|
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 1 OF 3 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
Apr-06-05
 | | Gypsy: Amazingly, Neil McDonald claims that after <18...Nfxe4 19.Nxe4 Bxe4 (19...Nxe4 20.Bxe7 Qxe7 21.Nb6) 20.Bxe7 Bd3> White can hold his own in the complications. While this seems improbable at first, the following continuation convinced me that the claim is probably true: <21.Qe3 Bxf1 22.Nxc5 Qxe7 23.Ne4 Bxc4> (or Bxg2; the Black bishop is trapped) <24.Bxc4> and White, with B+N vs R+2P, seems OK in a double edged position. White will untangle the pin on the c-file as <24...Qc7? 25.Bxf7+! Qxf7 26.Rxc8+ Rxc8 27.Nxd6> and, say, <26...Qc7 28.Nxc8 Qxc8 29.Qxe5> ... gives White a sweet, pawn-up Q endgame. |
|
| Feb-12-06 | | CobraChuk: 34 Rxd2 Bb5+! wins a rook.
A clearly off form Anand (15 c4?;
23 Qd3?) is decisively whipped by
tournament winner Chuck, who also
delivered to Kasparov the worst
whipping of his career (the 'Cornered
Rat game').
Here, 15 c4? is miserable, and clearly better would be 15 c3!
23 Qd3?, allowing his bishop to be
nabbed, is another bobble. |
|
| Dec-31-06 | | Octavia: I got Neil's book for xmas! The art of logical thinking, pp 36 thx, <gypsy> for the continuation! |
|
| Jan-08-07 | | beatles fan: I'm watching this game from Mcdonald's book too! |
|
| Mar-30-07 | | Dr.Lecter: Me too! This is a great game, though. |
|
| Jun-29-07 | | THE pawn: Apparently, from GM McDonald's book, 10.f5? is already a big mistake. I don't know if at that time, it was all theory, but I don't see that move anymore, and perhaps this game is responsible. |
|
| Feb-11-11 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Ivanchuk won against Anand, Kasparov and Karpov in the same tournement !! |
|
| Feb-11-11 | | kia0708: If Ivanchuk delivered to Kasparov one of the worst whippings of his career, then why he never won the World Championship ? While Kaspy won it 50 times (or something like this) |
|
| Mar-20-11 | | jullios paras: What a brilliant moves by vasily! Idol!! |
|
| Mar-20-11 | | jullios paras: Eduardo Bermudez: Ivanchuk won against Anand, Kasparov and Karpov in the same tournement !! Really?? Great! |
|
| Apr-11-12 | | screwdriver: Gotta love the Najdorf Sicilian. Nicely played by Ivanchuk. |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | pilobolus: Ivanchuk delivers such an excitment to the game
On the highest level for quarter of century!
He won against Kramnik and Carlsen in the last
World Championship Candidates (2013)!
And everybody praises his great personality too.
His wins against Kasparov are amazing.
Great contribution of chess for such a long time! |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | diagonalley: this puzzle given as "difficult" (?!?!) ...bordering on 'insane' i would say... unbelievable mastery from ivanchuk |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | gofer: At the moment, White is positionally a whole knight down. So, I would play
a simple move to overwork the queen, allow Be7 to come to g5 and complete
the control of the dark squares around the king, making most of white's
poor decision to trade its DSB for a knight!
<29 ... Ng4>
30 Kf1 Qf2#
30 Kf3 Qf2+
31 Kxg4 Bg5 
30 Rf1 Nxh2
31 Rf2 Ng4
32 Rf3 Bg5
<30 Qf3/Qg3 Bg5>
White's position is in "tatters". Ng4 is loose, but not really loose,
as letting black play Qe3+ is not going to make white any safer... ~~~
Hmmm, not even remotely close to the right answer... |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | morfishine: I only looked at 29...Ng4 & 29...Nxe4 both of which seem to offer promising continuations, but nothing like what happened in the game ***** |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | cocker: Far too hard for me. Somewhat relieved to see that no one else has solved it so far today. Surely this is saying something to <chessgames>? |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | Morttuus: Also,this is a mastery. A silent move breaking the chains and walls...I have tried several other moves,but I didnt got this one. BTW,this is an oldest Anands game I have ever seen. He was just 22 at this time! |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | Hongkonger: I got 29...d5 (it cried out to be played I thought) and the next couple of moves, but I certainly didn't see 32...Bg5 and the follow-up, I kept wanting to play Bb5+ but couldn't get it to work. |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | bubuli55: First look with White K in the middle I'd like to open the center. So I got Black's next 3 moves. 29... d5 30. cxd5 Nxd5 31. exd5 Rxd5
Missed that 32... Bg5!
