Chessical Member since Nov-03-03 · Last seen Jul-22-25 I am an UK chess player who plays OTB and correspondence. I particularly appreciate the games of Tal, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Capablanca. I am particularly interested in the history of chess since the 19th century. I now spend most of my time here working on games collections. http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/SH/%27%... https://new.uschess.org/chess-life-...

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Jul-16-25 chessgames.com chessforum    Chessical: A Nimzowitsch vs Tartakower, 1923 Stockfish terminates its game analysis prematurely. Could this be looked into please?      Jul-16-25 M Pujol Sans vs F Natalucci, 1972   Chessical: Both players following the famous G Tringov vs Fischer, 1965 but apparently oblivious to Fischer's refutation of White's variation.      Jul-16-25 G Tringov vs Fischer, 1965    Chessical: [DIAGRAM] If <21. ... Rxc8> then 22. Bxf6 Qe3! 23. Rb1 Qxc3 24. Bg5 Nxe5 wins.      Jul-08-25 H Schaufelberger vs J Penrose, 1973   Chessical: Directly continuing the Black attack against White's King seems to lead to a draw. For example: [DIAGRAM] <20. ... c3> 21. gxf7+ Kxf7 22. Qg2 Kg8 23. h6 g6 24. f5 exf5 25. exf5 Bc6 26. Nxc6 Qxc6 27. Rg1 Qxg2 28. Rxg2 Rc6 Attending to the Black King's safety seems more ...      Jul-06-25 Janowski vs O Chajes, 1913   Chessical: Chajes should have secured the draw after: [DIAGRAM] <57...Ra2+!> 58. Kh3 Rc2 59. R(c)xd8 Rxd8 60. Rxd8 Rxc4 61. Rd5 Rc6 62. Rg5+ (62. Rxh5 loses trivially to Rh6 as the distant passed <a> pawn then Queens). If <58. Kf3> Rc2 59. Rcxd8 Rxd8 60. Rxd8 Rxc4 61. Rd5 ...      Jul-06-25 A W Fox vs Janowski, 1904   Chessical: [DIAGRAM] It seems that the thematic <11> <...d5!?> 12. exd5 Qxd5 13. Ne3 Bxf3! 14. Nxd5 Bxd1 15. Nxe7+ Nxe7 16. Rxd1 was sufficient to equalise.      Jul-05-25 P Kalmar-Wolf vs Menchik, 1930   Chessical: Black rushes to place her King in a commanding position, but allows her opponent an opportunity to suddenly snatch a draw as Black is actually caging her King. [DIAGRAM] <29. ..Kd3?> 30. R(a)a2! Kc3 31. Kf3 gxf4 32. Rc2+ Kb4 33. R(c)b2+ Kc3 with a draw by repetition. With ...      Jun-20-25 J H Donner vs Golombek, 1950   Chessical: [DIAGRAM] Golombek could have played the simpler <26 ...dxe5>. For example, <26...dxe5>27. Bxc5 bxc5 28. Bc6 Rd8 29. Rxe5 Rxe5 30. Rxe5 Rd1+ with White having a better but not overwhelming position.      Jun-16-25 Schlechter vs O Bernstein, 1909   Chessical: [DIAGRAM] <Kangaroo> It seems that the sacrifice was sound. Schlechter would have kept his advanage with <18.R(f)e1>      May-06-25 Swiderski vs H Caro, 1905   Chessical: [DIAGRAM] Caro could have saved the game with <45...Re8> as White cannot escape perpetual check. <46. c7> Rc3 47. Bxh6 (not 47. c8=Q? Rcxc8 48. bxc8=Q Rxc8) 47...gxh6 48. b8=Q Rc1+ 49. Kg2 Rc2+ etc. If <46. Bxh6> gxh6 47. c7 Rf3+ 48. Kg2 Rc3 49. b8=Q Re2+ 50. Kf1

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