Feb-15-12 Judit Polgar vs L B Hansen, 1989 
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MaczynskiPratten: <Once>: Nice to hear your story; I had often wondered! Maybe CG.com could be persuaded to publish a book, I for one would buy it. It doesn't matter if each article is episodic. I remember Miles Kington's articles many years back and these were simply collated together
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| | Feb-13-12 J Mortimer vs J Mason, 1887
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MaczynskiPratten: <memethecat> I saw 38...b2+ after 38 Ka1 but I don't think it works. Yes, 39 Ka2 Nc3#. But after 39 Kb1, the Rook on c2 hangs because the b3 pawn has gone (retained image?) and Black actually loses! So it seems it's mate in 5, nothing quicker.
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| | Jan-31-12 N Speijer vs Couvee, 1955
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MaczynskiPratten: In the interests of gender fairness, maybe we should remember that perhaps the classic computer helpdesk story was the guy (yes, male) who was demanding a refund of his broken computer and threatening to sue. He had put the floppy disk in (yes, the story is that old) and it
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| | Oct-17-11 T Gnirk vs N Katte, 2007
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MaczynskiPratten: On <PhonyBenoni>'s puzzle I was initially puzzled too. I think the point is that after 1 Rh1 Black has to move the b5 Bishop as his only other legal moves are with the Nb7 which allows 2 Qd6#. Then 2 Qb1 works because it is now defending the b6 Knight. Qb4# is ...
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| | Oct-11-11 Kupreichik vs Tseshkovsky, 1976
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MaczynskiPratten: This reminds me of a famous puzzle where White mates in less than a move. Solution - lift the knight on d6 and discover the check (but still control e8 and f7). Sadly, it doesn't work here (even if it was legal) because Black can interpose. The original problem was WQ on ...
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| | Sep-26-11 Efimov vs Bronstein, 1941
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MaczynskiPratten: In Bronstein's collection he entitles this game "The baton of generations", explaining that 8...Be6 was inspired by his favourite out of all Morphy's combinations. Does anyone know what that game might be? Here 8...Be6 is deliciously sneaky as it merely looks like a natural
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| | Sep-05-11 A Zapata vs Anand, 1988
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MaczynskiPratten: See Anand's amusing explanation of why he resigned, at the start of page 3 (as well as the background to the debacle as explained on page 1)
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| | Sep-05-11 T Peine vs V Budde, 1970
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MaczynskiPratten: That being said, sometimes doing your homework and reading up the journals is not enough ... see the sad case of A Zapata vs Anand, 1988 and Miles vs Christiansen, 1987 .
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| | Sep-05-11 Z Djordjevic vs M Kovacevic, 1984
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MaczynskiPratten: This was one of the entries in "Blunder of the Year" in the immortal spoof "Not the British Chess Magazine" written by Murray Chandler and Philip Alan Clemance , among others. I thought it was unlucky not to win, though the winner (White resigning after having been offered ...
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| | Jul-18-11 Koneru vs Granda-Zuniga, 2008
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MaczynskiPratten: The usual Monday queen sac, but we sac opponent's Q rather than our own.
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