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Nicolas Rossolimo vs Paul Reissmann
"La Regina Della Notte" (game of the day Aug-16-2012)
Puerto Rico (1967)
Italian Game: Classical Variation. Greco Gambit Traditional Line (C54)  ·  1-0

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Aug-16-12  Organizer: I knew Rossolimo. He ran a chess studio in Greenwich Village, NY in the 1960s. He was a wonderful guy, and had many grandmasters visit the studio, including Bobby Fischer. Rossolimo died way before his time in a tragic fall on a stairway.
Aug-16-12
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  perfidious: <Organizer> 'Way before his time'? He was sixty-five then. Just weeks before his death I visited his studio for the first time and got demolished by the old maestro in a simul.

Look at that impotent lump of a bishop, bereft at a8. Is that a fate which should be suffered by any self-respecting queen's bishop in an open game?

Aug-16-12
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  ferrabraz: In the final position black has 24...Ng5, but after 25. Nf7! Rf7 26. Qc2! looses his queen because of a back rank mate.
Aug-16-12  backrank: Compare also to 26 Qg6!! in K Darga vs A Dueckstein, 1963
Aug-16-12  waustad: When I saw her do this a couple of times in Wien she was several years younger and a bit trimmer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rcg...

Aug-16-12  waustad: So was I.
Sep-06-12  JonathanJ: <shivasuri4> stupid me...
Oct-05-13  Oprichniki: Black's mistake came at 12. ...O-O. I've always been against castling kingside just for the sake of castling. "Castle when you must; not when you can." Black doesn't appear to have any useful ideas, so he chooses to castle.
Feb-28-14  kereru: Qg6 is a cool move and good on him for playing it, but just about anything wins at that point, e.g. Qxe6, Rh3, Nxh7, Qf5

As for black he doesn't seem to be a very strong player. 13...b6 is bad, and I have no idea what he was thinking when he played 20...Ne6?? (20...c5 looks like the only move).

Aug-28-14  john barleycorn: < thom0909: Not sure if I agree that 12...0-0 was the problem. I don't think you want to leave your King in the center with a Knight pinned to it.>

13...b6 is the bad move.

Aug-28-14  thom0909: I love 23...Qc2. Yeah, I know it is futile here, but it's exactly the sort of defense I wouldn't find (not because it's futile, but b/c I wouldn't think of defending h7 *through* the White Q).
Sep-21-15  Abdel Irada: <thom0909: I love 23...Qc2. Yeah, I know it is futile here, but it's exactly the sort of defense I wouldn't find (not because it's futile, but b/c I wouldn't think of defending h7 *through* the White Q).>

That actually came up in one of my blitz games, maybe 18 years ago.

My opponent was a tough 2200 named Farouq, a carpenter from Afghanistan. I say "tough" because, apart from this game and a few like it, he seemed to have my number: He was very good at shuffling pieces while I looked for a way to break through; to give him due credit, he did so pretty successfully, and his results against me were better than, statistically, they should have been.

Anyway, in this particular game, I had a slight advantage, and I wasn't letting go of it. With the black pieces in a French Defense, I had built up irresistible pressure on the c-file, while Farouq tried to gin up counterplay against my king.

Reaching the critical move, I grabbed his pawn on c2 with my queen, supported by a rook. Now, on his last move, Farouq had played Ng5, threatening mate on h7, and as soon as I let go of my queen, he smiled, picked up his queen, and started moving her toward h7.

But halfway through the move, his expression changed, along with the direction of his move. He'd suddenly realized that from c2, my queen defended h7, and there was nothing better for him than to exchange queens on c2, leaving me a pawn ahead and with a porcine on the penultimate.

Of course, this was Farouq the Lion, and it took me another 30 moves to bring home the full point, but it was the only time I'd captured a pawn on the c-file to stop a mate on h7.

Oct-07-15  SimplicityRichard: <Abdel Irada> "...with a porcine on the penultimate".

He..he..he... Beautifully put! Please consider writing a book. I'll be it's first buyer.#

Feb-19-16  thegoodanarchist: What a beautiful conclusion to the attack!
Jan-29-17  Rat1960: 23. ... Ng5
See:
S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912
Oct-19-17  Saniyat24: What a gem...!
Jul-03-19  The Boomerang: Beautiful game, like the exact opposite of that Marshall game.
Dec-27-19
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  plang: Very pretty attack - Black's setup on the queenside with ..b6, ..Bb7 and ..Qc7 proved his undoing though it was not easy to foresee.
Dec-28-19
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  FSR: Game Collection: Qg6!/...Qg3!
Sep-28-20  Chesgambit: 24.Qxf7 Qc1 Qg8 Rxg8 Nf7# more beautiful but Ng5 strong
May-31-21
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  Bishoprick: Got a draw once against Nick in an friendly game in his studio. Same opening. Wish I could remember how I did it. As to that fall that killed him, the story was that he was quite drunk at the time. Nice guy. Sad ending.
May-31-21
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  profK: This has to be Rossolimo's immortal !!
Jan-19-24
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  Bishoprick: It doesn't matter how beautiful a game is, there are always a few pedestrians who'll attempt to tear it down, with endless hours of study and the help of computers. But real chess is played over the board with strict time controls, and that makes all the difference, and this game is a beaut!
Dec-03-24
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  Bishoprick: Yes, Bernard knew me as Raskolnikoff. The first time he showed up at the Manhattan Chess Club (then located on W. 65th Street)he was still a teenager. I won ten straight of the same variation of the Spanish. The following week, when he showed up again, I only won 6 out or 10. The week after that we played again, and I only won 4, and the following week there was no way I could win a single game. On one occasion, while he was playing for the US Championship, he left the stage, and asked me if my name was really Raskolnikoff. I guess he had read Dostoyevski by that time.
Dec-03-24  stone free or die: Horowitz liked the game...

<A BRILLIANCY of astonishing character, elegant and explosive, was played by Grand Master Nicholas Rossolimo of New York during the recent Puerto Rico Open in San Juan. Rossolimo had White against Paul Reissman of San Juan, a former champion of Puerto Rico, in this classic Giuoco Piano.>

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/12/...

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