May-19-13 W Crane vs H Charlick, 1888
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optimal play: <<<<<<CENTENNIAL CHESS CONGRESS.> CRANE WINS THE CHAMPIONSHIP.>[By Telegraph.] > Melbourne, October 29.>
This afternoon the contest for the championship at the Centennial Chess Congress was decided. In the game between Charlick and Crane the ...
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| | May-09-13 Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1981
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optimal play: <Knight13> I love playing this line as white and find it to be very solid. As for 13.Nfd4 it is perfectly playable and if Karpov made any early sub-optimal moves it was probably with 18.exf6? It looks like 17...f6 was an innovation by Korchnoi and a better response might ...
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| | May-02-13 Kibitzer's Café 
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optimal play: <Wayne Proudlove> <there's a new version of "The Great Gatsby" coming out> I think this might be the 4th version. The previous Jay Gatsby's were Warner Baxter (1926), Alan Ladd (1949) and Robert Redford (1974),
and now Leonardo DiCaprio.
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| | Apr-22-13 W Tullidge vs R Hodgson, 1893
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optimal play: OPENING RULES
*Don't bring out your Queen too early
*Make as few pawn moves as possible in the opening
*Develop your Knights then your Bishops
What are the others?
Oh well, as far as Hodgson is concerned they're not important
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| | Apr-20-13 Gruenfeld vs Nimzowitsch, 1925
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optimal play: <<...Aron Nimzovich's 4 . . . Ba6, instead of the standard fianchetto with 4 . . . Bb7, make[s] White decide how to defend the c4 pawn. Thus, 5 Qa4 may leave the queen misplaced later; 5 Qc2 invites 5 . . . c5, when 6 d5?! leads to a dubious gambit after 6 . . . ed 7 cd ...
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| | Apr-18-13 Kenneth Rogoff
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optimal play: "No doubt leaders, or those who fancy themselves as such, have a stake in defining war as a kind of chess game in which the opposing kings (and their staffs) are never taken, while they coolly maneuver their bloody pawns. But the common sense of mankind and the Western ...
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| | Apr-14-13 Blackburne vs S Rosenthal, 1873
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optimal play: Blackburne tried the same opening line just five days earlier Blackburne vs M Fleissig, 1873 however Fleissig played a much less sensible defence for a very bad loss.
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| | Apr-14-13 Blackburne vs M Fleissig, 1873
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optimal play: Blackburne tried the same opening line just five days later Blackburne vs S Rosenthal, 1873 however Rosenthal played a much more sensible defence for a very good win.
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| | Apr-12-13 C Fisher vs A Burns, 1876
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optimal play: <<<<<THE LATE INTERCOLONIAL MATCH.> BOARD IV.- C. M. FISHER v. A. BURNS.>
Great interest was attached to this game, which produced the best chess displayed in the match. The Melbourne crack was second player, and adopted the French defence. The opening was
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| | Apr-11-13 Robert James Fischer
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optimal play: <TheFocus: Quotes By and About Fischer http://www.chessquotes.com/player-f... >
Some interesting quotes there. The one that struck me the most was by Karpov <I was struck by his gaze. He was not at all the way he looked in photographs. I didn't see any severity in ...
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