| Apr-29-25 |
Chessgames - Sports
plang: <WannaBe: After recording an out. Batter #5 hits another HR, ALL 4 have gone to right field, and were no-doubters> Kyle Gibson had won 15 games with Baltimore 2 years ago before spending last season with the Cardinals. The Orioles ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Kibitzer's Café
harrylime: The Kills
London hates you
https://youtu.be/ghzuIo8kXwc?si=4FD...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Andrew Smith
jnpope: If someone comes along later with irrefutable chess-related proof of this being the maritime Andrew found by <Z> I'll make a correction.
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| Apr-29-25 |
Henry Jennings Nowell
jnpope: "The best players are Count Bruhl, the Hon. Henry Conway, Lord Harrowby, Mr. Bowdler, and Mr. Jennings. These gentlemen give Mr. Philidor the two first moves, for which they receive a Knight, and are then a match for him."
-<Chess>,
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| Apr-29-25 |
Albert White
jnpope: Albert White did compete in the 2nd Annual gathering of the Ohio Chess Association in Feb-1888 "open" section in Cincinnati, OH, and won (Maurice Judd won the championship): <The "free-for-all" contest was won by Albert White, of New ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Chessgames - Guys and Dolls
perfidious: Pamela Susan Shoop.
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| Apr-29-25 |
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1987
ColdSong: Stockfish shows games after games that the Seville variation was a good idea for white,but Karpov couldn't play precisely enough to pressure dangerously.
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| Apr-29-25 |
Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927
Petrosianic: How would people rank Alekhine's wins in this match by quality? Probably most people would consider this one the most impressive, while everyone, including Alekhine would consider Game 12 the least impressive (it's the only win of the
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| Apr-29-25 |
Biographer Bistro
Tabanus: <Retireborn> Your request in Aug. 2018 see Biographer Bistro (kibitz #18852) Amsterdam SB (1973) now with xtab, please check.
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| Apr-29-25 |
F Campins Machado vs Ivanchuk, 2025
unspiek: <offramp> Our learned friend's time trouble hypothesis seems likely. If 38. Rg2, instead, White isn't so badly off; Black has to force a perp or face terrible risks from that b pawn. Maybe Capablanca was right, the good player is ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Boden / Allies vs Staunton, 1852
MissScarlett: British Chess Review: <And at this point Mr. Staunton found that he had not time to continue the game.>
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| Apr-29-25 |
Vasyl Ivanchuk
Check It Out: Congrats to Ivanchuk for winning the Menorca Open over some tough competition, scoring 8/9 and gaining almost 40 rating points. Ya gotta love Chuky!
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| Apr-29-25 |
H Waters vs G Arata, 1915
NewspaperChessArchiv: This game submission came from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chess, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1915 The following game was the outcome of a correspondence game between these two players and was to contest a ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
S Mlotkowski vs C Waterman, 1916
NewspaperChessArchiv: This game submission comes from Evening Star, Chess, Washington, District of Columbia, November 19, 1916 The games published today are further examples of the skill of Stasch Mlotkowski in the Evans Gambit. (a) My adversary ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
S Mlotkowski vs C Waterman, 1916
NewspaperChessArchiv: This game submission comes from Evening Star, Chess, Washington, District of Columbia, November 19, 1916 The games published today are further examples of the skill of Stasch Mlotkowski in the Evans Gambit. Evans Gambit.
(a)
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| Apr-29-25 |
Larsen vs H Nielsen, 1955
FM David H. Levin: <<K Any>: Was 15.d5 bluster? Black reacts poorly. 15...ed looks ok.> I too don't see a good continuation for White after 15...exd5. However, the database in
<Chess Genius> gives 13. Qe2 (instead of 13. Qc2), ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Daniel Gormally
dehanne: Gormally finally became a 2600 player.
