Jun-04-13 Biographer Bistro 
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Pawn and Two: <Phony Benoni & Tabanus> In regard to your discussion on available tournament books for the London 1900 tournament. In 1973, Caissa Limited Editions, published a facsimile edition tournament book of 700 copies, "Invitation Chess Tournament Of The City Of London Chess Club
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| | Apr-21-13 V Mikenas vs Petrosian, 1955
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Pawn and Two: The tournament book for the 22nd Soviet Championship notes that Mikenas's 19.hxg3? was an error, indicating he should have continued: 19.Nxb7 Bxh2+ 20.Kf1! Qc7 21.Nxd5 Nxd5 22.Qxd5. Fritz indicates a small advantage for White after 19.Nxb7!: (.35) (26 ply) 19...Bxh2+ 20.Kf1! ...
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| | Apr-14-13 Keres vs Aronin, 1951
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Pawn and Two: <Benzol> Round 11, games 91-99, was played on December 2nd. The struggle for 1st place was very intense in this tournament. After 11 rounds Botvinnik, Geller and Smyslov led with 7 1/2 pts., Keres was next with 7, Averbakh and Taimanov had 6 1/2, and three other players ...
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| | Mar-18-13 V Green vs G MacDonnell, 1862
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Pawn and Two: <leo.bulero> Your intuition and analysis regarding 20.Qa4? is very good, and I like your humorous mafia analogy. Certainly, it seems that with the enemy at the gates, White's decision to go pawn hunting, was probably not his best defensive choice. Interestingly, in the ...
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| | Mar-03-13 Capablanca vs Riumin, 1936
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Pawn and Two: <paul1959 & IndigoViolet> The game position photograph on Winter's site does appear to be inconsistent with the gamescore. In the photograph, all of White's first 11 moves can clearly be determined. In addition, based on the position of his clock time button, it appears ...
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| | Feb-06-13 Alekhine vs H P Lavelle, 1924
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Pawn and Two: One of ten games from a blindfold exhibition at the Baltimore Chess Association on January 21-22, 1924. It was noted in, "Alekhine in the Americas", that due to the length of some of the games; 62 moves for one of Alekhine's wins, 55 moves for his draw with Lavelle, and 52 ...
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| | Jan-09-13 A J Goldsby
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Pawn and Two: I like the Stamma puzzle, (position after 1...Qxh5), you provided. It is one of my favorites from the book, "Chess Gems - 1,000 Combinations You Should Know", by Igor Sukhin. I set this position up at my club one night, for one of our better players. It took him several ...
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| | Dec-26-12 Carl Ahues
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Pawn and Two: It appears Ahues had a keen sense of humor. Note what happened in a game against Przepiorka, after Ahues played 23...Rxd2: Przepiorka vs Ahues, 1927 . Read the 12/5/04 comment by <percyblakeney>.
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| | Dec-23-12 Pillsbury vs Showalter, 1899
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Pawn and Two: <Phony Benoni> Unless Pope has some better evidence, it would seem that your research showing Louisville as match site is correct. The Lexington information on our site came from Pope's book, as I am the one who submitted these games to chessgames.com. Showalter must have
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| | Dec-05-12 Alekhine vs Euwe, 1926
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Pawn and Two: <jessicafischerqueen> It appears we have generated some interesting questions! My edition of Euwe's book, "From My Games 1920-1937", is a Dover publication from 1975. It is an unabridged republication of the original 1939 copyright by Harcourt, Brace and Company. The book
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