Jun-13-04 Mikhail Tal 
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feenian: kasparov was very respectful about tal in vol 2 of my great predecessors-i think he was also very friendly with petrosian .
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| | Jun-13-04 Keene vs Miles, 1975
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feenian: so how often did this sort of thing happen to Miles then? can you give some more examples of such a tornado of an attack succeeding against him?
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| | Jun-13-04 Raymond Keene
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feenian: i own bent larsens book on karpov-korchnoi 1978-i have looked up what he wrote about game 29 and gm keene is quite right-altho larsen gets as far as finding 66 rd7 in the main line he stops there and gives no indication of whether he saw the bf6+ resource which gm keene pointed out ...
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| | Jun-13-04 Saint Amant vs Staunton, 1843
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feenian: staunton was called -the champion-by many of his contemporaries and he won three crushing matches against st amant horwitz and harrwitz in the 1840's-these matches were very similar in format and length to modern world title matches-would we be justified in regarding staunton as the
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| | Jun-13-04 Staunton vs Horwitz, 1846
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feenian: stauntons attack here with his king is very much like two games of nigel short- wins against kasparov and timman.
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| | Jun-13-04 Keene vs V Kovacevic, 1973
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feenian: 23..ba3 24 nxa7 bxb2 25c4 bd4 26 nb5 re8 27 qf3 bc5 28 d4 bf8 29 c5 followed by qxf5 is the main line of blacks best defence as given by gm keene in his book grandmaster strategy. it seems that blacks defensive task is still very onerous.in any case the combination in this game is ...
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| | Jun-13-04 Keene vs R G Eales, 1971
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feenian: if 26...qf8 why not 27qa2 bxc4 28qxc4+ with the intention of rf7. alternatively after 26...qf8 27 qa2 nd8 then 28 rxd8 followed by bxe6+ looks very unpleasant for black. i dont see other ways for black to solve the problem of his bishop on e6. the q sac suggested by weirdoid looks ...
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