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Andrew Soltis vs Joseph Tamargo
Marshall Chess Club Championship (1976), Marshall Chess Club, New York, rd 9, Mar-28
Spanish Game: Closed. Bogoljubow Variation (C91)  ·  0-1

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Mar-31-14
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  Richard Taylor: Great game by Tamargo!
Apr-01-14
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  perfidious: <Richard> This game was instrumental, perhaps even the decisive victory, in Tamargo's win of the club championship that year--no mean feat, that.
Jan-18-15  sfm: On an orbituary
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!t... Sam Sloan writes

...his most famous win was against Grandmaster Andy Soltis, who is now the chess columnist for the New York Post. In the 1976 Marshall Chess Club Championship, Tamargo had the tournament of his life, winning almost every game against an all master field. The critical game was against Grandmaster Soltis. Soltis resigned thinking that Tamargo had mate in three. However, subsequent analysis showed that Soltis had a defense and could have won the game. This became famous as a game where a grandmaster resigned in a winning position. However, modern re-analysis of this same game has established that Tamargo really did have a win with best play when Soltis resigned, although it is unlikely that either Soltis or Tamargo would have found all the best moves over the board.

Mar-23-15
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  offramp: 49....Rg2 would definitely have been better.
Nov-07-15
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  perfidious: Sloan's portrayal is inaccurate, as Soltis became a GM only in 1980. This, however, does not detract from Tamargo's feat of winning the Marshall championship on the heels of George Francis Kane 's victory in the same event four years prior, though Tamargo did not come to a (however temporary) 2500 USCF rating as the result of his upset.

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