Blaise99a has kibitzed 69 times to chessgames   [more...]

Dec-14-12 Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson, 1927    Blaise99a: Kavalek also has 11.b4 (which makes me pretty sure the listed 11.b3 is correct; as Kavalek himself notes at move 21.... "The overprotection fairy tale has to have a happy ending: Bf8- In the real world black mates in four moves: 21...Qb1+ 22.Nc1 Rxc1+ 23.Bxc1 Ba4+ 24.Kd2 Qc2#      Oct-25-12 Motylev vs D Baramidze, 2012    Blaise99a: ouch.....black is checkmated on move 40 playing the Breyer variation ?! Couldn't quite see the exact mistake with my naked eye ; so ran it through the Machine, and there seems to be but one: 30......Na8 (instead of Ba8), thereby losing a move putting the Knight back on b6......Had      Sep-24-12 Gelfand vs Wang Hao, 2012    Blaise99a: Move 55 would make a rather nice puzzle....'Black to move and be mated'....      Sep-03-12 Kramnik vs Aronian, 2012    Blaise99a: How obvious was Na5 then sac? Genius on Kram's part? or oversight on Aronian's?      Aug-22-12 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Vaisser, 2012    Blaise99a: wow......46. R-h7 ? (0.0 ) instead of 46. Q-a5 ! (5.0 +) which would have nailed it. (Exactly the kind of move Sebastien Feller would not have missed in his hay day)      Jul-22-12 Kramnik vs G Meier, 2012    Blaise99a: Check-mate !      Jan-20-12 Tata Steel (2012)    Blaise99a: I'm just tuning in.....now why are some players at move 18, and three other games at move 46 or 48? Am I missing something here?      Dec-12-11 Nakamura vs Adams, 2011    Blaise99a: Well, it seems Naka has now finally finding himself as a player......his extraordinary resources, phenomenal memory and hard work in opening prep.- foam-at-the-mouth desire to win and foolish courage having impressed almost none of the elite and have gotten him little, he has ...      Nov-23-11 Nakamura vs Ivanchuk, 2011    Blaise99a: One theory is that when Naka came up with the 8) Nb5 Bc7 idea, it was because he thought it would stop black from playing 10)....e5 - which is precisely what chucky then played. So instead of playing the lame 11) de ....why not play the principled 11) Bd6 ? Yes, it could get ...      Nov-03-11 Korchnoi vs I Cheparinov, 2011    Blaise99a: Looking at it further (with an engine, natch)....white could have simply checked to infinity, but gave black another win apparently by snatching the pawn on 44. Qd6 ? instead of Qe8. Had black gone to Kf7 he could eventually have protected the king from checks with the bishop, ...

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