| May-13-25 |
Gligoric vs E Nievergelt, 1959
fredthebear: Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
Black rarely wins with tripled pawns anyway.
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| May-13-25 |
Chessgames - Sports
keypusher: Here's an article arguing that Weaver was guilty of participation in the fix, not just knowing about it. https://sabr.org/journal/article/gu... Evidence:
1. He was named as an active participant by Cicotte, Lefty Williams, Joe ...
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| May-13-25 |
Kibitzer's Café
Schwartz: 1. e4 g6 2. Bc4 c6 3. d3 Bg7 4. Qf3 Nf6 5. Bd2 d5 6. exd5 cxd5 7. Bb5+ Nfd7 8.
Bxd7+ Nxd7 9. Bc3 d4 10. Bd2 Ne5 11. Qd1 Qb6 12. b3 Bf5 13. h3 Qa6 14. Nf3
Nxd3+ 15. cxd3 Bxd3 16. Qc1 Qe6+ 17. Be3 Qxb3 1-0
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| May-13-25 |
Bronstein vs Korchnoi, 1962
newzild: Good idea, <<Messiah>>. How about 'Sixth Sense' as a game title, given that the stunning denoument occurs on the sixth rank.
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| May-13-25 |
Vachier-Lagrave vs Abdusattorov, 2025
greed and death: Embarrassing
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| May-13-25 |
Biographer Bistro
MissScarlett: I cunningly drew User: rhmberger into the fray.
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| May-13-25 |
C Zuidema vs A Whiteley, 1974
morphynoman2: Chess Informant 17/261
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| May-13-25 |
Tim Krabbe
MissScarlett: 1. D Gukesh vs A Erigaisi, 2025
2. Vachier-Lagrave vs D Gukesh, 2025
3. Firouzja vs D Gukesh, 2025
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| May-13-25 |
Kramnik vs Kasparov, 2000
nummerzwei: After 10.Bxb5?, Black should play 10...Qa5 ∓ rather than 10...cxd4?! allowing 11.Nxd4!?, which is not that great for Black.
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| May-13-25 |
Vlastimil Hort
Olavi: Hort lists his ten favourite games in his 1984 book Begegnungen am Schachbrett: Hort vs B Kurajica, 1976
Hort vs P Biyiasas, 1976
Hort vs Ivkov, 1970
Hort vs Spassky, 1977
Hort vs B Larsen, 1965
S Mariotti vs Hort, 1982
Hort vs ...
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| May-13-25 |
Superbet Romania Chess Classic (2025)
Obvious Troll: Gukesh needs to eat some grilled baby octopus and get it together. It's a huge embarrassment if the World Champion ends up in last place.
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| May-13-25 |
Reshevsky vs Fischer, 1961
Petrosianic: I'm looking over this game in My 60 Memorable Games (the real one, not the Ed Trice phony). [DIAGRAM] Of 51. K-N2, it says "Not 51. B-Q6?, R-Q2!; 52. BxR, R-Q7 wins." That would be 51. Bd6 Rd7 52. Bxa3 Rd2 in Todayspeak. Only I don't ...
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| May-13-25 |
Mikhalevski vs E Wiersma, 1999
Straclonoor: [DIAGRAM] One more 7-pieces K+B+P vs. k+r+2p(!) ending, where major side missed win. <56.Be3 Rd3 57.Ba7 Kf5 58.Bb6 Rb3 59.Bc5 Rb5 60.Be3 Kg4 61.Ba7 Rb3 62.Bd4 Kh4 63.Bc5 Rd3 64.Ba7 Rf3 65.Bb6 Kg4 66.Bc5 Kf5 67.Bb6 Ke5 68.Bd8 Rf8 ...
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| May-13-25 |
G Tringov vs Stein, 1964
DaltriDiluvi: It's worth noting that <63...Kxh4? 64.Kf2!> is only a draw.
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| May-13-25 |
Petrosian vs Najdorf, 1967
ewan14: Many thanks
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| May-13-25 |
H Metz vs S Farago, 1995
Straclonoor: [DIAGRAM] Nice 7-pieces same color bishop ending, won for white. <76....Kc4 77.Ka5! (only move to win) Bc7+ 78.Ka6 e5 79.Kb7 Ba5 80.Bd6 e4 81.Bf4??> Mistake Wins only 81.Ka6!! Bd8 82.a4!! (only move to win again) e3 83.c7 Bxc7 ...
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| May-13-25 |
Firouzja vs D Gukesh, 2025
DaltriDiluvi: The final mistake of the game occured after <53.Rxb4>: [DIAGRAM] After <53...Bg5? 54.Rb7 f6 55.Rf7> Black lost the f-pawn and the game. Instead, you need to give the bishop some breathing space by playing ...
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| May-13-25 |
Chessgames - Guys and Dolls
perfidious: Lea Salonga.
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| May-13-25 |
Gligoric vs Fischer, 1958
offramp: May-13-25 <andrea volponi: 20...Kf8 ( ! nunn : ?? andrea volponi 20...Ke8! = ).> Both those moves are impossible.
