Sep-18-19 Kiril D Georgiev vs Shirov, 1992 
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| Checker2: The bishop always stays on its own colour, but it can and sometimes should change the colour of the rook it is blocking. |
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May-09-19 Acs vs R Szuhanek, 1999
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| Checker2: Well the game was a longer mate than necessary, so my check, check, check, check, check, check, check, mate should be just as valid, even though it in turn is longer than the game's solution:
24.Qg8+ Bf8 25.Rxe6+ fxe6 26.Qxe6+ Be7 (Ne7 hangs queen) 27. Qg8+ Bf8 28. Qg6+ Ke7 29. ... |
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Jul-20-17 Nakamura vs R Bellin, 2016
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| Checker2: Strange week. I missed Monday's puzzle completely, found Wednesday's easy and today I saw the first two moves of the solution in a flash. |
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Nov-21-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
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| Checker2: Ne7+ only when the queen is not covering that square. |
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Nov-18-16 Hebden vs F Felecan, 1993
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| Checker2: I was getting excited about 18. Qxb5 and mating on g8 until I evaluated black's checks and queen captures. |
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Sep-02-16 Van Wely vs T Beerdsen, 2015
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| Checker2: Interesting tactics. As usual Fridays, I didn't get it.
<Cheapo Why not 26. . . Qxf5?>
I guess 27. b6 might win the a pawn, creating a passer.
I doubt black could defend the a pawn with 27 . . cb 28. Qxb6 Ra9 29. Rc7 Rxc7 30. Qxc7 and the bishop is loose, and needed to ... |
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Jul-07-16 K Spraggett vs G Vescovi, 2004
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| Checker2: I too thought Bh6 did it, but had the right idea with Qg3+. |
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Jun-29-16 J Pyrowicz vs A Latocha, 2009
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| Checker2: Got it, except the interesting C.1.b) above.
Why not 15 ... Bxf3? With the trade happening anyways 2 bishops moves later and the black knight getting to f4 on the powerful queen's diagonal, why didn't black disrupt the kingside pawns? |
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Jun-06-16 J Runnby vs H Englund, 1980
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| Checker2: It took me too long to see why the knight could not be captured 15. de5? loses to mating Qa6+. Englund gave white pins and needles! |
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Apr-18-16 E J Diemer vs R Sutterer, 1949
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| Checker2: <Diademas> "Exactly?" Wow, what are the odds?
My immediate observation at 42. ? was that it could not possibly be the usual queen sac solution as that was his only piece. Unless there were some recapture square from which a pawn could give check. . . |
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