This game was featured in The Times chess column this week. If you're not already familiar with it, you might enjoy it - I thought it was superb. The annotations are as published by Ray Keene.
[Event "Wijk aan Zee"] [Date "1995"] [White "Roberto Cifuentes"] [Black "Vadim Zvagintsev"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 b6 7.Be2 Bb7 8.0-0 Be7 9.Rd1 0-0 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Qc7 12.Nc3 c5 13.d5 exd5 14.cxd5 a6 15.Nh4 g6 16.Bh6 Rfe8 17.Qd2 {A superficial move which misplaces the white queen. The threat to d6 is transparent and easily parried} Bd6 18.g3 b5 19.Bf3 b4 20.Ne2 Ne4 21.Qc2 Ndf6 22.Ng2 Qd7 23.Ne3 Rad8 {White's next move is an inaccuracy which allows the tempest to burst over his head} 24.Bg2 Nxf2 {!! A brilliant piece of opportunism, based on the fact that White's 24th move took away a key defender of the g4 square} 25.Kxf2 Rxe3 26.Bxe3 Ng4+ 27.Kf3 {There is no turning back as 27 Kg1 Nxe3 leaves White with a manifestly lost position} Nxh2+ 28.Kf2 Ng4+ 29.Kf3 Qe6 {A superb way of introducing his queen into the attack} 30.Bf4 Re8 31.Qc4 {Apparently this move holds but White is in for a shock. If instead 31 Bxd6 Qe3+ 32 Kxg4 Bc8+ 33 Kh4 Qh6#} Qe3+ {!! A fantastic denouement. Black offers his queen as well to hunt White's king to perdition} 32.Bxe3 Rxe3+ 33.Kxg4 Bc8+ 34.Kg5 h6+ 35.Kxh6 Re5 0-1
Amazing, because it would have been necessary to have calculated up until the end of the game when the Queen was sacced (including the double threats of Bf8# and Rh5# which clinched it).
Awesome 🙂
Originally posted by vivify I don't see what you mean. This apears (to me) far from mate. Definitely a bad position for white, but I just don't see a forced mate here.
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in the final position bf8 is mate, white cant stop it
Originally posted by vivify I don't see what you mean. This apears (to me) far from mate. Definitely a bad position for white, but I just don't see a forced mate here.
Perhaps you are looking at a board at home where the pieces are set up in error.
If you refer to the original game score in the original post, black's last move in the game is ...Re5, and there is nothing white can do to prevent black's planned next move, which will be ...Bf8 mate.
In the immortal words of Bill Paxton, "Game over, man, game over!"
Originally posted by Paul Leggett Perhaps you are looking at a board at home where the pieces are set up in error.
If you refer to the original game score in the original post, black's last move in the game is ...Re5, and there is nothing white can do to prevent black's planned next move, which will be ...Bf8 mate.
In the immortal words of Bill Paxton, "Game over, man, game over!"
Oh wait, I see it now. I was looking at mate with the rook instead of the bishop. bf8 = bishop to last rank.
Sorry guys, I'm still getting the hang of chess notation. I apologize, and thank you for your help.
Amazing Queen sac
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