Annotated by last_archimedean (1564): This game was played in a 1902 tournament in Budapest. In the first 13 moves, Maroczy sacrificed his Queen, won Forgacs' Queen Rook, and promoted a Pawn to new Queen. In the spirit of "whatever you can do, I can do better" it took Forgacs just *eight* moves after that to duplicate the feat -- sacrificing his Queen, promoting a Pawn to new Queen, and winning Maroczy's Queen Rook! Maroczy plays a… |
Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): Some of my readers will know, that when one of the lovely ladies in the "sixth sense" team ask me to annotate a game for them, I find it very hard to resist! So this is a favour for the lovely Laura, also known as penelope80. So she starts conventionally. But this is a very unusual reply, although the English grandmaster Tony Miles used it once to beat World Chess Champion Karpov. I knew Tony… |
Annotated by fiercequeen (1200): don't ask me why: I prefer, being on top... ? no idea, what Black is building in there: we let him be, for a while... time, to do something about it... let him have it, for a while... Knights, flying in... for some reason, Black timed out… |
Annotated by pcshark11 (1200): Might as well take the center if he's going to start that way... I have complete control!!! 4...b4 was the right move. I'm not going to let him attack the flank without me also attacking the flank. Here is the first sacrifice I do. I do this hoping to trap his Queen. Here, I offer up exf5 Qxd3. This lets his Queen out, but will let me get a vicious attack. Instead, he… |