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Sinisa Joksic vs Kim Commons
Plovdiv (1975), Sep-??
Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14)  ·  1-0

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ANALYSIS [x]
1-0

rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
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Apr-19-18  Delboy: The bishop sacrifice 23. Bxh6 is devastating. 23. ... gxh6 is met with 24. Qf7+ Kh1 25. Nh4 Rg8 26. Re6
Jun-04-21  Cheapo by the Dozen: Kim Commons games make me sad. Nice guy. Turns out to have died at an age younger than what mine is now.
Jun-04-21
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  al wazir: <Delboy: 23. ... gxh6 is met with 24. Qf7+ Kh1 25. Nh4 Rg8 26. Re6>.

26...Bxe6 27. Qxe6 (27. Rxe6 Qf8) Qf8 28. Ng6+ Rxg6 29. Qxg6. Now what?

Jun-04-21  drollere: after a wearying day i did not bother to solve this one, just played out the tactical details in the game score. black twice cannot capture with Bxe6 as this allows Qxh6#; can't defend with Rg8 because of Qxd7; the black Q can't deliver a back rank mate due to the pawn on c3, and so on. 22. .. Qf8 seemed necessary.
Jun-04-21  Gregor Samsa Mendel: After 23..gxh6 24 Qf7+ Kh1 25 Nh4 Rg8 26 Qxd7 white has regained the piece, is a pawn ahead, and retains a dangerous attack, with Re6 still looming.
Jun-04-21
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: As a Caro-Kann player, the Panov-Botvinnik Attack always looked dangerous--and at the same time, admirable. Sometimes as White, when a game began 1.c4,c6, would play 2.e4 and transpose into the P-B against my opponent, esp. if they did not normally play the C-K themselves.
Jun-04-21  Walter Glattke: A) 23.Qf7!? Qf8! 24.Ng5+ hxg5 25.Qh5+ Kg8
B) 23.Ng5+!? hxg5 24.Qf7 Qf8 25.Qh5+ Kg8 26.Bxg5 Re8 C) 23.Bxh6 gxh6 24.Qf7+ Kh8 25.Nh4 Rg8 (26.Qf6+!? Kh7 27. Re7+ Nxe7 28.Rxe7+ Qxe7 29.Qxe7+ Rg7) 26.Ng6+ Rxg6 27.Qxg6 Re3 28.Re8 ... no mate found
Jun-04-21  Walter Glattke: Corr: C) 27.Qxg6 Qf8 28. Re3 Re6
Jun-04-21  Walter Glattke: Re8 sorry
Jun-04-21  Brenin: After 23 Bxh6 Kxh6 24 Qf7, a better defence than 24 ... g6 might be 24 ... f4, giving up the f-pawn to allow the Q and B to defend squares around the beleaguered K.
Jun-04-21  mel gibson: I wasn't sure.

Stockfish 13 says:

23. Bxh6

(23. Bxh6 {(Bf4xh6 Kh7xh6
Qb3-f7 Qc5-d6 Re2-e6+ Qd6xe6 Re1xe6+ Bd7xe6 Qf7xe6+ g7-g6 h2-h4 Rd8-e8 Qe6-f6 Re8-f8 Qf6-g5+ Kh6-g7 h4-h5 Rf8-f6 h5-h6+ Kg7-f7 Qg5-f4 Kf7-e6 h6-h7 Ke6-d7 Qf4-h6 Rf6-e6 Nf3-g5 Re6-e1+ Kg1-h2 Re1-e7 Qh6xg6 Kd7-c7 Ng5-f7 Rc8-f8 h7-h8Q Rf8xh8+ Nf7xh8 f5-f4 Qg6-f5 f4-f3 Qf5xf3 Re7-h7+ Kh2-g1 Rh7-e7 Nh8-f7 Re7-d7 Qf3-f4+ Kc7-b7 Qf4-f6 Kb7-c7 f2-f4 Rd7-d1+ Kg1-f2 a7-a6 Nf7-e5) +6.07/37 516)

score for White +6.07 depth 37.

Jun-04-21  Messiah: Terrible!
Jun-04-21
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Jun-04-21  1g1yy: I didn't even consider Kxh6 because I preferred the g pawn keeping the N out of g5. It looked to me if gxh6, the white attack would stall. Once it gets too far down the line I simply can't calculate all the options, and going on my intuition doesn't work on lines that aren't mostly forced. Due to the Gxh6, I didn't like the obvious sac. And the white N seemed out of place, or too slow to come help anyway.

I think I'm 0 for the week...

Jun-04-21  BwanaVa: Cheapo by the Dozen-Amen. I remember back in the day-perhaps this tournament was part of it-when Commons went overseas to play at a time few Americans were doing it and tore through three tournaments or so to earn his IM.
Jun-04-21  Greek73: What a beautiful attack!
Jun-04-21  agb2002: White can play Qf7. This suggests 23.Bxh6:

A) 23... gxh6 24.Qf7+ Kh8 25.Nh4 Rg8 (due to 26.Ng6#) 26.Qxd7 Rcd8 (due to 27.Ng6+ Rxg6 28.Qxc8+) 27.Qf7, followed by Ng6+, seems to win an exchange at least.

B) 23... Kxh6 24.Qf7

B.1) 24... Qxc3 25.Re6+ Bxe6 26.Rxe6+ Kh7 27.Ng5+ Kh8 28.Rh6+ gxh6 29.Qh7#.

B.2) 24... Re8 25.Nh4

B.2.a) 25... Kg5 26.Qg6+ Kxh4 (26... Kf4 27.Qg3#) 27.g3+ Kh3 28.Qh5#.

B.2.b) 25... Kh7 26.Qh5+ Kg8 27.Rxe8+ R(B)xe8 28.Rxe8+ B(R)xe8 29.Qxe8+ Kh7 30.Qg6+ Kh8 31.Nxf5 Qxc3 32.h4 with some positional advantage and an extra pawn.

C) 23... Be8 24.Bg5 wins decisive material.

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