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| May-13-25 |
So vs Caruana, 2025
offramp: <perfidious: For some reason, the software would not allow me to change the ECO code to the correct B33.> A partial success:
<Sicilian Defense: Four Knights Variation (B33)> That's a bit of a mixture.
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| May-13-25 |
I Lentze vs J Rigo, 1981
Straclonoor: [DIAGRAM] This 6-pieces ending for sure won for black.
<73.Rc4 Re1? 74.Ka1? a3??> Mistake! Here wins only 74....Kd1!! 75.Kb1 Rd2 76.Ka1 a3! (now it's ok) 77.Rd4 Nb5 78.Rc4 Rc2 79.Rf4 Rc5 80.Kb1 Nc3+ 81.Ka1 Kc2 82.Rf2+ Kb3 ...
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| May-13-25 |
Caruana vs B Deac, 2025
offramp: That was a good game. It had a good opening, middlegame and ending. I saw Caruana in an interview after the game on YouTube. It's strange that these 2800+ GMs are very vague about their thought processes. "I could have ... I missed that ...
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| May-13-25 |
Hort vs Fischer, 1970
Albertan: Hirt could have drawn this game,check out the analysis at: https://en.chessbase.com/post/riddl...
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| May-13-25 |
Pillsbury vs E Graves, 1901
OhioChessFan: "Graves Mistake"
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| May-13-25 |
W T Struggles vs E Graves, 1900
OhioChessFan: Agreed <YoungEd> I'm not sure if it should include the names or just a general reference. Life and Death Battle.
Life and Death Struggle.
Hmmmmmmmmm. Has to be something there.
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| May-13-25 |
Garry Kasparov
ColdSong: Does a list of Kasparov's worst to best games per accuracy exists? I mean Kasparov's accuracy.It would be very interesting to study them with it.Of course I know it can be a lot of work to create it.
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| May-13-25 |
Chessgames - Music
OhioChessFan: Sarah Vaughan-All of Me
https://youtu.be/C43OA2qAAY4?si=tkX... Smoldering. She'd own me if she sang that in my presence.
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| May-13-25 |
Christopher Yoo
stone free or die: It's in many of the articles linked previously, but this new <CB> article gives a chance to quote it explicitly here - i.e. USCF asked FIDE to enforce it's year-long ban on Yoo internationally: <Under Article 26.12 of ...
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| May-13-25 |
T Lichtenhein vs Morphy, 1857
Sally Simpson: Went over this today in Kalinichnko's book of miniatures. Here [DIAGRAM] the notes says if 14.Qxc6+ then 14...Ke7 and carries on from there. No mention of Morphy's apparent intention to play 14...Bd7 setting up a Double Rook sac. It
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| May-13-25 |
Vachier-Lagrave vs D Gukesh, 2025
stone free or die: <Basic tactics, not highly tactical.> That's a contradiction worthy of contradiction.
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| May-13-25 |
N Whitaker vs H Yokoyama, 1913
offramp: "Also, BxP+, and would you be interested in buying a huge bridge?"
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| May-13-25 |
Ljubojevic vs J Durao, 1974
goodevans: I guess Black played <15...Bb6+?> before <16...Nxe4> with ...Nf2+ in mind but <17.Ba3!> was a great way to prevent it. After <17...Qe6> White even dares Black to play it with <18.Qd3> knowing that if ...
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| May-13-25 |
Karpov vs Tseshkovsky, 1976
tjipa: I was pereplexed by 24. Qb4 until realized it opened b3 square for the knight. Nice.
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| May-13-25 |
Freestyle Grand Tour Weissenhaus (2025)
MissScarlett: Weissenhaus is up for sale for a cool $200 million: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulje...
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| May-13-25 |
Hobun Yokoyama
NewspaperChessArchiv: From the PDF news item, it's on the last page.
The Carroll Record, Taneytown, Maryland, Saturday, May 07, 1910 Theological seminary commencement. Westminster, Md., May 3.
[...]
Hobun Tomikichi Yokoyama, a graduate of ...
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| May-13-25 |
Fischer vs Geller, 1967
andrea volponi: 19...Ng4!? ( best ) - Bxc3 Qb7 - Qf4! ( Rh5 ! ) +- .
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| May-13-25 |
Gulko vs Kupreichik, 1974
morphynoman2: 25. Nf6!!
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| May-13-25 |
Samuel W Peterson
NewspaperChessArchiv: <jnpope> Park College records Samuel Warfield Peterson as "Cedar Rapids, Iowa," however, no doubt that must have been where he was corresponding from. Assuming Park College was carrying on some type of correspondence ...
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| May-13-25 |
Rauan Sagit
Stonehenge: <Rauan is 4 years old in this video.> :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Us...
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| May-13-25 |
I A Zaitsev vs J Petkevich, 1974
morphynoman2: Nice game!
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| May-13-25 |
Smyslov vs Keres, 1941
Stolzenberg: Botvinnik recommended 18. ... c5.
