May-13-13 Chigorin vs Davydow, 1874 
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Dezaxa: I think the name of the opening is inaccurate: it is an ordinary Muzio, not a double. The double Muzio involves a second piece sacrifice with 8. Bxf7.
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| | May-06-13 Timman vs Speelman, 1989
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Dezaxa: I watched this game being played, and Timman took over an hour to reach move 17, even though this is all theory. Either he didn't know the opening well, or he was worried that JS had some dangerous innovation ready to unleash. Either way, it seems likely that his shortage of time ...
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| | Mar-13-13 J H Sarratt vs NN, 1818
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Dezaxa: To be fair to NN, he started playing in 1497, so he must have been getting on a bit in 1818, and his mental faculties were probably not what they used to be.
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| | Feb-15-13 Nunn vs Seirawan, 1983
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Dezaxa: According to Seirawan, 9 h5 was the critical mistake. If the Black bishop had still been on g6, then White's 13 f5 would have hit it with gain of tempo and this would have made all the difference.
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| | Feb-10-13 Adams vs Caruana, 2013
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Dezaxa: 42 Rg5 and 42 Rxd3 both look playable. A slight advantage to White either way.
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| | Feb-09-13 Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
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Dezaxa: I still have his book: Improve Your Chess Fast (1978). The curious thing about it is that the diagrams were reproduced from correspondence course material created earlier by O'Kelly and follow the French custom of representing the bishops as jesters.
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| | Feb-09-13 G Moehring vs J Kaikamdzozov, 1978
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Dezaxa: Notice how both players seem determined to eliminate all the bishops as quickly as possible. I suspect they are both members of the provisional wing of the New Atheist movement.
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| | May-30-08 Hebden vs A Mortazavi, 1994
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Dezaxa: This game is incomplete. I was playing in the Open section of the British Championships that year, and I watched the ending of this game on the demonstration board. White required a great deal of manoeuvering to force Black to advance one of the G pawns, so that the White H pawn ...
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