| May-18-13 |
Karpov vs D J Ten Geuzendam, 1992
bigmell: the only reason you would play the (insert opening name here) against Karpov in a simul is because you want a lesson. Does anyone expect to beat the former world champion in a simul? Are there any openings where the ex world champion ...
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D35 |
| May-18-13 |
Luke McShane
Intrepid Spiff: Luke, I am your father.
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| May-18-13 |
Karjakin vs Topalov, 2013
DcGentle: <PawnSac>: 41. Rg4 Rbb5 42. Qe2 Rxd5 43. Rxd5 Rxd5 44. Qf3 Rb5 45. Qxb7+ Rxb7
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B96 |
| May-18-13 |
Norway Chess Tournament (2013)
Eyal: <So Anand did a <Wang Hao>, again.> Yeah, as in the final round of Tata - Wang Hao vs Anand, 2013 . I think it's Anand's own expression - after winning the final round and the tournament in Baden-Baden, he told Trent in the final
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| May-18-13 |
Kenneth Rogoff
Colonel Mortimer: Taking <OCF>'s line on eyewitness testimony, what we have is far more solid than biblical truth. <Hmm> Stay asleep and keep believing - I'm sure you would agree that's preferable to awakening your giant intellect.
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| May-18-13 |
Staunton vs Von Der Lasa, 1853
LIFE Master AJ: < [25.f4 Qh3 26.f3 Rg8+ 27.Kf2 Qh4+ 28.Ke3 Qxf4+ 29.Kf2 Bd8! 30.Qe3 Bh4+ 31.Ke2 Rg2+ 32.Rf2 <(32.Qf2 Bg5 33.Ke1 <(33.Qxg2 Qe3#)> 33...Qd2+ 34.Qxd2 Bxd2#)> 32...Qxe3+ 33.Kxe3 Bxf2+ 34.Ke2 Bh4+ 35.Ke3 Nf1#] ...
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C65 |
| May-18-13 |
Kibitzer's Café
Wayne Proudlove: Metallica, "Enter Sandman", Moscow 1991:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7w...
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| May-18-13 |
Blackburne vs F J Lee, 1904
Phony Benoni: <My Face> Not quite. There's a reason it's called Anderssen's Opening: Anderssen vs Morphy, 1858
And the database actually has games with it dating back to 1839: Kieseritzky vs H H Boncourt, 1839
Now, it's now been the most
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A00 |
| May-18-13 |
Jeremy Lim
Strongest Force: "Shine Brite Like A Diamond"
These are words from Rehinna's latest hit song. J.R. Smith should bite the bullit and use these words to inspire himself to victory tonight. Let J-Z's 40-40 club belong to President Obama when he ...
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| May-18-13 |
F Reinfeld vs Fine, 1930
JimNorCal: Is 48. Nxa6 worth considering!
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C14 |
| May-18-13 |
Wesley So
Fiona Macleod: And maybe you will be the first one to explain why 27. Qb2 was better when after 27...Ra7 white would still have the problem of his N trapped.
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| May-18-13 |
Svidler vs Karjakin, 2013
Ulhumbrus: Perhaps Alekhine was right to say that two fools (bishops) always win against a rook but not three fools (two bishops and a bad player)
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C65 |
| May-18-13 |
Viswanathan Anand
Uparamesh: If Karpov himself was taken care of by Anand in this way on those days what is so great in taking care of one of the Soviet Gms in less than 3 minutes?
Ha!! I am tired of arguing and explaining and winning points in debates.When Anand ...
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| May-18-13 |
Carlsen vs Wang Hao, 2013
Ulhumbrus: 9 Bxe7 ?! concedes the bishop pair, and although White gets the d5 square for a knight, the knight may be at best an adequate defender against the bishop pair. Instead of 11 Nd2, 11 Ne1 heads for c2 and e3 to grip further the d5 square ...
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A30 |
| May-18-13 |
Nisipeanu vs S Gordon, 2013
bright1: Very impressive attack by White starting with move 16
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E54 |
| May-18-13 |
M Bluebaum vs A Kislinsky, 2013
bright1: White's move 52 was very clever
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E94 |
| May-18-13 |
Anand vs J L Hammer, 2013
Ulhumbrus: Instead of 11 d6, 11 Bc4 0r 11 Nf3 tries to compete White's development After 11...e5 White can hardly claim any advantage at all, let alone enough to justify playing for mate by 12 h4? The attack is unsound and can be forecast to fail ...
