Mar-07-13 Capablanca vs Riumin, 1936
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paul1959: The picture and contemporary scores indicate that the move order is
11-O-O Ng7
12-Bh6 a5
13-a3 f6
It seems that Capablanca himself gave the wrong move order in his annotations to the game for a special edition of 64 and that Riumin used that version to give his own notes.
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| | Dec-18-12 Botvinnik vs Bronstein, 1951 
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paul1959: <Everett> Tongue in cheek I guess. Botvinnik novel treatment of the opening was not novel after all (See Paulsen-Mason 1880 , buried under the wrong opening code). I wonder if Botvinnik knew about the game.
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| | Dec-16-12 Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914
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paul1959: <GrahamClayton> Hmm.. the anecdote is suspect to say the least. Both protagonists were not in speaking terms well before their 1908 match and the result did certainly no good. This is a typical story where the victim of a joke provides the bat to its tormentor.
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| | Dec-02-12 Aronian vs Nakamura, 2012
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paul1959: 8 Bd2xb4 a6xb5 was probably not to Aronian taste.
9 Bb4-d6 Qd8-a5+
10 Qd1-d2 Nf6-e4
11 Qd2xa5 Ra8xa5 followed by Nc6-d4 looks good for Black. Other moves at 9th lose the c4 pawn and Black looks OK.
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| | Nov-11-12 Fischer vs Najdorf, 1960
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paul1959: There was still bad blood between the two players more than 32 years after this game: See Chess Notes 7832.
Only a contemporary press report can be trusted. My two cents is that those nicely lined pieces at the table edge would be good candidates for accidental knock-down by a ...
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| | Nov-11-12 A Medina Garcia vs Spassky, 1955
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paul1959: This is a come-from-behind win by Spassky. According to my old ECO , 21... Ne6 is bad (exd4 is =) and White had a big advantage after 23 exd5. 26 Re3 , cutting off the retreat of the Bh6 could have been the error.
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| | Oct-04-12 Portisch vs Petrosian, 1964
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paul1959: Up to the 1974 candidate match, Portisch was +4 with no loss against Petrosian.
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| | Aug-23-12 Seirawan vs Korchnoi, 1981
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paul1959: I am certainly missing something but what about 36... Rxc3? 37 bxc3 Qc1+ 38 Ka2 Qc2+ 39 Ka3 Qxc3+
40 Ka4 b5+ is unclear to say the least. What else?
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| | Apr-07-12 Yates vs Rubinstein, 1926
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paul1959: <valenti> Hort gives 4. e6 as leading to a clear Black advantage in my old ECO so Kmoch's comment is unfair and of course giving a ?? is ridiculous. That kind of chess literature is totally obsolete. In all , Yates' 4. f4 is not that great ( small advantage to Black at best) ...
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| | Mar-30-12 Szabo vs Najdorf, 1937
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paul1959: 30... Bg7
31 Be4 Ng6
32 Bxc6
31 ... Bf8
32 Rxf6 both look convincing enough.
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