Apr-29-13 Isaac Boleslavsky
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ozmikey: An interesting passage from Bronstein's book ("Sorcerer's Apprentice"): <"During the Budapest Candidates' Tournament Boleslavsky and I had discussed the chances of the next challenger and my friend [Boleslavsky] , who had lost seven games to Botvinnik without winning a single ...
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| | Apr-23-13 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Ding Liren, 2013 
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ozmikey: <Perhaps bishops are problem pieces for the C-K player in general.> Trust me, as a lifetime C-K aficionado, they are. If you handle the Steinitz Variation (for instance) too passively, the QB becomes an absolute donkey. If you misplay the Advance Variation, your QB can get ...
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| | Apr-20-13 Antoshin vs A Khasin, 1956
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ozmikey: Actually I don't think 29. Kh2 was even necessary; 29. Rxe7 seems to win outright, i.e. 29...Rxe7 30. Qxf6 Rxe1+ 31. Kh2, and now even 31...Re5 is no good since after 32. fxe5 the diagonal is going to become open in any case. Would have been a nice double-rook-sacrifice (not the ...
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| | Apr-16-13 Najdorf vs Reshevsky, 1957
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ozmikey: Loss on time, I would imagine.
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| | Apr-13-13 Robert Eugene Byrne
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ozmikey: Sad news. A fine grandmaster (no-one reaches the candidates' stage of the World Championship by accident!) and an outstanding chess journalist.
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| | Mar-31-13 Malcolm Robert Tredinnick
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ozmikey: Very sad to hear of Malcolm's premature passing. I first met (and played against) him in a tournament way back in 1988 and ran into him again several times over the years. A nice bloke.
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| | Mar-06-13 Karpov-Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978)
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ozmikey: <extremeintellect> I remember watching that "Great Chess Movie" and that scene in particular, and frankly I think anyone would have been annoyed by those particular questions (they were from that nutty Spanish playwright Arrabal, for the record). They were strangulated, almost
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| | Mar-05-13 Kasparov-Karpov World Championship Match (1987)
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ozmikey: <HeMateMe> Will reply on the 1978 WC page, as this discussion probably belongs there.
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| | Feb-25-13 Ehlvest vs Karpov, 1988
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ozmikey: Herewith a cute story about this game, from the last round of a classic USSR championship where the two Super Ks went neck-and-neck to the finish. Karpov had caught up with Kasparov in the previous round with a beautiful win against Malaniuk, but in this final round, Kasparov seemed
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| | Feb-23-13 M Salter vs J Chan, 2003
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ozmikey: <Nice game.> Thank you! :-) <I'm assuming you were planning to answer 13..dxc5 with 14.d5, right?> That's right. I didn't analyse it fully at the time but thought that it would be very difficult for Black to hold on with his king still stuck in the middle, and that's ...
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