Feb-15-05 Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 
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kostich in time: there is one piece of evidence that indicates that while this Game may be authentic. Tartakover annotated the gamefor Chess Review that very same year. he calle dit "the Polish immortal". Idon't think Tartakover would be privy to a hoax..he was, for example, a much more ...
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| | Feb-15-05 Reuben Fine
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kostich in time: dear iron maiden: Fines view of the Soviets shifted with the winds.BEFORE the war, he was pretty uncritical..read his reort on his soviet tour for Chess review.
Interestingly, after some conversations with Flohr and Keres in Moscow in 1946, he changed his mind..
To be fair ...
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| | Feb-04-05 Vidmar vs Euwe, 1936
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kostich in time: this is extremely good game..Euwes revenge for Carlsbad 1929
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| | Feb-03-05 Topalov vs Shirov, 1998
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kostich in time: for my money,this is the most startling sac ever made in an endgame..or at least one of the top five.
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| | Feb-03-05 Euwe vs Yanofsky, 1946
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kostich in time: Euwe was in great form at Groningen..he really should have played Botvinnik in a match in late 46or early 47. Unfortunatly, his playwent into an inexplicable tail-spin later in 47, culminating with his his ignominous collapse at the Hague-Moscow tournament..
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| | Feb-01-05 Geller vs Petrosian, 1953
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kostich in time: Botvinnik 1978 is clearly not as strong as his namesake..
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| | Feb-01-05 Keres vs Petrosian, 1959
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kostich in time: Not so much 'stupid' as 'ignorant"..they just bought in to the prevailing mythos about Tigran...
Too many chess players think thaat its next to impossible to evolve a greatgame out of the black sideof a supposedly 'colorless' opening like the accelerated Dragon.which,despite
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| | Jan-23-05 Robert James Fischer
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kostich in time: I understand no 'offense' was intended, but I am a little puzzled as to why I sound "like a aparody of a neo-conservative". I am, in fact, what Brits used to call a "tory radical". If I am ,in any sense, an American conservative, I am a conservative in the manner of my great
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| | Jan-20-05 O Bernstein vs Capablanca, 1914
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kostich in time: I like the fact that the back rank mate flows so logically out of Capas over-allplan..still, he did have some "superior" games.
Interestingly, Marshall once wrote a book called "Chess Masterpieces." in it, he analyzed games that top masters of his day had picked as their ...
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| | Jan-18-05 Geller vs Uhlmann, 1970
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kostich in time: Gligoric had a "game of the month in Chess life and Review devoted to this game..it is a very, very good game.
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