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Game Collection: g15713's favorite collections of endgames

Rook endings:

Game Collection: g15713's favorite Rook endgames Part I

Game Collection: g15713's favorite Rook endgames Part II

Game Collection: g15713's favorite Double Rook endgames

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Game Collection: g15713's favorite Queen endgames

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Hello my name is Charles Irvine

Won Alabama State Championship 4 times and was briefly a chess master in my salad days

Earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science and Technology from Thomas Edison State College specializing in electronics engineering - March 2003

Worked as a production/electronic engineering technician over 15 one-half years for Motorola and then as a TV technician for a short time (20 months) before retiring

Warzone member: https://www.warzone.com/Profile?p=2...

Favorite film:

The Heiress (1949) a meticulous reproduction of the Victorian scene is about a woman standing up, in her own house, and looking out at the people closest to her, the world she lives in, in a new and certain way. Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins

Numerous favorite songs:

Marty Robbins "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" 1957 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

Phil Phillips "Sea of Love" 1959
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Ron Holden "Love You So" 1959
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Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" 1960
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"The Rolling Stones-(Its All Over Now)Live Performance"*My Reaction* (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58e...

? and the Mysterians (1966)
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Junior Walker & The Allstars - (I'm a) Roadrunner (1966) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da_...

Small Faces "Itchycoo Park" 1967
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The Beatles - "While my guitar gently weeps" (1968) https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

The Beatles - "Here comes the sun" (1969)
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The Beatles - Instrumental
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Jethro Tull - Living In The Past 1969
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Jethro Tull - Bouree 1969
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Ten Years After - "I'm Going Home" 1969
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B.B. King - "Thrill is Gone" 1969
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Blind Faith - "Can't find my way home" 1969
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Simon and Garfunkel "Bridge over troubled water" with lyrics (1970)

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George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord" (1970)
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James Taylor - "Fire and Rain" (1970)
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George Harrison - "What is Life" (1970)
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Jethro Tull - "Aqualung" was the title track from their Aqualung (1971) album. https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...?

The Doors - L.A. Woman (1971)
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America - "A horse with no name" (1971)
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Ringo Starr: It Don't Come Easy (Starr, 1971)
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer - From The Beginning (Trippy Space Video) https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

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It was released on their 1972 album Trilogy.

Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do" 1973
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Pink Floyd - "Time" was fourth track on The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) - Wiki https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

"The Great Gig in the Sky" was the fifth track on The Dark Side of the Moon - Wiki The song features music by Richard Wright and non-lexical vocals by Clare Torry. https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

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Eddie Kendricks "Keep on Truckin" 1973
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Supertramp - School (1974 recorded)
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Stevie Wonder - AS
In album: "Songs in the Key of Life" (1976)
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AL Stewart "Year of the Cat" 1976
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AL Stewart "Time Passages" 1978
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Issac Hayes - "Don't Let Go" (1979)
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The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic Although recorded in 1981, Sting wrote the song as early as 1976 - Wiki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEN...

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - A Woman In Love (It's Not Me) - 1981 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

Stars on 45 - Medley - 1981
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Duran Duran - "Rio" - 1982
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Modern English "I Melt With You" - 1983
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A-ha "Take On Me" recorded 1984
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Talk Talk "It's My Life" 1984
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The Cars "Tonight She Comes" (1985)
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Double - Captain of Her Heart (1985)
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Paul Hardcastle - Rain Forest (Full Album) 1985
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The Cure - Just Like Heaven
"Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" album (1987)
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MARRS - Pump up the Volume 1987
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Jerry Garcia Band "Tangled Up in Blue" recorded 9/1/1990

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"Air" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

Beethoven Symphony no 7 in A major (Herbert von Karajan) https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

Beethoven Moonlight Sonata (Sonata al chiaro di luna) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-M...

Franz Schubert - Impromptu In G Flat Major D899 No.3 - Vladimir Horowitz https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...

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   Oct-07-21 g15713 chessforum
 
g15713: Sorry but I won’t be able to do much as my Intel NUC computer died on me.
 
   Oct-05-21 ChessBookForum chessforum (replies)
 
g15713: Hi Peter! Understanding Chess Endings by John Nunn, my favorite chess writer, is a great place to start. It covers 100 key endgame concepts and shows how they are used to win games or save difficult positions; then his Nunn's Chess Endings Volumes I and II - my two cents on great ...
 
