Mar-17-13 Karpov vs Timman, 1979
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GlassCow: Neat position after black's 24th. Timman's position looks like utter chaos and Karpov's looks tidy and orderly. Especially like the aesthetics of the knights and bishops in the position.
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| | Feb-04-10 Adams vs S Halkias, 2010 
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GlassCow: if 12 .. Qxe5, Ba3 looks particularly difficult for black to answer notmtwain.
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| | May-25-09 D Gurevich vs Seirawan, 2000
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GlassCow: Amazing effort from both of these titans. It must have been a heck of a lot of fun being a part of this game.
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| | Feb-07-09 Pillsbury vs Showalter, 1896
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GlassCow: 18. Nxd7? seems horrible to me, exchanging dominant knight for sickly bishop. Showalter's position was already so bad that it didn't much matter, however.
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| | Jan-18-09 Spassky vs Geller, 1959
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GlassCow: Fascinating, complicated and brilliant play by both heavyweights. This is getting added to my favorite games for certain.
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| | Jan-03-09 Steinitz vs Winawer, 1882
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GlassCow: 17 Qd4 was a clunker. either Nf5 or Nxc8 preserved the initiative and kept winawer in defense mode.
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| | Jul-15-08 Shirov vs Granda-Zuniga, 1997
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GlassCow: Couldn't Julian have put it on ice by trading the exchange ..67 Rxe3 and ..68 gxf3 leaving him with the outside passed pawn?
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| | Apr-05-08 Ivanchuk vs Adams, 1999
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GlassCow: ... Bb3 looks pretty devestating in any case, time trouble or not.
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| | Mar-08-08 J Benjamin vs Alburt, 1984
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GlassCow: It is true that black is up material mistreaver, but after Ng5+, Kf6 is forced (Kg8 results in Bc4+ or Qc4+ with mate in 1, Kg6 results in Qe8+ with big problems for black) N1h3 threatens a devastating check Bc3+, and I don't see how Alburt is going to untangle himself out of this ...
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| | Feb-27-08 Kramnik vs Gelfand, 2003
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GlassCow: Just a brilliant use of the d5 outpost by Kramnik in this game. I love the najdorf as much as the next guy, but it's games like this that demonstrate it's positional limitations.
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