Athamas has kibitzed 205 times to chessgames   [more...]

Nov-24-09 R Nezhmetdinov vs Y Kotkov, 1957    Athamas: Didn't bother to count the material today... was pretty obvious with white's positioning of pieces. 25. Re8+ 25...Qxe8 26. Qxf6# 25...Bxe8 26. Qf8#      Nov-22-09 Kotov vs Botvinnik, 1955    Athamas: Black is strangely up a pawn in this puzzle. Bishops of opposite color point toward draw in this ending generally. However, black's 2 key points are the advanced b-pawn and already being up a pawn. It is obvious black is protecting his b-pawn via d4+ threat. However, white would ...      Nov-15-09 P Peelen vs Fedorowicz, 1990    Athamas: Black's down 2 pawns, but has a huge positional advantage because of white's vulnerable king and the advanced f-pawn. This one I spotted almost instantly whereas I had trouble on last few days for some reason. 37...exd4 White must move the bishop to stay on the diaganol or lose ...      Nov-12-09 Van Essen vs C Woskoff, 1931    Athamas: White's up a pawn. Black has a bishop to white's knight and overall development seems superior to white. Black is threatening Qxf3, Qxh3 and RxQ. White's only active pieces are the knight on f3 and the queen. I spent a good 5 minutes on this puzzle trying to force some clever ...      Nov-11-09 Dreev vs G Fish, 2009    Athamas: I am enjoying these puzzles much more than the typical puzzle, where the tactical shot is obvious. I like that these puzzles force you to consider moves that seem almost irrational on the surface. Give up a piece that can be taken back multiple ways, when you can seemingly setup the      Nov-09-09 Reichert vs E Diemer, 1950    Athamas: My thought process was... if only I could get white to take my queen with his rook on g1 I could smother him... but obviously I can't, which led the look for knight checks... and one is obviously better than the other.      Nov-07-09 E Gausel vs T Ernst, 1992    Athamas: White is up a pawn. White's pieces are fairly passive while black has an obvious king attack. First instinct was the natural Nxg3+, which seems to keep the attack, but I can't find anything decisive. Second thing I saw was Qe5, seeing Qh5 as winning, but it seemed more ...      Nov-06-09 Tarrasch vs Reti, 1922    Athamas: Black is up a pawn. White has a dominant bishop to black's almost out of the game knight. For a couple of minutes I was looking for ways to trap the knight for no apparent reason. Black's king is obviously vulnerable on h8, but did not initially think there was a good way to force ...      Nov-05-09 M Neibults vs Tal, 1954    Athamas: Black is down a knight. Black can obviously recapture the knight, but would lose the f-pawn and lose the steam on his king hunt. I looked for about a minute into fxg3... I was convinced that was it, but then the light dawned on me that the light-squared bishop wins the game if white      Nov-04-09 V Nenarokov vs A Smorodsky, 1924    Athamas: Black is up a pawn. Black's king is stalemated. White and black are both threatening mate with their queens. The first move I thought was fairly obvious since black's queen is burdened with both defense and mate threats. However, I did look at other pointless moves as well. 29. Bf4

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