Thursday, January 08, 2009

What happened next? VII


From a 1990s grandmaster tournament: Black to play. What happened next?

5 comments:

Tom Chivers said...

Is this the 'odd one out' in the series, and black just played a normal move and the game continued!?

Anonymous said...

surely it's the one where Black was about to play a normal move, then nearly played it, then went oh-what-the-hell-I'm-going-to-play-something-else-anyway?

seani

Jack Rudd said...

I know this one. Black picked up the d7 knight, moved it to c5, and then realized that 1...Nc5?? loses to 2.Bc6, so hastily moved it to f8 instead. Whether he removed his hand from it while it was on c5 is the crucial question.

Anonymous said...

Mmm, but he was the reigning world champion after all ... and he would never lose to a lady, would he?

Anonymous said...

J'adoubovich!

PG