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D85 |
| May-18-13 |
Prins vs G Fontein, 1938
profK: 6...f5 has got to be better than the exchange.
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D05 |
| May-18-13 |
Serper vs A J Mestel, 1990
FSR: Houdini 3 gives 28...Rxf5 as dead equal. After 28...Rg8??, White should have played 29.g4!, winning easily. 29.Rh6+? was much inferior, as was 30.g6? (30.f6 still kept a large advantage for White). Black should have responded to 30.g6? with ...
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E70 |
| May-18-13 |
Geraldo Seabra
Fiona Macleod: Is he an animal? A woman's undergarment? Or a body of water?
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| May-18-13 |
Pelikan vs Menchik, 1936
Nerwal: Brilliant endgame by white. Those rook checks at moves 57-59 were a very bad idea.
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A03 |
| May-18-13 |
Biographer Bistro
thomastonk: <Phony Benoni> Thank you very much. The question arose, when I saw within a few days one such organisation founded in 1871, and another one a quarter of a century later. I will read that book on the fifth congress.
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| May-18-13 |
Kotov vs Kholmov, 1971
HeMateMe: <Benoni> I liked your link to math/engineering jokes. Especially the "not my job" road striper photo.
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E14 |
| May-18-13 |
Gunsberg vs Von Gottschall, 1887
GauraNitai: @Al2009: After 27.Nf4, black has 24...dxc5. Then if 25. Nxd5, it is met by 25...f5! and it will take time for white to clear the road to victory (although assured). If 26.Nf6+ then 26...Kf7 and white has lost all advantage and the ...
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B34 |
| May-18-13 |
Magnus Carlsen
Appaz: <<pbercker> just kidding> Too late, you will soon be cited out of context and used as an example of <Carlsen-fans> in general.
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| May-18-13 |
Thillaye Chatard
thomastonk: Did this player ever exist?
His only game here can be found in other databases as "Lasker vs Chartard,E./Thillaye, Paris 1901", which indicates a consultation game. Moreover, the "Deutsche Schachzeitung" reports in January 1902 on a ...
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| May-18-13 |
Howard Staunton
Caissanist: G.H. Diggle, in his fine account of Staunton's 1843 match with St. Amant, attributes Staunton's spotty later results to a near-fatal bout of pneumonia in October 1844, which left him with a heart condition that seems to have worsened ...
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| May-18-13 |
Edgar Colle
backrank: Reinfeld's book on Colle is rather good:
Game Collection: Colle's chess masterpieces by Fred Reinfeld Maybe it's still the only book on this remarkable attacking player?
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| May-18-13 |
Gennady Sosonko
brankat: Happy Birthday GM Sosonko!
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| May-18-13 |
Gelfand vs Shirov, 1993
wajit: So I guess no one has found anything else about this position or disproved what I mentioned. Parametd no comments?? No nothing huh? Didn't think so. and for The Focus still not sure what your talking about. But I guess my info will stand as
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D15 |
| May-18-13 |
Yaroslav Zherebukh
akinov: very very impressive !
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| May-18-13 |
Tseshkovsky vs V Inkiov, 1983
LIFE Master AJ: If anyone comes up with some really good analysis, I will post it on my website.
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C63 |
| May-18-13 |
D Edelman vs J Curdo, 1983
LIFE Master AJ: << <Tiggler> Never mind his rating: let his games speak for him. This one certainly does. <<<>>> >> Yup ... no argument there.
<RookFile> Post the PGN on Curdo's player page ... I am ...
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C44 |
| May-18-13 |
Wang Hao
SatelliteDan: Congrats GM Wang Hao on your win!
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| May-17-13 |
Svidler vs Topalov, 2013
Everett: <perfidious> I can agree with that.
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B51 |
| May-17-13 |
Gata Kamsky
tamar: Talk about blindfold chess skills!
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| May-17-13 |
Veselin Topalov
juan31: Vamos Master Topalov Usted puede ganar el siguiente partido en Noruega!!!
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| May-17-13 |
Eva Moser
waustad: Supposedly they will be broadcasting the games. Look here: http://www.chess.at/
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| May-17-13 |
Jon Ludvig Hammer
EvanTheTerrible: He is currently having a miserable performance in Norway Chess 2013. 1.5/8 so far with Nakamura tomorrow. I hope that he is able to come back from this. Though, the field is much stronger than him. He is more than 100 elo points ...
