his game is a wonderful tactical battle in the Semi-Slav Noteboom with the great Rudolf Spielmann from their 1932 match which Eliskases won by 3 wins to 2.
The really amazing thing for me is that on the line where black advances a5-a4, sometimes engines like a3, and then on ba to play something like qc7 (not to recapture the pawn). This challenges my understanding of chess... but I've played it (in rapid) and won, and I really like this plan in fact. But it's amazing- three tempi with the a-pawn, a5-a4-a3, just to have it captured, then not even to recapture, but to stand quite nicely. Developing the rook by sacrificing the pawn in front of it... diffusing a3... but still, had the computer not suggested it, never would I have come up with such a plan! Nor is it clear to me "why" it is good (although I have convinced myself that indeed I like and am more than willing to play the resulting black position).
Yes indeed! These are the things that make me question what I have understood about chess and whether my feelings about tempi, what you can get away with, some structures are just falling very short in many ways! A bit unsettling but really interesting!
Great game again! At 23'50" you say that Re1 is not yet a threat because of Nf3, but actually after gf! (to prevent any 0-0 with check after Qxf1 Kxf1) Qxe1 Rf1 I can't find a way for Black to survive...
his game is a wonderful tactical battle in the Semi-Slav Noteboom with the great Rudolf Spielmann from their 1932 match which Eliskases won by 3 wins to 2.
The really amazing thing for me is that on the line where black advances a5-a4, sometimes engines like a3, and then on ba to play something like qc7 (not to recapture the pawn). This challenges my understanding of chess... but I've played it (in rapid) and won, and I really like this plan in fact. But it's amazing- three tempi with the a-pawn, a5-a4-a3, just to have it captured, then not even to recapture, but to stand quite nicely. Developing the rook by sacrificing the pawn in front of it... diffusing a3... but still, had the computer not suggested it, never would I have come up with such a plan! Nor is it clear to me "why" it is good (although I have convinced myself that indeed I like and am more than willing to play the resulting black position).
Yes indeed! These are the things that make me question what I have understood about chess and whether my feelings about tempi, what you can get away with, some structures are just falling very short in many ways! A bit unsettling but really interesting!
Great game again!
At 23'50" you say that Re1 is not yet a threat because of Nf3, but actually after gf! (to prevent any 0-0 with check after Qxf1 Kxf1) Qxe1 Rf1 I can't find a way for Black to survive...
Ah yes that seems right indeed!