Nov-18-09 Keres vs Verbac, 1933 
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sleepkid: 14. Nf6+ also leads to mate, and has some equally pretty variations. For example, 14. Nf5+ BxN 15. RxB (threatening the mate on h6) PxQ 16. Rg5+ Kh6 17. Rg8# or 15 ...NxQ 16. Rf7+ Kg8 17. Rd7#
Black could maybe throw the kitchen sink at move 15, but really he's done for.
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| | Sep-14-09 NN vs R Vassilev, 2009
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sleepkid: Ross Vassilev doesn't have a master's rating (or any rating at all for that matter) on either FIDE or USCF. This falls below chessgames.com's requirement that the games entered into the database be from players of master's rating or higher, or be of exceptional theoretical value. ...
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| | Aug-31-09 Fine vs Najdorf, 1948
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sleepkid: Has to be opening preparation by Fine. Fine was renowned for being a Queen's Pawn player (the AVRO tournament of 1938 being a noted exception - see his loss to Keres there), and almost never played King's Pawn openings. Here he obviously had prepared a variation against Najdorf's ...
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| | Jul-28-09 Csaba Horvath
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sleepkid: Csaba Horvath's current rating is 2522. I'm not sure where chessgames gets 2225 from. Please update his page. http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...
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| | Jun-13-09 Alekhine vs Rubinstein, 1930
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sleepkid: Well, all I can say with certainty is that the incident is recounted in a book I read once. Alekhine is one of my favourites as well. Though he was not an especially admirable human being.
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| | May-20-09 M Gurevich vs R Ovetchkin, 2007
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sleepkid: Very similar to the mate used at the end of the film version of "The Luzhin Defense" I'm surprised Gurevich missed this. It was the first thing I looked at from the position.
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| | May-05-09 Paulsen vs H Montgomery, 1857
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sleepkid: Thanks. You're right. After that, it seems that Black must give up the exchange to relieve some of the pressure. After that, White just grinds out the win. ...still, 24 ...f5 is better than f6 which simply blundered a piece away.
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| | May-02-09 Korchnoi vs Sax, 1991
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sleepkid: Game of the day: "Rough Sax".
...no, sorry, just kidding.
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| | May-02-09 I Sabau vs A J Goldsby, 2003
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sleepkid: In fact, Ioan Sabau has a number of blunders from won positions. Not the sort of thing that happens to people who are using computers to cheat. Going through his games, it's fairly obvious that he was not using a program to play.
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| | May-02-09 Ioan Sabau
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sleepkid: Very nice detective work. Salut Myschkin!
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