alayo has kibitzed 39 times to chessgames   [less...]

Mar-17-14 Anand vs Kramnik, 2014    alayo: I am not impressed with unsound sacrifices that end up with perpetual checks when they fail to work. For club players, that's OK. But for world championship contenders, it's not good enough.      Mar-02-12 M Shereshevsky vs Kupreichik, 1976    alayo: The joke is on chessgames.com - they should have held off for just one more month and made this the puzzle on April 1!!!      Feb-24-12 Morozevich vs Fridman, 2012    alayo: I may be getting too old. I the olden days, chess commentary used to be a debate of ideas by human chess players with varying levels of understanding or proficiency of the game. Nowadays, most of the commentary is coming from people interpreting results of their computer ...      Aug-09-11 Kramnik vs A Timofeev, 2011    alayo: He lost to Svidler, not to Morozevich.      Jun-25-11 G Young vs W Harper, 2011    alayo: What's wrong with 17......Rg8?      Feb-10-11 O Adu vs P Chan, 2006    alayo: d3 against the Sicilian is a well known opening system...Kings Indian Attack. A good strategy if you want to avoid too much theory in the Sicilian. It is by no means a weak move, because it defers the conflict till later in the game when all the pieces are developed.      Oct-23-10 Z Franco Ocampos vs A Safranska, 2000    alayo: 38...Nxg4! maintains a winning position for black.      Aug-31-10 M Narciso Dublan vs Kryvoruchko, 2008    alayo: 80...Qxf4+? 81.g4!      Nov-02-09 Euwe vs Wiersma, 1920    alayo: I appreciate the responses to my comment and I understand the different view points. I think it boils down to the different reasons for posting. If one took the view point of using the puzzles as a learning aid, as opposed to a competition as to who posted first or who was the first ...      Sep-14-09 P Limbos vs Klausner, 1929    alayo: 14.Re7 1-0      Aug-02-09 Carlsen vs A Groenn, 2005     Mar-29-08 Shulman vs R Hess, 2008     Mar-21-08 Spassky vs S Avtonomov, 1949     Feb-19-08 David Bronstein     Jun-26-07 B Hesler vs V Sejdini, 1995     Nov-17-06 Alekhine vs S Erdelyi, 1931     Nov-07-06 Aronian vs Morozevich, 2006     Oct-06-06 Keres vs Petrosian, 1953     Oct-02-06 Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2006)     Sep-24-05 A Volokitin vs Nakamura, 2005     Jul-12-05 USA vs Russia Distance Match (2005)     Jun-21-05 H Terrie vs E Tate, 2001     Apr-27-05 A Nzamwitar vs T Brookfield, 2004    Apr-22-05 Tal vs Suetin, 1969     Apr-20-05 R Palliser vs D Howell, 2005     Mar-21-05 Kasparov vs M Wahls, 1992     Mar-11-05 A Skripchenko vs A Elamri, 2005     Mar-10-05 Topalov vs Kasparov, 2005     Feb-25-05 F Vallejo Pons vs Kasparov, 2005     Oct-07-04 Kramnik vs Leko, 2004     Oct-03-04 Duras vs Z Barasz, 1912     Oct-02-04 Leko vs Kramnik, 2004     Sep-24-04 E Paehtz vs M Mueller-Seps, 2004     Jul-07-04 Kasimdzhanov vs Adams, 2004     Jul-05-04 Adams vs Kasimdzhanov, 2004

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