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| Apr-29-25 |
S Mlotkowski vs A Pearsall, 1916
NewspaperChessArchiv: This game submission comes from Evening Star, Chess, Washington, DC, December 10, 1916 Played in telegraph match, Los Angeles vs. San Diego.
(a) Stronger than R-K1, followed by QN-Q2 and N-B1, as Black's course in trying to ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
F Bohatirchuk vs Botvinnik, 1935
perfidious: <wanabe2000....He was releaed but the experience was enough to disillusion Bohatyrchuk and he left Kiev in 1943 with the retreating Germans.> Bohatirchuk would have had some explaining to do had the Soviets nabbed him as a ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Nona Gaprindashvili (RUS)
fredthebear: Yesterday... all my troubles seemed so far away... A Servant When He Reigneth
by Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) Three things make earth unquiet
And four she cannot brook
The godly Agur counted them
And ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Fischer vs Keres, 1962
mginsburg: 68. Nxd6 Kc7 69. Nxa4 Kxd6 70 Nxc5 Kxc5 71 Ra7 draws. The game move 68. Rf2 was a bad blunder. Now, 69. Nxd6 a move later is bad, due to 69...Bh3+! 70 Kg3 Rxf2 71 Kxf2 Kc7 72 Ne8+ Kd8 73 Nd6 Ke7! and wins. So the big miss in the ending ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
E Hahnen vs M White, 2012
mrlager: I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. - Siegbert Tarrasch
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| Apr-29-25 |
Kupreichik vs J Sunye Neto, 1989
fredthebear: Ah, Michelangelo! Always good to have you here with us.
FTB is suspicious of that Zibbit though.
^ ^ ^
Dante
by Michelangelo (1475-1564)
WHAT should be said of him cannot be said;
By too great splendor is his name attended;
To
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| Apr-29-25 |
A Kneutgen vs I Balinov, 1997
fredthebear: Another kingside fianchetto. Y'all know what that means in these parts. At what point is 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 a Sicilian Defense, Closed Variation? The A07 mislabel is exactly why an editor cannot find it in your B24 collections. The ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Oswald Rigaud
fredthebear: Ossy went from losing in just 5 moves all the way up to losing in 39, so there's significant improvement shown. The fella sure does like to move those pawns in the opening.
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| Apr-29-25 |
Lewis Chess Legends Open (2024)
fredthebear: Blood-sucking bugs are a curse in upper Michigan as spring gives way to summer. There are Black flies (White does not get a turn), Stable flies (a checkerboard pattern on their abdomen) and giant Mosquitoes, the state bird. ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
S Sian vs F Sieber, 2023
fredthebear: Unusual turn in the opening: 5.Qc2?! BxNc3 6.dxBc3?! What Shadi doesn't know won't hurt her, but it might have helped her.
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| Apr-29-25 |
Ernest Maguire
stone free or die: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Allen Pearsall
NewspaperChessArchiv: Middle name: Gilbert
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| Apr-29-25 |
M Lagarde vs R Makhmutov, 2012
chrisowen: Either but you got to play g6
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| Apr-29-25 |
D Flores vs A Riazantsev, 2004
chrisowen: I no mob handed x
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| Apr-29-25 |
J Polgar vs Topalov, 2005
plang: Gershon and Nor after 13 Be3:
"Another plausible move, but somehow White gets a slightly worse game. Although all White's moves were logical and common for this position, they were not the right way to react to Black's moves and this is ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
E Maguire vs P Wortman, 1915
NewspaperChessArchiv: This game submission comes from October 24, 1915 Philadelphia Inquirer Chess and Checkers The following instructive game in the Vienna opening was played by correspondence in the Burnside Tournament. E. S. Maguire is a ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Svidler vs Caruana, 2010
keypusher: [DIAGRAM] Given in Aagaard's <Calculation>. Among the pretty wins after 24.Bxd5! is 24....Bf5 (24....Nxd5 25.Qg3+) 25.Qg3+ Bg6 26.Bxf7+ (another possibility is 26.Ra8, and if ...Qd7 White has 27.Qd6!) 26....Kxf7 27.Qb3+. If ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
Daniel Fischer
fredthebear: Thus far, Danny plays 1.e4 exclusively with the White pieces, similar to his Farfar.
