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| Mar-12-11 | | morfishine: Thanks for showing me that continuation. It is true, black is able to avoid immediate mate or loss of a piece. Of course, if 33...Rf8 black is busted after <34.R3e5> since his Q-side pawns are weak. 34.Re8? appears to be a waste of time. But thats not the point. I appreciate players like you and <Once> who get the others to think outside the box, find different continuations, explore other lines, etc. In this case I was trying to encourage <Sevenseaman> who went with <fxg6> instead of <hxg6> as both lines win for white anyways. Have you thought about playing on the World Team? We have an inner-team game starting in about a week. :) Morf |
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| Mar-13-11 | | morfishine: <I appreciate the invite. I have a lot going on now that precludes me from joining at this time, but keep me in mind for the future> Understood completely. In my opinion, you would be a definite asset. Thinking "outside-the-box" enhances engines; and thats what you bring to the table, in my humble view. Morf |
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| Mar-18-11 | | morfishine: From todays 3/18 puzzle: E L'Ami vs I Sokolov, 2008
White wins |
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| Mar-18-11 | | morfishine: Here's another response: E L'Ami vs I Sokolov, 2008 |
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Jun-18-11
 | | Jimfromprovidence: A belated congratulations to the City of Boston for its most recent sports success, a hockey championship. In the last six years, Boston’s four sports teams each won a title. Since 2002, the Patriots have won three Super Bowls. The Red Sox have won two World Series championships. And both the Celtics and the Bruins have won their respective trophies. This has never happened before, ever.
No city with a team in each of the four major sports has seen all its teams win a title in 10-year span. Even New York, who has EIGHT teams, needed an 11-year window to take home each of the major trophies. With the Bruins win, Boston has done it in a six-year span. |
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Jun-25-11
 | | ketchuplover: Still have your copy of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess? I no longer have mine but I do have a rare copy of a soft pawn film titled "Bobby Fischer Reaches Chest" |
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| Jun-25-11 | | technical draw: Ugh! I think you should stick to ketchup. |
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Jun-25-11
| | Jimfromprovidence: <ketchuplover> I still have that copy at my Mom's house back east. Don't you think that you've carried around that big bottle a bit too long? Just keep a few packets in your jacket pocket. |
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Jun-30-11
| | ketchuplover: Good advice. Thanks :) |
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Aug-04-11
| | Jimfromprovidence: Here is the link to a very uplifting human interest chess story in today's LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/l... |
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| Aug-24-11 | | chesssantosh: thank you so much <Jimfromprovidence> for your beautiful puzzles.i enjoyed very much,though i could not solve most of them.now your kibitzs are going to appear in <gold> colour ,i guess you know the reason.you must be a strong player at least of master strength,so i request you to appear in <POTD> regularly in order to help us.once again thanks a lot and best of luck with your chess future |
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Oct-20-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: I enjoyed your many comments on Pillsbury vs Tarrasch, 1895. I also enjoyed your puzzles that you occaisionally post. You and I are a lot alike, you enjoy searching "blind alleys" and sidelines. You enjoy any position, you especially delight in something unusual ... or when it "cuts agaisnt the grain." Bravo!
BTW, the best advice for guys like <"Doctor Malicious"> (and the rest of "the troop") is simply to ignore 99% of what he says ... my two cents worth. |
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| Feb-19-12 | | hms123: <Jimfromprovidence> We are going to make another award in the next few weeks. I would appreciate your nominations and your occasional reminding of the POTD denizens about making nominations. I have asked <dzechiel> and others to do the same. thanks--hms
<We (User: WinKing , User: kutztown46 , and User: hms123) are announcing an award for the best contribution or series of contributions to the <Puzzle of the Day> by a non-premium member in the past year.The award—a one-year premium membership from the <Rinus Award> fund in memory of User: rinus –will be used to encourage non-premium members to contribute to the <chessgames.com> community through the posting of analysis or other chess-related discussion at the <POTD>. Please post nominations at User: hms123 some time in the next few weeks. Although we will be paying particular attention to the nominations and votes from those premium members who represent some of the best of what chessgames.com has to offer, all (including non-premium members) are welcome to nominate and vote. We thank everyone at the site for sharing so much information with us.> |
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Apr-10-12
| | Jimfromprovidence: I found this game while reading John Nunn's book "Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 1". Even though this game ends in a draw, black had a tablebase win on more than one occasion. Nunn begins his anlysis at move 84 with BLACK to play and win. This position also makes for an excellent endgame puzzle. 
