Georg Salwe vs Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1906) Come Salwe Away

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Georg Salwe vs Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
"Come Salwe Away" (game of the day Sep-08-2013)
15th DSB Congress, Nuremberg (1906), Nuremberg GER, rd 8, Jul-31
Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical Variation (D32) · 1-0

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Given 21 times; par: 59 [what's this?]

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Aug-29-03		Honza Cervenka: Very nice positional sac of the Queen. Salwe's play could have been improved in some places (27.Nxf5; 31.Rc5; 33.Rc8 - that last move would have been the cream of the crop!), but he never let slip the decisive advantage. Alas that the game finished such a terrible blunder like 34...Qd6.

Sep-20-04		ArturoRivera: Anyway i think that even if black exchanges and simplyfy into an ending envolving Rook + Bishop vs Queen, white will winn beacause of the two passed pawns, however i agree that ...Qd6 is a terrible blunder

Sep-08-13		piltdown man: Nice blunder to end the game with.

Sep-08-13		AylerKupp: 34...Qd6 is a good way not to play chess.

Sep-08-13		Tim Delaney: 34...Qd6 was a "good" move (psychologically) as it saved black from a long and entirely hopeless ending. Even better would have been 34...Resigns. This is all tongue-in-cheek, of course. No doubt Salwe missed 31.Rc5 and 33.Rc8 because he saw that the text was a sure win, and didn't look for the more elegant coup de grace. We've all done that, right? Still, Fischer, Tal, Kasparov, etc would not have missed them.

Sep-08-13		morfishine: <AylerKupp: 34...Qd6 is a good way not to play chess> Ha Ha! This made my morning *****

Sep-08-13		Once: As Spock would say, fascinating. The opening seemed fairly level, not to say almost boringly symmetrical. Black seemed to be doing well in the early stages due to a space advantage. White seems to win by accepting two things offered to him by black. First black voluntarily gives white the two bishops with 19...Bxd4. Then black offers white the chance to exchange his queen for rook and bishop. White gratefully accepts both offers. After the queen sac and 26. Rec1, we get to here: click for larger view This is the position that black invited, but it is remarkably difficult to suggest anything useful for him to do. He was weak pieces and weak pawns and no clear plan of how to make progress. His pieces don't seem comfortable with the position. Meanwhile white's rook pair and bishop pair seem to have glorious futures stretching ahead of them. His rooks have an open file, his bishops have adjacent diagonals, his knight has targets and potential outposts. Odd that material is roughly balanced, but white's coordinated pieces seem to be far more effective than black's. That surely has to be worth the investment of white's queen.

Sep-08-13		Alphastar: Well, 34. ...Qd6 seems to be a legal move. It's a way to play chess, although not a pretty one.

Sep-08-13		AylerKupp: <Alphastar> Aaaaah, you must be from a "younger generation" of chess players. Good. Way back in 1949 Znosko-Borovsky wrote a best selling book titled "How Not to Play Chess". A catchy title which I'm sure contributed to its sales, sort of like "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus". Frankly, I think that "How not to play chess" would have been a better title for this game.

Sep-09-13		kevin86: Qd6=instant karma.

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