May-19-25 E Hintikka vs T Pirttimaki, 1988
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| BxChess: Spicy foods always repeat |
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May-14-25 S Conquest vs Grischuk, 2000 
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| BxChess: A fat finger error? Perhaps the Weds puzzle should have been 39...? Many of these puzzles appear to be automatically generated based upon a computer identified sacrfice. |
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May-09-25 M Cardili vs A Papa, 2005
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| BxChess: A most timely pun. I wonder how long this was in the conclave waiting to be used. |
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May-02-25 P Leonhardt vs Tarrasch, 1910
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| BxChess: <Whitehat1963> 22...g6 23. Rxh8+ Kxh8 24. Qf8+ Kh7 25. Nf5
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The knight can't be taken and mate is threatened on g7. 25...f6 26. Qxh6+ Kg8 27. Qxg6+ Kf8 28. Qxf6+ Qf7
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and after the queens come off the kingside pawns should win for white. |
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Apr-25-25 Grenke Freestyle Open (2025)
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| BxChess: <Teyss...Don't know why Euwe divided this number by 2>. As a former student of a maths teacher who told me that pi was exactly 22/7, I nevertheless found your calculation convincing. Perhaps you could argue that a reflection about the vertical midline of the starting postion ... |
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Apr-25-25 P Velikov vs Dorfman, 1989
Apr-22-25 T Wall vs G Welling, 1996
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| BxChess: I saw the game line but I thought that 25...Nxe6 26. Nxe6 Rxc7+ 27. Nxc7 was stronger. Stockfish thinks that my line is strong, but that the game line is stronger. |
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Apr-18-25 Anand vs Topalov, 2001
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| BxChess: As <michael104> quoting Barden says, 40...? would be great late week puzzle. A rare chance to do better than a grand master. |
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Apr-14-25 W Ju vs Z Tan, 2025
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| BxChess: Another Archbishop of Cantunbury, but in this case there is no rising from the dead. (Apologies to Beatgiant.) |
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Apr-11-25 Suetin vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1964
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| BxChess: I'm pleased with the Stockfish analysis of <mel gibson>. I also thought 39...Rh5 was the way to continue. I didn't see the mate in 33. |
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