May-18-11 S Johnston vs Marshall, 1899 
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jimx: It looks kind of funny to see Marshall copy the exact same moves that Crafty did in its "to the death" mode I usually have it set on for doing puzzles. Even though Marshall was known as The Great Swindler, I can't see any attempted swindle taking place here when he played this game ...
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| | Jan-11-11 E Can vs Y Shulman, 2010
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jimx: I've never seen a king defend his queen's rook so well before. Or maybe he just rushed over there in person to wake the rook up, since it seems to have slept through the alarm clock for the battle, and even the death of the black queen. Or maybe it just needed a refill of fuel, or ...
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| | Mar-22-10 Alekhine vs A Asgeirsson, 1931
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jimx: Can someone please explain 14...a6?
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| | Jun-04-09 Geller vs Tal, 1959
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jimx: Woo! I found 31 ... Qe2. It may not have been the best move but it still feels good to have played the same move as Tal.
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| | May-11-09 T Kosintseva vs E Zaiatz, 2009
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jimx: I found 39. Rc8. I was not really sure how it would win but it was just a gut feeling to pin the bishop and force black to trade rooks or move it out of the way. Crafty thought that 39. Rc8 was better for white than 39. Rg7 after 3 moves in (+4.24 vs +3.03), but when I got Crafty to ...
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| | Dec-30-08 N Lisicic vs D Arsic, 2008
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jimx: <YoungEd: Another mate in 3: 35. Rd7+ Rxd7
36. Qf8+ kxf8
37. Bh6++
I like forcing Black to block d7 and giving mate with the Bishop here! The actual game finish is beautiful, though.> <Patriot: You'd better take a closer look. The king escapes on e7. :-)> Not only that, ...
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| | Oct-02-08 Soyuz 9 Cosmonauts vs Ground Control, 1970
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jimx: Q. What do you do when you see a space man?
A. You park in it, man.
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| | Sep-09-08 R Kuijf vs I Rogers, 1989
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jimx: I'm going to go against popular opinion and say that I think this is a really good and original Tuesday puzzle. I believe it qualifies as "easy" (and why I think CG chose it for Tuesday) because there are several different winning moves for white, rather than in spite of this. You only
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| | Aug-29-08 E Lowe vs Staunton, 1847
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jimx: I say the reason why Lowe went with Qxe5 instead of h8=Q is simply because the year was 1847, Romantic style chess was in its prime, and it was way cooler to win via an unexpected queen sacrifice than adding on an extra queen (the values of a monogamous, misogynistic, and austere ...
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| | Aug-08-08 Steinitz vs Blackburne, 1873
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jimx: "Madlydeeply: I can see two furious balding beard-shaggy men furiously puffing away at their pipe and cigar with the forehaeads sweating and wheezing and angry crazy fierce squinty eyes in a true Sumo style staredown... probably wasn't exactly like that..."
I think it might have been ...
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