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| Nov-12-09 | | sac2win: very rightly called "tour de france" as white king has toured entire chess board before getting mate by queen and knight combination. really nice sacrifices by black to make such tour possible for white king!!!! lol |
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| Nov-12-09 | | WhiteRook48: 35 Qxd5+ exd5 36 Re1 |
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| Nov-12-09 | | goodevans: Very strange and interesting game.
When I played through it I thought white was totally busted after <19 ... Rxh4+> so I was amazed that Rykba even had white ahead after <28 ... Ne5>. Ultimately it was only white’s blunder with <31 Ke7?> that cost him the game (with <32 Kf7?> hastening his demise). |
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| Nov-12-09 | | goodevans: <WhiteRook48: 35 Qxd5+ exd5 36 Re1>
36 ... Qh7 does the trick I think. |
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| Nov-12-09 | | chillowack: I enjoyed Black's swashbuckling chess, but I'm wondering why White didn't play the simple 25.Bf4? It seems like then he would have been fine after 25...e5 26.Qd4. Is there some other line I'm missing? |
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| Nov-12-09 | | Once: <chillowack> I think White had a number of chances to survive the attack. Your 25. Bf4 seems to hold out quite well, although I'd still be a little worried about the black passed pawns. Fun game to play through, if not entirely sound. |
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| Nov-13-09 | | RandomVisitor: After 19.h4?
1: Edward W Formanek - Joseph M Bradford, Lone Pine op 1979
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 3 : <21-ply> <1.  (-3.48): 19...Nxd4> 20.Kh2 Nc6 21.Nb1 R6h7 22.a4 Nfxe5 23.Bg5 Ng6 24.Qe1 Nce5 25.Qe3 Qxe3 26.Bxe3 Nd3 27.Bg5 f4 28.gxf4 Nxh4 29.Bxh4 g3+ 30.Kxg3 Rxh4 31.Na3 R4h7 32.Kf3 2. (-3.03): 19...Rxh4+ 20.gxh4 Rxh4+ 21.Kg1 Nxd4 22.Kf2 Nc6+ 23.Kg3 Rh7 24.Nxc4 dxc4 25.Bf4 Nfxe5 26.Qd6 Nd3 27.Qf8+ Nd8 28.Rae1 Rf7 29.Qh8 Re7 30.Re5 Bc6 31.Bxc6 Qxc6 32.b5 Qb6 33.Kg2 Rf7 34.Bg3 Rd7 |
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| Nov-13-09 | | TheTamale: Can someone please show me why White didn't simply play 22. cxd4 Qxd4+ 22. Rf2? I can't see the follow through for Black. Thanks! |
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| Nov-13-09 | | AnalyzeThis: <TheTamale: Can someone please show me why White didn't simply play 22. cxd4 Qxd4+ 22. Rf2? I can't see the follow through for Black. Thanks!> Don't have a chess board in front of me, but it appears that after 22. cxd4 Qxd4+ 22. Rf2, black can choose between 22.....g3 or 22. Qxa1. |
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| Nov-14-09 | | kevin86: A dep attack ending with a great king chase. |
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| Nov-15-09 | | WhiteRook48: then white can sac a rook w 37 RE8+ and still hope to last, but he is losing |
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| Nov-17-09 | | TheTamale: Thanks, <AnalyzeThis>... can't believe I missed the hanging rooks. :-( |
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| Jan-26-10 | | jackpawn: Wow, this is a fun game. |
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| Apr-17-13 | | AlbertodaCruz: Excuse, now I see that the full name of the variant, this one in the top of the page. |
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Feb-18-17
 | | offramp: Joseph M Bradford won two brilliancy prizes at Lone Pine (1979), and they were in successive rounds. They were this one and N Weinstein vs Bradford, 1979. That is an impressive achievement! |
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Oct-06-20
 | | fredthebear: Two brilliancy prizes, back-to-back rounds?? Very impressive achievement!! Here's a link to the Fred Reinfeld book of brilliancies collection, an early favorite of mine. This joyous book always seemed to disappear around other chess players, at least prior to the age of the internet, when all players could still read descriptive notation. The colorful cover seemed to attract attention: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Brilli...
