ounos has kibitzed 1220 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jun-14-13 J Gaya Llodra vs Gulko, 1996    ounos: Bah. I only considered 22. ...g5 (isn't this winning too?), and peeked the solution.      Jun-02-13 Kamsky vs Morozevich, 2013    ounos: Hmm. After Nxb2, I wondered whether white could play 18. Nd5. Then I wondered why black isn't hurrying 20. ...Ne5. Then I went to chessbomb to check the lines, and it turns out that all these are junctions where players blundered, 18. Nd5 is crushing, and 20. ...Ne5 is necessary      May-21-13 V Small vs Panno, 1988    ounos: <RookFile> not sure about Nxe3, black shouldn't be in a hurry, white doesn't threaten anything, nor the white bishop is going anywhere. It is completely mysterious why black gave the g5 pawn. He could just play 35. ...g4, followed by h5, and see the plan of white. Just these ...      Mar-26-13 Petrosian vs Petrovsky, 1946    ounos: Amazing. Without knowing this game, playing the moves casually, for some reason I stopped after 17. ...f6, wondered what would Petrosian play. Exchange? Retreat? Exchange? Retreat? Let's see what he did. Bam. That's why he was Petrosian and I'm a nobody      Feb-23-13 N Templier vs S Galicek, 2001    ounos: 20. Qg5 looks more direct than the text      Feb-09-13 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972    ounos: With Fischer's pieces stuck on the back row, defeat was inevitable (and it is surprising he survived as long as he did, honestly). One should also highlight Spassky's excellent positional play which rendered the usually formidable bishops of Fischer to ineffective bystanders, for the ...      Jan-24-13 T Todorov vs A Kovacevic, 1998    ounos: 20. bxa6 and for example 20. ...Rxb6 21. Ra7+ and Rc7, the two connected passers decide Pretty rare to enter such a late endgame as soon as move 20      Jan-21-13 Timman vs A Ipatov, 2013    ounos: 44. ...h3 45. gxh3 gxh3 46. Ke2 should be winning      Jan-19-13 Nakamura vs E L'Ami, 2013   ounos: Talk about inefficiency! :) At move 19, black needs two knight moves to bring a knight on c6 (from a6). Yet he spends 6 moves to achieve that, swapping the knights in the process! (But sure, he was trying to avoid Nc5, and he did avoid that, so, +1 for the creative maneuvering in a ...      Dec-22-12 Tkachiev vs Potkin, 2007    ounos: <rilkefan> what else? 23. ...Qe4 perhaps? Another little point: if 20. ...Ke8, 21. c5 is particularly tricky to meet

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