Jan-28-08 R Shirley Jr vs B Wall, 1982 
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NateDawg: This one took me longer than most Monday puzzles. The trick is noticing that White's f-pawn is missing, so the Black queen can come to e3 with check. Other than that it's a fairly simple combination of three tactical ideas: Black forces the White rook to go to a square (decoy) ...
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| | Jan-19-08 Carlsen vs N Ibraev, 2004
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NateDawg: <bakit> 16.  f5 hxg5 17. hxg5  e4 18. h3
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| | Dec-22-07 Campora vs I Morovic, 1981
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NateDawg: <<al wizir> OK, what happens if black plays 19...Ne4, forcing the trade? If 20. Nxe4 dxe4, black gets some counterplay on the open d file.> After 19... e4 20.
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| | Dec-13-07 W Pollock vs E Hall, 1890
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NateDawg: <MostlyAverageJoe> You're looking at 9...fxd5 when 10. xg4 is fine; in the variation InspiredByMorphy is looking at, White cannot play that because ...
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| | Dec-02-07 Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999
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NateDawg: <I think the best move of this game was 25.Re7!!!> Yes, for sure. Two rook sacrifices for the price of none! 25.  e7 brilliantly deflects the queen from b6. ...
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| | Feb-03-07 Y Shulman vs The World, 2007
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NateDawg: <Dionyseus> You do have a point there. But I'm thinking that if the "non-thinkers" want to find a move to vote for, they should just read a little ways down the page, and then they can hopefully at least sort of make some decisions for themselves. Also, the impression I got ...
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| | Jan-25-07 G Sigurjonsson vs A S Segal, 1968
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NateDawg: <<WannaBe> Segal is horrible> She beat Susan Polgar with Black ( Zsuzsa Polgar vs A Segal, 1999 ), so she can't be that bad. ײַ ײַ
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| | Jan-10-07 Tartakower vs Przepiorka, 1925
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NateDawg: <<Black Vampire> kibitzers have to choose the best move, and not any winning line... then the correct move is 25.Bb2+!> While you may be right that 25.Bb2+! is the "best" move in this position, I believe that the actual goal of the Chessgames puzzles is to find a move ...
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| | Nov-05-06 The World vs A Nickel, 2006
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NateDawg: <chessgames.com> Your clock here is about a minute and a half fast according to http://time.gov/ .
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| | Oct-21-06 Kibitzer's Café
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NateDawg: <<Chess Classics> Seems computers still struggle playing at a class level> The best program I have found for playing below the master level is Chessmaster 10th Edition. While it is certainly not great, and is probably not even good, it is at least okay, something I ...
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