| May-31-06 | | Mameluk: Nice game with many interesting lines. Navara probably missed winning 24. Rde3 Rxe7 25. Nxc4 Rxe3 26. Nxb6 Rxe1+ 27. Qxe1 axb6, or he thought this is hard to win. The most beautiful line is 24. Rde3 Be6 25. Bxf6 gxf6 26. Rg3+ Kh7 27. Re4!! fxe5 28. Qxh6+ Kxh6 29. Rh4# Svidler´s decisive mistake was 26... Rcd8, when Qb8 was better with tough resistance. 40. Rxc4 is cool. |
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May-31-06
 | | Mateo: Not Svidler's day. The game was interesting after the sound 20.d5!, depite some inacurracies from both sides. 20...Bd5? should have lost quickly, as shown by <Mameluk>. Better seems 20...Ned5 21.Bb4 Re8 22.Qd2 Qc7! 23.Bd5 Re5 24.Re5 Qe5  . 24.Rd6? <Navara probably missed winning 24. Rde3 Rxe7 25. Nxc4 Rxe3 26. Nxb6 Rxe1+ 27. Qxe1 axb6> 26...Rcd8?. Better should be the simple 26...Qb8, as after the move actually played Navara could have played a strong Knight's sac. 29. Qc3 was not the best. 29.Nf6!! Kf6 30.Qh6 Ke7 31.Rc1! Qe5 32.Qh4 Kf8 35.Qc4 should win for White. 29... Qf4?? was a blunder, losing the game. 29...Qc6 was the only move. White is much better but it would have been a hard fight. |
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| Jun-03-06 | | orio24: 40. ♖xc4! ♕xc4 41. ♘h5+ ♔g8 42. ♕g6+ ♔f8 43. ♕g7+ ♔e8 44. ♘f6+ ♔d8 45. ♕d7# Beautiful. |
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| Jun-05-06 | | notyetagm: Another textbook example of IQP play, with the thematic pawn advance 19 d5!. |
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| Jun-05-06 | | notyetagm: <orio24: 40. Rxc4! Qxc4 41. Nh5+ Kg8 42. Qg6+ Kf8 43. Qg7+ Ke8 44. Nf6+ Kd8 45. Qd7# Beautiful.> Yes, the recapture 40 ... ♕d4xc4 <DEFLECTS> the Black queen from defending the f6-, g7-, and d7-squares, all of which White occupies en route to the mate in 5 that you give. |
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| Jun-16-06 | | notyetagm: My favorite game of the Olympiad.
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| Jun-16-06 | | notyetagm: The beautiful mate that results after 40 ♖x♗! ♕x♖?:
click for larger view |
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| Jul-02-06 | | notyetagm: I love playing over this game. Outstanding play by Navara. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | dragon40: I was surprised to see Svidleer NOT playing his favorite Grunfeld...not that it's a bad thing.
A very intersting game, and Im glad to see Navara win it!
I think Svidler will stay with the Grunfeld next time :) |
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| Jul-03-06 | | notyetagm: Have I mentioned how much I love this IQP game? :-)
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| Jul-03-06 | | notyetagm: I love how the forcing move 40 ♖x♗! ♕x♖? decentralizes the Black queen <just enough> to allow the White queen and knight to force mate in 5 moves utilizing the f6-, g7- and d7-squares that the Black queen leaves behind with 40 ... ♕d4xc4?. |
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Jul-07-06
 | | Honza Cervenka: <I was surprised to see Svidleer NOT playing his favorite Grunfeld.> Maybe the reason of Svidler's avoiding to play Gruenfeld against Navara is the fact that Navara himself is an expert in Gruenfeld. |
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| Jul-10-06 | | dragon40: <Honza Cervenka> Thanks, I did not know that and Yes, that makes very good sense to me now ! :) |
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Oct-04-06
 | | Peligroso Patzer: Beautiful game by Navara! In the final position, if 40. ... Qxc4, then: 41. Nh5+ (this Knight on the rim is 'doom' [for the Black King], not 'dim') Kg8 (or 41. ... Kh8 42. Qf6+ and 43. Qg7#) 42. Qg6+ Kf8 43. Qg7+ Ke8 44. Nf6+ Kd8 45. Qd7# - a classic example of effective coordination of Queen and Knight. (BTW, this game was being compared to today's WCC game [Topalov vs. Kramnik, #7] around move 12, but the positions were not quite identical even then, and by move 16 there is even less similarity in today's WCC game.) |
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| Mar-27-08 | | motorhead: 40. ... Qxf6 doesn't help either. |
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| Dec-14-09 | | butilikefur: does 38. Rxc4 also work .. 38...Qxc4 39. Nf6+ Kf7 40. Nxe4 Qxe4 41. Qa3 Qe1+ 42. Kg2 Qe4+ 43. Qf3 Qxa4 44. Qxb7+ |
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| Apr-16-14 | | Garech: Great game indeed - definitely GOTD material. Just need a pun... -Garech |
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| Apr-16-14 | | Garech: 24.Rde3! also won. |
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Aug-14-24
 | | FSR: Gorgeous game. |
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Aug-14-24
 | | offramp: One of the <Monty Python> team was Michael Palin, who invented palindromes.. He also designed a velodrome in Rocamadour, France which seats 20,000 French people. Palin devised a celebratory palindrome (in French). <Trace l’inégal palindrome. Neige. Bagatelle, dira Hercule. Le brut repentir, cet écrit né Perec. L’arc lu pèse trop, lis à vice versa. Perte. Cerise d’une vérité banale, le Malstrom, Alep, mort édulcoré, crêpe porté de ce désir brisé d’un iota. Livre si aboli, tes sacres ont éreinté, cor cruel, nos albatros. Être las, autel bâti, miette vice versa du jeu que fit, nacré, médical, le sélénite relaps, ellipsoïdal. Ivre il bat, la turbine bat, l’isolé me ravale : le verre si obéi du Pernod — eh, port su ! – obsédante sonate teintée d’ivresse...
Cesser, vidé et nié. Tetanos. Etna dès boustrophédon répudié. Boiser. Révèle l’avare mélo, s’il t’a béni, brutal tablier vil. Adios. Pilles, pale rétine, le sel, l’acide mercanti. Feu que Judas rêve, civette imitable, tu as alerté, sort à blason, leur croc. Et nier et n’oser. Casse-t-il, ô, baiser vil ? à toi, nu désir brisé, décédé, trope percé, roc lu. Détrompe-la. Morts : l’Ame, l’Élan abêti, revenu. Désire ce trépas rêvé : Ci va ! S’il porte, sépulcral, ce repentir, cet écrit ne perturbe le lucre : Haridelle, ta gabegie ne mord ni la plage ni l’écart.> |
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| Aug-14-24 | | YoungEd: Clever palindrome! |
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