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Feb-09-07 | | greensfield: White looks in big trouble, so need to look for forcing moves to hope for a draw via stalemate. White's pawns are fixed and the king can't move in this position if white swaps off his pieces. I got the moves, but only because its a puzzle, so I knew something was there. |
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Feb-09-07 | | m1ch4lek: <capanegra: This ending is full of mistakes. Instead of 41...Rxh2?? Black should have played 41…Rg4! 42.Rh3 Rc1+ 43.Ke2 Re1+ followed by Rxe5 and winning.>
why not 43. ... Rg2+ followed by Rc3#? |
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Feb-09-07 | | zb2cr: I feel stupid. I spent upwards of 10 minutes looking for some way for White to pull out a win. I saw the first move in the combination, but then went on the assumption that 43. Qb8+ would lead to a win. After 43. ... Kg7 or 43. ... Kh7, all I could see was a line similar to the given one--but I couldn't find a win and gave up in disgust. |
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Feb-09-07 | | I Stink: Didn't get it and it took me more than a nanosecond to mess things up. |
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Feb-09-07 | | TrueBlue: lol, got it :) Not sure how, but Rxg8 and Rg3 were the first moves I thought about. |
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Feb-09-07 | | MarvinTsai: Got it haha, interesting one. |
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Feb-09-07 | | canigetawootwoot: Let me get this straight. This FRIDAY puzzle is a "white to play" in which the GRANDMASTER playing white did not find the correct move even though, as many previous posters have commented (and I tend to agree), he was most likely looking for a draw anyway. See you Monday, everyone! |
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Feb-09-07 | | psmith: Well, I'm happy to say I got it. |
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Feb-09-07 | | YouRang: Well, Taimanov shouldn't feel bad about missing this, because I missed it too. :-p |
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Feb-09-07 | | kevin86: A great stalemate trap!! Too bad it was missed by Taimanov! A very tough puzzle-since even the GM didn't find it. |
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Feb-09-07 | | laskereshevsky: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!.............-
i missed it........
(......i was searching for a white victory.....) |
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Feb-09-07 | | Ashram64: the puzzle is soooo easy once you know you are looking for a stalemate...but we all are searching for the "w". I missed it... but then i checked the answer and saw the word stalemate,, i quickly found the combination to give up all white's mobile pieces. |
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Feb-09-07
 | | fm avari viraf: It's really very difficult to think of stalemate & Taimanov did both. Commendable! |
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Feb-09-07
 | | GoldenKnight: I saw right away that White was in trouble and that his pieces were not placed well enough for a win, so I looked for a stalemate pattern, and found the moves necessary to ensure it. |
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Feb-09-07 | | Themofro: Alas i missed it, i saw Rxg8 but was still trying to find the win for white after that point. |
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Feb-09-07 | | outplayer: I saw all the line to draw. it took me half an hour to calculate till the end. White just can't win two pawns down and an exposed king. |
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Feb-09-07
 | | duddles: I got this after a couple of minutes once I saw that white would be stalemated if the white major pieces were off the board |
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Feb-09-07 | | e4Newman: patzer story:
i suck - i saw 42.Rxg8 Kxg8 43.Rg3 then couldn't figure where white or black would go from there so i cheated and looked at the solution, only to find i was completely trying to find the wrong solution live and learn |
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Feb-09-07 | | WickedPawn: I started my line with 42. Qg7+, Rxg7, 43. Rxg7, Kxg7, 44. Rg3+ with all the subsequent checks with the rook on g7 or g8, but then I realized that Black doesn't have to take 43. Rxg7... After two minutes it was clear that there was nothing for a White win, but got the drawing line wrong... :( |
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Feb-09-07 | | ALEXIN: Was not very difficult to find in my opinion. I think that was overall a question of spending a lot of time to discover the right continuation. I spent more than 5 minutes to get it! |
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Feb-09-07 | | Swapmeet: Do I get partial credit for finding Taimanov's move? :)) |
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Feb-09-07
 | | WannaBe: In my opinion, if your move landed anywhere within a square radius of Taimanov's, that's a full score/bulls-eye. =) |
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Feb-09-07
 | | ketchuplover: null null null sucks sucks sucks |
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Jan-20-09 | | WhiteRook48: no saving "Rook swindle" this time. |
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Feb-11-25
 | | GrahamClayton: In the stalemate analysis, 44. Qg7+ Qg7 & 44. Qh8+ Rh8 both lose, as Taimanov's king is not stalemated. The stalemate after 45. Qg8+ has to be accepted, as 45...Kg6 46. Qg8+ win's Geller's queen. |
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