LRLeighton Member since May-19-12 · Last seen Jul-27-25 no bio

LRLeighton has kibitzed 127 times to chessgames   [less...]

Jun-19-25 Krasenkow vs Smirin, 1995   LRLeighton: Krasenkow missed a win at move 39 with the fantastic but "quiet" 39. Qg7!! threatening both Qh6# and the Rb2. Black has no defense to the mate other than 39...Kxg5, so he must lose the rook.      Jun-11-25 G Barbero vs A Zichichi, 1988   LRLeighton: This was simple but I admit that I didn't see it immediately: After 26.Nh5, the Bg7 cannot move because white would play 27.Qh6+ forking the K and the Rd2. Hence black responds to 26.Nh5 with Qg5, but then 27.Nxg7, Qxg7 28.Qh8+, Qxh8 (...Qg8 fails to 29.Qh6+ fork again) 29.Rxh8+ ...      Jun-02-25 Kuzubov vs R Mamedov, 2009   LRLeighton: Black missed a forced mate in two near the end of the game, starting with the attraction sac 38...Rxh3+! On 39.Kxh3, Rh2# (Opera Mate), and if 39.Kg5, Bf6#.      May-26-25 Alekhine vs I Pen, 1918    LRLeighton: In his later writings, Alekhine actually talked about his play during this period. He said that he had gotten so used to saving bad positions with tactics that he mistakenly started to believe that he would always be able to find something. It was a combination of believing in ...      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+ 37 Ng2, Bxg2+ 38 Kg1, Be4+ 39 Kf1, Bd3+ and ...      Apr-16-25 I Salgado Lopez vs T Vakhidov, 2014   LRLeighton: I'm assuming that black agreed to a draw here because of extreme time pressure, as the position is dead lost for white after black's final move with 30...Re3! White gets mated in all lines. On 31 Qxe3, Bxf4+ and white cannot take with 32 Qxf4 because of 32...Rxh3#      Apr-08-25 Khismatullin vs M Matlakov, 2014   LRLeighton: White missed a win with 35 Rf7! Black obviously cannot take the rook because the black Q is stuck guarding the queening square. Now if 35...d3 (...Kg6 36 Re8 anyway) 36 Re8!, d2 threatens mate, but 37 Rxf6+! forces 37...Kxf6 after which 38 d8(Q)+ queens with check, and white is a      Mar-17-25 J Pelikan vs M Czerniak, 1943   LRLeighton: And white missed a fantastic sequence starting with the unusual deflection sac 28 Bc4+!!. Now: a) 28...Qxc4 29.Qxg6+, Kf8 30.Rxf5+, Ke7 31.Rxe5+ etc. b) 28...Kf8 29.Bh6+ (Rxf5+ also wins), Ke7 30.Qxe5+, Kd7 31.Rd1+ and white is winning the house. c) 28...Kg7 29.Qxe5+, Rxe5 ...      Mar-01-25 P Ostermeyer vs M Daumens, 1969   LRLeighton: It would be nice to see the finish: 25...Rc2 26 Rb8+, Ne8 (26...Kg7?? allows 27 Qf8#) 27 Bxe6, Rxc5 28 Rxe8+, Kg7 and now white saves and wins the game with the clever x-ray defense 29 Rc8! and if 29...Ra5 30 Bc4 saving the B and getting the B back in time to block any checks ...      Dec-20-24 N Pogonina vs S Khader, 2011   LRLeighton: Black was stuck with playing 25...Nxg3 because if black plays the natural recapture 25...Nxd8, then 26 Bc7 wins a tempo and clears the way to trap black's light-sq B: 26...Nc6 27 f3, Bh5 28 g4 wins a piece.      Nov-15-24 Petursson vs O Brendel, 1990    Nov-02-24 Spassky vs E Meduna, 1989    Oct-05-24 Robson vs C Boor, 2013    Sep-25-24 J Degraeve vs F Hellers, 1992     Sep-21-24 W Winter vs R Michell, 1928    Sep-16-24 A Timofeev vs Wojtaszek, 2005    Sep-02-24 D Radulovic vs S Atalik, 2012    Aug-06-24 Ftacnik vs B Zueger, 1984    Jul-31-24 S Khan vs Flohr, 1932     Jul-15-24 P Thipsay vs Z Zhang, 2003    Jul-07-24 L Ogaard vs S Johannessen, 1975    Jun-08-24 A Kosten vs J Hector, 1988    Jun-01-24 F Ekstrom vs H Steiner, 1945    