| Aug-09-24 |
Magnus Carlsen
dehanne: Carlsen will be a speaker at the Saudi Arabia government's 2024 New Global Sport Conference.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Kibitzer's Café
harrylime: << HeMateMe: harry, which group is stupider,
1. Man United Fans
2. Liverpool Red fans.
3. Donald Trump MAGA voters
Remember, the median adult reading level age in the USA is sixth grade (age 12) so we're setting the bar pretty ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Tartakower vs H Atkins, 1922
gezafan: This kind of position, in which black accepts a broken pawn structure is very interesting. It comes about in the Scotch fairly often. The great masters seem to prefer the two bishops with the broken pawn structure. M Czerniak vs Unzicker,
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| Aug-09-24 |
Biographer Bistro
Tabanus: Reykjavik (1957) . Removed Tal, added 50 games incl. about 40 from ChessBase, and dated the 66 games. Missing data on Bjorn Johannesson and Gudmundur Agustsson .
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| Aug-09-24 |
D Marovic vs B Enklaar, 1973
Lloyd Gross: <mel gibson: Too hard for me.> Me too. I tried 25. Nxg6
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| Aug-09-24 |
A Erigaisi vs Carlsen, 2024
PawnSac: <HELLO!> HELLO! Hello! hello The room is empty. I can hear an echo. It's hard to believe I found a loss by Magnus, and no comments! This is an impressive game for blitz. Arjun played very well.
Where he didn't make the best moves, ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
E Satanovskaia vs A Abakarova, 2022
DaltriDiluvi: Here's the position after <65...Kg6-f7>: [DIAGRAM] Instead of giving perpetual check, White should have played <66.Bd7! Rxh4 67.Bxb5> with good winning chances and very little risk of losing. As always, time trouble is a ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Boleslavsky vs Stahlberg, 1953
plang: 9..Rc8 was a new move; normally 9..Qc7 or 9..Qa5 are played. With 15..c4!? Black was counting on getting kingside play with ..f6 but this ended up just creating weaknesses on the kingside dark squares. 16..Qe8 17 Ba3..Bxa4 18 Bd6..Rb7 19 ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
FIDE World Rapid Team (2024)
Atterdag: <Bobby Fiske> A couple of good posts from you. Thanks. <perfidious> Larsen-Stein. Oh, remember that game vividly. A Larsen classic. Larsen gave it great annotations in "Skakbladet" way back then.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Ivanchuk vs Kasparov, 1997
FSR: Ivanchuk is such a genius.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Maroczy vs J Mieses, 1902
KEG: Post VII
43... Rf2+
Obviously forced since 44. g7 would otherwise be decisive. 44. Kg5 Rg2+
Forced!
45. Kf6 Rf2+
Again, forced.
46. Kg7
[DIAGRAM] 46... Re2
Yet another forced move for Mieses.
47. Kf7 Rf2+
Here too, Mieses' move was ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
M Muzychuk vs Kosteniuk, 2021
perfidious: Just came across M Kamalidenova vs Lagno, 2024 , in which Black sacrificed the double exchange, but the outcome for her was not, shall we say, satisfactory.
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| Aug-09-24 |
V Daskevich Berg vs E Sharapov, 2010
perfidious: It was a great surprise to learn that there are dozens of places so known in Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Amina Abakarova
perfidious: Further info:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/rus...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Parham Maghsoodloo
MissScarlett: <Is playing chess a weight-loss hack?> https://www.yahoo.com/news/playing-... No!
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| Aug-09-24 |
Y Anikaev vs A Malachi, 1972
mel gibson: I didn't know.
Stockfish 16.1 says:
20. Nxc7
(20. Nxc7 (1.Nxc7 Qxc7 2.Qxc7 Nxc7 3.d6 Ne6 4.dxe7 Rxe7 5.bxc5 Rc7 6.Rfd1 Nxc5
7.Rd5 b6 8.Nb3 Be6 9.Rxg5 Bxb3 10.axb3 a5 11.Rd5 Rg7 12.Bc4 Rc7 13.Bf1 Rac8
14.Rc3 Kg7 ) +2.59/52 580)
...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Lagno vs M Kamalidenova, 2024
offramp: White had a good position.
[DIAGRAM]
She played 15. Nd5.
It is interesting to see how Lagno annihilated her opponent.
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| Aug-09-24 |
H Belknap vs A Johnston, 1872
jnpope: Oh?
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| Aug-09-24 |
N Kertaev vs W Rosenstein, 2024
offramp: White was rated 1828. Black's rating was a big zero. A @#$%-nothing. 35...Qxb2.
[DIAGRAM]
I thought Black had a chance, with those queenside pawns. BUT White did a ras promotion all dem ting!!
38...Bf7
[DIAGRAM]
39. e8Q.
Now ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
A Dosmukhambetov vs A Omarbek, 2024
saffuna: Did this really happen?
And why is it a win for white?
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| Aug-09-24 |
A Abuzyarov vs S Chinguun, 2024
offramp: This is an instructive position.
42. Nb8.
[DIAGRAM]
He she or it should have played 42. Nd4.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Alekhine vs K Junge, 1942
andrea volponi: 22...Kd6! patta. junge doveva giocare 24...b4 -Ra1 Kb5! -b3 Qb6 -Qa4+ kc5 -Qd7 Qd8! -Qa7+ kd6 -Qxf7 Qa8 -Qd5+ Kc7 -Qxe5+ Kb6! -Rxa8 Rxa8 -bxb4 d3 -Qxg7 Ra7 lottando per la patta.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Chessgames - Sports
saffuna: <At least, I know that has been an issue for the Yankees who, after Judge and Soto, are well below average in several other spots in the lineup.> The mid-60s Giants again. Four hitters, four easy outs. Judge and Soto are approaching
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| Aug-09-24 |
K Beristenov vs K Sychev, 2024
offramp: I tremendously enjoyed the entire game right through. Once.
