Dec-23-12 Fischer vs C Powell, 1964
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BwanaVa: It should be noted that the late Charlie Powell went on to win the US Armed services Championship, seven times VA champion, and one time Northern California champion before his untimely death in 1991.
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| | Nov-11-12 Geller vs Korchnoi, 1971 
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BwanaVa: Key fact-Geller, on the brink of elimination and not a speed expert, had ten minutes to make his last seventeen moves. Annotators have speculated that after 22...h5 black is probably lost objectively-it is just too ugly a gash to the Black kingside-but there was not time to figure ...
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| | Oct-23-12 L Shamkovich vs Vukcevich, 1976
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BwanaVa: UnsoundHero, I thought this was an NCL game!
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| | Jul-31-12 Fischer vs W G Addison, 1957
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BwanaVa: Nostalgia note-I first saw this game being annotated on PBS by Shelby Lyman as a "great games" adjunct program he did to the 1972 World Championship broadcasts...
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| | Jul-18-12 Tal vs NN, 1973
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BwanaVa: General to above comments:
I too thought 23.Rdf1 followed by R1f7 mate was unstoppable and quicker. If 20...Bd7 then the black queen no longer covers f7. I suspect then Tal plays Qf7+ and bad things start to happen...
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| | May-07-12 Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966
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BwanaVa: Moreover, it would be difficult to claim Petrosian was weaker than Euwe...but since Fine was Euwe's second I guess it is unreasonable to think he would do otherwise.
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| | Mar-09-12 Larry Evans vs Reshevsky, 1963
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BwanaVa: Lets not forget Reshevsky often had these shortsighted eps...consider another swindle: C Pilnick vs Reshevsky, 1942
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| | Feb-21-12 Fischer vs Uhlmann, 1960
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BwanaVa: Regarding 33.Rb5, I doubt it was a blunder or a time trouble mistake. I think it was a typical Fischer effort to make something happen. I suspect without having indepth analysis to offer that if 33. g6 Bc6 34 Rg1 then Q to d7 or d8. the g pawn is unmoored from pawn coverage, and ...
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| | Dec-31-11 Fischer vs Gligoric, 1962
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BwanaVa: As per comments above, Mednis also labels 41. Kg3? as the final blunder, saying that after 41.Kf3 there must be a win for black, but it is not elementary. If 41...Rf1+ 42.Kg3 Rxg2+ 43.Kxg2 Mednis feels White is better than in the game as the Black Rook is better positioned generally
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| | Aug-01-11 C Pilnick vs Reshevsky, 1942
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BwanaVa: of course, Reshevsky sometimes got some late game help...as in Reshevsky vs Denker, 1942 where TD L. Walter Stephens mistakenly forfeited Arnold Denker, then refused to reverse himself.
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