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Mike Prince Romanoff
GrahamClayton: Mike Prince Romanoff (real name Henry Gerguson) (b. February 20, 1890, New York, NY; d. September 1, 1971, Los Angeles, CA) Claimed to have been born Prince Michael Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky-Romanoff, nephew of Tsar Nicholas ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Kibitzer's Café
harrylime: PETROL FUMES
You are my
PETROL FUMES ( Loike)
YOU ARE MY PETROL FUMES
( Romance is not dead)
BILLY NOMATES
You are my Petrol Fumes
https://youtu.be/7LUN38oyfSk?si=w6Q...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Lasker vs C Rasis, 1939
GrahamClayton: Lasker finished with a score of +24, =5, -1.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Flohr vs Stahlberg, 1934
FM David H. Levin: <unspiek: It would have been tough to answer 27. Ne6:+, with 28. Rc1+ following if Black retakes. White wins at least a piece. Is this score correct? Hard to believe both of them would have missed that.> I suspect that ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
John Spinale
GrahamClayton: Managing Partner at JAZZ Venture Partners.
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| Jul-27-24 |
D Jameson vs R Van Kemenade, 2008
fredthebear: "Rudy dreams of being Goliath"
8...d5? Bad Black intermezzo in the middle drops a piece. Black's alternative, 8...Ng8:
[DIAGRAM] Like it or not, undeveloping with 8...Ng8 was necessary with a worse game, but it spares the horse and ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
P Lalic vs J Burnton, 2023
fredthebear: Lalic threatens Her Majesty seven consecutive moves ! !
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| Jul-27-24 |
Duchamp vs R Crepeaux, 1925
al wazir: What happens after 30. Rd1 ? If 30...Qxe4, then 31. Qxe4 Nxf2+ 32. Kg1 Nxe4+ 33. Kf1. Now what?
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| Jul-27-24 |
Chessgames - Sports
HeMateMe: I guess so. Ledecky's a POWER girl. She owns the 1500.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Posen vs Berlin, 1839
generror: Hehehe, Tal was creative there, such a unique pawn formation :D I have seen many positions which were much more obviously Dutch, even Leningrad, but as it was not one of the mainline positions, they got classified as English or ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Philidor
generror: I have begun to actually read the <Analysis of the Game of Chess>. And I totally get why this book was such a classic -- he does a great job of explaining each move, and he doesn't just give the opening, but full games where both ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Biographer Bistro
jnpope: <<WilhelmThe2nd>: There is a 'Fred W. Storck' born in April, 1845 in Germany... may be the Frederick Storck who died in New York on May 9, 1924.> Our Storck is definitely not the butcher, the baker, or the cabinet maker. Those ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Maroczy vs Tartakower, 1922
mel gibson: < master8ch:One interesting but unforced continuation is 28...e5 > yes - another good possibility -
using Stockfish 16.1 - it says:
(28. .. e5
(29. Rd2 (1.Rd2 exd4 2.Bxg3 Nxg3 3.Rf2 Rf3 4.exd4 Bg4 5.Qh2 Qxh2+
6.Rxh2 Rxf1+ ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
G Atwood vs Philidor, 1794
Honza Cervenka: <Perhaps Black was concerned about 12...Bc5 13. Nxf5, but Black seems to get excellent compensation after 13...Bxe3 14. Nxe3 Rdf8.> Yes, 12...Bc5 13.Nxf5 is quite risky, if not bad. 13...Bxe3 14.Nxe3 Rdf8 is fine for black ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Morphy vs C A Seguin, 1858
FM David H. Levin: <Marcelo Bruno: Another error by Black: 24…Rxd7; 24…Rdc7 would be better, wouldn't it?> I'm not sure what you meant to suggest.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Maroczy vs H G Voigt, 1906
FM David H. Levin: I'm not sure what would have been wrong with weakening White's kingside by 20...Nxf3+ 21. gxf3 and only then playing 21...Qd8. White wouldn't seem to have an effective discovered check at that point.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Botvinnik vs A Konstantinopolsky, 1943
perfidious: Same as Carlsen, Korchnoi is a player whose fighting spirit I have always admired, but would not necessarily want to spend time with away from the board. Only time I ever saw Viktor the Terrible was during the semifinal of New York ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Morphy vs Guibert, 1858
FM David H. Levin: <MyriadChoices: Why is there no capture on the A pawn at the end?> On 42...Qxa2, 43. d6 looks strong. Attempting to blockade the d-pawn with the king would fail: 43...Kc8 44. Qc3+ Kd7 45. Qc7+ Ke6 46. Qe7+ Kd5 47. Qf7+ ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Ilmar Raud
vonKrolock: To be fair to <simaginfan>, I need to note that only this passage: <"Fourth place came in Mar del Plata (October 1940). That's probably where Raud's best game comes from, a roaring victory over the Lithuanian Luckis.">
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| Jul-27-24 |
Giri vs Anand, 2016
Messiah: I did not enjoy replaying this game.
