maxi Member since May-05-06 · Last seen May-25-13 I haven't played in tournaments in many years due to my time-demanding job, but I am fairly strong and carefully follow the world chess scene.

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May-25-13 Englisch vs Tarrasch, 1885    maxi: Perhaps you can find a game where Englisch jumps the gun on a combination and loses: The Englisch Impatient.      May-25-13 Sultan Khan vs Capablanca, 1930   maxi: Thanks, <FSR>. It sounds pretty harmless. The kid's problem is he cannot see exciting stuff in the evening because he gets insomnia so I'll take him early afternoon. (I married late in life, by the way.)      May-25-13 Caruana vs Kasimdzhanov, 2013    maxi: say what?      May-21-13 Alejandro Ramirez-Alvarez    maxi: Perhaps he is getting better. He didn't quite make it this time, but it was an excellent result. Time will tell.      May-08-13 Fine vs Botvinnik, 1938    maxi: But you are right, I should give some lines. I will if I get the chance.      May-05-13 Kamsky vs Shabalov, 2013    maxi: There was an Argentinian player, Roberto Grau, who wrote a treatise in four volumens on chess theory (in Spanish). He wrote that the bad Black Bishop on c8 actually had a positive effect in holding together Black´s position in several openings, and that Black should wait until the ...      May-03-13 Topalov vs Karjakin, 2013    maxi: It has been pointed out several times in the chess literature that matches place a heavy burden on the nerves, for many reasons.      Apr-29-13 Jose Raul Capablanca    maxi: Is it possible that people are smarter today? Much is known now about the psychological advantages of early mental stimulation in children. And there is the mystery of the rapidly increasing IQ scores, with tests that are supposedly conceived so that the environment is taken out of the      Apr-11-13 Tylor vs W Winter, 1933   maxi: most excellent pun, dude      Apr-10-13 J Dobias vs J Podgorny, 1952    maxi: <Mating Net> You must like mating nets. Anyway, this is a great mating line you are giving from this interesting game. The White Bishop retreats giving a discovered check, but instead of doing it to g6 as is often the case, it does it to f5 and checks on the other diagonal ...

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