| Jul-29-12 | | backrank: It's all about control of the white squares c4 and e4. Then the black king migrates to the queen side to support the pawn breakthrough by c6 and b5 (to obtain a passed pawn). In trying to prevent this, White allows Black to immediately crash through in the center.
40. Kd3?? Rd2#
40. Kc1 Re1+ and 41. ... Rxc1! and regardless which way White recaptures, he always has to return the exchange! |
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| Dec-05-12 | | Chris1971: Talk about vision! This game is like treading on thin ice! A combination that leaves black a rook down! Risky stuff indeed but Romanovsky sees very deep into the position and is able to pull off this fantastic win. My guts tell me that white must have something better...a game for further analysis. |
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| Jun-05-20 | | thegoodanarchist: Arsenievich: An Old Ace. |
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Jan-06-22
 | | GrahamClayton: Romanovsky's knight on c4 is the key piece, protecting the pawn on b6 and giving support to the rook. |
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Feb-08-24
 | | Korora: When 4♙ > 1♖ |
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| Feb-08-24 | | goodevans: Love the pun.
Past my bedtime now so I'll come back in the morning to see if the game's as good. |
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Feb-08-24
 | | FSR: I don't understand the pun. |
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Feb-08-24
| | Korora: <I don't understand the pun.> I THINK it has to do with Arsenic and Old Lace, but don't quote me on that. |
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| Feb-08-24 | | BxChess: Re pun:
<Peter Arsenyevich Romanovsky was born on the 29th of July 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia. > |
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Feb-08-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: An inspired movie pun if you know Black's middle name. As for the game, Black's Knight had extraordinary power for such a "minor" minor piece. |
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Feb-08-24
 | | perfidious: <Korora: <I don't understand the pun.> I THINK it has to do with Arsenic and Old Lace, but don't quote me on that.> Yes, it does.
Good pun. |
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Feb-08-24
 | | Teyss: Thankfully we have intellectual users with cultural references on CG, because I thought the pun was a play on words about "Arsenievich: An Old [First four letters of the patronym]". Naturally User: thegoodanarchist will deny such an intention. 37...Black to play and win would be a good mid-week puzzle. That's what happens when one leaves his light squares so desperately weak. Charge! |
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| Feb-08-24 | | thegoodanarchist: I completely forgot about this pun. Yikes. |
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| Feb-08-24 | | thegoodanarchist: <goodevans: Love the pun.> Thank you kindly.
<An Englishman: Good Evening: An inspired movie pun if you know Black's middle name.> Thank you kindly.
@<Teyss> & <Korora>: Probably best to leave it to the readers to interpret. |
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| Feb-08-24 | | Saniyat24: a and b and c and d, hurray for Peter Romanovsky...! |
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Feb-08-24
| | FSR: Apparently everyone besides me knows that Romanovsky's middle name was Arsenievich. |
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| Feb-08-24 | | goodevans: <FSR> Well, I didn't until last night but I guessed that would most likely be part of it so I checked his player's bio - Peter Romanovsky - where it was confirmed, except that there it's spelt <Arsenyevich>. |
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Feb-08-24
| | perfidious: <goodevans>, that will often depend on who does the translation, in the same way that places are spelt Erevan, Hodos and Holmov in Britain, and this site uses the American spellings for all of them. |
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Feb-08-24
| | perfidious: That was, of course, places and names. |
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| Feb-08-24 | | thegoodanarchist: <goodevans: ... so I checked his player's bio - Peter Romanovsky - where it was confirmed, except that there it's spelt <Arsenyevich>.> May have been revised since the day I posted the pun. Spellings of player names are always updated if new, definitive evidence is found to support the revision. cg.com is a work in progress, and always will be. |
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| Feb-08-24 | | thegoodanarchist: < perfidious: Good pun.> Thank you kindly. |
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| Feb-08-24 | | goodevans: Guys, I'm old enough to remember when, in the Western world, 'Petrov' was 'Petroff' and 'Romania' was 'Rumania' so I've no problem with there being fluidity in the different Western spellings of non-Western names. Maybe that fame-seeking, deluded ex-president of Libya was top of one thing - the number of Western spellings of his name: Gadhafi, Kaddafi, Qadhafi, Gaddafi, Qaddafi and Gadafy have all been used, with or without a prefix of el- or al-, and all that's after you decide how to Westernise his first name. Apparently there were over a hundred variations all told. |
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| Aug-29-24 | | tbontb: In the game 37....Rxe3+ was killing, so maybe White must sit tight. After 37.Re2 b5 38.axb5+ cxb5 39. Rb1 a4 Black is obviously better but still has to prove the win. The K-walk did a good job of unnerving the opponent ! |
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Kibitzing
sac: 37...Rxe3+