I had 32... Bb4+
With White up a piece at that point, I was afraid White's next move would be 33. Rxc6 returning the piece and shutting down Black's threats. I know! 32...Bg5 33. Rxc6 Rxd2+ 34. Kf1 Qf2# I know! Friday miss :) |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | mistreaver: Friday. Black to play. Difficult. 29?
White's position is difficult. His pieces are all boxed together and he has no space
I am almost certain that the blow must be on the e4 or d5 squares. But there are lot of options. Which one is correct?
I am gonny try the knight sacrifice first:
29 ... Nxe4
30 Nxe4 (no real choice here)
30 ... d5
I suppose this could be it maybe.
A)
31 cxd5 Rxd5
32 Qe3 Rd4 and
33... Bg5 and white is kinda tied up.
B)
31 cxd5 Rxd5
32 Qf3 Rd4 and the queen is pinned
C)
31 Nd2 cxd4
32 Qxd4 Rd4
and white will get slowly suffocated i think.
I am gonna stop and check it here since it is impossible for me to calculate every line and i would probably
just rely on my intuition here.
-----------------
Ah, my intuition has failed me. The point is that in my A variation :
31 cxd5 Rxd5
32 Qe3 Rd4
33 Nac5!!
white has this move which preserves advantage.
And in every other line, instead of Rd4,
Bb5+ is devilishly strong move, say
31 cxd5 Rxd5
32 Qf3 Bb5+
33 Qd3 (forced)
33... Bxd3 
or
31 cxd5 Rxd5
32 Qb3 Bb5+
33 Kf3 Rd3+
Unfortunatelly, due to the first variation, i can only go
29 ... Nxe4
30 Nxe4 Qd7
31 b3 Qxf5
when there is everything to play for.
29... d5! is much more pretty and efficient, and it's a shame that i missed it's significance |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | agb2002: Black has the bishop pair for a bishop and a knight. Black has a number of options, 29... Qd7, 29... Qb7, 29... Ng4, 29... Nh5, 29... d5, etc. The latter tries to exploit White's clogged development: A) 30.cxd5 Nxd5
A.1) 31.exd5 Rxd5
A.1.a) 32.Rxc6 Rxd3 33.Rc8+ (33.Kxd3 Rxc6 - +; 33.Rxa6 Qxa6 - +) 33... Kh7 34.Kxd3 Qd7+ and 35... Qxc8 - +. A.1.b) 32.Qb3 Bg5 33.Rc2 Qd7 34.Nc5 Rxd2+ 35.Kf1 Qxf5+ 36.Bf3 (36.Kg1 Qf2+ 37.Kh1 Qxg2#) 36... Rxc2 37.Nxa6 e4 looks winning. A.1.c) 32.Qe3 Qxe3+ 33.Kxe3 Bg5+ and 34... Bxd2 - +.
A.1.d) 32.Qf3 Rxd2+ 33.Kxd2 Bxf3 - +.
A.1.e) 32.Qg(h)3 Bg5 33.Nb3 (33.Rc2 Bxa4; 33.Nc5 Rxd2+) 33... Bxa4 with the threats Bxc1 and Bxb3 followed by Rd2+. A.2) 31.Kf1 Nf4 withe the threats N(R)xd3 and Bxg2+.
A.3) 31.Qb(g)3 Nf4+ and 32... Rxd2 - +.
B) 30.exd5 Nxd5 looks similar to A.
C) 30.Kf1 dxe4 looks very bad for White. |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | MarkFinan: My minds switched off right now, but i was looking at 29...Ng5 threatening a mate with the queen on f2, but as there are so many pieces on the board and ive just caught a case of chess block, I cheated and saw d5, with i guess some attempt to pin the queen and king with the LSB.
Think il just go through the game later lol :-) |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | gars: I did not solve it, from Wednesday on everything is too hard for me. Anyway, what is the threat after 34) Rxd2? Can anyone help me? Tanks a lot. |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | bubuli55: < gars > after 34. Rxd2 34... Bb5+ 35. Kf3 Rxd2 threatening ... Rd3+ attacking K & Q. Or ... Qf2+ with mating threats. If 36. Bd2 ... Rac6 keeping the pressure.
Hope that helps. :) |
|
| Sep-06-13 | | MarkFinan: Yeh, just had a good old deek and Bb5+ is crippling for white. |
|
 |
|
|
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 1 OF 3 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
Kibitzing
