May-17-13 Alberic O'Kelly de Galway 
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Howard: O'Kelly, in fact, made the cover of the February, 1981 issue of Chess Life when he died. That's how I first heard of him. He played Fischer at the famous 1965 Capablanca Memorial, in Havana. Their meeting wasn't exactly face-to-face though, as is well-known.
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| | Apr-19-13 Larsen vs Geller, 1960
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Howard: Regarding the pun, there was a team in a U.S. Amateur Team event back in the 1970's or 1980's named "Bent on Larceny." Still recall that.
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| | Apr-12-13 Vidmar vs Yates, 1930
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Howard: Well, when I emailed the Chessgames website yesterday to recommend this game for GOTD (Yes, I personally suggested it !), I wasn't exactly anticipating comments about the poet Yeats to crop up. But I'm nonetheless still glad that the game was posted today. Now I need to come up with ...
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| | Apr-11-13 Tylor vs W Winter, 1933
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Howard: Just picked up an old copy of Nottingham 1936 last weekend at a used
bookstore ! Winter and Tylor both played in it, but they finished near the bottom along with a couple other British players. Apparently, British chess wasn't too advanced back in those days. Yates, by the way, was ...
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| | Apr-11-13 Kasparov vs Seirawan, 1996
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Howard: This was their first game since their extremely-memorable late 1989 clash in Sweden. That game was exceptionally complicated, and Seirawan apparently missed a win. This 1996 one was probably their last game though.
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| | Apr-01-13 Kramnik vs Gelfand, 2013
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Howard: So would 36.g4!! have won by force, or not? I don't want to wade through 16 pages of (largely irrelevant) commentary. Thanks much for any analytical help one can provide.
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| | Mar-22-13 Edmar J Mednis
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Howard: Actually, the book in question was called From the Middlegame to the Endgame, and it was certainly quite good. In fact, a lot of the examples in that book were from the 1978 U.S. Championship, which was Mednis' last time in that event. He tied for 3-4 place with Leonid Shamkovich ...
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| | Feb-21-13 W Martz vs Miles, 1976
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Howard: This game won a prize for the most brilliant of that particular round in the 1976 Lone Pine tournament. Not only that, when Martz died--in 1983--this was one of two games that Chess Life ran as a tribute to him. The other was a long draw he against Hubner in Chicago in 1982.
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| | Feb-21-13 Korchnoi vs Karpov, 1981
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Howard: Not mentioned in the myriad of comments (so far) is that Karpov's
7...dxc4 was actually tied for first place in Informant 32 as the most significant opening novelty for the second half of 1981. According to Kasparov (MGP V), the real point of that move becomes apparent with 11...Nh5 ...
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| | Dec-23-12 A Sokolov vs Salov, 1983
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Howard: Rather surprisingly, this great game didn't make the Informant's list for either "best games" or "best novelties", but it certainly should have made at least one of those two lists ! In fact, Chess Life choose it as the 2nd (or 3rd ?) best game of 1983, surpassed by the famous ...
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