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May-30-10 Portisch vs Lengyel, 1964    tratra: Black to play Portisch vs L Lengyel Insane 52...Qg4+!!! Very easy to spot! If Black takes, its stalemate. A.) 53. Kf6 Qd6+ 54. Kg5 (54. Kxf6 stalemate!) Qg4+!! B.) 53. Kh6 Qh4+ 54. Qh5 Qf6+ 55. Qg6 Qh4+ and it is perpetual check! This is very easy!      May-19-10 Pulvermacher vs Capablanca, 1907    tratra: Black to play Pulvermacher vs Capablanca Medium/Easy 9...Nxe5 10. dxe5 or 10. dxc5 all lose since: a. 10. dxe5 Nxe4 threatening mate on f2 and capturing the Bishop on g5 or h4. If 11. Qxe4 Qd1#. b. 10. dxc5 Nd3+ 11. Kd2 Nxc5+ and White's queen falls. time to check!      May-07-10 V Wahltuch vs Capablanca, 1922    tratra: Very instructive indeed!      May-06-10 D Gurevich vs J G Nicholson, 1985    tratra: 20. Bxg7!? Kxg7 21. Nh5+ (Kg6 20. Nef4+ Kf7 21. Qe5) Kf7 22. Qh6 retaining the initiative      May-06-10 A Nokso-Koivisto vs E Fernandez Aguado, 1989   tratra: 35...Qg2+ 36. Qxg2 Bxg2 37. Kxg2 Rd2+ 38. Kf3 Rxb2 39. Nd4 Bc5 seems to be simpler.      May-06-10 A Beliavsky vs Adams, 1989    tratra: A probable reason why Beliavsky chose 37. Rg3+ is because psychologically, the worst thing possible that can happen to him is having a draw by perpetual check. But, after 37...Kh5 38. Rh3+ Kg4 Beliavsky spotted 39. Rxh6 and assured himself of the win. A transposition of 37. Rxh6. He ...      May-05-10 Najdorf vs D Byrne, 1962    tratra: Black to play Najdorf vs D Byrne Easy 91...Qe7+! 92. Qxe7 Nxd5+ forking and it is very easy for black to win time to check!      May-04-10 Gavrikov vs Gelfand, 1995    tratra: Black to play Gavrikov vs Gelfand Easy 31...Ne1 32. Qf4 e5!      May-03-10 Kramnik vs G Vescovi, 1991   tratra: Why not 14...Qxb2?      May-03-10 O Sarapu vs Z Frankel, 1962    tratra: White to play O Sarapu vs Z Frankel "Very Easy" 29. Qxh5! and black should resign Saw it in less than a second! If 29..gxh5 30. Bh7# or any legal move and the queen goes to h7 to deliver mate.      May-01-10 V Goglidze vs A Bannik, 1954     Apr-30-10 Lasker vs R Loman, 1903     Apr-28-10 Suba vs M Hebden, 1984     Apr-27-10 S Wu vs Koneru, 2005     Apr-26-10 V Vepkhvishvili vs Z Rukhadze, 1965     Apr-25-10 S S Farhat Willemstein vs Y Dembo, 1992    Apr-24-10 Chiburdanidze vs P Feustel, 1976     Apr-23-10 S Bernstein vs A Dake, 1936     Apr-22-10 Korchnoi vs Levenfish, 1953     Apr-20-10 de Firmian vs Azmaiparashvili, 1996     Apr-19-10 H Hallmann vs W Schneider, 1931     Apr-18-10 Marshall vs Kupchik, 1913     Apr-17-10 Petrosian vs Gligoric, 1959     Apr-15-10 Boleslavsky vs Bronstein, 1950     Apr-14-10 A Graf vs T Tabatadze, 1989    Apr-13-10 Smyslov vs Boleslavsky, 1941     Apr-11-10 Keene vs E Mortensen, 1983     Apr-09-10 Englisch vs Gunsberg, 1885     Apr-07-10 C R Mariano-Wagman vs J Torres, 2001    Apr-06-10 P R Senanayake vs M Wafa, 2004    Apr-05-10 S Iljin vs A Tsepotan, 2001

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