May-29-08 S Narayanan vs V Ikonnikov, 2006 
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| thorndeux: Got it! Ikonnikov is a great guy - very calm and humble.
He plays top board for our team in the German league (2. Bundesliga). |
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Sep-23-07 E Varnusz vs J Pogats, 1979
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| thorndeux: I mainly considered 19.♘f5+, 19.♘xf7 and 19.♗g5. Like many, I looked at 19.♘xf7 first, and after 19...♔xf7 20.♗g5. But somehow I still decided 19.♗g5 hxg3 20.♘xf7 ♔xf7 21.♖e6 was the best try, although I expected gxh2+ ... |
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Sep-10-07 S Savchenko vs A Kogan, 2000
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| thorndeux: I think it was a good puzzle. Quite a few people missed it and generally trapped pieces are often harder to spot than more subtle tactics. |
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Aug-09-07 J Degraeve vs J Boudre, 1987
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| thorndeux: <MostlyAverageJoe: <thorndeux: <mkrk17><MostlyAverageJoe> Doesn't moving the king instead of capturing the knight simply lose the exchange?> Of course it does. But it does not give white a forced mate in 10, as is the case in the capture.> Well, the ... |
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Jun-30-07 Browne vs A Wojtkiewicz, 2004
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| thorndeux: Man - missed it. I looked at Rd1 but at that point it lost to Rxb3 cxb3 c2+ forking king and rook.
In my line g5 saves the day (g5 Bxg5 Rxb3+ leads to perpetual). At least I wasn't that far off. |
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Jun-28-07 G Gibbs vs L Schmid, 1968
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| thorndeux: Of course! Qxd5. Well, well. Tomorrow is another day :) |
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Jun-27-07 Karpov vs M Stojanovic, 2007
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| thorndeux: <<JG27Pyth> If black could exchange with 18...Nxh5 white's attack would be over before it started but black can't play 18...Nxh5 because he needs to exchange that N for the White N on C6... (how else would you "solve" that poor rooks position!?)> Very good observation ... |
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Jun-20-07 Dreev vs Gleizerov, 1992
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| thorndeux: <dzechiel> I really like your technique of writing down your thoughts on the puzzle of the day. We all gain a lot from it and more often than not you are right on. Today there was a little oversight in your analysis, though: <After 19 Rxd5 c4 white plays 20 Rxd6 cxb3 21 ... |
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Mar-05-07 I Goutioudi vs L Rogule, 2006
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| thorndeux: <Brapp> I've read it many times: If you wanna learn from these puzzles solve them without moving the pieces. At least give it a try first. It improves your visualization skills and those are the ones you need on the board. Either use the diagram only (as I suspect most of us |
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Dec-11-06 Andersson vs Gheorghiu, 1981
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| thorndeux: <2021><Eyal> Brainfart on my side, thanks for pointing that out. |
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