Nov-23-03 | | tpx: I peeked at amazon.com sample pages of Keres's book "The Road to the Top" and found him mentioning this game: "... I was selected to play in the team for the citymatch against Viljandi. I had to play two games against the young Ilmar Raud, who had by then already made a name for himself. The first game ended in a draw and in the second I came down to an ending with two pawns more. Then suddenly Raud put a whole rook en prise! Without thinking for a single second I took the rook and ... in a few moves I was mated. These first hours of instruction were painful, but also very useful." |
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Nov-24-03 | | fatbaldguy: Beautiful trap by black, but white should have played 40 f5, retaining a pawn advantage in the endgame. |
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Sep-11-06 | | Confuse: when a grandmaster offers you a rook... think! =) |
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Sep-11-06 | | Calculoso: He probably went into an act of sorts after he made the move, sweating, swearing, panting about, etc. |
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Sep-11-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <Without thinking for a single second I took the rook and ... in a few moves I was mated.> "a few moves"? Make that ONE move! :) |
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Sep-11-06 | | Sularus: im a patzer. with that out of the way,
I was analyzing this game and wondered about the "unusually low" quality of play by keres. then i realized he was just around 13 years old during this game. harharhar. |
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Sep-11-06 | | dycotiles: This must have hurt! |
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Sep-11-06 | | Kreifi: Wou, that was damn beautiful mate. Didint see that coming at all. Just wondering awfully stupid rook move. :P |
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Sep-11-06
 | | kevin86: What a finish!! One of the finest minds in chess history is caght in a threepenny trap! Look-white is a rook and pawn ahead----oops,the king is trapped-lol |
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Sep-11-06 | | CapablancaFan: "Sure I'll take the rook, I'm sure there will be no strings attached." Lol! |
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Sep-11-06 | | cavaleiro: For a future master, even if he is 13 years old, not to see 40..Ne6# is shameful. Nobody offers a Rook without a good reason! 39..Rd7 is a monday or tuesday puzzle! And 40.Nd7 could be blunder of any day. By the way, this could be a new feature from Chessgames.com "Blunder of the Day"!!! : ) |
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Sep-11-06 | | dehanne: <Nobody offers a Rook without a good reason!>
Nigel Short does... check out his game with white vs Krasenkow at the FIDE World Cup in Libya 2004 ;-) |
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Sep-11-06 | | syracrophy: This game reminds me another painful story Short vs Beliavsky, 1992 |
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Sep-11-06
 | | technical draw: Hey, give Keres a break. He was only 13 years old. When I was 13 I couldn't even spell "bluonder". |
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Sep-12-06 | | blakjak: beautiful mate beautiful |
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Sep-12-06
 | | kevin86: <technical draw>yoo stil kan't-lol |
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Sep-13-06 | | syracrophy: <technical draw><kevin86> Jaja lol! :-P |
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Dec-22-06 | | Tacticstudent: UNBELIEVABLE! Keres, one of my favorite players, fantastic openings innovator, making such a blunder... well, humans make mistakes, isn't it? |
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Sep-01-12 | | whiteshark: <technical dyslalia> Wuz wrong with spelling it <bluonder>? :D |
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Oct-15-13 | | The Last Straw: LOL!! |
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Apr-12-16 | | Exploding: A kid can not resist a free rook.
(Gives you 1 minute to find out the grammar mistake and correct it.) |
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Apr-14-17
 | | HeMateMe: playing through this I kept thinking "How is black going to win this game?" Anyway, Keres was just 13--Quickness kills! |
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Aug-10-17 | | sfm: 40.f5 seems to win instantly. |
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