| May-06-05 | | Poisonpawns: Nice game by the "exterminator" |
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| May-06-05 | | Shams: are you serious? seems to me like black had all the ideas and was better after 25 moves, then went for the knockout punch and missed. maybe not. |
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| May-07-05 | | Poisonpawns: <Shams>No I am not,thx for the concern though. |
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| Mar-13-07 | | fosca: Is it just me, or does it look like Bonin intentionally dropped this game so that Morrison could get his IM norm? After 35. Rf3, Bonin inexplicably blocks his own important diagonal with 35. ...d5?? Bonin could have easily completed the kill with: 35. ...Qxf3+ (even Bxf3 wins) 36. Qg2 (forced) Qh5+ 37. Qh4 (forced) Re3#. I cannot believe an IM would miss the hanging rook, even if the forced mating sequence somehow evaded him. The rook sacrifice was based on his play on the a8-h1 diagonal. More than two cents perhaps, but over at thechessdrum.net, Morrison and Bonin are quoted as if the game was not an easy win for Bonin as of move 35. And the Chess Drum writer ends with "What a Game!" Must we all pretend it was a clutch win? It seems obvious that either (a) Bonin made a horrific blunder of a position that your average 1400 rated player could win (i.e. Morrison was not nearly "careful" enough) or (b) Bonin gift-wrapped an IM-norm for Morrison. In any case, Morrison should not be including this in any of his "best games" anthologies. |
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| Mar-13-07 | | johnnyb: Isn't 42...Re3 mate?! |
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| Mar-13-07 | | johnnyb: Sorry, that should have been 41...Re3 |
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| Mar-14-07 | | fosca: johnnyb,
You are right, Bonin "missed" mate in one at move 41 too. 41...Re3 is, as you point out, mate. This just strengthens my belief Bonin threw the game. Whether he threw it or not, the game is worthy of study for its comedic value. How funny would it be if Bonin kept trying to throw the game, but Morrison (nervously overeager for the norm, or otherwise inattentive) kept slipping into mating situations that Bonin kept ignoring in order to help Morrison get the mate? In the alternative, these two IMs played (from move 30 or so) like K-3 novices; at the least, it was a comedy of errors. |
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| Jul-12-07 | | manethos: This scoresheet is incorrect.The correct move for black was knight to a5...not knight a3. This leads to a fork in regards to bishop takes d5 and the win of a piece if knight takes d5.. |
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| Jul-12-07 | | manethos: In regards to my prior comment...the move knight a5 occured at move 18. |
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| Jul-12-07 | | manethos: Mr. Morrison says that he will update his page shortly... |
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| Jul-13-07 | | manethos: Oops....Move 18 for white |
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| Jul-14-07 | | extermo: The Morrison_Bonin game was actually a very good game. The game score has at least two typos which will be corrected soon.As pointed out, white's 18th move was Na5 with the idea of winnig material and sinking the knight into c6. This is indeed a very strong continuation gaining the upper hand. I will be sending complete analysis of this game soon. In the Kasparov game, Garry did not overlook a fork. The move order has been changed. The comment about me needing a helping hand in order to get my title is not fair to make. Look at my percentage of wins and look at who I played. This includes the world champion.Just last week I was fortunate to tie for first in the under 2400 section of the world open.I will be featuring some of those games as well. |
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| Jan-31-08 | | fosca: I mean no disrespect to either player. However, unless there are major revisions to the game score, this game was either a comedy of errors or was intentionally thrown. Black is clearly winning as of move 35 (and really before that). While my earlier 35. Qxf3+ is not possible due to the pin (doh), my alternative 35. Bxf3 is clearly winning. I never stated that Mr. Morrison "need[ed] a helping hand in order to get [his] title." I only reached the only conclusion an honest examination of this game score supports: either Jay Bonin blundered away the win(really, really bad time trouble?) or he threw the game knowing of its importance to Morrison (perhaps having satisfied himself that he had a beautiful winning sacrifice). I agree it was a good game (by Bonin) up to move 35. Bonin's 35. d5?? was suicide when a return to piece equality (and two pawn advantage) was bloody obvious. 41. Be6 was also complete nonsense. Mr. Morrison is obviously a very good player and will probably achieve his goal of an IM title. However, this game is not IM material by either Morrison or Bonin. |
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