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| Feb-26-10 | | Eisenheim: I played the same patzer move as the text. I was able to get yesterdays move in a second which is the same theory, but missed this entirely. |
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Feb-26-10
 | | Once: Then there is the question of which opening he would play. I am tempted to say the English opening ("My move is c4, pawn to c4"), but the grey-hairs amongst us always picture him playing the Scotch. Perhaps with a licence to kibbitz he might play just about anything. Mind you, with all the gadgets he has with him, he would probably fall foul of the FIDE rules on mobile phones. Not to mention watches with built-in lasers. But then wouldn't FIDE make a great SPECTRE? And talking of James Bond, did you notice that the famous chess scene at the beginning of From Russia With Love has both players playing a move with one hand and then pressing the clock with the other? Tsk tsk. The game itself is based on Spassky-Bronstein 1960, with a couple of pawns removed. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | whiteshark: Mate in 12, starting with 37.Qxg6. Not that hard to find. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | wals: White could have reversed the result -
one possible way..
37.(#11) Qxg6 Rh1+ 38. Bf1 Qxe4+ 39.
fxe4 Rxf1+ 40. Kc2 d3+ 41. Kxc3 Rc1+ 42. Kd4 Rc7 43. Rxc7 d2 44. Qf7# 0-1 Courtesy of Rybka 3 1-cpu: 3071mbhash; depth 15: time 11min: |
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| Feb-26-10 | | Petrosianic: <The game itself is based on Spassky-Bronstein 1960, with a couple of pawns removed.> The pawns were removed because the director didn't find them photogenic enough. Unfortunately their removal made the combination completely unsound, but who's going to notice a thing like that... |
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| Feb-26-10 | | MaczynskiPratten: <Sethoflagos>, <Eblunt>; yes 37 Qc1 is worth considering instead on 37 Qxg6 - which I missed :-( But I think it fails if Black plays Qxf2 rather than an immediate Rh1. Now Qxa2# is threatened. If 38 Qa3 Rh1+, and Bf1 no longer works. White's only defence seems to be 38 Bc2 but he is now totally tied in knots and d3 seems to win at once for Black (after a few spite checks). |
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Feb-26-10
| | Once: <Petrosianic> Indeed. The combination is unsound, the players press their clocks with the wrong hands, Kronsteen is sent a message during the game and the administrators call out the moves as well as making them on the display board. But apart from that ... I suppose we should be grateful that the board is the right way round. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | Nullifidian: This was remarkably easy for a Friday. 37. ♕xg6 and Black loses immediately to the threat of ♕f7#. The only thing that makes it potentially difficult is the number of spite checks that Black has to lengthen the mate, but it doesn't amount to anything in the end. |
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Feb-26-10
 | | scormus: <Once .... not to flinch> thanks, some very good points about chess psychology, that could well refer to me. Since I flinched at the very start (playing for a draw) I feel well qualified to make a red-faced comment. My first reaction was <surely W can't win this> and I let that control my thoughts as I looked for the best continuation. When I found what I thought (think) is a drawing line I felt I'd succeeded. I was destroyed in my last serious contest because I didn't have as much desire to win as my opponent - for me a draw would have been good enough - and the negative mentality lead to heavy defeat. Today reminded me. |
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Feb-26-10
| | scormus: <Jim> I know I can rely on you to find some interesting side puzzles. If you've read my first post you won't be surprised if I say I know the answer ;-) |
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| Feb-26-10 | | goodevans: Well, if I'd been playing white I'd have found the draw (37 Rb8+ Ke8 38 Re8+) but not the win. Not full marks by any stretch of the imagination, but at least it's better than Johner managed. Also, I think it's the answer to <Jim>'s little puzzle. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | MiCrooks: I quickly dismissed Qxg6, saw that Qg3 lost to simply trading off Queens, so then spent time trying to get the Bishop out of the way with check or threat of mate while creating luft for the King. Problem was that Qf1+ always spoiled any of those variations, reigning in the King before he could escape. I was so focused on creating luft with check that I totally missed creating it through interposition! The key feature to Bf1! is not simply that it creates luft, but that it does so while taking the key f1 square away from the Queen. The move Bf1 is problem-like in its efficiency. |
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Feb-26-10
 | | Jimfromprovidence: <scormus> <Jim I know I can rely on you to find some interesting side puzzles. If you've read my first post you won't be surprised if I say I know the answer ;-)> You are saying that the answer to the side puzzle after 36...Qd2 is 37 Rb8+ Ke7 38 Re8+!, below. 
click for larger viewFor full credit, one needs to explain why the king has to capture the rook, instead of going to f7, to avoid Qxg6+. The king can also move to d6 or d7, for that matter. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | Coigach: Hard to believe this is Friday.
