;
16...Nc5(?) 17...Bxc5? decisive mistakes;
18.Ra6!! 23.Bd2!;
24.e4!... pretty move to close the mating net;
25.Ra1! |
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| Jun-28-04 | | Bobsterman3000: 24...Qb3 sure did make it easy on Alekhine. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing here, but I don't understand why black why put his queen on such a remote and uninfluential square like that... |
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Jun-28-04
| | Gypsy: I think the primary logic of 24...Qb3 was to take the b4 square away from White bishop. In retrospect, nothing can realy save Black after Alekhine's 18.Ra6!! |
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Jun-30-04
 | | beatgiant: Instead of 24...Qb3, what about 24...b4? One curious possibility is 24...b4; 25. Ra1 Rb6; 26. b3! Qxb3; 27. Rc1+ Kb5; 28. Rxc8 Qd1ch; 29. Kg2 and Black can't safely recapture the bishop, so White comes out ahead! But it certainly is not a mate in 7 as claimed in the Pachman quote above. Any comments? |
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Jun-30-04
| | Gypsy: <... curious possibility is 24...b4; 25. Ra1 Rb6; 26. b3! Qxb3; 27. Rc1+ Kb5; 28. Rxc8 ...> A pretty variation <beatgiant>, and it does look solid. I like the subtle 26.b3! As you point out, Black can not go into 28...Qd1+ 29.Kg2 Qxd2 30.Qd7+, because AAA would find a checkmate in all variations. After 28...Qe6 most mortals would simply liquidate by 29.Rb8 because 29...b3 fails to 30.Qa5+ and 31.Rxb6. But 29.Ra8 with new threats to Black king is also a possibility. The mate-in-7 anounced by AAA is, of course, 26.Ra6+ Kb5 27.Ra5+ Kc6 (27...Kc4 28.Qa6+ Rb5 29.Qxb5# would allow a prettier though shorter mate-in-4) 28.Qc5+ Kd7 29.Ra7+ Rb7 30.Rxb7+ Rc7 31.Rxc7(Qxc7)+ Ke6(Ke8) 32.Qe7#. In Pachman's Memoar, he recalls that, as a 16-year old spectator at the tournament, he saw this game first hand. He got so excited that he started to explain other spectators how AAA would deliver the mate-in-7; thus Pachman got kicked out from the tournament hall. After reading such a high prise for the game, I figured Pachman was bound to put it into one of his books. Indeed, I found it in his Modern Chess Tactics Vol 2 (1964). I abbreviated those comments above--left out a few things, kept only the highlights. |
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Jul-02-04
 | | jaime gallegos: thanks Gypsy for bring us this game ! If I recall right Junge was a german army officer who died in 1945 killed in action ... |
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Jul-02-04
 | | Benzol: What is even more tragic is that he died only three weeks before the war finished. A great pity! |
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| Jul-03-04 | | acirce: Yes, it seems that he had only himself to blame too, not only as being a nazi officer as opposed to a simple soldier, but also as having been given the chance to surrender but refused according to http://www.endgame.nl/salz1942.htm . |
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Jul-03-04
| | jaime gallegos: I think Junge was an officer of the german army ... to be or not to be nazi is irrelevant ... he was fighting for his country when the allies were invading them . |
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| Jul-03-04 | | acirce: Yeah, I forgot that the innocent Germany was "invaded" just like that. What are you talking about? If that page is correct Junge was a loyal servant to the most criminal and murderous regime in world history. |
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| Jul-03-04 | | iron maiden: You sure he was a Nazi and not just a regular German officer? |
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| Jul-03-04 | | acirce: No, but if he shouted "Sieg Heil" he probably was. |
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Jul-03-04
| | jaime gallegos: I really disagree ... nazi or not every german who fighted for his country was not a slaughter or a killer , they were soldiers like the americans, british, frenchs or soviets ... |
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| Jul-03-04 | | iron maiden: Sure, but if they were shooting at innocent civilians in a concentration camp somewhere rather than at armed Allied soldiers on the front lines, I have trouble finding pity for them. |
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Jul-03-04
| | jaime gallegos: ok, read about the bombing of Dresde and how many civilians died there... |
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| Jul-03-04 | | acirce: What is your point? |
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| Jul-05-04 | | Calli: At c6 the king has no escape. What about 22...Kd6? It seems to me that this would allow a later Qd7 and Ke7. |
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Sep-09-04
| | beatgiant: <Calli>'s 22...♔d6 looks much tougher. White can continue with 23. f4 f6 24. fe fe opening the new attacking avenue of the f-file first, and continue the king hunt with 25. ♗d2 ♕d7 26. ♗b4+ ♔e6 27. ♕a6+ ♔f7 28.♖f1+ ♔e8 29. ♗d6 ♖c8 30. ♗xe5 . White gets a very strong attack, but there are many lines and it's hard to prove a definite win. |
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| Nov-02-04 | | marekg248: This game can be found on this site: http://webplaza.pt.lu/~ckaber/ in Chess training Lesson 4: "King in the centre". I could spend whole evening watching at it, Alexander the Great, but I would still be... well, not so gorgeous like you were :)! |
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Nov-02-04
 | | keypusher: Junge was fighting in an SS unit when he was killed. I also notice he was wearing a swastika armband in the picture on the Salzberg tournament page. He seems to have been rather more committed to Nazism than being a German soldier would require. |
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| Jan-02-05 | | MonsieurL: Men in SS units were definitely the bad Nazis in almost all cases... dedicated to the cause. Regular German officers tended to be a lot more inclined to be against the party because of their pre-Hitler army association. A lot of times their choice was either death or serve. A very interesting research possibility, without a doubt! |
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| Sep-12-05 | | cade: Whether he was a Nazi or not has no reflection on his chess ability. |
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| Sep-18-05 | | ConfusedPatzer: I don't see how him wearing the swastika implies that he must be a nazi sympathizer. He is wearing his uniform and I'm sure the swastika is required with it. And maybe he was required to were the uniform? Who knows. Can't speculate on something like this; You could end up staining the reputation of a good man or praising a... |
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| Sep-18-05 | | azaris: As to whether serving in the Waffen SS meant direct personal involvement in war crimes and atrocities, there is some good background at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen.... |
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Sep-18-05
 | | chancho: In the book "Decisive Games in Chess History" by Ludek Pachman.Pachman wrote the following passage regarding Junge,who was playing Alekhine."His opponent,(Junge)a tall slender youth with sincere eyes who, at the age of nineteen,had already attained a higher level of play than many present day Grandmasters, was a modest and likeable person." |
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