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| May-17-13 |
Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013)
twinlark: He is. I always look forward to our Easter tournament in Canberra when there's an influx of GMs. Ian and Cathy set up the analysis room and he analyses the top games in the event as they unfold while Cathy chases up the moves of the ...
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| May-17-13 |
Eugenio Torre
pinoymaster77: Ayos yun ha, matutuloy ang livegames coverage! Malalaman natin mamaya kung ilang boards! Punta raw epistle,pulsar & nanobrain sa opening at 2pm. Also expected regge and dari to be there,aside of course from spawn2 who could be the ...
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| May-17-13 |
I Hatem
HeMateMe: I used to fantasize about Dr. Joyce Brothers, when I was young and coming of age. < http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag... > who reminded me of Dinah Shore
< http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag... >
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| May-17-13 |
G Karzinins vs S Arslanov, 2008
estrick: White sets himself up for a three-way fork on the 25th move and goes down the exchange
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D32 |
| May-17-13 |
L Cernousek vs K Nuri, 2013
estrick: Nice mating net forces White to lose a rook or resign
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D32 |
| May-17-13 |
Burn vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1906
estrick: There is an error in the score sheet.
9 ...Qd6 is actually Qb6 which threatens White's b-pawn and puts pressure on d4. The error makes several of the moves look nonsensical.
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D32 |
| May-17-13 |
Reti vs Breyer, 1913
Everett: <Gawain> Thank you for your effort. Much appreciated. I guess it is possible that Breyer did not see your last mate when considering 22.. Qe5 23.Qh6 or your first line if Reti responded 23.Rxg7 What about <22..Qe5 23.Rxg7+ Kf8 ...
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C13 |
| May-17-13 |
F Olafsson vs Smyslov, 1959
dmvdc: I was bewildered by 19...Re7 when I was playing over this game from Smyslov's point of view. Happily, then, Smyslov's own annotation to the move reads: <Perhaps an unnecessary move.> Heh.
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A22 |
| May-17-13 |
Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1914
perfidious: <catlover>: The Russian masters who had played in Mannheim were interned at Rastatt, so that what <JimNorCal> states is correct-they were not prisoners of war.
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B20 |
| May-17-13 |
Hans Arild Runde
frogbert: Procrastinating, putting off writing the round 8 report because I'm tired... And postponing it really helps. ;o)
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| May-17-13 |
Wolfgang Heidenfeld
JimNorCal: The book "Draw" is excellent. It went lost in my local library--it had been misfiled in the "Art" section. Someone must have thought the book was about drawing and sketching. He also published a number of excellent articles in the ...
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| May-17-13 |
Hikaru Nakamura
perfidious: <SirRuthless: Naka....(s)hould promptly destroy hammer tomorrow.> Nakamura still actually has to show up and play the game which you have mentally chalked up to his credit.
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| May-17-13 |
Alexander Beliavsky
hellopolgar: So both Alexander Beliavsky and Anna Muzychuk are Ukrainian that emigrated to Slovenia. It seems that Slovenia is a lot richer than Ukraine. (GDP Per capita is 22,192 vs 7,598)
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| May-17-13 |
Anand vs Bologan, 2000
NGambit: A case of being overshadowed by a famous sibling?
Anand vs Bologan, 2003
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C95 |
| May-17-13 |
European Individual Championships (2013)
hellopolgar: IMPRESSIVE performance from the 60-year-old Alexander Beliavsky
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| May-17-13 |
Wilhelm Steinitz
brankat: That's the spirit!
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| May-17-13 |
Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
brankat: R.I.P. GM O'Kelly.
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| May-17-13 |
Nakamura vs Radjabov, 2013
Octal: <ketchuplover:> 41 ... Rxh3+ 42 Kg2 Bxf1+ 42 Kxf1 Rh1+ 43 Kg2 Rg1+ 44 Kh2
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B32 |
| May-17-13 |
Berthold Lasker
TheFocus: It's nice to know this about Berthold Lasker. I wish more of his games were available. Emanuel once remarked that Berthold was a stronger player than himself.