   Sep-27-21 stevemcd87 chessforum (replies)
 
g15713: I am very frustrated with how testing is done... Game collections cannot be updated with chess symbols while changes in the title work One can use html entries in either decimal or hex but only temporary One makes a change and then one goes back to make another change and everything ...
 
   Jul-09-21 woldsmandriffield chessforum
 
g15713: <"Kibitzing diagrams seem to have disappeared following the last chessgames.com maintenance. Has anyone else noticed this? Will they return!?!?!?"> ' stevemcd87 chessforum (kibitz #446) They newly created fen images are black and white for now. If you happen to get one in ...
 
   Jul-07-21 chessgames.com chessforum (replies)
 
g15713: Missing FEN diagrams - thanks to <stevemcd87> for work around solution
 
   Jun-13-21 Lautier vs J Piket, 1995
 
g15713: Part II 49. Qg8+ Kh6 50. Qf8+ Kg6 51. Qc5 Qd3 52. Qc6+ Kf5 53. Qc8+ Kg5 54. Qc1+ Kh5 55. Qc3 Qb5 56. Qb3 Qc6 57. Qd1+ Kg5 58. Qd2+ Kf5 59. Qa5+ Ke4 60. Kb3 Qe6+ 61. Ka4 Qd7+ 62. Qb5 Qc7 63. Qe2+ Kd4 64. Qd2+ Ke4 65. Qc3 Qd7+ 66 Kb3 Qd8 67. Kc2 Qb6 68. Qc4+ Ke5 69. Kc3 F. 1.5 Black
 
   Jun-06-21 Botvinnik vs N Minev, 1954
 
g15713: E. 1.0 White to move at 41 [DIAGRAM] White played 41. Kf2 but after 41. Rxa7 White is winning according to FinalGen E. 1.1 Black to move at 41 [DIAGRAM] A few sample lines: Line 1: 41...Rc1+ 42. Kf2 Rc2+ 43. Kf3 Rxb2 E. 1.2 [DIAGRAM] Syzygy says White is winning ' ...
 
   May-21-21 Nisipeanu vs N Grandelius, 2017
 
g15713: Part II F. 1.4 Black to move at 50 [DIAGRAM] Stockfish gives the following analysis after 60-minute evaluation 1) +1.12 (45 ply) 50...Qa1 51.Qd8+ Kf7 52.Qd7+ Kf8 53.Kg2 Qe5 54.g6 Qe4+ 55.Kh2 Qh4+ 56.Kg1 Qg5+ 57.Kf1 Qxg6 58.Qd8+ Kf7 59.Qxa5 <Tablebase draw> Game continued: ...
 
   May-19-21 S Bogner vs E Zanan, 2018
 
g15713: Queen and five pawns versus a Queen and four pawns F. 1.0 Black to move at 38 [DIAGRAM] 38...Qxb2 39. Qe8+ Kh7 40. Qe4+ Kh8 41. Qxa4 Queen and four pawns versus a Queen and three pawns F. 1.1 Black to move at 41 [DIAGRAM] 41...Qc1+ 42. Kg2 c5 43. Qe8+ Kh7 44. Qe4+ Kh8 45. a4 ...
 
   May-19-21 N Chkhaidze vs Z Medvegy, 2016
 
g15713: Knight with an extra pawn versus Bishop ending should be a draw here. E. 1.0 White to move at 57 [DIAGRAM] Stockfish gives the following analysis after 25-minute evaluation 1) +0.03 (56 ply) 56.Ne5 Kb7 57.Ng6 Ka6 58.Ke2 Kxa5 59.Nh4 Bf8 60.Nxf5 Kb5 61.Nh4 Kc5 62.Kd2 Kd5 63.Ng6 Bg7 ...
 