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The game link is below.
Kasparov vs Badalian, 1976 |
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May-12-12
| | Jimfromprovidence: Gonzalez Mata – Sisniega (Mexico, 1991)
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The above position is a forced win for black, with black to move. Can you find the correct continuation? See link to solution below. (In Dutch).
http://www.svpromotie.nl/Artikelen/... |
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| May-19-12 | | sevenseaman: I left the following post in the game forum. Just in case you miss. (Was pleased to read your bio). <Thanks <jim>. These kind of endings are really scary for me. Too much scope for a slip.How do I access the tablebases and what do they tell us? Can these be used in a real game or one has to build up the proficiency.> |
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| May-19-12 | | sevenseaman: Thanks <jim>, for the tablebases. I could soon be using them. |
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Aug-04-12
 | | LoveThatJoker: <Jimfromprovidence> I posted the following note for <RV> there on the game page: "I'm still thinking that the line that goes 42...Qxe3 43. Bxe3 Ng4+ 44. Kg1 h2+ 45. Kh1 Nxe3 is best. Fire up Rybka 4.1 for that, and I'm sure you'll see that it will produce a higher winning evaluation for Black there." Once he checks out the 44...h2+ intermezzo, he'll find stronger lines for Black for sure with Rybka. LTJ |
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| Aug-04-12 | | sevenseaman: Thanks Jim for posting the <RV> analysis. The line he has taken is different from ours. He may have had good reason. Hopefully the best line is arrived at but I am not into engine analysis at all. I do not know what final opinion you may have formed about this game but I think it was very winnable for Black. I can however see your scruples were justifiable. Enjoyed the privileged discussion. Thanks. |
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| Aug-07-12 | | morfishine: Thanks for dropping by! Yes, thats THE Jack Peters, no? I think you had mentioned that before. Well, in any case, its always a pleasure reading your posts. Morf |
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| Aug-12-12 | | morfishine: Hello <Jimfromprovidence>! Very nice postings on today's Sunday POTD. I'm very reluctant to criticize any of the POTD's but I feel today's should be a Saturday and not a Sunday since I don't really see an 'insane' move anywhere. Sometimes I psyche myself out looking for an 'insane' move when I should just analyze the position for what its worth. |
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| Aug-17-12 | | morfishine: <Jimfromprovidence> Another ingenious line! I always look forward to your posts with much interest! However, having analyzed the same first move [25.Bxc4], I found the problem with <25.Bxc4> is <25...Bf5> and White has two pieces hanging and no fire on the e-file (to protect <e5>).
click for larger viewThis is why I missed it today and feel silly to not identify <25.Nd5> |
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| Aug-18-12 | | morfishine: Good morning <Jimfromprovidence>! I'd love to see <25.Bxc4> work. The problem I was having with 25.Bxc4 Bf5 <26.Nd5> is Black interpolates <26...Bxc2+>
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Here, if 27.Kxc2 then 27...Qxc4+ and Black is wiggling free: (28.Kb1 Qxd5 or 28.Nc3 dxc3 29.Qf6 cxb2+ 30.Kxb2 [If 30.Kb1 Qe4+ followed by 31...Qxe5]...Qe2+ 31.K-any Qxe5) At this point, I figured or knew I was on the wrong track for White to win. However, and much thanks for your initiative (which pushed me to see this line through), after 26...Bxc2+ White has the much better <27.Ka1> and Black's tricks are thwarted plus he faces material loss. So yes, I agree <25.Bxc4> wins too, just less elegantly. Its good to see <25.Bxc4> is very strong and winning On the other hand, the immediate <25.Nd5> is cleaner and more 'GM-like' |
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| Aug-19-12 | | sevenseaman: <Jimfromprovidence> <Then I looked over the whole game and saw that it was "cooked', so I said what the @##@ is going on? We need a forensic chess detective to figure this one out!> Intriguing. How so? Not that I could see any tell tale signs! |
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Sep-10-12
| | LoveThatJoker: <Jimfromprovidence> Thank you for the kind shout-out on the latest Sunday puzzle. I just read it today, as I did not have computer access all day after I posted my solution. That puzzle was surely a doozie!
LTJ |
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