| Jan-19-08 | | luzhin: If 24...g6 25.Qxf6+ Kxf6 26.Rf3++ is a very pretty 'model' mate. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | refutor: Brutal attacking "caveman chess" by Grivas |
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| Dec-19-11 | | Oceanlake: Grivas' eyes must have lit up when he saw Bg4 ... f4. |
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| Dec-19-11 | | erniecohen: Black might have considered trying to get his ♔ off of the f-file. |
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| Dec-19-11 | | hedgeh0g: 24.h6! was the final stomp to the gut of his opponent, who was left crying on the pavement. |
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Dec-19-11
 | | Penguincw: Ouch. This is the kind of chess you need to win games and receive an invitation to Group B. :) |
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| Dec-19-11 | | Garech: Fantastic game; really enjoyed it.
Cheers,
-Garech |
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| Dec-19-11 | | waustad: That is a mate that doesn't "look like" mate, so it is a little easier to miss. |
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| Dec-19-11 | | Dyonis: 24. ... g5 ... Does not change much the situation . So... 25. Qxf6 Kxf6 26.Rf3+ Kg6 27.Rh1 ... and 28. Bd3++ is inevitable... |
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Dec-19-11
 | | kevin86: Black's king is tied up like a mummy. |
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| Dec-19-11 | | rilkefan: <<Dyonis>: 24. ... g5 ... Does not change much the situation . So... 25. Qxf6 Kxf6 26.Rf3+ Kg6 27.Rh1 ... and 28. Bd3++ is inevitable...> 24...g5 25.Qxf6 just draws, as black has 27...g4 in your line: white has to play 27.Bd3+ and go for a perpetual on g1/h1. However after 25.Bxf8 black is just dropping the kside (note that Rxf8 is mate either way). |
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| Dec-19-11 | | rilkefan: Is 6...e6 (instead of say Nbd7) practically the losing move? |
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| Dec-19-11 | | Dyonis: <rilkefan>... Thank you very much...I've noticed g4... few minutes after posting my comment... walking on the street... |
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Dec-19-11
 | | Domdaniel: Wasn't this the year that Braun went into a runaway lead in his group at Corus/Wijk, but collapsed in later rounds? |
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Dec-19-11
 | | scormus: The pun says it. If Jack Dempsey took up chess, its the way he would have played. |
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| Dec-19-11 | | rilkefan: <Dyonis> - no problem - I hadn't even noticed that g5 was an option; I need to work on expanding my candidates for defense, though I'm an old dog. Dunno if I would have seen even ...g6 Qxf6 OTB. So I've looked at the opening/middle a bit with stockfish. It doesn't like 6...e6 or 9...Be4 (about 0.7 pawns per). It prefers just 10.0-0 at a depth of 29 (4.5 Gnodes), basically (so it seems to me) because the knight gets kicked from the kside and white holds the center with a pawn storm on the way (the line I was expecting black to take, 0-0 Bd5 11.Bd3 c5, soon runs into stuff like Nxf7/Ng5+/Ne6/Nxg7+, though it's not a huge difference). It dislikes 15...Be7, I think because it wants to play Qxf6 after gf. And it thinks black had to play 16...Ke8 (17.Bxe6 g6), so 16.Qf5 was overcomplicated and dropped half a pawn; but ...Nf8 gives a whole pawn back, and ...a6 drops another. |
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| Dec-19-11 | | ricardolopez: <rilkefan><Dyonis> 24..g5; 25. Qxf6+ Kxf6 ; 26. Rf3 Kg6 ; 27. Bd3+ Kxh6 ;
28. Bxf8 + R(e or g) x f8 ; 29. Rh1+ and 30. R x h7 ++ |
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| Dec-19-11 | | rilkefan: <<ricardolopez>: 28. Bxf8 + R(e or g) x f8 ; 29. Rh1+ and 30. R x h7 ++> I agree with the above if Rexf8, but on Rgx black has Kg8, and if Rfh3 Qxb2+ and black's king gets to the qside. |
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| Dec-19-11 | | Lil Swine: very brutal |
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Dec-19-11
| | Domdaniel: As I recall it, halfway through this event Arik Braun - the German teenage sensation of the day - was leading with a string of wins. This game ended his run, and seems to have shattered his nerves too. He lost several more and finished mid-table. And he hasn't quite lived up to that early promise: for a while he looked like the next Carlsen or Giri or So. |
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| Dec-19-11 | | notyetagm: Game Collection: LINE-OPENING SACRIFICES:KING TRAPPED IN CORRIDOR E Grivas vs A Braun, 2008 If 24...g6 25.Qxf6+ Kxf6 26.Rf3++ is a very pretty 'model' mate. |
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| Jan-07-16 | | PhilFeeley: Time to try 4. Nbd2 next time I play the Slav, if I ever play it. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 10.Nxf7