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Apr-08-11 | | Sololoy: The winning move 38 Bh7+ could have been done earlier: 34 Bh7+. Sometimes good players do not have all the variations in mind and they go constructing them as they play. |
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Apr-17-14 | | Conrad93: 9...Nxf6 gives black a good position. 9...Qxf6 is just the worse variation. |
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Apr-17-14 | | N0B0DY: is here to learn. |
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Apr-17-14 | | Conrad93: How do you learn something you already know? |
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Apr-17-14 | | Conrad93: The f6 idea was popularized and worked on by Uhlmann. |
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Apr-17-14 | | N0B0DY: might have known it. |
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Jun-19-15 | | SpiritedReposte: <Motylev Cocktail> |
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Mar-22-19
 | | ChessHigherCat: Damned knight on f8 kept thwarting all my plans. The only way to get rid of it is play N+ and take it with the rook. Anyway, if this isn't right I expect to be reimbursed for all the time I wasted calculating: 31. Ne7+ Rxe7 32. Rxf8+ Kxf8 33. Bg6 with "mat imparable" as they say in Froglandia. |
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Mar-22-19
 | | ChessHigherCat: Yikes, I missed the sneaky 33...Qb6+ -> Qe6 manure, making it possible to interpose the white queen Qh8+. Still, SF initially said advantage white, but then it ended up finding a draw. 1) +0.61 (26 ply) 32.Rxf8+ Kxf8 33.Bg6 Qb6+ 34.Kh1 Qe6 35.Qh8+ Qg8 36.Qh4 Rae8 37.Qf2+ Rf7 38.Qc5+ Ree7 39.Qxb5  click for larger view39...Black to play and draw |
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Mar-22-19
 | | ChessHigherCat: Correction: making it possible to interpose the black queen on g8 after Qh8+. |
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Mar-22-19
 | | agb2002: I remember this game. |
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Mar-22-19
 | | al wazir: My solution, as usual, was not the line GM Motylev chose: 31. Ne7+ Rxe7 32. Rxf8+ Kxf8 (32...Rxf8 33. Qh7#) 33. Bg6. A) 33...Kg8 34. Qh7+ Kf8 35. Qh8#
B) 33...Rf7 (or any move other than a check) 34. Qh8# But then there's
C) 33...Qb6+ 34. Kh1 Qe6, and now white has no winning continuation. I never claimed to be a GM. |
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Mar-22-19 | | Walter Glattke: Counter chess with 31.-Bxf1 32.Bxg7 Qc1 33.Qh8+ Kf7 34.Qh5+ or 34.Nd6+ with king's hunt, several possibilities. 33.Bh6!? Be2+ 34.Bxc1 Bxh5 wins for black. Stockfish should find some better than 32.Bxg7, 32.Nh6+ Kh8!? that's not enough. |
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Mar-22-19
 | | scormus: looks like I'm in good company missing 33... Qb6+ > ... Qe6. I have a habit of missing that sort of manoeuvre in chess games as well :( |
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Mar-22-19
 | | Jimfromprovidence: In the line 31 Bf6 gxf6 32 Nh6+ Kh8 I thought that here was nothing but a perpetual after 33 Nf7+, below. click for larger viewI completely missed the key move 33 exf6.
 click for larger viewNow white controls the key g7 square from the king. Black cannot play, for example, 33..Bxf1 here because after 34 Nf7+ Kg8 35 Bh7+ Nxh7 36 Qg6+, white mates next move.  click for larger view Additionally, 33...Re4 to cut off the bishop does not work because after 34.Nf7+ Kg8 35.Qh8+ Kxf7 36.Qg7+ black loses the queen.  click for larger view |
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Mar-22-19
 | | woldsmandriffield: A good puzzle and an example of myopia in Chess. The f7 square is rayed and X-rayed by the Q and R but after 31 Ne7+? Rxe7 32 Rxf8+ Kxf8 33 Qh7+ it is no longer guarded so Black escapes with 33..Kf7 |
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Mar-22-19 | | GlennOliver: OK, that puzzle was entirely too deep for my limited skills. I wonder how much of the continuation Motylev saw in advance and how much of the initial gambit was purely based on his attacking instinct. Fine play either way. |
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Mar-22-19 | | Diana Fernanda: After of 33gxh6 the while can win with bishop h7 And the mate c'ant be stop |
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Mar-22-19 | | wtpy: I thought Ng7 and Qb6 is fly in that ointment as well. My chess is deteriorating recently. I suspect because I go almost everyday to the Rogoff page and KF's OMV arguments are eroding my brain cells. The effects are worse than a bottle of Night Train on a French Quarter drunk. |
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Mar-22-19 | | wtpy: I have much respect for those who saw all the way to the conclusion. Tough week. |
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Mar-22-19 | | devere: 31.Nxg7 is good enough to win, but 31.Bf6!! is the crushing move. It was outside of my tactical pattern recognition skills, and I salute Motylev for actually playing it over the board. |
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Mar-22-19 | | Momentum Man: This puzzle was too much for this here class player |
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Mar-22-19 | | Momentum Man: Chris owen what’s that all about? |
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Mar-22-19 | | landshark: Flubbed this one - I chose 31. Ne7+ with ...RxN, 32.RxR+, KxR 33.Qh8+ hallucinating that f7 was still covered by one of my piecers (: |
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Mar-22-19
 | | Richard Taylor: I had seen this before but didn't recognize it or remember commenting. It seems as if I was a different person 10 years ago! I didn't try to solve this really just looked it up... A good combination for sure and the game looks interesting. |
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