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| Posted by jstevens1 intochess.com 12/30/2008 10:08:22 Play online chess |  Subject: Messrs Short & Korchnoi Cop Old Matey!Message: I will now talk about Nigel Short:- 1. Nigel Short is playing white against a guy called Belyavsky in Linares 1992. The position on the board before the checkmate in a 2 piece endgame is as follows:- White: 1 white pawn on b5, one white bishop on d3, one white knight on e3, white king on e5, white pawns on g2 and h3. Black: 1 lsb on b7, one black knight on e8, black king on f8, black pawns on f7, g5 and h4. Here it comes: Nigel Short plays 1. Nd5 and black replies with f6+. Short plays 2. Ke6?? and is checkmated by Bc8! 2. Now for Victor Korchnoi. Victor Korchnoi is black in a Q & P endgame against a guy called Rogers. This match was played in Biel 1986. The pieces are set up as follows:- White: white queen on a5 and white pawns on a3, c4, f3, g2 and h4, white king on h2. Black: black king on d6, black pawns on d2, e6, f7 and f4 and a black queen on e3. Now come the following moves:- Korchnoi played 1. ........ Qd4, Rogers replied with Qd8+ and Korchnoi moved his king to c5, the move was given a double question mark as white delivered mate with 2. Qc7#. Hope you guys can follow all that! Don't we all get that horrid sinking feeling when your opponent calls mate on you when playing OTB or you unexpectedly get a pm from gameknot saying "Game Lost (checkmate), new rating ....." (thanks in part though to the checkmate detector on analyse the board all my losses on gameknot have been resignations!) but I have been snap mated when I played chess OTB so I did get that experience. But at least if it happens to you you can now say, it happened to a grandmaster! Hope you've enjoyed your Christmas and have had some really nice presents! Cheers and bye for now. Joanne |
| Posted by grundnorm intochess.com 12/30/2008 11:33:41 Play online chess | Nigel Short mated again.... Message: 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 d5 6.O-O O-O 7.b3 Bd7 8.Ba3 Nc6 9.Qc1 a5 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Nc3 Be8 12.Qe3 dxc4 13.bxc4 Rd8 14.Rfd1 Ng4 15.Qf4 Bf7 16.Rab1 e5 17.dxe5 Rxd1+ 18.Rxd1 Qc5 19.Ng5 Bxc4 20.Nd5 Nd8 21.e6 Bxd5 22.Rxd5 Qa3 23.Rd7 Nc6 24.Bxc6 bxc6 25.e7 Re8 26.Qc4+ Kh8 27.Nf7+ Kg8 28.Nh6+ Kh8 29.Qg8+ Rxg8 30.Nf7# |
| Posted by vulpecula intochess.com 12/30/2008 14:14:10 Play online chess | world championship mate Message: Regards, Guy |
| Posted by ionadowman intochess.com 12/30/2008 18:51:18 Play online chess | The interesting thing ... Message: Short-Belyavsky: w B, N & 3P each, but White has the more space. No harm in White attempting to extract a bit more from the position. What's the danger? You certainly wouldn't expect even a help-mate to be possible with the White K in the middle of the board and so little material about. But there it is, in just 2 moves. Rogers-Korchnoi: b Black has a pawn within one square of promotion. Surely he must win? But promotion is not immediately possible: 1...d1=Q?? 2.Qd8+ Kc5 3.Qxd1 etc. Naturally, one doesn't expect bad things from the lone, unsupported White Queen, so after 1...Qd4, Korchnoi must have thought that White would either take up a passive position by 2.Qd1, or run out of checks. Clearly he had no reason to concern himself after 2.Qd8+, surely?? H'mmm - 2...Ke5 don't look so good: 3.Qg5+ Ke6 (not 3...f5?? 4.Qg7+ wins for White) 4.Qd8+ with a perpetual. Well, it stands to reason that with more room on the Q-side the Black king will be safer there: 2...Kc5 3.Qc7# Remarkable. |
| Posted by ionadowman intochess.com 12/30/2008 19:15:21 Play online chess | Looking at the Timman-Short game... Message: Here's the position again after Black's 24th move: Timman-Short w 25.e7 Re8 and now checkmate is forced: 26.Qc4+ Kh8 27.Nf7+ Kg8 28.Nh6+ Kh8 29.Qg8+ Rxg8 30.Nf7# Just to illustrate how often that mating motif crops up, this was from a Blitz game on GK nearly 3 years ago. I had the Black pieces: b 1...g3+ 2.Kg1 Qd4+ 3.Kh1 Nf2+ 4.Kg1 Nh3+ 5.Kh1 Qg1+ 6.Rg1 Nf2# Cheers, Ion |
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