Of course, it's no matter that a Dover publication would disappear in a public setting, as such is easily replaced as a boost of encouragement. IM Jeremy Silman says Mikhail Tal won the most "best game prizes," a whopping 15 of them!!
https://www.chess.com/article/view/... Oft-repeated Trivia: The first brilliancy game prize was awarded during the New York Clipper Tournament in 1876. A silver cup was offered by Mr. Lieders, proprietor of the café where the tournament was held, to Henry Bird for his game against James Mason. Contradicted by London 1862 tournament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londo... Here is Bill Wall's Chess Tournament Trivia page: http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/a... Michael Rhode won two prizes for the SAME game in the 7th round of the 1987 US Championship against Jay Whitehead: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/24/... This poor fellow (Lutz Espig of East Germany) LOST two prize-winners in the same tournament: https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/25/... Otherwise, it's difficult to find examples of one player winning two brilliancy prizes in the same tournament. Not every tournament would have offered such an opportunity! Fredthebear must award a prize to the lady on the left.
https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/202...
Now that's upbeat!
Here is her second prize!! https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/202...
Age is just a number. |
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Oct-06-20
| | fredthebear: Looks like it happened again. Don't know where the link disappeared to. Here is the link to the collection from Fred Reinfeld's book by Dover publications: Game Collection: Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the ChessMasters |
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| Jan-13-24 | | Messiah: The tactics is not that difficult, but the game is fantastic. |
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| Jan-13-24 | | mel gibson: I saw the first ply in a few seconds.
Stockfish 16 says:
21. .. Nxd4
(21. .. Nxd4 (1. ... Nxd4 2.Kf2 Nc2+ 3.Kg3 Ne3 4.Nxc4 dxc4
5.Bxe3 Rh3+ 6.Bxh3 Qxe3+ 7.Rf3 Qxe5+ 8.Kf2 gxf3 9.Qxf3 Ng5 10.Qe3 Qxe3+
11.Kxe3 Nxh3 12.Kd4 Nf2 13.Kxc4 Kc7 14.Rg1 Ng4 15.Kc5 e5 16.Kd5 f4 17.Ke4
Kd6 18.Kf3 Nf6 19.Rg7 Ke6 20.Ke2 e4 21.Rg5 Nd5 22.Kd2 Ne3 23.Ra5 a6 24.Rg5
Bb5) +5.67/46 470)
score for Black +5.67 depth 46. |
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| Jan-13-24 | | Mayankk: 21 ... Nxd4 22 cxd4 Qxd4+ 23 Rf2 g3 24 Qe1 gxf2+ 25 Qxf2 Qxa1 26 Qxh4 Qxc1+ is not hard to see. But 22 Kf2 is a tricky defense. I thought a discovered check via 22 ... Nc2+ 23 Kg3 Ne3 24 Qe1 Nxf1+ 25 Kxh4 26 Qd8+ could be the way forward. I didn't see 22 ... Nxe5. |
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Jan-13-24
 | | scormus: I thought 21 ... Nxd4, threatening dis ch and thinking if 22 cxd4 then ... Qxd4+ looked strong with the prospect ... Nxe5 to follow. I confess that I didn't really have a plan for getting the win and I didn't find many of the moves after that. At least I can claim the first move and the last move of the sequence. I'll be interested to see what SF makes of my choices and of B's moves as well |
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Jan-13-24
| | scormus: Well, what SF made of it was certinly an eye-opener to me. Several of the text moves might not be found by most people. Have fun with this one! |
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| Jan-13-24 | | mrknightly: I think White misunderstood what the "Advance Variation" meant. |
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Jan-13-24
 | | chrisowen: I'd mut c jacque v nub fly its eg sho its Nxd4 accord mack achtung much its iffy its a cig mug aif its sufi its hack its Nxd4 duff; |
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Jan-13-24
 | | pittpanther: I had the priviledge of playing both of these players around 10 years after this game. I played the white side of a French against Bradford. He sacrificed the exchange and got good tactical counterplay against me and I lost (but no extensive king hunt in that one.) I played the black side of a French against Formanek and was able to open the center at the right time and build a crushing king side attack (though not as pretty as Bradford's) and win. I am a long time French player, Vive La France! |
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