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| Aug-15-05 | | iron maiden: Is there a list anywhere of the Chess Informant Best Game Prize winners? |
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Sep-16-05
 | | Gypsy: From an interview with Anand: < Do you remember any particular match, even a move, against any opponent when you may have felt you could not possibly have played better? In 2003, when I played Viktor Bologan. This game won me the Best Game of the Year. After my loss to him in the first half of the event, I had been waiting to play him in the second half. Seeing that he played the Caro Kann defence in most of his games, I thought it was the best time to pull out this ace. Actually, the move occurred to me during my match against Ruslan Ponomariov (Mainz 2002, Anand won 4.5-3.5). In the first game [ Ponomariov vs Anand, 2002 ], at one point, I was so lost and thought if Ponomariov played rook to e1, I would have to resign. Luckily, he played knight to d2. I held my breath! I came home, checked this move and found no defence. Bologan was Ponomariov’s second, and I knew they must have worked a good deal on this. So he was the perfect person to wheel out this novelty against. > |
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| Sep-16-05 | | Jim Bartle: Iron Maiden: Don't know where to find the Informant best games online, but in 1995 they put out a big yellow book (my copy is falling apart from overuse) with all the top tens of the first 64 issues. I assume you could find it at a bookstore with a decent chess section. |
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| Sep-16-05 | | refutor: <informant best game prize winners> yes actually...damsky wrote a book featuring all the games called "Chess Brilliancy". it's a good book |
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| Sep-19-05 | | you vs yourself: One more game where the king's pawns are wiped out and the king is left with no place to hide. |
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| Dec-22-05 | | Aseem: I dont know which novelty Anand is talking abt but the sacrifice on move 23 is simply brilliant. Like Kasparov v Topalov 1999, Anand must have seen more than 10 moves ahed |
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| Mar-30-06 | | yalie: why not 15.rxe6? |
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| May-01-06 | | yalie: well i guess nobody had the time to respond to my question .. looks like 15. rxe6 leads to a clear winning advantage .. at least a patzer like me understands it better than the actual game continuation ... |
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| May-01-06 | | Hesam7: After 15. Rxe6:
click for larger view[A] 15... fxe6 16. Qxe6 ~ 17. Qxg8 
[B] 15... Be7 16. Rxe7 Kxe7 17. Qxh6
[C] 15... Kd8 16. Nxg5 hxg5 17. Qh7 fxe6 18. Qxg8 Qd6 19. Bxg5 Kc7 20. c3  |
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| Jun-12-06 | | pulsar: Great game and a funny pun to boot. |
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| Jun-12-06 | | chessmoron: haha, <Da Vishy Code>, good one, chessgames.com |
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Jun-12-06
 | | offramp: Great game and pun.
23.Be7+: one of those moves where if I was black I would have looked up and asked, "What have you taken?" |
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Jun-12-06
 | | WannaBe: Probably the worst pun ever. |
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| Jun-12-06 | | hitman84: Great Game!
umm.. Yes 15.Re6! was good.thanks <Hesam7> for the lines. |
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| Jun-12-06 | | cyruslaihy: i don't see whats wrong with 14...g4 |
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| Jun-12-06 | | crafty: 14...g4 15. ♕xh6 gxf3 16. ♖xe6+ fxe6 17. ♕xe6+ ♗e7 18. ♕xg8+  (eval 0.74; depth 14 ply; 250M nodes) |
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| Jun-12-06 | | spirit: <offramp> if i was whyte i would say "just a pun!" |
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| Jun-12-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Stunning game and a very nice pun!
Obviously the sacs are great, but I think 18.hxg5 is also a very nice move! I would definitely not have made that move if I was in this position. |
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| Jun-12-06 | | psmith: <cyruslaihy> (and <crafty>) read the comments and you'll find a refutation of 14...g4 posted in 2003. (18. Bh6 in Crafty's line.) |
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| Jun-12-06 | | homersheineken: I don't get the pun. Does it have to do with a play on Viswanathan? Obviously I know it's a book/movie. :) |
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Jun-12-06
 | | keypusher: I love, love, LOVE this game. Thanks for picking it, cg.com. |
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| Jun-12-06 | | neosystems: "homersheineken: I don't get the pun. Does it have to do with a play on Viswanathan? Obviously I know it's a book/movie. :)" I think it also has to do with the king hunt much like the grail hunt in the book. |
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| Jun-12-06 | | dakgootje: <I think it also has to do with the king hunt much like the grail hunt in the book.> I think they just thought: a well much to do with the movie and book at the moment and of course anand's nickname is vishy so without further thoughts: lets just combine them in a pun, after which they only had to find a good game ;-) Also strange to see how people can differ from each other about what is a good pun and which isnt |
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| Jun-12-06 | | homersheineken: < I think they just thought: a well much to do with the movie and book at the moment and of course anand's nickname is vishy so without further thoughts: lets just combine them in a pun, after which they only had to find a good game ;-)> Thanks! |
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| Jun-12-06 | | kevin86: I agree with my earlier assessment that the game was similar to a 19th century game. The final position by black is solid----like a house of cards,lol. |
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