Oto Udris vs Mikhail Tal (1953) You Can Hear a Pin Drop

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Oto Udris vs Mikhail Tal
"You Can Hear a Pin Drop" (game of the day Oct-16-2010)
Riga Championship (1953), Riga URS
Benoni Defense: General (A60) · 0-1

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Given 57 times; par: 47 [what's this?]

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Jan-24-05		misguidedaggression: 35.Rxc1 Nxc1 36 Qxd2 f1=N+!

Jan-24-05		JohnBoy: <misguided> - why bother? 35.Rxc1 f1=Q+ 36.Kg3 Qf2#

Jan-25-05		offramp: Even better is 33...c1♘ 34.♖h1 f1♘#.

Jan-25-05		misguidedaggression: I just thought the underpromote/royal fork looked cool, I never said it was the best line :)

Jan-25-05		tpstar: Black's compensation was amplified by 19 ... Rd1+ & 20 ... c2 locking the QB and QR out of play. Note 21. Ne2 Bd6! because 22. Qxe4? Nf3#, then Black's g Pawn hurried down the board. The whole sequence with 25 ... f3+ 26. g3 Bxg3+! 27. Nxg3 f5! cleverly avoided mate on g7 plus perpetual check threats, since the 2 passed Pawns soon proved decisive. White could have set one last trap with 35. Nxf6 hoping for 35 ... Qxf1? 36. Ne8+ mates, but 35 ... Qc7+ 36. Kh1 (36. Kg2 Nf4+) Qg7 plus the simple 35 ... Qb2 both hold easily. <offramp> Your helpmate line has a small hole with 35. Kg1. Try again. :-)

Jan-25-05		offramp: I was hoping no one would notice!

Dec-09-09		rulo0801: Seems to me Tal gave Udris some chances to draw with 24 .., gxf4 cause after the continuation that followed Udris had 28 Nxf5, Rxf5 29 Qe6+, Kg7 30 Qxe4, f2 31 Qxb7+, Kg6 and there are various ways to get a perpetual. Instead, Re8 or Rc8 both look good. Udris had another chance to get a draw if instead of 30 Bd2 he had played 30 Qc8+, Rf8 31 Qc4+, Rf7 32 Qc8+

Oct-16-10		Elsinore: Wasn't this pun used for an A. Morozevich GOTD???!!! I think it was last year, "You could hear a pin drop".

Oct-16-10		dzechiel: Tal was truly one of a kind!

Oct-16-10		Phony Benoni: <Elsinore> Actually, it's the third time around, with a small variation: Morozevich vs A Volokitin, 2006 (You Could Hear a Pin Drop, Jul-27-06) A Medina-Garcia vs Ulf Andersson, 1974 (You Can Hear a Pin Drop, Dec-11-07) I really must get to work on that Pun Index.

Oct-16-10		rilkefan: My jaw dropped - but I don't get the title.

Oct-16-10		rilkefan: Ok, nothing to do with the players or "drop", just a pun on "pin".

Oct-16-10		Nullifidian: <offramp: Even better is 33...c1♘ 34.♖h1 f1♘#.> Better for whom? After 33... c1♘, ♕d4+ is a real threat: 34... ♘f6 35. ♕d6, forking the rook and knight, 35... ♖f7 36. ♕e6 and now Black has nothing better than 36... ♘xh5 37. ♕xf7 ♙h6 38. ♕xh5 Furthermore, even if White were stupid enough to fall into a one move mate with ♖h1, ♙f1♘ is not mate because White has the escape square at g1. The promotions that lead to mate are ♙f1♕ and ♙f1♖.

Oct-16-10		Once: Sometimes the GOTD pun is as difficult to fathom as a cryptic crossword ... (especially for us Brits) ... and sometimes it just needs a little lateral thinking. Here's the position after 16. Qg3 click for larger view White is relying on the pin on the pawn on d4 to hold his position together. But Tal "lets the pin drop" by 16...dxc5 and for his queen he gets a rook, knight, a passed pawn and the initiative. Well, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it until someone comes up with a better one. Great game, by the way. Reminds me yet again of my patzer tendency to overvalue the queen.

Oct-16-10		Once: Oops - 16...dxc3. Add to my list of failings an inability to type.

Oct-16-10		Tridel: Clearly they're running out of puns... Magnificent Game by Tal though!

Oct-16-10		whiteshark: <Tridel> And even if they did, there's nothing wrong with an alternative approach. And isn't successful marketing about reiteration, too?

Oct-16-10		Dimitrije Mandic: Can anyone point me to a detailed analysis of this game, with annotations? Although I don't need those examples made of whole games for theory, just the critical lines that could've been played throughout the game.

Oct-16-10		BobCrisp: As opposed to a detailed analysis without annotations?

Oct-16-10		sfm: Have no clue about the current theory, but I don't like 8.dxc5 - too friendly. 10.b3 makes sense, but White is a bit behind in development. Why not 12.Ncxd2 instead of 12.Ndxd2 ? 13.Nf4? is terrible. After 14.Qf3 Black hammers through. The "queen sacrifice" (R+N+P for the Q) kills off the white queens wing, and would have been a no-brainer for a Tal. Actually White fights back very well, creates counterchances, and lives much longer than I would have thought. Was there a chance with 28.Nxe4 ? The black king is pretty much in the open and there are many checks to analyze.

Oct-16-10		talisman: according to the database...udris was never the same after this game.

Oct-16-10		ketchuplover: <sfm>28.Nxe4 does look vexing

Oct-16-10		tarikhk: this game gives me a headache- so- many- complications. Analysing this game at home is a nightmare, let alone otb. Tal was a monster.

Oct-16-10		ketchuplover: 28.Nxe4 fxe4 29.Qg5+ Kh8 30.Bb2+ Nxb2 31.Qe5+ should draw imo.

Oct-16-10		kevin86: Black promoted...and will do so again.

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