ClassZPlaya has kibitzed 79 times to chessgames   [less...]

Apr-20-23 R Nezhmetdinov vs P Ermolin, 1946    ClassZPlaya: Tal beat me with the White pieces with this variation when I played him in a simul over 35 years ago. Our game continued 8. .. Nfd7 9. e6 Ne5 10. exf7+ Nxf7 11. Bb5+ Bd7. That's all I remember and I can't find the scoresheet at the moment. But I do recall that there were no ...      Mar-16-23 P Krug vs H Hauptmann, 1955    ClassZPlaya: I went with 25. Rd8+ which also wins handily after either 25. ... Rxd8 26. Qxd6 or 25 ... Ka7 26 Qxd6 Rxd6 27. Rxh8      Mar-05-23 Z Erdelyi vs I Farago, 2004    ClassZPlaya: Found 18 ... Bf3 and most of the main variations fairly quickly because I knew this was a puzzle. But TBH I doubt I would have found this or even thought that Black had an advantage in the puzzle position in a live over the board game.      Feb-15-23 Stahlberg vs J Bolbochan, 1941    ClassZPlaya: I was definitetly on the right track and saw most of the relevant ideas, but I couldn't decide which capture was better on f5: Nxf5 or Bxf5 because in either case the recapture on f5 is not forced. For example after 37. Bxf5 Bf7 38. Bc2 Qh4 39. f5 Qxg3 40. Rxg3 gxf5 41. Nxf5 ...      Oct-20-22 A Reggio vs H Fahrni, 1905    ClassZPlaya: Not a good day for me. Not only did I forget that the Black Queen is hanging in the puzzle position, but I also missed that even if the Nf3 were somewhere else irrelevant that my move 20 ... Ba3?! fails simply to 21. Bd4. I did see the 20 ... Qxc3+ idea (was trying to prepare it      Oct-09-22 B Rytov vs Tal, 1976    ClassZPlaya: If I were White I would have tried 24. Qxg3 Nxe2 25. Qh2 Nxc1 26. Bxc1 with a defensible position and some play. For example 26. ... f5 27. Ng5 would give ^Black^ something to worry about.      Sep-26-22 A Powers vs A Dake, 1937    ClassZPlaya: For me the most interesting part of today's puzzle is that Stockfish gives 1 ... Nf6 a " ? ". Does this mean that modern engines evaluate Alekhine's Defence as unsound or (unlikely) is it just not in Stockfish's opening book?      Sep-12-22 S Bengtsson vs N Benmesbah, 2019    ClassZPlaya: the same mate was possible at move 19: 19 ... Qc3+ 20. bxc3 Bxc3 ++      Jun-16-22 H Heinicke vs Gilg, 1940    ClassZPlaya: 25. ... Nxe5! is also a gem      Apr-08-22 P Troeger vs Tal, 1960    ClassZPlaya: scored 42 ... I had a lot of difficulties in the opening as I don't play the Dutch. The 8. ... Be7 and 9. ... d6 plan did not see very "Tal-like" to me so I tried 8. ... b6      Apr-04-22 E Ubiennykh vs O Girya, 2012     Mar-06-22 Kholmov vs I Polgar, 1979     Jan-24-22 A Robbins vs Showalter, 1890     Sep-07-21 B Lalic vs E Kengis, 1997     Jul-26-21 Xiong vs So, 2017     May-06-21 R Pruijssers vs J Cuenca Jimenez, 2014     Feb-22-21 Y Zilberman vs Sutovsky, 1994     Dec-13-19 J Klinger vs W Arencibia Rodriguez, 1986     Dec-06-19 B Deac vs N Berry, 2017     Dec-02-19 L Didier vs Marshall, 1900     Oct-31-19 Short vs H Melkumyan, 2015     Jul-20-18 Flohr vs Capablanca, 1936     May-22-18 Teichmann vs Chigorin, 1905     Aug-16-17 de Firmian vs Huebner, 1995     Apr-11-16 Fischer vs Pachman, 1959     Mar-26-15 M Muzychuk vs Koneru, 2015     Sep-24-14 A Beliavsky vs J Tarjan, 1979     Sep-05-14 Caruana vs Nakamura, 2014     May-22-13 I Berezovsky vs V Rusel, 1984     Apr-01-13 Carlsen vs Svidler, 2013     Sep-22-12 Gelfand vs Topalov, 2012     Sep-06-12 Miles vs J Tisdall, 1982     Sep-04-12 J Kalish vs E Dunphy, 1966     Aug-18-12 Lutikov vs Korchnoi, 1951     Mar-04-12 Tal vs Speelman, 1988     Feb-21-12 S Weeramantry vs T Spanton, 2012    Jan-27-12 M Fette vs R Storm, 1991     Jan-24-12 V Akopian vs Fressinet, 2010     Jan-22-12 Tarrasch vs Romberg, 1893     Apr-11-11 Aronian vs C Seel, 2002     Feb-08-11 E J Almedina Ortiz vs P Parfenov, 2010     Aug-18-10 R Grau vs Pilnik, 1938     Jul-22-10 J Friedel vs M de Jong, 2009     Jun-21-10 Timman vs K Spraggett, 1985     May-11-10 Topalov vs Anand, 2010     May-10-10 Morphy vs Schrufer, 1859     May-09-10 Anand vs Topalov, 2010     Nov-02-09 Euwe vs Wiersma, 1920     Sep-09-09 Karjakin vs Grischuk, 2009     Mar-26-09 Kramnik vs Leko, 2009     Mar-05-09 Steinitz vs Schlechter, 1898     Oct-01-08 Evans vs A Bisguier, 1958     Sep-09-08 I Rogers vs R Kuijf, 1989     Aug-28-08 A Luczak vs Fedorowicz, 1979     May-09-08 Ljubojevic vs G Tringov, 1982     May-01-08 A Soltis vs Z Kozul, 1989     Apr-16-08 E Moskow vs I Krush, 2008     Feb-05-08 Shamkovich vs Tukmakov, 1970     Feb-04-08 Morphy vs T Bryan, 1859     Jun-10-07 F Trabattoni vs B Toth, 1976     Jun-03-07 I Farago vs P Poutiainen, 1975     Apr-04-07 M R Sangeetha vs S Dhar, 2001     Mar-22-07 M Dougherty vs L Day, 1997     Feb-16-07 K Klundt vs H Kestler, 1970     Feb-14-07 de Vere vs Paulsen, 1870     Feb-04-07 Taimanov vs Vaganian, 1977     Jan-26-07 R Michell vs Tartakower, 1925     Jan-04-07 Yates vs F Schubert, 1928     Dec-24-06 Santa Claus

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