| Dec-13-03 | | Alchemist: Rxd5! is a great sacrifice that utilizes the true potential of black's queenside minority in the sicilian. There are some amazing variations that arise from it, among the most interesting i found was that if 23... Bxd5 instead of 23... a3, then 24. cxd4 a3 and Fritz 8 gives Rh2 as white's best defense, where after 24... axb2 the white monarch is virtually stuck under this monster of a passed pawn that cannot be captured without the loss of the queen, and the threat of Bf5+ can only be met by positioning to interpose the queen or a rook, after which the white arsenal is hopelessly aimed at this invincible pawn that seems to be holding a dagger to their king's throat. |
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| Jul-22-06 | | khense: White's attack sure didn't amount to much |
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| Jul-22-06 | | KampongBoy: Wow! He beat Shabalov, appears to have moved to the USA, then faded out of sight in the early 90s. I assume he followed a more conventional and lucrative career. Too bad, he seems to be a player of some ability. |
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| Jul-22-06 | | nikolaas: Maybe 23.♕c3 followed by ♔a1 is better. |
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| Jul-22-06 | | dakgootje: <nikolaas> Probably as c3 clearly isnt the best move possible |
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| Jul-22-06 | | Longbrow: 17. f4 seems to be an unwise choice and the first solid nail in the coffin. Any takers, patzer2? anyone? |
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Jul-22-06
 | | Phony Benoni: <KampongBoy> Basin came to Michigan in 1990, where he quickly began sweeping everything in sight. However, this state doesn't provide a lot of financial opportunity for a chess player, especially when he had to start splitting prizes with Vadim Tsemekhman (Eric Torman) and Ben Finegold. So he began to concentrate on his career (engineering, I believe) and slowly drifted out of chess. He seems not to have played in a tournament since 1997. I remember him mainly as having some of the worst handwriting I have ever seen in a chessplayer. I counted it a success if I could get to move 20 with some degree of certainty using one of his scoresheets. As for this game, what I like is how Black consistently eschews the obvious ...f6 from about moves 18-25 in favor of continuing his attack. That might be the answer to suggested improvements like 23.Qc3. |
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| Jul-22-06 | | psmith: <nikolaas> After 23. Qc3 I found 23... Ng3! 24. Rhe1 (otherwise 24... Ne4) Nf5 which Fritz then confirms to be better for Black, for example: 25. Re4 Nxd4 26. Rexd4 a3 with too many threats. |
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| Jul-22-06 | | euripides: Down the plughole, rather. |
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| Jul-22-06 | | EinZweiDrei: It's nice to see Black come out on top in the Yugoslav Attack for once. There are some crushing White victories out there where it seems the game was never in question, even against good defense. Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974 in particular comes to mind. |
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| Jul-22-06 | | kevin86: A nice finish! Black seals off the white queen and threatens 30...♕b2#. 30 ♕c1 is of course met by ♕c3+ and mate next-this time the bishop blocks the queen on the file! Look at the position! White's pawns block the progress of his pieces. Black's on the other hand are not blocking his pieces-they are helping them or have gotten out of the way. |
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| Jul-22-06 | | Luisenrique: Did not win white with Qxc2? |
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| Jul-23-06 | | nikolaas: <psmith> I guessed that it would be better for black, but it's not as much better as after c3.
<luisenrique> if you mean on the last move (which is the only moment in the game here Qxc2 is possible for white), then no, because black plays Qxc2. |
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| Mar-16-25 | | Walter Glattke: 21.-Rxd5 22.exd5 c3 23.Qxc3 Rc8 24.Qe3 Bf5 25.b3 Rxc2 26.Nxc2 Qxe3 27.Rde1 Qc3 mate next - 24.Qxc8+ Bxc8 25.Nb3 f6 -++ |
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Mar-16-25
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Solved every problem this week, to my surprise, especially this one, because it did not appear to be a forced win anyone could calculate until the end. |
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| Mar-16-25 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: The proposed line is simple: 21...Rxd5 22. exd5 Rb8 23. b3 axb3 24. axb3 cxb3 (25. Nxb3 Ra8) 25. cxb3 Bxd4 26. Qxd4 Qxb3+ (27. Ka1 Ra8+) 27. Kc1 Qa2 and mate next.
(Rc8+ it is a looong way... 28. Kd2 Rc2+ 29. Ke1 Qg3+ 30. Kf1 Bb5+ 31. Rd3 Qg2+ 32. Ke1 Qe2#. |
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| Mar-16-25 | | Lloyd Gross: I almost got it, up to move 24, but then botched it up with 25...Qxb3+ 26. Nxb3 Rxb3+ 27. Kc1 Bf5 28. Qa2.. |
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Mar-16-25
 | | scormus: 21 ... Rxd5 22 exd5 was too easy enough (too easy for a Sunday?) to find. Then I was unsure whether or 22 ... Rb8 and ... c3. I thought they both looked promising. The text looked the obvious choice but I fancied ...c3 with the promise of overwhhelming pressure from the two bishops.
According to SF16 they both win, with not much to choose, but it looked to me like that the winning moves were more straightforward OTB after 22 ... Rb8. I wondered how B managed to get such an advantage so quickly from a standard Yugoslav attacking position at move 16. Without needing to use SF, it was clear that W completely lost his way with 17 f4? and 18 Qd3? Surely 17 Nd5 (book move?) and 18 Bxc4 were simple enough to find. |
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| Mar-16-25 | | mel gibson: I saw the first few moves within 20 seconds.
Stockfish 17 says:
21. .. Rxd5
(21. .. Rxd5 (1. ... Rxd5 2.exd5 Rb8 3.Qc3 Ng3 4.Rhe1 Bg4 5.f5 Nxf5 6.Bc1 Bxd1 7.Rxd1 Bxd4 8.Qa3 Nxh4 9.c3 Be3 10.Bxe3 Qxe3 11.Qxa4 Qxc3 12.Qc2 Qe5 13.Rc1 Nf5 14.Qc3 Qe4+ ) +7.15/41 424) score for Black +7.15 depth 41. |
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| Mar-16-25 | | whiteshark: Blacks pieces work hand in glove here. |
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Mar-16-25
 | | chrisowen: Im pq log jenny its Rxd5 abled its axled abbot lab v its aha ra ao jiffy its Rxd5 its ear x |
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Mar-16-25
| | chrisowen: So st its c2 buck xx |
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| Mar-16-25 | | Allderdice83: 21 ... Rxd5 is not that hard to find, what with the queen hanging, and the rest of it plays itself. White's first big mistake is 17. f4? Stockfish goes from +0.9 to -0.5 on this move. The only move to keep the advantage is 17. Nd5! Black can't play 17 ... a4 due to 18. Nxe7+ Kh7 19. Nxg6 followed by 20. Nxf8+. White can improve with 18. Bxc4 Rxc4 19. e5. Stockfish evaluates this as -0.3 prior to playing these moves, but changes that to -1.2 in view of 19 ... f6, trapping the bishop. Best is 20. Ndxb5 Bc6 (not 20 ... fxg5?? 21. Qd5+) 21. exd6 exd6 (still not 21 ... fxg5?? 22. Qe2! threatening both 23. Qxc4 and 23. dxe7) 22. Bh6 Bxh6 23. Rhg1 Kh7 24. Rxh6+ Kxh6 -1.9. Black's up a rook for 2 pawns, so I don't quite understand why this doesn't evaluate even more strongly in Black's favor, but White does have some counterattack along the g file. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 21...Rxd5