A nice win against an IM

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
Yes you are right. Either way it's a nice tactics problem though.

That was an awesome game. 🙂 I'll have to try Nxc3 out next chance I get, and PTSD says that the move was introduced by GM Boris Alterman.

Nice tactic too, and the annotations were very nicely done. 🙂



Here's an example of black playing the mainline, that didn't turn out too well. 🙁

Game 2579064

Originally posted by wormwood
in case somebody missed it the last time, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9k5oBgaZGI


and nice game, tony!

Polgar only had a bare king left when the flag fell, I thought that if you didn't have mating material, the game was draw?
Or am I out of date?

Originally posted by GreatSantini
Polgar only had a bare king left when the flag fell, I thought that if you didn't have mating material, the game was draw?
Or am I out of date?

It looks like she has King + rook.

Originally posted by cmsMaster
It looks like she has King + rook.

All I see is one white piece, but Korchnoi was being a dick.

Originally posted by GreatSantini
doo00OOOD....you beat up on a 70 year old man?

Still not as bad as those sadists who can boast recent wins over Korchnoi.

Originally posted by GreatSantini
All I see is one white piece, but Korchnoi was being a dick.

I think both of the players would've noticed if it was a draw. 🙂

Originally posted by wormwood
I think both of the players would've noticed if it was a draw. 🙂

And there's a rook on b3.

Originally posted by wormwood
in case somebody missed it the last time, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9k5oBgaZGI


and nice game, tony!

you really want to see korchnoi grumpy look at this commercial of his i posted on my blog, it's him playing a cow, a promo for milk
http://pawntorook4.blogspot.com/2006/12/milk-it-does-body-good.html

Originally posted by cmsMaster
And there's a rook on b3.

OK, I see it, but it's not a rook, it's a pawn, which is indeed considered mating material. My mistake, the video is very fuzzy.

Originally posted by GreatSantini
OK, I see it, but it's not a rook, it's a pawn, which is indeed considered mating material. My mistake, the video is very fuzzy.

Then how does it move from a3 to b3? 😛

Originally posted by cmsMaster
Then how does it move from a3 to b3? 😛

hell i don't know and don't care anymore i can't make sense out of the fuzzy video