Nov-07-09 Morozevich vs Kramnik, 2009 
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ozmikey: Cracking game! I particularly like the way Kramnik manages to go onto the attack after beating off Moro's initial assault...just as you're expecting a consolidating move like 30...Qb5, he smashes open White's king's position. Great stuff.
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| | Nov-06-09 V Tukmakov vs K Hulak, 1999
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ozmikey: Not every day you see a grandmaster pass up a mate in one, not that it made a great deal of difference!
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| | Oct-26-09 Robert James Fischer
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ozmikey: What a shocker of an article. As usual, non-chess writers musing about chess produce 99% drivel. Fischer defeated Spassky in a "tournament"? "Helsinki" in the caption to the second photo? Come on. Plus the tawdry genius/madman nostrums about Fischer that have only been rehashed ...
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| | Oct-18-09 Vasiukov vs Simagin, 1965
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ozmikey: Crazy game. Did Black miss a much quicker win with 29...Rxc5? After 30. Rxa5 Rxc3 31. Bxb5 Kc7! (rather than 31...axb5 32. Rd8+ Rc8 33. Rxc8+ Kxc8 34. Ra8+) 32. Rd3 Rc5, I can't see how White can avoid losing a piece.
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| | Oct-18-09 Vasiukov vs Taimanov, 1965
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ozmikey: Two stunning knight "sacs" in the one game!
Could Black have held on just by sitting on the position rather than opening things up by 32...e5 though? The dark-square weaknesses, the BP on e6 and White's control of the b-file are all unpleasant I guess...
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| | Oct-17-09 Portisch vs Keres, 1972
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ozmikey: Very interesting game, I'm surprised there are no comments on it. I wonder whether Keres could have improved on his play at some point after 20. Bxb7 (beyond just reconciling himself to the loss of a pawn) - it's hard to believe that the whole concluding line is more or less forced,
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| | Oct-14-09 S Yuldashev vs Aronian, 2004
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ozmikey: Very nice finish. Not too hard to find from the position in the diagram on the homepage, but a bit harder to visualise on move 28 (as I imagine Aronian would have done).
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| | Oct-11-09 K Walbrodt vs A Zinkl, 1894
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ozmikey: Mieses should perhaps have explained why 52...Kg7, allowing the White rook in, is forced instead of 52...Kg8; in the latter case White wins quite simply by 53. Rxf1, but after 52...Kg7 there's the nasty trick 53. Rxf1 gxf1(Q) 54. Qxf1?? Rxf1 55. b8(Q) Rb1+. In any case, Mieses' ...
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| | Oct-11-09 Raymond Keene
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ozmikey: <HeMateMe><Is 'Private Eye' like the American 'National Enquirer'?> Not remotely in the same ballpark.
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| | Oct-07-09 A Giri vs F A Cuijpers, 2009
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ozmikey: <An Englishman> <why Black didn't accept the Exchange sacrifice with 18...Kxf7 is a mystery to me.> I wondered that myself, but I suppose White can just continue with 19. Bxg6+ Kxg6 20. Qg4+, picking up the knight on d7 and still leaving Black's king right out in the ...
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