Sep-02-09 Kibitzer's Café 
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Shubes82: hi all. anyone have any good recommendations for a set of master/grandmaster games to study? preferably it would be in a format with lots of annotations/analysis. Is there any gold standard out there that maybe seems to be a right of passage of sorts for a dveloping player?
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| | Aug-27-09 Lputian vs Y Dokhoian, 1988
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Shubes82: <Patriot: <Athamas>> If you are talking about why a rook endgame wasn't entered into with moves like: 28. Rxg7+ Kxe6
29. Rxg6
Where white is up two connected passed pawns in a rook endgame, i'm puzzled by that as well. Can anyone provide a high level theorectical ...
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| | Feb-11-09 S Trofimov vs D Metlyakhin, 1994
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Shubes82: tivrfoa: 13...Kg8 loses to Qxc4
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| | Feb-02-09 Greco vs NN, 1620
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Shubes82: I think its great how these old games went all the way to checkmate, although I think part of that must have been because half of these "NN's" didnt realize what was coming. I can just picture this guy after the 24th move, looking for a couple ways to capture the knight or move his
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| | Jan-19-09 G Kuzmin vs Sveshnikov, 1973
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Shubes82: what about 21...Qd8
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| | May-06-07 I Radulov vs L Spassov, 1974
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Shubes82: 22)...Ne4 is fun!
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| | Apr-26-07 A Kosten vs Adorjan, 1988
Apr-19-07 Khalifman vs Seirawan, 1991
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Shubes82: yeah 21)Rxe8 is the key here because Nh6 has to be played with an attack on the f6 square in mind.
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| | Mar-16-07 J Echavarria vs J Szmetan, 1999
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Shubes82: wait...dumb question but how come white can't capture en passant after black plays 53)...b5# ??
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| | Jan-04-07 Einstein vs Oppenheimer, 1933
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Shubes82: <sitzkrieg> maybe thats an interesting testament to the truly small amount of information we can actually know, even about history. Im the first one to say that our media can be nothing but skewed (they are privately owned businesses with a profit motive to obtain the highest
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