37.Qxg6 threatening mate in one has to be calculated and then only way W's K can avoid being mated straight away is to create an escape route by vacating d3. I can only imagine both players were short of time; B was hasty moving his Q from f4 the previous move after which W had to examine Qxg6. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | David2009: <OhioChessFan: The first move was almost mandatory.> Congratulations on finding it! - more than many of us did.
<I daresay <alexrawlings> is a better player than me if he thinks this is a Tuesday level position....>.
Doesn't follow. Alex was posting yesterday (Thursday) BEFORE today's puzzle was chosen. The position was in the Evening Standard, with extra clues. 
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If you are told that (a) 37 Qg3 Qxg3 38 fxg3 loses to 38.. Rb2+ 39 Kc1 Rxa2 and (b) there definitely is a win, then the puzzle suddenly becomes a whole lot easier. With the clues it's a Tuesday/Wednesday puzzle; without them it's a Friday one. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | BOSTER: <scormus> <Since I <flinched> at the very start (playing for a draw)>
There is a big difference between the man and woman psychology in chess.
Woman players are not famous for their fighting spirit for nothing (draw). |
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| Feb-26-10 | | YouRang: Got it! <37.Qxg6> threatens mate in one -- if only white can survive black's mate threats. At first glance it looks like the white king will be trapped on the 1st & 2nd ranks and thus white would be mated after <37...Rh1+> with ...Qxf2# to follow. However, white has time to create an escape hole at d3 with the clearance sac: <38.Bf1!>. Now <38...Rxf1+ 39.Kc2 Qxf2+ 40.Kd3> and black cannot sustain checks. Black would love to put his queen on f1 to keep the king from escaping to c4, but his rook is there. So, <38.Bf1!> is not only a clearance sac for white, it's an obstruction tactic against black! |
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| Feb-26-10 | | Patriot: <<BOSTER>: There is a big difference between the man and woman psychology in chess. Woman players are not famous for their fighting spirit for nothing (draw).> There aren't enough female players in chess and then to hear sexist comments like this is disappointing. <BOSTER>, I would like to see how much fighting spirit you have against someone like Judit Polgar or Alexandra Kosteniuk. They didn't draw their way to grandmaster level. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | BOSTER: <Patriot> <There are not enough female players in chess and then to hear sexiest comments like this is disappointing>
Only for your information,what I said this is exactly the opinion of A.Kosteniuk,read her "Diary of a Chess Queen". |
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| Feb-26-10 | | WhiteRook48: darn i missed the bf1 part |
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| Feb-26-10 | | Patriot: <BOSTER> I would be interested as to where in the book she said this? What page? Give an exact quote. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | DarthStapler: I didn't get it since I somehow thought that the queen would cover the d3 square even after Bf1 |
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Feb-27-10
| | Once: <BOSTER: There is a big difference between the man and woman psychology in chess. Woman players are not famous for their fighting spirit for nothing (draw).> Hmmm - dangerous stuff, my friend, even if it was previously said by a woman. It may or may not be okay within the posting guidelines for this site (No obscene, racist, sexist or profane language). But it could well offend some people and for that reason alone I would rather we didn't go there. |
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| Feb-27-10 | | alexrawlings: < David2009: <OhioChessFan: The first move was almost mandatory.> Congratulations on finding it! - more than many of us did. <I daresay <alexrawlings> is a better player than me if he thinks this is a Tuesday level position....>. Doesn't follow. Alex was posting yesterday (Thursday) BEFORE today's puzzle was chosen. The position was in the Evening Standard, with extra clues.> True, I did have extra clues and am happy to admit that I didn't find it myself. I'm not a very strong player (ECF 140, which equate to ELO 1800ish, I think). However I thought other kibitzers might find it easier than me and as per previous posters, knowing this is a puzzle we are forced to consider 37 Qxg6 as our first candidate. |
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| Feb-27-10 | | alexrawlings: <Chris1Clark: Does our puzzle setter have some friends who read English newspapers? In the recent past there have been 2 from these. This was in the London Evening Standard last night. Well I got it then so maybe that counts for enough.> This is a free paper that is distributed on weekday evenings in London. I tend to read it on the way home and often look the games up on chessgames.com when I get home. I enjoy the puzzles and Leonard Barden's annectdotes. And I like sharing them with you guys too! |
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