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| May-13-25 |
I Farago vs P Szilagyi, 1974
morphynoman2: Chess Informant 18/109. Nice game!
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| May-13-25 |
P Nielsen vs Z Ben Porat, 2019
DaltriDiluvi: A nice miniature... White is worse after <11.Nxe4? fxe4> and he iscompletely busted after <12.Nd2? e3!>. Here's a diagram of the final position: [DIAGRAM]
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| May-13-25 |
Duda vs Aronian, 2025
offramp: "A game of two halves."
[DIAGRAM]
Look at the top half of the board:
[DIAGRAM]
And here is the bottom half...
[DIAGRAM]
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| May-13-25 |
Caruana vs R Praggnanandhaa, 2025
fredthebear: Now that's the useless microscopic quip that we're used to from trollz. Too bad Kora didn't return, but that's what trollz want -- sabotage the page with drivel. And FTB is restricted to 7 posts and then gets shut down?? It's ...
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K Fiala vs F Moucka, 1891
Sally Simpson: Game No.142 in Kalinichenko's 'Winning in the Chess Opening.' ( NIC, 2018, a recent charity shop acquisition. £2.00) It is a translated version of a 2016 Russian book by Kirill Kuznetsov. The first section I looked at was on the ...
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| May-13-25 |
A Istratescu vs M Simantsev, 2000
WTHarvey: Alternate ending - White mates in 5.
[DIAGRAM] 37.♖d7 if ♖c7 38.♘xh7+ w/39.♘f6+
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| May-13-25 |
A Volzhin vs S Ledger, 2000
WTHarvey: White mates in 5.
[DIAGRAM] 44. ?
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| May-13-25 |
M Judd vs W Lovegrove, 1904
NewspaperChessArchiv: This game submission comes from The San Francisco Chronicle, Chess, San Francisco, California, Sunday, February 28, 1904. MAX JUDD of St. Louis, one of the best known chess masters in America, is in San Francisco for a short ...
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| May-13-25 |
Bologan vs M Rychagov, 2000
WTHarvey: White mates in 5.
[DIAGRAM] 43. ?
if 43...♕e7 44.d6
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| May-13-25 |
Superbet Blitz Poland (2025)
Check It Out: Also wild Topalov went 18 games without a single draw.
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| May-13-25 |
H Gulbis vs F Rhine, 2025
FSR: This is an ICCF correspondence game. Gulbis and I are both rated in the 2350s. Games between players rated over 2300 almost always end in draws, not because we're so strong, but because our engines are. This is our fourth game. In each, he ...
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| May-13-25 |
M Stolberg vs Keres, 1940
Stolzenberg: <17. g3?> and <19. b3??>: What kind of cigarette did he smoke?
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| May-13-25 |
K Bischoff vs W Wittmann, 1995
Straclonoor: [DIAGRAM] Nice 7-pieces pawn/queen ending! It won for black. <65....h2 66.a8Q h1Q 67.Qd5+ Kh4! (only move to win) 68.Qe5 Qa1+ 69.Kb6 Qb1+ 70.Ka7 g3 71.d5 Kg4??> This move missing win. Right is - 71....Qc2 72.Qf4 Kh3 73.Qh6+ Kg4!
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| May-13-25 |
Maximilian Weimann
BIDMONFA: Maximilian Weimann WEIMANN, Maximilian
http://www.bidmonfa.com/weimann_max...
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| May-13-25 |
D Lima vs G Vescovi, 1998
Straclonoor: [DIAGRAM] This 7-pieces ending for sure won for white.
<67....Nd6 68.Kf6!! (only move to win) Ke8 69.Ke6 Nb7 70.Bg3? Na5 71.Bh4 Nb7 72.Bf2 Na5 73.Bg3 Nb7 74.Bh4 Na5 75.Kd6??> White was very close to win.
75.Bf2 Nb7 76.Be1! ...
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| May-13-25 |
Svidler vs V Shushpanov, 1990
Straclonoor: Why draw in final position???
[DIAGRAM] Analysis by Stockfish 070222:
1. -+ (-6.53): 29...Kg8 30.Qh7+ Kf7 31.Qh5+ Kf8 32.Rxe3 Qc5 33.Qe2 Kg8 34.e5 dxe5 35.b4 Qd4 36.Re4 Qf2 37.Qg4 Ref8 38.h3 Qf5 39.Qe2 Rh6 40.a4 bxa4 41.b5 a3 42.Ra4
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| May-13-25 |
Magnus Carlsen
stone free or die: Breaking News!
There's a little Magnus (or Ella Victoria) on the way! https://www.chess.com/news/view/mag...
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| May-13-25 |
D Gukesh vs B Deac, 2025
James J. Henderson: Both 20.Ng4 and the move played in the game, 20.Bxd4, are apparently winning. The problem seems to have occurred after Black's 20th move: [DIAGRAM] According to Stockfish, the move Gukesh played, 21.Bxe5, relinquishes White's ...
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