sorokahdeen Member since Oct-18-11 Old, former chessplayer with too much time on his hands.

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Apr-29-13 Petrosian vs Petrovsky, 1946    sorokahdeen: EDzelli But can players nowadays *afford* to have "personalities"? One of the key characteristics of chess over time has always been the relative scarcity of really strong chess-players and a constantly-changing understanding of the game itself. Before Steinitz, High-end chess ...      Apr-01-13 J Langreck vs J Easter, 1997    sorokahdeen: Actually, this variation, being as it is, old as the hills, is pretty well known and you can go a long way without having to think while playing it. Some of black's problem's stem from what looks like over-the board innovation. The sequence I was used to when playing this ...      Mar-04-13 Fischer vs J Bennett, 1957    sorokahdeen: And now for a new low in the history of chess annotation: Rd8+! Qd8. Qc3+ (Splat) Is there a symbol for "splat"? I don't know but for a tactical shot like this, there should be one.      Feb-23-13 M Kapelan vs Tarjan, 1983    sorokahdeen: I think I must be missing something because the only interesting thing I saw was ...23. Bd4 with several ideas. 24. Bd4 Qg5+ with mate in two. 24. fe4 Be3 # 24. Nf1 Qg5+. 25. Ng3 Be3+ There seem to be a number of ...      Feb-14-13 W Schmidt vs Jansa, 1983    sorokahdeen: <Patzer2> Instead of ..23e5. 24 Rd1, consider 24. Rf1 with the idea of answering ...24Qd6 with 25. Qf3 attacking both the Rook on A8 and the f7 square. I don't know that this will lead to white's ultimate happiness but it will certainly give black things like Qf7+ to ...      Feb-13-13 Tal vs Sviridov, 1969    sorokahdeen: Oh this game is wrong, so wrong... I'd so hate to have been Tal's vict... uh, I mean, black.      Feb-06-13 M Mrdja vs Mecking, 2006    sorokahdeen: Looks like by substituting Qf3 for f4, white tried to apply pressure with his pieces on the kingside but didn't find any such pressure in the center strong enough to make black castle into any of that white side of the najdorf Richter-Rauzer variation's attacking themes. it ...      Jan-28-13 K Hulak vs Adorjan, 1983    sorokahdeen: I think more interesting than the combination is the middle-game. At first, white's setup looks super-aggressive but when the night gets to e5, it's anchored in with no way for white to dislodge it with pawns and the next thing you know, white has nothing like an attack because ...      Jan-23-13 Lilienthal vs Kotov, 1948    sorokahdeen: @Radtop: *Does white lose exchanging queens at move 22?* In my very humble opinion, possibly. If white is to win the position, exchanging queens is a bad idea because it makes things easier for black by creating a centralized passed pawn on d5 while leaving a strong knight ...      Jan-10-13 T Hillarp Persson vs T Thomsen, 1997    sorokahdeen: Oop! Missed ...Kh6.

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