LRLeighton Member since May-19-12 · Last seen Jul-06-25 no bio

LRLeighton has kibitzed 127 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jun-19-25 Krasenkow vs Smirin, 1995   LRLeighton: Krasenkow missed a win at move 39 with the fantastic but "quiet" 39. Qg7!! threatening both Qh6# and the Rb2. Black has no defense to the mate other than 39...Kxg5, so he must lose the rook.      Jun-11-25 G Barbero vs A Zichichi, 1988   LRLeighton: This was simple but I admit that I didn't see it immediately: After 26.Nh5, the Bg7 cannot move because white would play 27.Qh6+ forking the K and the Rd2. Hence black responds to 26.Nh5 with Qg5, but then 27.Nxg7, Qxg7 28.Qh8+, Qxh8 (...Qg8 fails to 29.Qh6+ fork again) 29.Rxh8+ ...      Jun-02-25 Kuzubov vs R Mamedov, 2009   LRLeighton: Black missed a forced mate in two near the end of the game, starting with the attraction sac 38...Rxh3+! On 39.Kxh3, Rh2# (Opera Mate), and if 39.Kg5, Bf6#.      May-26-25 Alekhine vs I Pen, 1918    LRLeighton: In his later writings, Alekhine actually talked about his play during this period. He said that he had gotten so used to saving bad positions with tactics that he mistakenly started to believe that he would always be able to find something. It was a combination of believing in ...      Apr-29-25 E Ermenkov vs L Spassov, 1985   LRLeighton: Black misses a spectacular win starting with 35...Re1+!!. This move deflects either the Rc1 from participating in the threat to black's c8 (leading to the perpetual) or the Qc3, in which case, white gets promptly crushed: 36 Qxe1, Bc3+ 37 Ng2, Bxg2+ 38 Kg1, Be4+ 39 Kf1, Bd3+ and ...      Apr-16-25 I Salgado Lopez vs T Vakhidov, 2014   LRLeighton: I'm assuming that black agreed to a draw here because of extreme time pressure, as the position is dead lost for white after black's final move with 30...Re3! White gets mated in all lines. On 31 Qxe3, Bxf4+ and white cannot take with 32 Qxf4 because of 32...Rxh3#      Apr-08-25 Khismatullin vs M Matlakov, 2014   LRLeighton: White missed a win with 35 Rf7! Black obviously cannot take the rook because the black Q is stuck guarding the queening square. Now if 35...d3 (...Kg6 36 Re8 anyway) 36 Re8!, d2 threatens mate, but 37 Rxf6+! forces 37...Kxf6 after which 38 d8(Q)+ queens with check, and white is a      Mar-17-25 J Pelikan vs M Czerniak, 1943   LRLeighton: And white missed a fantastic sequence starting with the unusual deflection sac 28 Bc4+!!. Now: a) 28...Qxc4 29.Qxg6+, Kf8 30.Rxf5+, Ke7 31.Rxe5+ etc. b) 28...Kf8 29.Bh6+ (Rxf5+ also wins), Ke7 30.Qxe5+, Kd7 31.Rd1+ and white is winning the house. c) 28...Kg7 29.Qxe5+, Rxe5 ...      Mar-01-25 P Ostermeyer vs M Daumens, 1969   LRLeighton: It would be nice to see the finish: 25...Rc2 26 Rb8+, Ne8 (26...Kg7?? allows 27 Qf8#) 27 Bxe6, Rxc5 28 Rxe8+, Kg7 and now white saves and wins the game with the clever x-ray defense 29 Rc8! and if 29...Ra5 30 Bc4 saving the B and getting the B back in time to block any checks ...      Dec-20-24 N Pogonina vs S Khader, 2011   LRLeighton: Black was stuck with playing 25...Nxg3 because if black plays the natural recapture 25...Nxd8, then 26 Bc7 wins a tempo and clears the way to trap black's light-sq B: 26...Nc6 27 f3, Bh5 28 g4 wins a piece.

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