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| Jul-27-24 |
D Gedult vs A Gorfinkel, 1973
offramp: Gedults only.
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| Jul-27-24 |
A Eisenbeiser vs F Bindrich, 2004
Stonehenge: Rock Me Amadeus.
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| Jul-27-24 |
S Ernst vs J B Willow, 2024
Stonehenge: Good game by Willow.
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| Jul-27-24 |
T Hillarp Persson vs M Ragger, 2015
Plaskett: Fusilli. the book to which you refer, I am sure, was written not by Mestel but by one of his best friends. Jonathan Speelman. Like FSR, I also find it nigh on incredible that a player of the class of Hillarp-Persson resigned so trivial a
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| Jul-27-24 |
M Schroeder vs H Riemann, 1927
Sally Simpson: After the game Hans said: 'Das Schach spricht für sich." and rumour has it Mario then walked out of the tournament.
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| Jul-27-24 |
I Raud vs T van Scheltinga, 1939
Sally Simpson: The old saying, 'three pieces will mate.' stands well here. [DIAGRAM] Soon White will have to give up a Rook for one of the Knights and thanks to the pawn fork trick (13...Rxd3) Black will remain a piece up and coast home.
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| Jul-27-24 |
T Johansson vs Smyslov, 1996
areknames: 9.Qxd8+ Rxd8 10.c3 seems logical, not a lot of play left.
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| Jul-27-24 |
E Paoli vs C Kottnauer, 1949
N.O.F. NAJDORF: 19...Qa5 20. b4 Qxb5 21. Nxc7 Nxe5 22. Nxe6+ Ke7 23. Qxg7+ Kxe6 24. Qxh8 wins
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| Jul-27-24 |
W Heidenfeld vs H Hecht, 1974
goodevans: <beatgiant> The idea behind 53.g5 is to sac it with g6+ and then push the d- and e-pawns. I did erroneously think that stopping those pawns would cost Black his N but I missed the very simple ...Ng3+ to free Black's R (Well, I did
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| Jul-27-24 |
Vachier-Lagrave vs Z Almasi, 2011
perfidious: <FSR>, could well be that Vachier was feeling pragmatic and decided to save energy rather than fight a clearly lost cause.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Niranjan Navalgund
BIDMONFA: Niranjan Navalgund NAVALGUND, Niranjan
http://www.bidmonfa.com/navalgund_n...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Yanofsky vs Portisch, 1958
WTHarvey: White wins (pin):
[DIAGRAM] 34. ?
if 34...hxg6 35.♕h8#
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| Jul-27-24 |
Morphy Blindfold Simul 8b, Paris (1858)
notyetagm: Incredible.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1958
WTHarvey: White mates in 4.
[DIAGRAM] 41. ?
if 42...♖d7+ 43.♔c3
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| Jul-27-24 |
Z Nilsson vs F Thorbergsson, 1958
WTHarvey: White mates in 4.
[DIAGRAM] 30. ?
if 30...♕xe6 31.♖c7+
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| Jul-27-24 |
Chigorin vs Schlechter, 1902
KEG: Post IV
35... a5?!
A bad idea that soon led to catastrophe. With 35...Rc7, Schlechter would have been fine. The text did not--in itself--lose the game for Schlechter. But it suggests he already had his losing move (36...a4?) very much in ...
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| Jul-27-24 |
Steinitz vs NN, 1860
generror: Sure, but as I said, after d3 it makes sense because it stops Bg5, which is annoying. Ng5, however, is very welcome X)
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| Jul-27-24 |
Renaissance SPARC vs Gulko, 1993
rwbean: Critical game moves between 12 and 16. White and Black both had much better. 12...b6
14...exd3? ... vs 14... ♖b8!
15... ♕d6!
16. fxg3 = vs 16. ♘xc6??
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| Jul-27-24 |
Zukertort vs Steinitz, 1886
generror: By the way, for those who speak German, Minckwitz' book about the match is pretty cool and it's on google books: https://www.google.de/books/edition... The games are nicely annotated and it's a fun read.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Vachier-Lagrave vs E Bonnet, 1999
FSR: 12.Kf1 was subpar.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Vachier-Lagrave vs Kramnik, 2023
FSR: 3.Kg3 in a similar position proved sufficient for victory in J McPhillips vs A Kalaiyalahan, 2019 , but apparently it is not good.
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| Jul-27-24 |
Jude Acers
messin616: I played a game against Jude yesterday at his regular spot in New Orleans. I played one game for 1.5 hours and we talked a lot about life. Acers won. He told me to come by at the end of his night. I did, and he walked my girlfriend and ...
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