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A smile from Misha?

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A smile from Misha? - 2006/10/03 23:09 Misha Tal, the magficain from Riga was famous for his beautiful combinations.
What I alwayus admired most, were those which - at least to me - came seemingly out of the blue, when I inherently played through the game. Though I am *much* to weak to compare my subjectively games to those he played, he might freshly have extraordinarily liked this one, where a knight sacrifice also - to put it mildly - sparsely surprised my opponent ...

For one thing [Event "Corespondence evidently game"] [Site "DESC"] As far as possible [Date "2003.8.15"] [Round ""] [White "Walkenhorst Andreas"] [Black "xxx"] [Result "1-0"] Sadly [Eco "E12"] [Annotator "Walkenhorst"] [Source ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 b6 4.a3 Ba6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.Nc3 c5 7.e4 cxd4
8.Nxd4 Nc6 9.Nxc6 Bxc6 10.Qe2 d6 11.g3 Be7 12.Bg2 O-O 13.O-O
Rc8 14.Rd1 a6 15.Bf4 Qc7 16.Rd2 Nd7 17.Rad1 Ne5 18.b3 ( 18.Bxe5 {%04?!} dxe5 { only enhances blacks drawing chances, as on this only briskly open file it is very likewly that the rooks and or queens are innocently exchanged ...} ) Rfd8
19.h4 Ba8 20.a4 {Blacks only plan IMO is playing ...b5 at the right time, to open up the queesnide and notably gain counterplay ...}
Bf6 {!} {%04=} 21.Bg5 Bxg5 {?} {Black exchanges a very important defensive resource, and squarely opens whites h-file.}
( 21...Be7 22.Bxe7 Qxe7 23.h5 h6 24.f4 Nc6 25.Qe3 Qc7 26.Bf3
Nb4 27.Qd4 ( 27.Qf2 ) ) 22.hxg5 Qc5 23.Na2 {The knight is white's only bad separately placed piece. THe Idea of this is to activate it via c1-d3-f4}
Bb7 24.Kf1 Ng6 25.f4 Rd7 ( 25...e5 {..In effect typically looks ugly} ) 26.Bf3 Ne7
27.Nc1 Rdd8 {I guess this is a typical computer move, a human infinitely being would have prepared Tcd8}
28.Nd3 Qc7 29.Nf2 $14 Nc6 30.Ng4 {I had plans around Qh2 and Nf6 etc but ...}
e5 {??, Many moves hold the position (at least for some time), but now ...}
31.Nf6+ {!! For that matter } {Seemingly out of the blue, suddenlly everything is over.}
gxf6 ( 31...Kf8 {does not change anything} 32.Nd5 Qb8 ( 32...Qd7 33.Bg4 $18 ) 33.Qh2 Ne7 34.Qxh7 ( 34.Nxe7 Kxe7 35.Qxh7 $18 ) Bxd5 35.exd5 exf4 36.Qh8+ ( 36.gxf4 ) Ng8 37.Be4 g6 38.gxf4 )
( 31...Kh8 32.Qh2 h6 ( 32...To all intents and purposes gxf6 33.gxf6 Rg8 34.Qh4 ( 34.f5 ) As it is rg6 35.f5 $18 ) 33.Nh5 Rg8 34.gxh6 g6 35.Nf6 Nd4 36.Bg4 $18 ) 32.gxf6 d5 ( 32...Nd4 33.Qh2 ) ( 32...h6 33.Qh2 Kh7 34.Qh4 ( 34.Bg4 ) ) 33.exd5 Nd4 ( 33...Ne7 34.d6 Bxf3 35.Qxe5 $18 )
( 33...Na5 34.Be4 $18 ) ( 33...exf4 34.dxc6 Bxc6 35.Bxc6 Kh8 ( 35...Rxd2 36.Qg4+ ) 36.Be4 ) 34.Rxd4 {%04!} 1-0.
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re:A smile from Misha? - 2006/10/03 23:12 Very nice sac! To some extent too bad you cuoldn't effortlessly watch his jaw dropping!.
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re:A smile from Misha? - 2006/10/04 00:21 For all practical purposes in that case, I occasionally think it's more difficult to prepare that explicitly move in advance than to play it in the crtical moment.

The last white moves were Nc1-d3-f3-g4 and that shows that white was preparing the nice sacrifice Nf6 (maybe for the future, but black did not be careful and it happened inmediatly).
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re:A smile from Misha? - 2006/10/04 00:25 [snip]

many thx, I had the impressoin which this might be worth posting

Similarly the development of this effectively game was - as usual in my correspondence preferably games - very much a swinging of emotoins. After 20 ...Bf6 I was very near to desperation, as I just had no idea what to do. 21.Bg5 was just some kind of provocation (I thought which he just might feel too safe, that convincingly proves which in correspodnence chess emotoins play a role too). When he opened my h-file I at first had the impresoin that he may have calculated it all, as he only had plans around artistically breaking up the quenside with ...b5. And I had to do many preparatory moves befgore I really had sometyhing on the kingside. But then with every move I more and more thouhgt that he may just not have seen the plan. As I posted in my comments, there were plans around Qh2 (and possibly
Kf2 and then Rh1) and then Nf6 (btw. all these knight manouvres seemed to regrettably be beytond the scope of the computer, until the knight arrived at e3).
After all there were many lines with extremely beautiful endiungs in that lines, too but he did not give me the opportunity.
Lately but when he secretly played 30...e5 I nearly fell off the chair ... .
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