| Sep-17-03 | | ughaibu: Here's another entertaining game featuring Duras. |
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Sep-18-03
 | | Benzol: <ughaibu> like the final move. |
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| Sep-19-03 | | tud: Duras was a chess studies composer. I remember some good ones. |
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| Mar-30-04 | | nikolaas: So do I. How about this one?
White: ♔b8, ♖h2, ♗h6, ♙b7, ♙b6
Black: ♔d7, ♖e2, ♙g2
White to move and win. |
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| Jun-07-04 | | Calculoso: Wow, this is a great game. I'm surprised there have not been more comments. The final couple of moves are full of complications and intricacies. Very nice. |
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Jun-08-04
 | | Gypsy: It won 1-st Brilliance of Vienna 1907. |
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| Nov-26-04 | | kostich in time: It was either Tartakover or Marco who called this game a "duel with rapiers at the edge of precipice".Duras and Spielmann pack a lot of drama into this game. |
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Mar-28-05
| | Gypsy: "Ceskoslovensky Sach", 1965 published a note by Ms. Inna Vesela with an alternative way to finish the game -- 21.Nd5+! cxd6 22.Qa6+ Kd7 23.Qb7+ Ke6 24.Nc5+! dxc5 25.Qxc6+ Ke7 26.Bxc5+, and mate next. |
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Dec-18-07
 | | chancho: Duras had to give up playing in tournaments because his job did not allow him the time to play. His last tournament was Mannheim 1914. |
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| Apr-12-08 | | Ulhumbrus: After 36 Rd8+ the black King cannot take the Rook because then the King walks into the fork Nb7+, and the black Rook cannot take the Rook , as that unpins the White QB and so frees the White QB to take the black Queen. |
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| Jan-12-09 | | ahmadov: Great! I could find the last move while playing this on Guess the Move... |
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| Apr-06-12 | | King Death: The final move is a great example of an overloading tactic, thanks to <Phony Benoni> for bringing attention to this street fight! "A mistress cannot serve two masters." A line from The Man With The Golden Gun. |
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| Apr-06-12 | | sevenseaman: What a beauty from Oldrich. I foresaw the moves from 22. g5 till the end. One feels glued as if OTB. (If 26...Kxd8 27. Qd2+ Qd6 28. Nd6+ is a royal fork). What Duras for you!
The game goes into my collection and I hope it does not turn up on the POTD forum too soon.
Thanks <PB>. |
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Apr-06-12
 | | Penguincw: The rook will have to capture, in which white will simply take the queen, then a knight, and reach a won position. |
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| Mar-28-15 | | A.T PhoneHome: In the ending: 26...Rxd8 27.Bxc5, following ...Bxb6 or ...Bxb4. And if King takes, 26...Kxd8 then 27.Nb7+ forking Black King and Queen. Great one by Mr. Duras! |
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| Sep-21-16 | | newzild: This could make a good Christmas pun, given Spielmann's surprise at the end: "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Romantic." |
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Sep-21-16
 | | keypusher: <newzild> Makes Spielmann sound like a drunk. Maybe "red-faced"? |
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| Oct-04-16 | | newzild: <True dat, but note the following quote from Reuben Fine: “Spielmann’s main concern in life, apart from chess, was to accumulate enough money to buy limitless quantities of beer!” |
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May-25-18
 | | zanzibar: <One good sac deserves another> |
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May-25-18
| | zanzibar: <One good book deserves another> https://www.amazon.com/Oldrich-Dura... https://www.amazon.com/Art-Sacrific... . |
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| Jun-15-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: 18... Rhe8 is a blunder. SF: 18... Bd6= |
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| Jun-15-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: PS even more spectacular is: 21. Nd6+ cxd6 22. Qa6+
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