Mar-11-11 Mamedyarov vs A Timofeev, 2004 
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Chizoad: I missed this one, choosing 30. Qxf7 instead of the text. The white rook cannot be taken due to 31. Qg8+ followed by 32. Ng6+ and 33. Rh3#. Of course black can short circuit this line with many options including 30... Qxe3, leading at worst to something unclear.
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| | Apr-15-09 Chigorin vs Schlechter, 1905
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Chizoad: After 46. Ka6 black has Qc8+, where moving the white king back to a5 leads to Qc7 and repetition of the position.
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| | Dec-23-08 E Cekro vs L Patriarca, 2008
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Chizoad: After 70. Bxh6 black seems to have nothing better than the less than satisfying 70...Bd6, since accepting the sacrifice leads to instant loss. The kingside pawn majority should carry the day for white then.
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| | Nov-21-08 Sveshnikov vs A Kveinys, 1996
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Chizoad: I got this one wrong. Tried the following, missing the correct response for black on move 30. 29. Bxc6 bxc6
30. Bf4 Qb7
31. Qd7 Qxd7
32. exd7 Bf6
33. Bc7
If instead black plays 30... Qe7 then 31.Qd7 is met by Qxe6. Sigh.
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| | Oct-18-05 B Perenyi vs L Eperjesi, 1974
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Chizoad: Looks like 13.Nxd6 wins also.
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| | Dec-28-04 Joshua Waitzkin
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Chizoad: I suppose Josh Waitzkin is finding his expertise and champion status in martial arts to be very financially rewarding...
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| | Jul-31-04 N Starr vs J Trottier, 2001
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Chizoad: In this opening ...c6 is a common move to prevent an attack on the Q by Nb5; however the plan including ...b5 would make more sense if black played 5...a6 since the pawn structure would be more solid. Perhaps after 5...c6 6. Nge2 Bg4 would be more reasonable with the typical plan of
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| | Jul-21-04 Tim Krabbe
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Chizoad: Most frequent visitors to this site probably know of Tim's wonderful Chess Curiosities website, http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/c... replete with crazy records and interesting anecdotes. A chess romantic if there ever was one.
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| | Jul-20-04 V Titenko vs Murey, 1963
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Chizoad: Since several people have asked on here, I'd like to recommend two places to play chess: The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) at www.freechess.org and ItsYourTurn at www.itsyourturn.com. FICS requires you to download a client (Nemisis is a good one) which allows you to play and ...
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| | Jun-28-04 Adams vs Akopian, 2004
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Chizoad: The current problem with d5 is the unprotected black rook on e8, thus it will take time to prepare the push while Adams should improve his position.
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