Apr-22-13 Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov 
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Peter Nemenyi: The picture above, with Tal seeming to hold that plaque in a blocking position, is fascinating. It looks as though the whole thing was staged to suggest a handshake that didn't actually happen, since shaking Tal's claw must have been a tricky procedure.
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| | Apr-19-13 Larry Evans vs Fischer, 1965
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Peter Nemenyi: In fairness to Brady, he obviously knew his limitations, and his annotations rarely even attempt concrete analysis. They're mostly platitudes such as "Trying to get his Bishop centralized", too obvious to be wrong. This unsupported implication that Fischer should have had a ...
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| | Apr-19-13 V Ciocaltea vs Fischer, 1968
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Peter Nemenyi: Boldly forcing Fischer to find the right moves in a wild, unbalanced position was probably the correct approach, but it worked best allied to the tactical finishing of a Tal or a Geller. Lesser men--Bilek (1962), Tringov (1965), Quinteros (1970), Ciocaltea here--tended to get ...
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| | Mar-31-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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Peter Nemenyi: <madlydeeply: Lasker/Schlecter was all draws.> This is a strange mistake to make about a well-known episode in championship history. The stock story about Lasker-Schlechter 1910, told repeatedly by the Horowitz-Chernev-Reinfeld generation of chess writers, is that ...
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| | Jan-18-13 A Giri vs Yifan Hou, 2013
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Peter Nemenyi: It's pleasing to see the classic rook-in-jail motif from game 13 of Fischer-Spassky 1972 recur here (move 77). Fischer's rook was on g8, so Hou's occupies an even smaller cell.
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| | Jan-18-13 Kavalek vs J Grefe, 1973
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Peter Nemenyi: According to the tournament book by Lombardy and Daniels, Grefe's aggressive scheme of 12...Kh8 and then g5-g4 was a novelty at the time. It was also--this is just implied--highly unwise in a tenth-round game as Black, when a draw would almost have assured Grefe undisputed ...
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| | Jan-18-13 D Byrne vs J Grefe, 1973
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Peter Nemenyi: Grefe's co-winning of the 1973 US Championship was one of the great odd feats of American chess history. He came out of nowhere to do it and more or less returned to nowhere afterward, as far as chess achievement is concerned. William Lombardy and David Daniels wrote an ...
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| | Nov-28-12 F Boscolo vs I Bukavshin, 2012
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Peter Nemenyi: Well, look at the situation after the fourteenth move--a sacrifice that leaves White with fewer attacking pieces around the enemy king than Black has defenders isn't likely to work unless there's a clear forced win, which evidently wasn't the case here.
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| | Mar-14-12 N Miezis vs Navara, 2011
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Peter Nemenyi: <sevenseaman: Has it been finally determined that 2 Ns and a K cannot mate a lone K?> Yes, long before computers--stated on page one of Fine's Basic Chess Endings (1941), for example. Of course there are positions in which this mate occurs--as in this game, if you take ...
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| | Nov-23-11 Short vs Karpov, 1992
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Peter Nemenyi: A disproportionate number of gross blunders by professionals seem to involve backward moves of the opponent's pieces, and Karpov's failure to see that White's bishop commands d2 is a good example.
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