Apr-19-18 | | Delboy: The bishop sacrifice 23. Bxh6 is devastating. 23. ... gxh6 is met with 24. Qf7+ Kh1 25. Nh4 Rg8 26. Re6 |
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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. |
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Jun-04-21
 | | 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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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Jun-04-21
 | | 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. |
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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 |
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Jun-04-21 | | Walter Glattke: Corr: C) 27.Qxg6 Qf8 28. Re3 Re6 |
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Jun-04-21 | | Walter Glattke: Re8 sorry |
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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. |
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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. |
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Jun-04-21 | | Messiah: Terrible! |
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Jun-04-21
 | | chrisowen: I cup in i Bxh6 hatch acrid minds in o boaster in i tally cup in i talled its vehement in i blink eg its quandary prince in i rip its whip jiffy on fury joyous in i flush its argent in ar gecko the loves its band dowry whippy in i am b6 flubb hacks accommodate in i koinus ajars effect Na5 gestate in i abracadabra in claw its oh ins o totadd garrulous foggy cc in i raiders ib handy edifice plonker its hick its wags in i Bxh6 doors; |
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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... |
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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. |
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Jun-04-21 | | Greek73: What a beautiful attack! |
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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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