Nov-25-09 W Fried vs Schlechter, 1897 
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JG27Pyth: I think this is best play after Kc4 (could be wrong, didn't check it) 14.Kc4 Be6+!
15.Kb5 a6+
16.Ka5 b6+
17.Ka4 b5+
18.Ka3 Nxc2#
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| | Nov-24-09 Nezhmetdinov vs Kotkov, 1957
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JG27Pyth: A lovely mate in two.
<Nezhmetdinov never was awarded grandmaster, and if he can't make grandmaster, then I won't ever come close.> He was a GM strength player... the soviet union didn't allow him the the travel (or wouldn't pay for it or something) that would allow him to ...
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| | Nov-23-09 R Koemetter vs G Welling, 1995
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JG27Pyth: Patriot<It sounds like you made a mistake that I've made quite a few times before--not looking wide before you look deep.> Amen. "Look wide before you look deep" is one of my favorite axioms, and advice I've given out many times, precisely because it's an axiom <I ...
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| | Nov-22-09 Kotov vs Botvinnik, 1955
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JG27Pyth: d4 I considered... g5? are you kidding? Never considered it. It makes some sense in retrospect, but all in all quite an ending. I'm sure Kotov was stunned.
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| | Nov-19-09 M Pavlovic vs G Cabrilo, 1991
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JG27Pyth: Satisfying unusual puzzle, sort of a Knight 'reloader' -- White's lack of a good answer is shocking. I think part of what makes the puzzle so pleasant is NOT having the White pieces. What a misery it is to have a move, and there's nothing to do with it but wait for the ax to fall.
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| | Nov-18-09 Keres vs Verbac, 1933
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JG27Pyth: Psmith: <11...Bd7 12. Bxd7+ is better, and seems good for White.> Don't get me wrong, after 11...Bd7 White has the better game in more than one variation... it's just that Kf7 loses outright. 11...Bd7 leaves Black with reason to continue. By no means is he equal. I believe ...
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| | Nov-17-09 Mackenzie vs Steinitz, 1883
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JG27Pyth: Steinitz playing Kh7? Odd...
Second... There's a lot of analysis devoted to 58.Qxd8+ Kh7 What? Again with the Kh7? *edit* although now I see nullfidian has analyzed Nf8 Isn't 58...Nf8 the critical line?
58...Nf8 59.b8=Q is winning although the mate is still quite a few moves ...
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| | Nov-16-09 Fischer vs Mecking, 1970
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JG27Pyth: Fischer plays such beautiful chess!
I glanced at the Kibitzing before going thru the game and I expected Mecking to play like NN from what people wrote. Come on, he wasn't lost from the beginning, etc. Fischer got the better game sure, but against an ordinary master Mecking ...
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| | Nov-15-09 Kramnik vs Ponomariov, 2009
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JG27Pyth: Interviewed after the tourny Kramnik said that A) this game was one of the tensest games he'd ever played in his career and also very complicated... and
B)He preferred "as a chess professional" his win against Svidler in the tourny because it was cleaner, (and he thought this game
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| | Nov-12-09 Van Essen vs Woskoff, 1931
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JG27Pyth: There is no justice. White should be lost here! Woskoff must have felt robbed. Oh well, no credit for me -- I examined Qg4! Rxg4 hxg4 and failed to find the simple continuation with the N fork despite that I knew this puzzle almost certainly keyed around a N fork, and I was ...
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