May-29-24 C Ferron Garcia vs S Bolado Saez, 2001     Apr-24-24 Chandler vs D King, 1990    Apr-19-24 A Kuzmin vs Rublevsky, 1996    Mar-21-24 Miles vs H Ree, 1985    Mar-15-24 J Piket vs E Prie, 1990    Dec-05-23 J Kupper vs Panno, 1958    Nov-30-23 Sinquefield Cup (2023)     Oct-07-23 A Beliavsky vs Smeets, 2007    Sep-18-23 E Book vs Kashdan, 1937    Aug-31-23 A M Bicer vs E Tarlabasi, 2023    Jul-29-23 Euwe vs S Landau, 1939     Jun-25-23 S Bekker-Jensen vs S B Hansen, 2006    Jun-16-23 Mamedyarov vs Vitiugov, 2017    Jun-10-23 Geller vs D Ciric, 1961    Apr-26-23 F Olafsson vs Tolush, 1953    Apr-21-23 Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, 2023     Apr-19-23 Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, 2023     Apr-14-23 Nepomniachtchi - Ding World Championship Match (2023)     Apr-08-23 B P Reilly vs K Opocensky, 1938    Apr-02-23 D Paravyan vs V Zakhartsov, 2016    Apr-01-23 V Zarubitski vs Fridman, 2020     Mar-31-23 Women's Grand Prix (2023)     Mar-22-23 American Cup (2023)     Mar-07-23 O Bazan vs R A Redolfi, 1993    Mar-03-23 R K Kieseritsky vs Rubinstein, 1905    Jan-27-23 Tata Steel Masters (2023)     Jan-23-23 P Nikolic vs Tukmakov, 1993    Dec-16-22 Tal vs Gligoric, 1967    Dec-15-22 Tukmakov vs K Hulak, 1999    Nov-25-22 R Hovhannisyan vs O Kiolbasa, 2015    Nov-25-22 Lenderman vs T Harutyunian, 2022    Nov-25-22 Lenderman vs A Mikaelyan, 2022     Oct-20-22 I Krush vs J Yu, 2022     Oct-01-22 USSR Championship (1939)    Sep-22-22 Julius Baer Generation Cup (2022)     Sep-03-22 Timoshenko vs G Grigore, 1998    Sep-01-22 Z Rajcsanyi vs D Pavasovic, 1994    Aug-09-22 P Thipsay vs J Levitt, 1985    Aug-04-22 M Udovcic vs Matulovic, 1960    Jul-06-22 chessgames.com chessforum     Jun-28-22 M Dzevlan vs V Hresc, 1990    Jun-24-22 Capablanca vs Tarrasch, 1914     Jun-23-22 Nepomniachtchi vs Duda, 2022     Jun-23-22 Firouzja vs Caruana, 2022     Jun-22-22 Nepomniachtchi vs Firouzja, 2022     Jun-13-22 Morozevich vs K Sychev, 2017    Jun-11-22 Grischuk vs Gelfand, 2006    Mar-18-22 Budapest Candidates (1950)     Mar-09-22 Rapport vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2022     Mar-02-22 Kamsky vs Anand, 1995    Feb-23-22 J Kristiansen vs Deep Blue, 1993    Feb-17-22 R Skomorokhin vs K Aseev, 1994    Feb-07-22 J M Lopez Martinez vs J Guerra Mendez, 2017    Jan-30-22 L Rojas Keim vs R Leitao, 2005    Dec-16-21 Kotronias vs J Gallagher, 2010     Dec-09-21 Flohr vs G Kasparian, 1947    Dec-05-21 Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Match (2021)     Nov-08-21 S P Sethuraman vs A Korobov, 2016     Oct-31-21 E Torre vs Karpov, 1987     Oct-18-21 Caruana vs Swiercz, 2021     Apr-27-21 World Championship Candidates (2020/21)     Mar-20-21 A Soltis vs D Gurevich, 1981     Mar-09-21 M Delage vs S Prokofiev, 1937     Feb-15-21 H Weenink vs Tarrasch, 1923    Feb-12-21 D V Prasad vs Speelman, 1987    Feb-10-21 Yudasin vs Kramnik, 1994     Feb-08-21 Bologan vs Caruana, 2008     Jan-15-21 Vachier-Lagrave vs Anand, 2018    Jan-10-21 R Leitao vs Shirov, 2014    Dec-30-20 Dorfman vs Tukmakov, 1991     Dec-19-20 I Sokolov vs K Larsen, 2012    Dec-19-20 Ljubojevic vs J Murey, 1994    Dec-19-20 J Ye vs M I Situru, 1996    Dec-18-20 N Dzagnidze vs V Gunina, 2013    Dec-10-20 H Rudolf vs I Popov, 2019    Dec-09-20 B Murtazin vs S M Shyam, 2017    Nov-18-20 Spassky vs O Averkin, 1973     Sep-08-20 Anand vs P Maghsoodloo, 2020     Feb-08-16 Geller vs I A Zaitsev, 1969

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