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| May-30-04 | | WMD: The first round shock of the 1990 Manila Interzonal. Smyslov tries to play cute with 10.Na4? and is comprehensively played off the board by the almost unknown Egyptian. |
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| Aug-24-10 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: He made a mistaken Rd1?? Trying to get time, he gave to black a time to Qe8 which cause the lose of the N at a4. But black e4! was a good move, maybe Smyslov undestimated his opponent. If 13. Nxb6? for example, exf3, 14.Nxa8, fxg2!15.Rg1 Bh3, and black win the quality:(N+B for 1R). The white position is ill too after 13.Nd2 Nd4 (if Bxd4? Qxd4, treating Qxf2+ or Qxa4). Seem the whole plan including Qb3+ was wrong. The disaster came soon perhaps. |
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Dec-08-15
 | | Penguincw: Yesterday, December 7th, 2015, a date, which was a Monday... (did anyone think of FDR) Anyway, Tuesday puzzle here. I missed last week's Monday puzzle, and got this week's Monday puzzle. I also missed last week's Tuesday puzzle, so can I get today's? Well, nope. I saw that white's king was smothered, but tried too hard to make the f-pawn change files with sacs on e3, when a knight blow on f3 was all that was needed... |
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Dec-08-15
 | | Phony Benoni: ...Nf3# beckons, but Knights don't move that way. How to get there from here? 25...Nh4? Well, maybe, but there's also the <25...Ne1> route Not much choice but <26.f4 Bxe3+ 27.Rf2 Nd3>, with the classic mate on f2. |
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Dec-08-15
 | | al wazir: 25...Rxa8 leaves black with three minor pieces for the ♖, which does the job. But with all that artillery aimed at the white ♔ I figured there had to be something better and kept looking. 25...Ne1 gives white a choice: he can let black mate him with either the ♘ or the dark-square ♗. (With a little extra effort he can even find a way for the ♖ to deliver mate). |
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| Dec-08-15 | | Tiggler: Several ways to win for black, but I was pleased to find the neatest and fastest: 25.. Ne1 and mate next move. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | thegoldenband: Jeez, Smyslov got cut to ribbons in this one. To misquote Homer Simpson's famous line about alcohol, knights on the rim were the cause of White's problems, and the solution to Black's. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | happyjuggler0: <Phony Benoni> 27...Nf3# is faster. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | lost in space: 25...Ne1 with the threat of 26...Nf3#
only move to prolong the game: 26. f4 Bxe3+ 27. Rf2 Nf3# |
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| Dec-08-15 | | Tiggler: <25.. Ne1 and mate next move.> Oops, it might take two more moves:
26. f3 (or f4) Bxe3+
27. Rf2 Nf3#
<al wazir> How might white get the black R to deliver mate? |
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Dec-08-15
| | Phony Benoni: Well, as it turns out 25...Nh4 works as well: 26.gxh4 Rf6 27.h5 Rf5 28.f4 Bxe3+ 29.Rf2 Rxf4 and 30...Bxf2#. Nice in its way, if a it longer. And 25...Ne1 is just so pretty. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Black can actually do well just with
25 ... Rxa8
26 Rxb7 Rd8
But cooler and quicker is
25 ... Ne1
26 f3/f4 Bxe3+
27 Rf2 Nd3
and mate next.
I'm curious to see how Smyslov got into such a horrible position. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | Tiggler: Shucks, I just made my 5000th and 5001st posts. I was saving up to post something good for that occasion, but I just blew it. (5002) |
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| Dec-08-15 | | zb2cr: 25. ... Ne1 threatens ... Nf3#. White can delay matters with 26. f4, Bxe3+; 27. Rf2. White is so utterly helpless Black can either go for the immediate mate with 27. ... Nf3# or indulge in sadistic torturing of the victim with 27. ... Rxa8. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | diagonalley: 25... N-K8 ... a delicious finish! |
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Dec-08-15
| | al wazir: <Tiggler: How might white get the black R to deliver mate?> I'm glad you asked. 26. f3 Bxe3+ 27. Rf2 Rxf3 28. (any) Rxf2 29. (any) Rf1#. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | dfcx: What a miserable tight knot white puts himself in.
The white king is bound in all directions if the black knight vacates g2. 25...Ne1
26.f3/f4 (or Nf3#) Bxe3+ 27.Rf2 Nf3#
putting an end white's misery. I can't stand black taking time to clean off every white pieces with 27...Rxa1 etc. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | Tiggler: <zb2cr>:<White is so utterly helpless Black can either go for the immediate mate with 27. ... Nf3# or indulge in sadistic torturing of the victim with 27. ... Rxa8.> Ouch! I like your thinking.
25. ...Ne1
26. f4 Bxe3+
27. Rf2 Rxa8
The game might continue:
28. a4 a5
29. g4 g5
30. f5 Rf8
31. f6 h5
31. f7 b6
32. gxh5 Rxf7
33. h6 Rxf2
34. h7 Rf1## |
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| Dec-08-15 | | kubbybulin: You guys are too good. Virtually everybody saw Ne1, and if I had remembered to activate my "what if?" circuit, I might have too ("What if I had a knight on f3?"). As it is, I went in for the sacs on e3, deciding that Ne3 was best. Second consecutive missed Tuesday owing to moving too fast. They say blitz will ruin your game... |
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| Dec-08-15 | | stst: looks like either Nxe3 or Ne1 White has nothing that helps. The King is a prisoner waiting for execution (e.g. Bxf2#) |
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| Dec-08-15 | | gofer: A world of possibilities... ...white is at the end of the middle game
and has managed to engineer a R+N+5P v R+N+2B+4P disaster. There
is no point counting Rh1, because black is never going to allow it to
escape from its coffin on h1. So in effect black is 2 minor pieces up. Time to use them...
<25 ... Ne1>
Game over. Black threatens Nf3#, but white is powerless to stop it! 26 "any move that isn't f3 or f4" Nf3#
26 f3 Bxe3+
27 Rf2 Nxf3#
26 f4 Bxe3+
27 Rf2 Nf3#
The three minor pieces combine to deliver mate without the rook! <Nice>!
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<Tiggler> <zb2cr>, yup I had similar thoughts and so did Smyslov, which
is why he didn't let a "defeat" turn into something worse - a "complete
humiliation"!
...lots of people looking at 27 ... Nd4 rather than the immediate kill
of 27 Nf3#, interesting, almost as though we don't want it to be over!!! |
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Dec-08-15
 | | perfidious: Every now and again Smyslov, despite his refined positional sense, had moments at which he was unrecognisable--playing this through reminds me of Smyslov vs Gligoric, 1959. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | Sularus: Ne8 should do it. For some reason, this reminds me of that Planinc mate. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | roentgenium: I am dismayed to say that I got all the way up to Rf2, and missed the checkmating move. Instead I thought Bxf2 would deliver mate, forgetting that the White f-pawn was still in the way. I guess I was too fixated on the idea of the double-Bishop mate in this position. |
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| Dec-08-15 | | Cybe: 25… N:e3 and 25… Nf4 lead to mate too. |
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