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| Posted by taoistlunatic ability-tw.com 8/11/2002 14:45:02 |  Subject: fascinating tactical gameMessage: board #315413 This is perhaps the most complex tactical game I have yet played. Some of the moves took me quite awhile, and I never felt 100% comfortable with my analysis, since the game was extremely WILD. Enjoy it chess comrades, and the more diligent students may perhaps enjoy doing some analysis. I feel that I played very well, bu there were some situations which got very close to checkmate for my king!!! | ||||||||||||
| Posted by taoistlunatic ability-tw.com 8/11/2002 15:01:47 | I am currently writing out my own... Message: analysis and I will post it later on... thanks for a great battle zorro12 | ||||||||||||
| Posted by tulkos ability-tw.com 8/11/2002 16:14:20 | very pretty game. Message: ——— When Chess Grandmasters Fail to Live Up to the Title — There are drawn games among top chess players that are even more exciting than decisive victories, especially when they are riddled with errors and attacks. Two such games occurred in the semifinals of the World Chess Championship Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia — one a face-off between Gata Kamsky and Boris Gelfand, and the other pitting Vladimir Kramnik against Alexander Grischuk. In the diagram below from Game 3 of the Kamsky-Gelfand match, Gelfand had just made a mistake with 28 ... Qh5 instead of 28 ... Qd7. Kamsky then should have moved 29 Bc4, which would have given Black two bad options. If Gelfand played 29 ... Rc4, then after 30 Qb6 Qf5 ... Posted by taoistlunatic | ability-tw.com 8/11/2002 19:51:00 my analysis during the gameMessage: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4?! (out-of-book, bad position for the bishop.) e6 4.Nc3 a6 5.d3 b5 (white doesn't play the usual d4 break, but plays a closed sicilian.) 6.Bb3 Be7 7.Bf4 d6 8.a3 Nf6 9.e5 dxe5 10.Bxe5 0-0 11.h4 Bb7 12.Qe2 Nxe5 (black obtains the bishop-pair) 13.Qxe5 Qd7 14.0-0-0? a5! (after white castles queen-side. black begins a triple pawn wing attack.) 15.Ne4 Ng4 (forking the queen and f2 pawn) 16.Qg3 h5 (supporting the knight, and blocking white's h-pawn) 17.Nf-g5 a4 18.Ba2 b4 19.Rh-e1 bxa3 20.f3?? (this move was premature allowing...)axb2+ (obtaining a passed pawn on the a-file and exposing white's king) 21.Kxb2 Nf6 (I retreated the Kinght as I could not see any forced mate on white's exposed king.) 22.Kc1! (white's king begins a journey to safety)Qb5 23.Kd2! Rf-d8 24.Ke2 Qb2(forking the bishop and c2 pawn) 25.Bxe6?? (why not Bc4?) fxe6 26.Kf1 Qxc2?? (should have defended e6 with Bd5) 27.Nxe6! (threatening mate on g7!) Ne8 28.Qf4 Rxd3 29.Ne4-g5! (threatening a mating combo starting with Qf7+) Nf6! 30.Rd-c1 Qd2 (black wants to exchange queens to relieve the pressure on his king.) 31.Qf5 Rd5 32.Qh3 a3 33.Nxg7!! (another mating threat, if black takes the poisoned Knight, 34.Rxe7+! is deadly) Ba6+ 34.Kg1 a2! (unafraid of the king-side threats, I marched my passed pawn towards glory.) 35.Qe6+ Kh8 36.Qxe7 Qd4+ 37.Re3 a1=Q 38.Rxa1 Qxa1+ 39.Kh2 Ng4+! (releiving the danger on my king and liquidating down to a won endgame.) 40.fxg4 Qxg7 41.Nf7+ Kg8 42.Rf3 Bc4 43.g5 Rd2? (my mouse slipped! I meant to play Rd4 threating Rxh4+) 44.Nh6+ Kh8 45.Qe4 Bd5 46.Qe3 Bxf3! (beginning a liquidation combo, which forces the trade of queens.) 