LRLeighton Member since May-19-12 · Last seen May-23-25 no bio

LRLeighton has kibitzed 123 times to chessgames   [more...]

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.      Nov-15-24 Petursson vs O Brendel, 1990   LRLeighton: 29 Qd1 threatens to sac and mate starting with 30 Rxh7+, but the game move is an inaccuracy as black could have defended better with 29...Ne6, closing the a2-g8 diagonal that traps black's king. White would still be better, but the win would not be clear. Instead, white had the ...      Nov-02-24 Spassky vs E Meduna, 1989   LRLeighton: 34...Qe5 is fine and is equal. White blundered with 36 Qd3? (only 36 Qe3 holds the draw) and after 36...Qxb2 37 d6, black missed a kill shot with 37...Qd4! 38 Qxd4, Nf3+!! 39 Kg2, Nxd4 and black holds on to the extra piece while still being able to get his knight back to e6 in ...      Oct-05-24 Robson vs C Boor, 2013   LRLeighton: Black resigned because he realized that after 29 fxe5, Be3, white would play 30 Rf6, Rxf6 31 Rc8+, Kg7 32 exf6+ leaving white up the exchange.      Sep-25-24 J Degraeve vs F Hellers, 1992    LRLeighton: White overlooked 34 Nf6+!! and black cannot avoid mate.

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