Mar-18-13 E Guo vs S Madhurima, 2011 
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JG27Pyth: Wouldn't 36...Bxg3 have won for Black?
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| | Mar-12-13 B Wall vs J Dowd, 1983
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JG27Pyth: I found this puzzle extraordinarily difficult due to the distraction caused by imagining a nudist chess tournament and having to admit: "those two chess players are certainly Wall and Dowd."
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| | Feb-21-13 Yudasin vs Mikhalchishin, 1983
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JG27Pyth: Ugh. Overlooked the Bh2+ threat... and lost, playing Be3. (My excuse is that I'm still thinking about yesterday's 17...Qe1!!)
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| | Feb-14-13 A Korotylev vs Z Izoria, 1998
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JG27Pyth: @<JimfromProvidence> Wow. Ke8 is surprisingly playable if it weren't for Rf1! (A jaw-droppingly patzerlike purposeless exchange that dissipates the attack giving a free move to Black except -- oh wait -- it's actually crushing Removing the defender of the backrank to reveal ...
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| | Feb-09-13 Capablanca vs Marshall, 1909
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JG27Pyth: Marshall is like Bent Larsen to Capablanca's Fischer -- an undeniably great and memorable player, and yet, not in the same league.
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| | Jan-16-13 Aronian vs Anand, 2013
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JG27Pyth: What a game -- a puzzle of the day style finish and as for the rest of the game I'd annotate it but I need to go down to Punctuation Warehouse and stock up on exclamation points first.
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| | Jan-08-13 M Turner vs Hector, 1998
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JG27Pyth: Actually, I believe 39...Rh6! was the move.
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| | Jan-01-13 A Mithil vs D Aaron, 2011
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JG27Pyth: The best Tuesday puzzle so far this year! Kidding aside, it truly is a fine puzzle to start the year. Felicitations a tutti.
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| | Dec-21-12 J Ye vs N McDonald, 1997
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JG27Pyth: Oh sure make fun of the prophecy, but look around you: The Mayan civilization is gone! Eerie isn't it? Speaking of doomed, my attempts at solving this position...
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| | Dec-13-12 T Dzubasz vs M Ellerbrock, 1996
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JG27Pyth: Got the first move, but failed to spot black's best (Ng5) defense. :(
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