Aug-16-03 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 
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kapinov: Funny- a strange, mangled version of this score ended up in my database, too. I recently added various city-based PGNs and found what looked like this game as remembered by an alzheimer's patient.
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| | Aug-16-03 Fischer vs M Radoicic, 1963
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kapinov: I can't accept that, Black's pawn structure is according to theory and with the exception that the pawn is on g4 instead of g2, the same can be said of White's (if anything, Black can use this). Black still has chances to create some play. I can accept that he simply gave up because
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| | Jul-26-03 Kasparov vs J Charambalos, 1997
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kapinov: This game was played in a simul, maybe he forfeited the game? He may have left, given Kasparov the finger, etc. I doubt he was too afraid to continue.
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| | Jul-26-03 Louis Eichborn
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kapinov: It is interesting, his record against one of the strongest players of his time. Louis Eichborn was either a forgotten world champion or one of Anderssen's local sparring partners where these game scores were his only wins (with the hundreds upon hundreds of lost game scores somehow ...
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| | Jul-25-03 Seirawan vs Xu Jun, 1988
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kapinov: I sided with neither, they are both possible motivations.
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| | Jul-25-03 Lipschutz vs Bird, 1889
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kapinov: Bird missed an easy win with 88...Rxd4 89.cxd4 Kxd4 after which Black queens and wins. White can't stop it with 90.Kb1, 90...Kd3 91.Kc1 Ke2 with d4-d3-d2-d1=Q or 90.Kb3 Kd3 with the same idea of ...Ke2, ...d4, etc. White will not win a pawn race, 90.a4 Kc4 91.Ka3 (to support b4) d4 ...
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