vajeer has kibitzed 361 times to chessgames   [more...]

Apr-24-25 Grischuk vs E Najer, 1999    vajeer: Found Nxg5. After that SF comes up with 29...f3 defense. Here 30. Nxf3 is the best but white can also continue with 30. Nxe6. Play may continue as 30... Rxg2+ 31. Kf1 Qh6 32. Ng1 Qh1 33. Rxf3 Qxg1+ 34. Ke2 Bh4 35. Qe3 Kg8 36. Qf4 Rg4 37. Qxf5 Re4+ 38. Re3 Rxe3+ 39. Kxe3 Nd7 ...      Apr-20-25 Pavlov vs Suetin, 1953    vajeer: If however, 26...Nh3 27. Qf3 Nhf4 It could lead to quick exchanges 28. Nxd5 Rxd5 29. Rxd5 Nxd5 30. Rxd5 Bxd5 31. Qxd5 Qxd5 32. Bxd5 Rxc2 [DIAGRAM] b2 pawn will fall soon and Black will have two pawns and rook for knight & bishop. Score by engine is -3 although materially there ...      Apr-19-25 G Oparin vs V Fedoseev, 2022    vajeer: Found 27...Rxf5 28. exf5 Qxf5 After that I thought about 29. Kd1 as a possible defense. After 29...Nxf2+ 30. Kc1 Nd3+ 31. Kd1 [DIAGRAM] Black has three pawns and knight for a rook and strong position.      Apr-16-25 Sasikiran vs Krasenkow, 2004    vajeer: 29. d7 leads to a draw, but the defense is not easy to spot. 29. d7 Rd8 30. Ba5 b6 31. Bxb6 Rb3 32. Bxd8 Qxe2 33. Rb1 Qxe5 [DIAGRAM] Black now threatens Rxa3# forcing 34.Be7 Qxe7 35. Rbd1 Rxa3+ 36. bxa3 Qxa3+ 37. Kb1 Qb3+ 38. Ka1 Qa3+      Apr-12-25 Negi vs G Munkhgal, 2014   vajeer: Really difficult. I also considered 24...g5 as a possible defence. And played out the below line 24...g5 25. Rxh7 Kxh7 26. Qg4 Rxd6 27. exd6 Qa1+ 28. Kd2 Qxb2 29. Rh1+ Kg8 30. Rh5 Kf8 31. Rxg5 Qh8 32. fxe6 Qh6 33. e7+ Ke8 34. Qf4 Kd7 35. e8=Q+ Rxe8 36. Qxf7+ Kxd6 37. Qf4+ Kc6 38. ...      Mar-10-25 Grischuk vs Ganguly, 1996    vajeer: I was hell bent on dislodging that white's DSB from h6-c1 diagonal to play Qg5. LOL. So went with 22. Bc1 Rxb5 23. Nxb5 Ne2+ 24. Kh2 Nxc1 25. Raxc1 Qg5 26. Rc2 Re8 [DIAGRAM] Black is ready to play Rxe5 and shift his rook to g file. Engine gives this a -3.27 evaluation.      Mar-09-25 J O Fries-Nielsen vs C Hansen, 1981    vajeer: Not insane imo. Almost all moves are forced. Followed it till 15.c4 and that looks sufficient.      Mar-07-25 K Kulaots vs A Khudyakov, 2003    vajeer: This one is tough. After 12.Nxg5 hxg5 13.Bxg5 Kg7 14.f4 [DIAGRAM] Here I tried 14...Rh8. The game may proceed as 14...Rh8 15. fxe5 Nxe5 16. Qg3 Nh5 17. Bf6+ Kf8 18. Qh4 Nxf6 19. Qxh8+ Ng8 20. Bb3 Be8 [DIAGRAM] Here it feels like black is able to resist, but engine gives it a ...      Mar-04-25 G Zaichik vs J Siekanski, 1989    vajeer: I went with16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. Rdf3 Kg8 18. Rxf7 Bxg5 19. h4 seems sufficient to win.      Mar-04-25 L D'Costa vs M Cervinka, 2001    vajeer: I went with no-nonsense Nxc5 which seems to be SF pick also, and slightly better than Nf6. Actually this is not even a puzzle, only made tricky as one ponders about quick mating net for being a Tuesday puzzle.

indicates a reply to the comment.

You are not logged in to chessgames.com. If you need an account, register now; it's quick, anonymous, and free! If you already have an account, click here to sign-in.