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Graham Morrison vs Geoff Chandler
Edinburgh Chess League (1987), Edinburgh SCO
Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch (D41)  ·  0-1

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Jan-24-22
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  Sally Simpson: Seeing Carlsen today playing the Hennig-Schara Gambit reminded me of this. (and to prove I did occasionally beat very good players...when they had an off day.)

I use to love being involved in these positions.


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My Queen hangs, a Bishop hangs so let's put the other Bishop en prise. 25...Bc3


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(of course you only get to see the ones that worked. I have others that hit the dirt in spectacular fashion.)

Wait till Carlsen plays the Latvian an opening I had a tremendous plus with something like P.40 W.30, then I'll unleash a few of those on this unsuspecting website.

Jan-24-22
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  fredthebear: Zippity doo dah! Nothing like a half-dozen intermezzos. 23...RxBc4! (the White queen is overworked) and the remaining moves were akin to domestic abuse.

Opening explorer wasn't happy with Black making his three center pawns disappear (who cares, OE wasn't around back in '87), but Black managed to turn a double queen pawn opening into a double king pawn opening, and snatch that e-pawn w/check! It's sorcery!

Jan-24-22
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  offramp: Very good! This is a wonderful game from Graham playing the powerful NZ GM.
Jan-24-22
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  Sally Simpson: Hi Fred,

Yes good fun.

I also noticed that Mamedyarov vs Duda, 2022 got to the exact same position.


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It's horses for courses but I'm not too fond of Duda's 7...dxe5.

My 7....Nbd7 is (IMO) in tune with the theme of this opening. Gain time on White's exposed Queen. 7...Nd7 has Bc5 ideas.

Swapping Queens and I would have felt that I've been swindled. But Duda can play those Black positions. I always needed counterplay and a bagful of tricks.

The Duda game was very interesting. The Black active King was a double edged sword. It was still up for grabs till the last 7-8 moves before time control.

HI Offramp.

You may be confusing me with Murray. ( and I'm not his dad.) However Graham did play a good next time we met and I got hammered.

Jan-25-22
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  offramp: Blimey - I was totally on the wrong hymn sheet! My attention-span is terribly low nowadays.

Now that I play through the game again, I see that you won this excellent game.

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