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| May-17-13 |
George Henry Mackenzie
TheFocus: <thomastonk> Thank you for that clarification. I added the following to my collection: <thomastonk> pointed out that these games may not be considered a match: From the BCM, 1883, p. 105: <"The program included a series of
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| May-17-13 |
Winthrop Beach
hellopolgar: Wait a minute...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthr...
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| May-17-13 |
Bela Khotenashvili
hellopolgar: Ah, I see, thanks!
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| May-17-13 |
Spassky vs Fischer, 1972
RandomVisitor: After 13.Kh1
[DIAGRAM] Rybka 4.1 x64:
[0.00] d=26 13...Bd7 14.Nb1 Qb4 15.Qe3 Ne7 16.a3 Qa4 17.Nc3 Qc6 18.Na5 Qc5 19.Qxc5 dxc5 20.Nxb7 Nc6 21.Rab1 Nd4 22.Rb6 Bc6 23.Bf3 Be7 24.Rd1 f5 25.a4 Kf8 26.exf5 Bxf3 27.gxf3 Nxf5 28.Ne4 Ne3
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B97 |
| May-17-13 |
Averbakh vs V Zak, 1947
plang: Nice concluding attack - for Black the difference between a playable middle game and a disaster is razer-thin here
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C83 |
| May-17-13 |
Petrosian vs Smyslov, 1959
dmvdc: <andrewjsacks: And by the way, Smyslov is the most under-appreciated WC.> I don't know about that. He is under-appreciated, to be sure (although he's one of my favorite players). But I think Petrosian is appreciated even less than ...
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D29 |
| May-17-13 |
A Ushenina vs B Khotenashvili, 2013
bright1: White could have tried 17. b5 with the idea that after axb 18. Nxb5 the opponent's queen can be harassed. For example 17. b5 axb 18. Nxb5 Qd7 19. Ne5 Nxe5 20. Rc7
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D53 |
| May-17-13 |
Ljubojevic vs Browne, 1970
wwall: But was 17.Bxe6 the best move? Perhaps just 17.Qxe3 for a safer move. After 17.Bxe6, instead of 17...Bd4, perhaps Black is better off after 17...Qe7, winning the exchange. If 18.Nd5, then 18...Ne5. If 18.Bd4, then 18...Nd4 and 19...Nxc2. ...
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B87 |
| May-17-13 |
I Nepomniachtchi vs Karpov, 2013
harrylime: Yep just seen Qg4 lol
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B10 |
| May-17-13 |
Fischer vs W Beach, 1963
RookFile: 11...0-0-0 might not have been too bad for black. It sure looks better than ...Rb8 for him, which basically did nothing good.
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B06 |
| May-17-13 |
Keres vs Smyslov, 1959
dmvdc: <alexrawlings: Should Keres not have captured the knight on move 31, doubling black's pawns and weakening his king?> A little late to the party, but Smyslov anticipated your question: <Black has gradually improved the positions of ...
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B82 |
| May-17-13 |
McShane vs Jakovenko, 2002
Xeroxx: mcshane up to his usual tricks
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B31 |
| May-17-13 |
Colle vs Vidmar, 1929
Shams: <whiteshark> Happens to me more than anyone on this site, trust me.
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D04 |
| May-17-13 |
Dr. Anthony Saidy
RookFile: <Whitehat1963: what titles might we come up with to characterize the following players: > Don't know about the others, but a good one for Karpov would be "Just win, baby".
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| May-17-13 |
Short vs Adams, 2000
RookFile: I think black was slightly better at the end, and could have considered playing a few more moves.
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C52 |
| May-17-13 |
D Fleetwood vs M W Johnson, 1999
detjo: Actually, he probably couldn't be bothered. This game was apparently played in 1999 when Johnson was playing in the World Championships and saw this as a minor interference.
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B76 |
| May-17-13 |
Spielmann vs Duras, 1912
Bowen Island: Perhaps Duras was short on time and quickly blitzing out his remaining moves.
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C23 |
| May-17-13 |
The World vs Akobian, 2012
DPLeo:
Here's another great game that illustrates how helpless black becomes after a well-timed Nd6! Fischer vs W Beach, 1963
Beach's position crumbles after 22.Nd6+
Enjoy!
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B12 |
| May-17-13 |
Gerard Welling
Gejewe: <Caissanist>: The manoeuvering in the opening, particularly from the white knights, is remarkable to say the least. But it is funny that after the opening a perfectly "normal" position has arisen. Hammer commented on the weird g3.. ...
