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Subject: Re: a strange game of Victor Korchnoi

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 08:34:01 03/01/03

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On February 28, 2003 at 07:05:38, Uri Blass wrote:

>[Event "Beer Sheba ISR"]
>[Site "Beer Sheba ISR"]
>[Date "1984.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Korchnoi, Viktor L"]
>[Black "Diker, Michael"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "E15"]
>[WhiteElo "2635"]
>[PlyCount "47"]
>[EventDate "1984.??.??"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Nc3 Bb7 8. Bg2
>O-O 9. O-O d5 10. cxd5 exd5 11. Re1 Na6 12. Ne5 c5 13. Be3 Re8 14. dxc5 Bxc5
>15. Bxc5 bxc5 16. Nd3 Qe7 17. Na4 Rac8 18. Qd2 Qxe2 19. Qxe2 Rxe2 20. Naxc5
>Nxc5 21. Nxc5 Ba8 22. a4 a5 23. Ne4 Rcc2 24. Bf3 1-0
>
>You can see that this game has a lot of blunders.
>Analyzing it from the end to the beginning here is the list of mistakes.
>
>1)24...Rxe1+ is winning so there was no reason forblack to resign
>2)White could win the game by 24.Rxe2 and there is no reason for the stupid
>24.Bf3
>3)Black could win the game by 23...Rxe1+ so there is no reason for 23...Rcc2
>4)White could win by 23.Rxe2
>5)black could win by 22...Rxe1+
>6)White could win by 22.Rxe2
>7)black could win by 21...Rxe1+
>8)21.Rxe2 is clearly better than the game move(it is probably losing but at
>least it gives white better practical chances.
>9)20...Rxe1+ was the simplest way to win for black.
>10)white could win by 20.Rxe2 instead of the game move.
>11)19.Qxe2 is a simple win but 20.Rxe2 is even more simple.
>12)18...Qxe2 is a losing blunder and stupid tactical mistake that only beginners
>may play.
>
>I found that games in 2 sites:
>1)Dann Corbit site when I downloaded E15.pgn
>2)http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html when I search for games in the
>releavant opening in the historical archive.
>
>I do not believe that the players really played the moves that they were
>supposed to play.
>
>Can someone post the game with the right moves?(Maybe one of the player remember
>the game and can tell us the right moves).
>
>Uri

The correct move is "11. Rc1" and not "11 . Re1".

This game was published incorrect on the Essentia CD in 1997 by "Chess for
Less".  No we know why it is "less".

The site:

http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/ does have the correct gamescore which
is impressive, since so may databases now have the wrong score.



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