Dec-24-17 Kibitzer's Café 
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| JamesBJames: I live in Ohio. It doesn't seem to be helping me with #62. |
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Dec-23-13 JamesBJames chessforum
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| JamesBJames: Thanks, <domdaniel>. Started insanely slow this year but picked up the pace near the end. After TARASENKO and practically spelling out the answer to #50 in the forums, I'm really surprised I still got 5. Congrats on your crazy solve on that eponym clue, by the way. I still |
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Dec-13-12 SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum
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| JamesBJames: How much RAM do you have installed, because you're a machine. |
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Oct-03-12 Chessgames Bookie chessforum
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| JamesBJames: Awesome, all my bets paid off. Hope it's enough. |
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Dec-24-11 Santa Claus
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| JamesBJames: Dear Santa,
Worth a shot. Gimme gimme. |
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Aug-06-08 Botvinnik vs P Sharov, 1929
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| JamesBJames: Couldn't find the Ne8! follow up. =( |
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Jun-12-08 Y Rusakov vs B Kalinkin, 1963
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| JamesBJames: Whoops, Qxf7+ actually works well enough too - I just messed up with the whole visualization of the move. And I agree, Bg8! is a very pretty alternative for the penultimate mating move. |
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Jun-10-08 Morphy vs T Bryan, 1859
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| JamesBJames: I'm just now getting back into these problems after a long hiatus, but this Tuesday problem seems rather easy. A quick material count shows that white is up a pawn. However, black's two bishops against white's two knights usually is going to be worth the value of a pawn, ... |
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Apr-16-08 Blackburne vs J Schwarz, 1881
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| JamesBJames: Egh, I thought ...Rxh5 was the winning move after either Nxh5 Qh6 or gxh5 Rxh5, Nxh5 Qh6. One problem, though. The white king is in check! There's only six legal moves, yet I didn't even play a legal one! Ah, well, I can give myself a pat on the back for somewhat recognizing ... |
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Apr-05-08 Alexandra Grishina
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| JamesBJames: I know, it's very disheartening. |
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Mar-25-08 Reti vs Dunkelblum, 1914
Feb-18-08 A Blees vs Plachetka, 1985
Feb-18-08 Rubinstein vs NN, 1902
Dec-20-07 Topalov vs Kasparov, 1996
Dec-20-07 G Ilivitsky vs Keres, 1955
Dec-11-07 L B Hansen vs Timman, 1994
Nov-28-07 W Von Holzhausen vs Tarrasch, 1912
Nov-06-07 Suetin vs M Ujtelky, 1965
Oct-31-07 K Hulak vs D Rogic, 2005
Oct-29-07 I Farago vs V Bliumberg, 1994
Oct-10-07 G Isakov vs V A Nikitin, 1947
Oct-05-07 J Kostro vs W Schmidt, 1968
Oct-04-07 P Nikolic vs J Piket, 2000
Oct-03-07 K V Shantharam vs K Murugan, 1994
Oct-02-07 V Kravchenko vs E Vorobiov, 2000
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