Here is a good bit.
[DIAGRAM]
84...Rd1+!
85. Nd3 and here is the important part...
85...Rd2!
Remember that!
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| Aug-09-24 |
Kasparov vs A Panchenko, 1978
sakredkow: The results of my guess-the-move are "why bother?" Especially everything after 23...Qe8.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Hans Niemann
MissScarlett: <Nobody colluded to blackball you.> Too busy colluding on other matters.
<Play Magnus Group, a leader in chess learning and entertainment, has completed its sale to Chess.com, the world’s largest chess website. The ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Emanuel Lasker
keypusher: I read that years ago, and I thought it was lost and gone from the internet. Thanks for digging it up, Fusilli!
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| Aug-09-24 |
FIDE World Blitz Team (2024)
MissScarlett: Congratulations to team <Mihir Shah> for winning the title!
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| Aug-09-24 |
A Lutsko vs D Howell, 2024
offramp: I'm here to say hello to User: 6t4addict . Welcome to <chessgames.com>! I missed your <hello> at Kibitzers Café because I never use Kibitzers Café. I am sure you will enjoy yourself there. Don't miss the very enjoyable posts
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| Aug-09-24 |
A Czebe vs C Szendrei, 1993
Straclonoor: Quite interesting game!
[DIAGRAM] SF suggests 28.Qc7! with advantage
Analysis by Stockfish dev-20240723-b55217fd:
+- (5.77): 28.Qc7 Qf4 29.Qxb7 Rf8 30.Qf3 Qxe5 31.Qxf8 Rf6 32.Nf3 Qxc3 33.Qxg7+ Kxg7 34.Rxc3 Kg8 35.Kg2 Rd6 36.Rb3 Rc6
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| Aug-09-24 |
Savon vs Alburt, 1975
Straclonoor: One more crazy game espetially in th ending!
After <60....Rxa4> 7-pieces rook ending appears [DIAGRAM] and it's drawn till <62....Kf6> [DIAGRAM] White instead of 63.f4 or 63.Rf8+ giving draw commited mistake ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Chessgames - Guys and Dolls
perfidious: Kristian Carranza.
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| Aug-09-24 |
O Pavlenko vs G Agzamov, 1973
Straclonoor: [DIAGRAM] Stockfish gives as best line - 51....Kxf5 52.h6 Ke4 53.Kg6 Kxe3 with won 7-pieces ending.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Bo Pang
Troller: The 1400 rating must be provisional:
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/86...
He did not get to benefit from the rating adjustment earlier this year but if he starts playing rated tournaments he should get a decent number anyway. Not ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
H I Woolverton vs D B Pritchard, 1959
FSR: Into the Brine.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Janosevic vs Ivkov, 1954
WTHarvey: Black mates in 3.
[DIAGRAM] 28. ... ?
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| Aug-09-24 |
I Bilek vs J Szily, 1954
WTHarvey: White mates in 3.
[DIAGRAM] 28. ?
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| Aug-09-24 |
Unzicker vs M Czerniak, 1954
WTHarvey: Alternate ending - White mates in 3.
[DIAGRAM] 28.♖f7+ ♔xf7 29.♘d6+
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| Aug-09-24 |
Larsen vs A Saidy, 1984
FSR: Fortieth move. I'm guessing Saidy flagged here.
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| Aug-09-24 |
E Mednis vs Westerinen, 1975
An Englishman: Good Evening: Even three pawns up in a Bishops-of-opposite-color endgame can prove tough to win. Mednis analyzed this game closely for his book, and can't blame him. In the end, 70...Bxf7; 71.h7+ wins the Bishop and the remaining ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Benko vs Larsen, 1984
perfidious: From being something of a curiosity, with its debut in R H Newman vs D B Pritchard, 1957 , 8....Na6 emerged as a line of its own, with the irrepressible Ljubojevic an early advocate. The difficulties Black experienced in such squeezes ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Lasker - Janowski (1909)
perfidious: <Geoff....Great player Lasker and I think Soltis captures him very well, but he is still very hard to pigeon hole.> The difficulty even Lasker's greatest rivals experienced in coming to grips with his style attests to that.
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| Aug-09-24 |
R Skrobek vs S Kornasiewicz, 1992
Lossmaster: According to Tim Krabbé’s chess records page, this game has the longest sequence with three Knights on one side: 13 moves.
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| Aug-09-24 |
Najdorf vs Ribli, 1973
Fusilli: Najdorf didn't play 92.Rg5+ because of the 92...Kh4 resource (if 92...Qxg5 93.Rxg5+ Kxg5 94.Kg3, white wins easily), where taking the queen is stalemate. After 92...Kh4, he would have to play 93.Rg4+ Kh5 and then 94.Rg8, as in the game. ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
H Wegner vs S Johnsen, 1991
Lossmaster: The game must actually hold the record for the greatest number of records held according to Krabbé’s page: 1. Greatest number of checks (both sides combined): 141. 2. Greatest number of checks (one side): 98 (by White). 3. Longest ...
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| Aug-09-24 |
Vaganian vs V Doroshkievich, 1975
King.Arthur.Brazil: B has not way to defend the two threats: 1) 28. Qc4+ Qd5 29. Qxd5+ Rxd5 30. Rxa1 or 28. Qc4+ Kh8 29. Qc8+ Rf8 30. Qxf8#
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