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| May-17-13 |
A Moiseenko vs S Volkov, 2013
bright1: White's 36th move was very clever. The final position creates an amusing picture.
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D15 |
| May-17-13 |
P Bilguer vs Von Der Lasa, 1838
Twocolors: You are both right of course. However there is still a little trick after:
11..Bg4 12.Ne2!? Bxf3 13.Qxf3, hoping for 13..Qxg5? (Correct would be 13..Ne5), when suddenly white strikes with 14.Qxf7+ Kd8 15.Qf8+ and wins.
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C44 |
| May-17-13 |
Nigel Short
Nigel Short: Does anyone have any pre-1919 BCMs? I would be interested to get hold of them, if you do :)
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| May-17-13 |
Borin Topic
OhioChessFan: David Beckham is retiring.
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| May-17-13 |
J Balogh vs O'Kelly, 1959
Benzol: A fine game from the POTD.
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B06 |
| May-17-13 |
Karjakin vs Nakamura, 2013
Ulhumbrus: One justification for 9...Qc7 instead of 9...Qa5 is that after 9...Qa5 10 g3 b5 11 Nc6 Qb6 does not work because of 12 e5! Qxc6 13 Bg2 (skewering Black's queen and rook) 13...Qb6 14 Bxa8
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B94 |
| May-17-13 |
Beliavsky vs V Laznicka, 2013
iking: White's c and d pawns will march forward after c6 falls....
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D15 |
| May-17-13 |
J L Hammer vs Carlsen, 2013
Boris Schipkov: The position was very drawish.
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E04 |
| May-17-13 |
P Trifunovic vs O'Kelly, 1947
offramp: The symbol for stalemate is a miniature Ford Edsel grille.
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A47 |
| May-17-13 |
S Halkias vs Jobava, 2013
whiteshark: "There was also a brief but slightly disturbing news report by Chess-News today. They write that Georgian players Baadur Jobava and Davit Lomsadze appeared for their last round game "in an intoxicated state", and that Lomsadze "looked ...
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D15 |
| May-17-13 |
Radjabov vs Anand, 2013
WiseWizard: Thanks.
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E04 |
| May-17-13 |
Ghuloom Salem
Fiona Macleod: Can't we have a picture of this player?
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| May-17-13 |
Joker (Computer)
Abdel Irada: <OhioChessFan: Whereas I thought it was funny and didn't get why people didn't get it.> I'm with you on that.
However, as for the joke *you* posted, it was considered old when I heard it in elementary school, although my ...
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| May-17-13 |
Odd Lie
Mr. President: We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure. Signed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/expd/8... (Yes, that's me!)
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| May-17-13 |
Radjabov vs Carlsen, 2013
fiercebadger: ever Since Carlsen won with 1a4 in the 2012 world blitz Carlsen has the EVIL EYE over RAJi the Rabbit
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E32 |
| May-17-13 |
McShane vs Kotronias, 2003
alexmagnus: This game never was GOTD? Hm...
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A45 |
| May-17-13 |
Simen Agdestein
Rolfo: <<Rolfo> If you should win, I'll take that beer at Carma, Øverbygd, Inner-Troms. If that ...
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| May-17-13 |
Frederico Gazel
Gottschalk: Now, a FIDE master.
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...
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| May-17-13 |
Smirin vs Anand, 1994
My Face: a blitz game
Believe it or not, anand spent 1:43 minutes on his fourth move( 4.d6 ) and he had only five minutes of time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUr_...
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C42 |
| May-17-13 |
Sadi Kalabar
My Face: lol check out the 6th game
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| May-17-13 |
Reti vs Schlechter, 1914
jemptymethod: Ok so 12. Rad1 but then 12...f6 and White needs to be sure to prevent ...Nf5 (the counterpart to ...Nd5) with Rfe1 or Kf2. Really f4 and Be3 taken together by White amount to an ?! and this game is probably the best example of how to
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C68 |
| May-17-13 |
H Rittner vs H De Carbonnel, 1968
Gottschalk: 39.Nd5! threatening Nf6(after Rf7+) or pawn h6.
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C82 |
| May-17-13 |
Anand vs Nakamura, 2013
RookFile: I think he's experimenting and taking a few liberties in this tournament to tune himself up for the Carlsen match. You'll see his best efforts then.
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