Aug-31-23
 | | HeMateMe: Love the pun! Channeling one's inner Elmer fudd. |
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Aug-31-23
 | | Breunor: Say their names 10 times real fast! |
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Aug-31-23
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: 18.White to Play (if the sacrifice is sound) would constitute an insanely difficult weekend puzzle for me, and never would have tried the move over the board. Black has so many defenses (20...Bxh4 or 20...Nc7, for example) that sound or unsound, simply can't analyze all of them. |
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| Aug-31-23 | | Shamot: Why 26.Qh8+ ?
Why not 26.Ng6, a royal fork, that wins the black queen?
I do not see a simple straight forward win for white after 26.Qh8+ |
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| Aug-31-23 | | Shamot: My bad. I see it now. |
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Aug-31-23
 | | saffuna: Is this the game with the longest combined surnames (no hyphens or spaces)? |
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Aug-31-23
 | | beatgiant: <saffuna> Have you forgotten S Khademalsharieh vs S Lorparizangeneh, 2015? |
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Aug-31-23
 | | piltdown man: Actually, it was Porky Pig. |
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Aug-31-23
 | | perfidious: <Breunor: Say their names 10 times real fast!> Here goes nuthin'! |
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| Aug-31-23 | | goodevans: <An Englishman: Good Evening: 18.White to Play (if the sacrifice is sound) would constitute an insanely difficult weekend puzzle for me, and never would have tried the move over the board...> I reckon you're right that it would make for a good weekend puzzle but, unlike you, back in my playing days I'd have happily made that exchange sac on instinct alone. It flushes Black's K into danger (19...Kh8? 20.Ne5 Δ Ng6+ ±), creates weaknesses on e6 and g6 and cements the existing weakness on e5. Well worth the exchange, I'd have thought. As a puzzle I'd expect quite a few of us to find the first couple of moves fairly quickly. Getting beyond that is what would make it tough. |
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Aug-31-23
 | | MissScarlett: <WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili plays her immortal game against Sara Khadem> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE-... |
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| Aug-31-23 | | Messiah: Terrible pun. |
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Aug-31-23
| | beatgiant: <An Englishman> But was this sound? I'm not sure what White has against 20...Bxh4 21. Nxh4 <g5>. Then if 22. Qg6 Qf6, or 22. Ng6+ Kg7, and the attack seems to be running out of steam. |
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| Aug-31-23 | | goodevans: <beatgiant: <An Englishman> But was this sound? I'm not sure what White has against 20...Bxh4 21. Nxh4 <g5>>. Yup. So White ideally should have denied Black that defensive possibility by playing <20.Bg3> which would also have given Black another headache, d6, to add to his weaknesses on e5, e6 and g6. |
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| Aug-31-23 | | oolalimk1: So there's no truth in the story that he lost on time before he had his name written down. |
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| Aug-31-23 | | Brenin: <oolalimk1>: "she" and "her". For a chess player from Iran, as she is, the distinction is of critical significance. |
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Sep-01-23
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: <goodevans>, the CG computer agrees that 20.Bg3 improves, but suggests the bizarre defense 20...Bg5 with a slight advantage to White. However, abandoning the defense of the d6 square looks very strange to this carbon-based life form. |
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| Sep-01-23 | | goodevans: <An Englishman> 20.Bg3 Bg5 looks counterintuitive but I think the explanation is that the B is just in the way on e7. Among White's many threats are <21.Nd6> and <21.Qg6> and in either case the B on e7 blocks the most effective defence. Black could try <20...Bb4> but then <21.a3> would force it to abandon the defence of d6 anyway. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 18.Rxe6