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Jan-16-25 Staunton vs W Popert, 1841    Candle: Very casual game! 13. Qxg6 wins a piece      Nov-11-24 Spassky vs E Mednis, 1957    Candle: I'm guessing that white played 14.Qh3 (consistent with 19.Qg3) and not the blunder 14.Qh4 given in the score.      Aug-30-24 Petrosian vs M Radulescu, 1953   Candle: White's 27th move should be 27.Rce1      Jun-24-24 Sliwa vs Stahlberg, 1952   Candle: A score correction on move 53: it is likely that White played 53.Ra7+ and not 54.Ra8, losing the rook.      May-05-24 F J Lee vs H W Shoosmith, 1904    Candle: Exciting and entertaining. In this tournament Shoosmith finished equal 3rd with Blackburne and Gunsberg and a point behind 2nd placed Teichmann. He defeated both Gunsberg - in 25 moves with white - and Teichmann, with black. Sonas' Chessmetrics site puts him 25th in world rankings in      Apr-10-24 Tal vs G Ilivitsky, 1953   Candle: Chessbase big database from 2015 has an endgame fragment, with the same players, team match, site, result etc. This fragment is likely the ending of this same game. Pasted below, with basic PGN details. [Event "Leningrad, URS-chT Republics 03 Final"] [Site "Leningrad"] [Date ...      Dec-21-23 M From vs Steinitz, 1867   Candle: In the tournament book, Neumann and de Riviere (Eds) write "From this point on the manuscript becomes indecipherable, and all we can see is that Mr. Steinitz has won the game." CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DES ÉCHECS COMPTE RENDU DU CONGRÈS DE 1867, p156      Jul-15-23 Bogoljubov vs Rubinstein, 1920    Candle: 33...Ra8 allows the obvious 34.Rxc6, but this isn't played. Could there be mistakes in the score here? Or did the players simply miss it? Offramp's suggestion - defending the c6 pawn before playing ...Ra8 - makes sense, as does the alternate score provided. However, the nearest ...      Jun-11-23 S Rosenthal vs Zukertort, 1880    Candle: After Black's 29...Rd7 White can easily win with 30.Rxc6, winning a piece. But White apparently misses it and played 30.Rd6. Would Zukertort and Rosenthal really make these moves? Besides being a blunder, playing 29...Rd7 after 28...Rd2 seems strange. I had first thought that the ...      Nov-04-22 Karpov vs F Visier Segovia, 1972   Candle: 22. Bxg6 look deadly (even without computer aid). 22...hxg6 23.Rh8mate or 22...fxg6 23.Qxe6+ Kf8 24.Rxh7 and mate is coming.

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