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| Apr-29-25 |
J Gordon vs E Maguire, 1932
Sally Simpson: A neat version of a Queen getting trapped in the middle of the board. [DIAGRAM] In the game 11.Qxf3 would have relegated the Queen trap to the notes and left White with a very good position but the undefended Queen on e6 proved to ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
V Akopian vs Leko, 1997
Straclonoor: In this game 7-pieces rook ending appeared after 37 (!) moves. [DIAGRAM] <38.Kg3 Ra3+ 39.Kg2 Kf4??> mistake Wins 39....a4 40.Ra7 Ra2+ 41.Kg3 a3 42.Ra5+ Kg6 43.Ra8 Ra1 44.Rg8+ Kf5 45.Ra8 a2 46.Kh4 Kf4 47.Ra4+ Ke3 48.Ra3+ Ke2 ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
E Ermenkov vs L Spassov, 1985
LRLeighton: Black misses a spectacular win starting with 35...Re1+!!. This move deflects either the Rc1 from participating in the threat to black's c8 (leading to the perpetual) or the Qc3, in which case, white gets promptly crushed: 36 Qxe1, Bc3+
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| Apr-29-25 |
Lobron vs Knaak, 1992
Straclonoor: [DIAGRAM] Instructive 7-pieces rook ending!
<102....Rc8+ (102....Kxe3 also ok) 103.Kb2 Rg8 104.Re5 Kxe3??> Now capturing gives draw not win. Wins only 104....Kd3!! 105.Kc1 Rxg3!! (only move to win again!) 106.Re6 Rg1+ 107.Kb2 ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
J Mertanen vs V Gagarin, 2011
Straclonoor: [DIAGRAM] <40.Rh1?> 40.h6+! mates Analysis by Stockfish 070222:
+- (#12): 40.h6+ Kg8 41.g7 Qf7 42.gxf8R+ Kxf8 43.Qc8+ Qe8 44.Rxf6+ Ke7 45.Qc7+ Qd7 46.Qe5+ Qe6 47.Rxe6+ Nxe6 48.h7 b6 49.h8Q bxc5 50.Bg6 cxd4 51.Qe8#
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| Apr-29-25 |
Firouzja vs Topalov, 2025
beatgiant: I can't find a decent defense for Black as early as move 13, even checking with the engine. A move earlier, the engine suggests 12...Nd7, which looks horrendous after 13. e6 fxe6 14. Qg6+ Kf8 15. Bxc6 bxc6 16. Bd4, but it continues ...
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| Apr-29-25 |
J Balogh vs G Kluger, 1935
WTHarvey: White mates in 4.
[DIAGRAM] 38. ?
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| Apr-29-25 |
Botvinnik vs V Chekhover, 1935
WTHarvey: White mates in 4.
[DIAGRAM] 40. ?
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| Apr-29-25 |
Stahlberg vs Lilienthal, 1935
WTHarvey: White mates in 4.
[DIAGRAM] 41. ?
41...♕c8 42.♕d5+ ♘d6 43.♕g5+
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| Apr-29-25 |
H Isgenderova vs N Mahmutbegovic Smajilbasic, 2024
An Englishman: Good Evening: 22.0-0. Sound? Unsound? Who knows (aside from the silicon monsters)? Who cares? One thing we carbon-based life forms can do very well--appreciate the beauty of boldness.
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| Apr-29-25 |
Bogoljubov vs A Selezniev, 1914
NewspaperChessArchiv: This game submission comes from September 19, 1915 The Sunday People, Chess by T. F. Lawrence, London, England "...Chess By T. F. Lawrence
A King's Gambit Tournament has been held among the unfortunate Russian masters ...
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