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Apr-13-05
 | | Benzol: 19...♘f3+ is a bolt from the blue 20.♕xf3 would let Black play 20...♘xe5 winning the d3 Bishop.
A nice game from Speelman. |
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| Feb-28-06 | | mcgee: I think 10 Nge4 looks better. The 3 e5 line in the Caro-Kann is all about scrupulous containment and Speelman just seems to have too many liberties from this stage onwards. Fantastic game though. |
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| Jul-01-14 | | MarkThornton: I was fortunate to be a spectator in the audience that was watching this game, as it unfolded. 19....Nf3+ caused a sensation, and I remember trying to calculate all the variations.... But it soon became clear that Black was winning in all variations. One of Speelman's best games, from a British Championships that he dominated. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | greed and death: I got the first two moves just because I knew it was a puzzle. There's no way I would ever try this OTB though... |
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Apr-24-16
 | | Penguincw: "Happy" 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Sunday puzzle here, did not get it, though I knew Nf3+ would be involved somewhere. For those who missed it, earlier today, <cg> released another Sunday puzzle. See if you can get it. 18.?
E J Diemer vs Burger / Bartsch, 1948
click for larger view |
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| Apr-24-16 | | yadasampati: <Penguincw> That looks more like a monday or tuesday puzzle, but surely not a sunday puzzle |
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Apr-24-16
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Sigh--third consecutive Sunday with only a partial credit for seeing only part of the solution. 6.25/7. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | goldfarbdj: <Penguincw><yadasampati>: To me that's definitely Monday level. |
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Apr-24-16
| | Penguincw: Yep, it was. Likely an error (it's happened before). That's why I mentioned it. |
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Apr-24-16
 | | offramp: Speelman was the winner of another recent Sunday puzzle, which shows what a good player he is. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: There were so many other apparently winning lines I didn't even look at this one. ... Nxe5 is probably what I would have played. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | not not: black is pawn up with superior position, so I would do nothing violent, just keep eating his pawns with Qxc3 (now 2 pawns up, and lots of his pieces are hanging) |
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| Apr-24-16 | | Once: 19...Nf3+ is a stunning move and a worthy Sunday insane puzzle. However, Fritzie is in a picky move this morning. He would like to point out that 21. f4 keeps black's advantage to less than a prawn (-0.67 at the moment). 24. fxe5 also puts up sterner resistance than 24. Qxh5. Fritzie calls 24. fxe5 as a black advantage of -1.73. I suppose we ought to applaud Speelman for whipping up a tremendous attack which gives white the chance to go wrong, even if silicon subsequently finds that it's not as convincing as it first looks. |
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Apr-24-16
 | | scormus: <Once> yes, the vision to see possibilities of gaining advantage, even though it's ot forcing. I think that is what separates the very strong players from the more average ones, and why they generally win from dynamic, unclear positions which the Si would evaluate as balanced. My Si (not surprisingly) rates it te same as yours. I've been on the receiving end a number of times recently, later analyses showing that I could have saved games with the right move. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | morfishine: <Penguincw> Why in the world would you even mention this? There's nothing happy about the extermination of 1 million people, quotation marks or not **** |
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Apr-24-16
 | | perfidious: <MarkThornton....19....Nf3+ caused a sensation....> One can well imagine; I first spotted this in <New In Chess>. A marvellous conception. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | thegoodanarchist: <Apr-13-05 Benzol: 19...♘f3+ is a bolt from the blue > Darn, <Benzol> gave it away before I had a chance to study it. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | mel gibson: I would not have made this move.
I would have got the black Queen out of the fork by the white Knight landing on b7
and just taken the pawn on c3.
Anyway - the computer agrees with Speelman.
Depth 21, Black score = +0.8
19... N-f3+ |
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| Apr-24-16 | | alphee: Definitely missed this one. |
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Apr-24-16
| | Penguincw: < morfishine: <Penguincw> Why in the world would you even mention this? There's nothing happy about the extermination of 1 million people, quotation marks or not > Well, perhaps to bring recognition and awareness to this horrible event. The reason why I even mentioned the word "happy" was that I didn't know how to start off the sentence (perhaps I should've started with "Today marks 101 years since ...". |
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Apr-24-16
 | | MissScarlett: Great, a virtue signalling pissing contest. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | agb2002: Black has a knight and a pawn for a bishop.
White threatens 20.cxd4 and 20.Nxb7.
Black has several options, 19... Nxe5, 19... Qxe5, 19... Qxc3 and 19... Nf3+ (to clear the d-file). In the case of 19... Nxe5 20.cxd4 Nxd3 21.Nxb7 Qf5 22.Nxd8 and I'm not sure whether Black has enough compensation for the exchange. -----
19... Qxe5 looks worse due to 20.Nxb7 with the double threat 21.Nxd8 and 21.cxd4. -----
19... Qxc3 seems to be more promising. For example, 20.Rc1 Qa3 21.Nxb7 Nxe5 22.Nxd8 Rxd8 and the bishop loks lost due to Ndf3+. -----
Finally, 19... Nf3+ followed by 20... Nxe5 exerts pressure along the d-file. For example, 20.Qxf3 Nxe5 21.Qg3 Rxd6 22.Qxg7 Qxc3 ends up two pawns ahead (23.Qxh8 Nf3+ and 24... Qxh8). -----
I think I'd play 19... Qxc3. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | agb2002: Probably I paid too much attention to Carlsen's game. |
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| Apr-24-16 | | alfiere nero: So ... that's how you play chess! What the heck am I playing??
Powerful endgame! |
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Apr-24-16
 | | Richard Taylor: I don't even try to work these "insane" ones out these days, too time consuming, and I usually miss too much But I was interested to see a game by NZ's GM Chandler (our only GM!) and GM Speelman an ingenious player who once beat Kasparov in a rapid. Murray doesn't play much chess now but concentrates on being the President of NZ Chess and his Gambit (Chess) Books business, and the local chess centre. |
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