Nov-19-09 M Pavlovic vs G Cabrilo, 1991 
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eblunt: Got this one fairly easily, but I'm not so sure OTB. Under those sorts of pressures it seems to me easier to evaluate a move with a directly forcing follow up. At first glance here, the Knight reload isn't a directly forcing move, and seeing that white is helpless even with a tempo ...
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| | Nov-12-09 Dreev vs G Fish, 2009
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eblunt: < ComboKal: <eblunt> In his main line, <gofer> had played <34. ...f4>, not f6 as you have it. > Gofer gave  c6 in both his 34 ... f6 and 34 ... f4 lines, and it wasn't clear which line his
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| | Oct-15-09 E Berg vs Leko, 1995
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eblunt: I got xd5 and subsequently winning the c5 as well after blacks c7, but a long way from any ...
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| | Oct-08-09 Filguth vs A De la Garza, 1980
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eblunt: To be precise, after 20.  g5!, 20. ... x 21 dxe5 hxg5 and black is "only" down
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| | Sep-17-09 Stein vs V Lepeshkin, 1965
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eblunt: < andyjohnson: 26..d5 how white win? > Easy,  g6+ followed by g6+
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| | Sep-15-09 J Krejcik vs Reti, 1922
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eblunt: That 9.e3! is one of those lovely calm multi-purpose moves, blocking off the threat to f2, protecting c4 and stopping the castle because of the queen trap all at once.
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| | Jul-21-09 Beliavsky vs Bacrot, 1999
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eblunt: Very smug with my Nxc6 answer, until I look on here and find Ba6!. My only solace is that <dzechiel> fell for it as well. Nc6 looks such a lovely move - leave the Queen en prise, and create 2 threats at the same time. Remember the old maxim "If you see a good move, actually ...
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| | Jul-10-09 Grischuk vs Bareev, 2001
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eblunt: This one seemed easier than some of the earlier ones in the week. The e6 pawn is an obvious target, and the deflecting the queen with xb5 followed by xf7 ...
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| | Jul-02-09 Ragozin vs Bondarevsky, 1946
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eblunt: The first winning move I saw, pretty quickly, was Qc6, since it is so immediately winning without any possible complication. After a bit more thought I saw the Qxa7 line. OTB, I almost certainly would have played Qc6 because 1) it only would have used up a few seconds on the clock ...
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| | Jun-27-09 Gruenfeld vs J Schenkein, 1915
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eblunt: <David2009: <eblunt: IMO the text is a blunder. 22 ..... Rb8 > 23 Qf6+ Kg8 24 Rd3 forces mate, surely?> Yes, you're right, forgot that the black rook needs to stay on the d-file to prevent the rook lift
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