47.Qxd2 Qe5+ 48.Kh3 Bg4+ 49.Nxg4 hxg4+ 50.Kxg4 Qd4+ 51.Qxd4 cxd4 52.Kf3 Re8 (the rook cuts off the king fron the passed pawn.) White resigns. (0-1) ——— How to Cook in Chess — Actually, "to cook" in chess has nothing to do with culinary pleasures. It is a dreaded word chess composers don't want to hear. A chess composition is cooked when there is a different solution unintended by the composer -- a dual solution. But a composition can be also cooked when someone creates a sound problem or study from an unsound work and eliminates the dual solution. You can also have it both ways as our story shows. Last year we published a chess study composed by Ladislav Prokes and Oldrich Duras, but as pointed out by Prof. Noam Elkies, the study was "cooked." Recently, we learned that a Slovakian player, Ivan Novak, discovered the same dual solution already in ... Posted by roblear | ability-tw.com 8/13/2002 09:33:37 tactical gameMessage: great game guys....thought the black king was trapped for sure but you never know..... ——— Boris Gelfand and Alex Grischuk step up battle to face Vishy Anand — The favourites were eliminated, so two outsiders are competing Saturday in the candidates final to decide who meets India's Vishy Anand, the holder, in the 2012 world chess championship match. Israel's Boris Gelfand and Russia's Alex Grischuk play game three of their six-game series in Kazan. Gelfand, ranked world No16, is a 42-year-old veteran who has a career record of doing well in major chess events without winning. Grischuk, 27, world No12, divides his time between chess and poker and was only included among the eight candidates as a late substitute. But the Muscovite has knocked out Levon Aronian and Vlad Kramnik, the two prime favourites, while Gelfand eliminated the US chess champion Gata Kamsky ... Posted by brobishkin | ability-tw.com 8/13/2002 23:18:47 Great game...Message: Took a chance on the (3.Bc4) move (out of book) But played a sharp middle game and an excellent endgame... I think with his (Black) (too many) pawn moves in the opening help give you an edge in development... Keep on pushing wood... Bro... P.S. Got your E-Mail... And I agree with you... I'm just comfortable with Silmans method of thought is all... But in the end, it is whatever works, isn't it?... Thanks again... ——— Gelfand to Play Grischuk in Candidates’ Finals — The final two players in the World Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia, were anything but expected when the chess event began. Alexander Grischuk of Russia and Boris Gelfand of Israel won playoffs on Monday to advance to the final, which begins on Thursday. Grischuk beat Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, a former world chess champion, and Gelfand defeated Gata Kamsky of the United States. Kramnik was one of the favorites before the candidates matches began, but he could not beat Grischuk in the regulation part of their match. He came close in the fourth and last game, until an oversight by Kramnik allowed Grischuk to escape from a losing position. From the beginning, Grischuk’s strategy seemed ... Posted by taoistlunatic | ability-tw.com 8/14/2002 17:34:34 I was black in that game, Bro!Message: And I won with my too many pawn moves! ——— Chess: When going gung-ho doesn't work — Subtlety is often the key to unlocking pawn endgames. We continue our theme of pawn endgames. White may be a pawn up, but care is required to force a win. RB: It's tempting simply to go 1 Kb4, gobble up Black's queenside pawns and hurl the a- and b-pawns down the chess board to promote. But that would mean allowing Black to capture the two e-pawns and queen on f1. White would still have an extra pawn, but in a queen endgame it would take more technical skill than I possess to be confident of victory. So instead I'm looking at 1 Kd3 and 1 e4. I think both work, but I'm going to go for the immediate pawn advance because it has the added advantage of ... Posted by taoistlunatic | ability-tw.com 8/14/2002 17:36:26 And black played the opening excellentlyMessage: my development was actually superior than white's by move #12 or so. Posted by brobishkin | ability-tw.com 8/14/2002 20:19:06 So sorry...Message: I stand corrected... Then I should say "his third move Bc4 was risky and didn't quite pan out"... Bro... |