Jan-29-08 Paul Saint-Amand 
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Llera: I was going to ask if Paul Saint-Amand Jr was related to Saint-Amant but now I realise it's a different surname! It's finished in "d", not in "t". Where is this guy from? Can please anyone write a short biography of him?
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| | Jul-29-07 Dus Chotimirsky vs Kotov, 1938
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Llera: Hidden Skillz:"kotov could have escaped mate with simply 20..Bd8" ---> But then he would have get trapped his Queen:
(20)...Bd8 (21)Ndc5 Qa2 (22)Qe2 Bxc7 (23)Ra1, or even (23)Bb1! -What a beautiful move! The Black Queen gets trapped by the Bishop.
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| | Feb-06-07 Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938
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Llera: <Gypsy: <RookFile> It is pieced together from from what we know about Botvinnik's methods of preparation (see his collected works on that), openings du-jure 1938, and Capablanca's clear affinity for the c5-c4. Consider the position after thirteenth's move
At this position ...
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| | Feb-02-07 Van Wely vs Svidler, 2007
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Llera: <there´s another idea more subtile> The subtil detail is that after 21. Rg5!, the Black Bishop can't leave the d1-h5 diagonal, because it will follow Rh5, winning. At the end, after 21...Bf3 and 22.Rg3! Svidler resigned because of the menace 23.Rh3
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| | Feb-01-07 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2007
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Llera: To chestknot1: "I have been looking in the database and Carlsen played this opening upto move 22 as white. That game also ended in a draw." Can you be more explicit and tell us which game are you referring to? I have been looking in the database, and I've found this game that Carlsen ...
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| | Sep-25-06 Reti vs Rubinstein, 1923
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Llera: Re: "Phony Benoni: I thought these hypermodern players didn't bother using their center pawns."
Precisely:(Taken from: http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:... )
"Hypermodern openings are what we call just about anything that does not try to occupy
the center with pawns (which is what ...
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