stacase has kibitzed 1110 times to chessgames   [more...]

Sep-25-18 I Stavrianakis vs U Weber, 2008    stacase: I spent too much time thinking it couldn't be this easy. But it was.      Sep-24-18 Radjabov vs Morozevich, 2008    stacase: Black's b7 Pawn is preventing the White Queen from saying "Mate" from a7. So, what to do? Ah - White's Rook can say check from c6 forcing the b7 Pawn to move. Hah! Good Monday or Tuesday stuff.      Sep-15-18 Smirin vs Pelletier, 2002    stacase: Why is this difficult? White can fork Black's King & Queen if only it weren't for Black's nasty Rook. So how can White make Mr. Nasty move - Oh Look! A free Knight.      Sep-13-18 Von Scheve vs Teichmann, 1907    stacase: Taking note of the fact that White's f2 Pawn is pinned, busting up the castled king with 12...Bxh3 seems like the thing to do. Sort of plays itself once you do that.      Sep-12-18 W So vs Carlsen, 2016    stacase: <Penguincw: It is the GM level here ... > Yeah Penguin, I never looked at it all the way through. It looks like the White King can flee to f3 but if he does, the Black Knight forks the King & Queen from e5 and Game Over      Sep-08-18 Topalov vs Ivanchuk, 1999    stacase: 18...Nxe2 is one of those "Give your opponent lots of choices - all bad" kind of a move. When I was a kid I learned that Knights are expendable.      Aug-29-18 V Rozic vs M Velcheva, 2008    stacase: After looking at a whole bunch of moves that didn't prevent Black's Queen from ruining the whole process. 36.Bxh7 allows White's Queen & Rook to overpower the Black Rook while Black's Queen & Bishop just sit there. It's important for White to move 38.Qf8+ instead of 38.Rh3+      Aug-28-18 Y Hernandez vs E Lin, 2008    stacase: Was there any other consideration than to take the Bishop? Was there any reason not to get both Rooks on the Job? This was a Tuesday offering because of the, "Which Rook do I take the Bishop with?" question.      Aug-27-18 T Oyunbaatar vs I Chahrani, 2008    stacase: <malt: Two Monday Puzzles! Judit Polgar v Bartlomiej Marieja> That's what I thought too, but then I thought maybe that was the Sunday offering - but uh it was too easy.      Aug-26-18 A H T dos Santos Fier vs K Leenhouts, 2017    stacase: <An Englishman: ... A true speculative sac. Can't foresee ...> I've asked the question on this board before, "How far ahead are we expected to solve one of these insane puzzles?" Nobody has a good answer. "speculative sac" Nice term (-:

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