Nov-18-09 Keres vs Verbac, 1939 
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jovack: hahahahahaha
6 years later, and verbac loses in the EXACT SAME FASHION, and he actually loses in the same amount of moves Keres vs Verbac, 1933
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| | Nov-15-09 Kramnik vs Ponomariov, 2009 
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jovack: drawnik? definitely not after this.
most people would have called a 1/2-1/2
excellent endgame.
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| | Nov-02-09 Fischer vs H Rossetto, 1959 
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jovack: to HeMateMe:
no you really shouldn't get that feeling because the game is far from over at that point.
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| | Oct-21-09 Nakamura vs S Muhammad, 2004 
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jovack: black must have lost focus.. odd that an IM would not feel the danger of skewers with his king out in the open with 2 enemy bishops free
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| | Oct-20-09 J Smeets vs Yifan Hou, 2008 
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jovack: jan might have been tired for the endgame.
he calculated an equal finish to the queening spot, but he missed black's first move would end up in skewer
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| | Oct-19-09 Tal vs Panno, 1958 
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jovack: wow... talj is just amazing..
what an offensive, one mistake and all his sacrifices could have backfired.
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| | Oct-19-09 S C Miller vs M Dougherty, 2002 
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jovack: miller went for a counter thrust with his own knight, i guess trying to take the initiative... but he should have just traded knights... the rook aligned with his king should have set off red flags.
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| | Mar-24-09 Anand vs Carlsen, 2009 
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jovack: excellent blindfold game..
to anyone new at blindfold.. just give it a try, you'll see it's really not as bad as you think.
it will get very confusing at first, but the trick is to concentrate on only what you need to. then when your opponent makes a play, you can establish what ...
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| | Mar-23-09 I Appel vs J A Seitz, 1938
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jovack: the game was fine until the mistake at the end....
everyone needs to relax and acting like they are far above this game.. there are still good ideas that were played by white that are interesting to look at.
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| | Feb-01-09 L Dominguez vs Karjakin, 2009 
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jovack: Title match of Corus '09
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