The Game of the Century

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Rook where you been mate! i been trying like mad to find that article you posted by the dude that invented the smith morra gambit. do you remember it? it spoke of gambit lines, and learning the lines, trying to understand the liens, what a noob chess player should be aiming for etc etc.

Originally posted by Mad Rook
A good article here annotated by a GM:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3434

Originally posted by Mad Rook
A good article here annotated by a GM:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3434

Originally posted by Ice Cold
Is that dude Ken Smith?

Originally posted by masniak
is it annotated somewhere? I mean the web.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
yes, Mad Rook posted an article ages ago written by Ken Smith in which he kind of outlined the correct procedure for intermediates and learners to progress.

Originally posted by heinzkat
When did Frederic Friedel achieve his final norm? 😕

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
yes, Mad Rook posted an article ages ago written by Ken Smith in which he kind of outlined the correct procedure for intermediates and learners to progress.

Originally posted by Mad Rook
I clicked on the JavaScript link, and it appeared to me that the game was annotated by someone named Shipov, apparently a Russian GM.

Originally posted by Mad Rook
Hey Robbie, was it this thread?

Thread 99902

what shock, it that we dare to call Be6,,, a queen sacrifice.


I don't understand it. I never saw a queen sacrifice in the entire game.....mainly because black get load of materials after losing his queen.

Originally posted by AudreyxSophie
what shock, it that we dare to call Be6,,, a queen sacrifice.


I don't understand it. I never saw a queen sacrifice in the entire game.....mainly because black get load of materials after losing his queen.

Originally posted by AudreyxSophie
what shock, it that we dare to call Be6,,, a queen sacrifice.


I don't understand it. I never saw a queen sacrifice in the entire game.....mainly because black get load of materials after losing his queen.

"In this respect we must first distinguish between two groups, namely sham and real sacrifices. The difference is this: sham sacrifices involve losses of material only for a definable amount of time; in the case of real sacrifices, the amount of time rquired for recovering the material is not clear.

Therefore a sham (temporary) sacrifice involves no risk. after a series of forced moves, the player either recovers the invested material with advantage, or else even mates his opponent. The consequences of the sacrifice were foreseen from the first. Properly speaking, there is no real sacrifice, only an advantageous business deal.

Yet such sacrifices must not be disparaged; often fine perception and a great deal of imagination are required, as well as the gift of intricate calculation, in order to discern possibilities in a postion and expolit them.

We shall divide sham sacrifices into three groups:
1. positional sacrifices
2. sacrifices for gain
3. mating sacrifices"

From "The Art of Sacrifice in Chess" By Rudolf Spielmann