May-08-13 Fischer vs Fine, 1963 
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SChesshevsky: I'm not saying they thought he wasn't good. But the only way to get a great player's respect is by beating them in games from an equal or at least pretty close position. This typically involves a long game with subtle positioning. The top don't give a lot of credit to the ...
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| | May-06-13 Kamsky vs Shabalov, 2013
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SChesshevsky: <RookFile: .. Occastionally I've played the Fort Knox French> That's a really interesting variation, I first noticed Karpov using it maybe in the late 80's and had pretty good results then stopped for some reason. Then I picked up a GM Rustemov also used it in the mid ...
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| | May-03-13 Sahovic vs Korchnoi, 1979
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SChesshevsky: The win might start even earlier. Maybe 15...Nxb3 and then 16...Bc5 pinning the B and greating an iso on e3. Looks like everything after until maybe 38...Rd5 keeps White in a bind protecting that pawn. Punishment for forgetting the rule of thumb of getting the queen off a ...
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| | May-03-13 Keene vs Geller, 1975
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SChesshevsky: What a great game and far from a steady draw! 28.Rxb7 is certainly a killer but I can guess how grabbing the pawn isn't human intuitive especially if an eye's on the clock and maybe not expecting 27...g6 in the calculation and all the pressure on b3. I was thinking maybe 30. ...
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| | Mar-15-13 Hort vs Reshevsky, 1973
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SChesshevsky: <morfishine: ...while Sammy, at age 62, was...well...probably in time trouble...again....> Reshevsky didn't have a great time in Petropolis. He said the climate really bothered him and he also had to drive a long way for his meals everyday. He had been playing pretty well
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| | Jan-11-13 Bronstein vs Boleslavsky, 1961
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SChesshevsky: <yet goes into complications starting with 31.Rc6!?> I'm not sure Bronstein saw the win with the great combination starting 31. Rc6 but he probably saw the connected passed pawns and B posts on c6e6 as a big plus. I think key was the advanced position of the pawns, ...
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| | Nov-28-12 Botvinnik vs Petrosian, 1963
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SChesshevsky: Some very nice play by Petrosian.
What I thought was a great advantage was his play to exchange the dark squared B's. I'm not sure when he came upon the plan but after 25...Qc7 it looks like he positioned for White to have plenty of pawns on the White squares then with 29...b6
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| | Nov-16-12 N Pogonina vs Kosteniuk, 2012
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SChesshevsky: A tough opening for Black.
For anybody interested in the opening, I didn't play it much but I thought I often had better chances with an earlier 11...h5 which gains maybe a couple of tempo after Kb1 and then the immediate ...Bh6. Depending on the reply it sometimes allowed ...
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| | Nov-14-12 Fischer vs Taimanov, 1971
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SChesshevsky: <AylerKupp: And in this game it's just as much of a case of Taimanov missing the moves to draw (81...Nf3, 81...Kd4) than Fischer finding the move to win (82.Bc8).> When I first saw this game it did look like Black had at least a few chances to draw the endgame. But I put ...
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| | Nov-14-12 Fischer vs Korchnoi, 1962
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SChesshevsky: I think a Fischer-Korchnoi match would've been a great thing for chess. The interesting thing of Korchnoi where he might have had an advantage is that he liked to play unbalanced positions. If Fischer wasn't on top of his game (which was more often than believed) and/or ...
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