May-06-20 Flamberg vs Duras, 1912 
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knightfly: Duras seems to have missed a mate in 2 with 17...…..Bf5+ 18.Kc3 Qe3# |
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Jan-17-15 Antoshin vs A Sokolov, 1982
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knightfly: The mystery is cleared up. According to Chessbase 'Antoshin retired ill' |
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Sep-02-14 Anderssen vs Zukertort, 1868
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knightfly: Though he wins fairly soon anyway Zukertort appears to miss a forced mate with 28.....Qxg5+ 29.fxg5 Re4+ 30.Kh5 g6+ 31.Kh6 Rh4# |
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Apr-09-13 A Filipowicz vs P Smederevac, 1966 
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knightfly: I believe this is the longest ever game without a capture and also possibly the most boring game ever. |
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Feb-15-12 J Polgar vs L B Hansen, 1989 
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knightfly: 33.Rbxf7 can met by 33......Re4+ which confuses things a bit though white is still probably winning. |
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Jul-26-08 Napoleon Bonaparte 
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knightfly: Here is an interesting article which claims that Boney was little better
than Hitler.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art... |
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Mar-21-08 Fine vs A Reynolds, 1937 
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knightfly: Arthur Reynolds was a British player who was born 1910 and died as a Japanese Prisoner-of-war in 1943. |
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Dec-20-06 G Welling vs V Eingorn, 2006 
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knightfly: <Pelgrino Patzer>White wins by 1.Kg2! Kxb5 2.f4 gxf4 3.g5
The plausible looking 1.Kg3 only draws to 1...Kxb5 2.f4 gxf4+ 3.Kxf4 fxg4 |
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Dec-03-06 Tartakower vs H Fahrni, 1909 
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knightfly: As eloquent as ever Tartakower wrote after 27.Bxf6+
"This is a case where one can distinctly observe the sympathetic influence of disease from one sick part of the organism to another; indeed, in the end it is not the square f7 but its neighbour on f6 through which the assailant ... |
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Nov-09-06 Cecil Brown chessforum 
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knightfly: Yes I agree with you about Winston, he was never one to back down from a fight starting from his early days as a cavalry officer. 'Young Winston' has always been a favourte film although how much is poetic license I don't know. I've given up on the Napoleon Bonaparte vs General ... |
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Nov-06-06 Napoleon Bonaparte vs General Bertrand, 1820 
Nov-05-06 Fischer vs B Larsen, 1971 
Nov-05-06 mack chessforum 
Oct-21-06 Y Kraidman vs H Harestad, 1991 
Sep-07-06 Miles vs G Kuzmin, 1974 
Aug-19-06 B Kreiman vs L Christiansen, 2002 
Jun-25-06 Winawer vs Lasker, 1896 
Jun-25-06 Ksenya Rybenko 
May-17-06 A Planinc vs R Calvo Minguez, 1973 
May-14-06 Kasparov vs J Piket, 2001 
May-13-06 Maroczy vs Steinitz, 1899 
May-13-06 T Koch vs Kramnik, 1990 
May-13-06 Smyslov vs Bronstein, 1975 
Apr-28-06 Mato Damjanovic 
Apr-15-06 H Bohm vs Korchnoi, 1975 
Apr-13-06 Reshevsky vs Gligoric, 1952 
Apr-05-06 Joseph Blackburne 
Apr-04-06 Spielmann vs H Gebhard, 1926 
Feb-19-06 Alekhine vs G Stoltz, 1942 
Feb-19-06 S Tidman vs M Rodshtein, 2005
Feb-18-06 Short vs H Stefansson, 2002 
Mar-06-04 J Thompson vs Mackenzie, 1864 
Mar-06-04 D Przepiorka vs C Ahues, 1927 
Mar-05-04 Chigorin vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1903 
Mar-04-04 Kotov vs Botvinnik, 1939 
Mar-01-04 J Tisdall vs J Polgar, 1988 
Feb-24-04 Alekhine vs Colle, 1925 
Feb-21-04 Rubinstein vs M Hirschbein, 1927 
Feb-20-04 Rublevsky vs Z Varga, 2001 
Feb-17-04 Andersson vs W Hartston, 1973 
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