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   Mar-23-21 Bologan vs Dreev, 2006
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   Mar-05-21 L Vogt vs Y Boidman, 2000
   Mar-04-21 B Ryan vs R Wetzell, 1993
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   Mar-03-21 Kamsky vs de Firmian, 1990
   Mar-02-21 P Freisler vs Plachetka, 1986
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   Feb-27-21 B Ivanovic vs de Firmian, 1983
   Feb-26-21 L'Ami vs F Elsness, 2014
   Feb-25-21 E Dyckhoff vs Eliskases, 1930
   Feb-24-21 Gipslis vs L Grigorian, 1964
   Feb-23-21 Petursson vs Tiviakov, 1989
   Feb-21-21 Morozevich vs Kasimdzhanov, 2002
   Feb-19-21 U Goy vs H Bastian, 2008
   Feb-10-21 A Nosenko vs I Janik, 2016
   Feb-10-21 A Vajda vs A Nimzowitsch, 1927 (replies)
   Feb-10-21 Marshall vs L Rosen, 1900
   Feb-10-21 Tiviakov vs Timoshenko, 1991
   Feb-08-21 V Jorquera Cabello vs E Barbosa, 2014
   Feb-06-21 V Dragnev vs A Esipenko, 2018
   Feb-05-21 F Berkes vs D Yuffa, 2018
   Feb-04-21 K Arkell vs Suba, 1991
   Dec-27-20 Aronian vs Kramnik, 2018
   Nov-21-20 Larsen vs Portisch, 1977
   Nov-17-20 Kramnik vs A Beliavsky, 1993
   Nov-16-20 Bologan vs A Triapishko, 2018
   Nov-15-20 L Tipary vs Bronstein, 1949
   Nov-10-20 Portisch vs J Pinter, 1981
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   Oct-17-20 J Pinter vs Razuvaev, 1982
   May-14-20 M Antipov vs L Johansson, 2014
   May-12-20 Ding Liren vs Giri, 2015 (replies)
   May-11-20 Kryvoruchko vs Anand, 2014
   May-11-20 T Haritakis vs Konstantinos Karanikolas, 1996
   May-10-20 M Nouro vs P H Nielsen, 1996
   May-10-20 A Rios Parra vs V Miguel Lago, 1989
   May-07-20 R Berzinsh vs V Burmakin, 2013
   May-05-20 V Gunina vs X Zhao, 2012
   May-05-20 V Neverov vs A Mastrovasilis, 2005
   May-04-20 R Djurhuus vs Y Rantanen, 1989
   Apr-26-20 P Palachev vs N Shirshov, 2017
   Apr-26-20 B Chatalbashev vs S Kristjansson, 2003
   Apr-16-20 K Haznedaroglu vs J Markos, 2006 (replies)
   Apr-14-20 A Zapata vs Vaganian, 1984
   Mar-31-20 I Gaponenko vs R Sheldon, 2002
   Mar-30-20 M Maki-Uuro vs Carlsen, 2002
   Mar-28-20 I Khairullin vs E Inarkiev, 2006
   Sep-11-19 L Crevatin vs J Kretz, 2018
   Sep-10-19 B Roselli Mailhe vs G Cerda Albornoz, 2018
   Sep-07-19 Vachier-Lagrave vs Anand, 2018
   Sep-05-19 Karjakin vs Anand, 2018
   Aug-31-19 Gligoric vs Smyslov, 1947 (replies)
   Aug-22-19 A Vaisser vs S Djuric, 1985
   Aug-21-19 J Yu vs S Foisor, 2018 (replies)
   Aug-19-19 T Duong vs Yermolinsky, 2007
   Aug-17-19 A Tate vs J Pein, 2018
   Aug-15-19 V Akopian vs K Georgiev, 1999
   Aug-09-19 I Krush vs T Abrahamyan, 2014
   Aug-03-19 Petrosian vs Tal, 1962 (replies)
   Jul-29-19 A Kosten vs P Bailet, 2018
   Jul-26-19 Y Solodovnichenko vs J Moussard, 2018
   Jul-26-19 Alekhine vs Bogoljubov, 1934 (replies)
   Jul-22-19 Alekhine vs Bogoljubov, 1929 (replies)
   Jul-20-19 Rublevsky vs Kasparov, 2004 (replies)
   Jul-19-19 M Saralegui vs S Foisor, 2018
   Jul-17-19 R Baskin vs T Perske, 2018
   Jul-15-19 Tal vs Gipslis, 1983
   Jul-06-19 Botvinnik vs G Borisenko, 1955
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   Jun-21-19 Cochrane vs Moheschunder, 1851
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   Jun-18-19 Lenderman vs M Khachiyan, 2010
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