Aug-20-05 Levenfish vs Lisitsin, 1946 
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ThePurplePimpernel: 35... h6 36. xh6+ xg5 37.
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| | Jun-01-05 Morozevich vs Anand, 2005
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ThePurplePimpernel: Hm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that 20. xd7 xd7 21.a4
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| | Apr-29-05 Ashley vs Christiansen, 2002
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ThePurplePimpernel: Yay, I got it!
I believe the point of f5 deals with the immediate the immediate threat of ...d6 followed by ...
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| | Jan-26-05 N Ioseliani vs N Gaprindashvili, 1990
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ThePurplePimpernel: What happened here?
For example, wouldn't 55... xb3+ followed by xg8 be a clear win, up two pawns and a Bishop, with light-squared ...
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| | Jan-24-05 E Steiner vs Capablanca, 1929
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ThePurplePimpernel: I believe it's termed the "Noah's Ark" trap, though I don't know where this term came from.
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| | Dec-16-04 Fischer vs Unzicker, 1970
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ThePurplePimpernel: You can't draw valid statistical data from such small samples. Maybe you should compare their results against their era's top ten?
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| | Dec-15-04 Rene Letelier Martner
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ThePurplePimpernel: I've always ben curious about this fellow. I've only seen a few games of his, 1-1 with Fischer, and a loss to Smyslov. Does anyone know something about Letelier?
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| | Nov-30-04 Polugaevsky vs J Eising, 1974
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ThePurplePimpernel: The theme this week seems to be X-rays... nice.
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| | Nov-25-04 French (C10)
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ThePurplePimpernel: Don't get discouraged by Black only winning 17% of the time in this line: this ECO code is for lines where Black plays something silly for his third move, rather than 3...f6, ...
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| | Nov-07-04 P F Johner vs Nimzowitsch, 1926
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ThePurplePimpernel: In Winning with the Nimzo Indian, re: 14.g4, Keene wrote that after 14.g4 h5 15.g5 Nh7, White's kingside is full of holes, while after 15.f5 hxg4 hxg4, White's still in trouble.
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