Chessical Member since Nov-03-03 · Last seen Nov-12-19 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.

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Oct-29-19 chessgames.com chessforum    Chessical: When I attempt to delete in the Laboratory I get the following error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /perl/nph-deleteanalysis on this server. Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at www.chessgames.com Port 443      Aug-07-19 Anatoly Karpov    Chessical: "Anatoly Karpov could not fly to New York for the long established chess training camp of Maxim Dlugy Academy. In the previous two years he flew there without any difficulties. This time, the former world champion and State Duma deputy filed a visa application in early March. They      Jul-07-19 Matulovic vs Browne, 1970   Chessical: [DIAGRAM] 76.a8=Q+ Kxa8 77.Kc6 Kb8 78.b7 Ka7 79.Kc7 Ka6 80.b8=Q Ka5 81.Qb3 Ka6 82.Qb6 mate      Jun-29-19 Schlechter vs Prokes, 1908   Chessical: <14...c5> 15.d5 Nd7 16.Ng3 Bf6 seems acceptable for Black.      Jun-02-19 Biographer Bistro    Chessical: Game found in the "Pall Mall Gazette". Blackburne should have won by advancing his <d> pawn earlier. To be submitted to the Database. "CHESS. GAME BETWEEN BLACKBURNE AND MICHELL. ...The following entertaining game was played on board No. 1 between J. H. Blackburne and R. ...      May-17-19 Paul Keres    Chessical: According to Georges Bertola. "During one of my meetings with GM Lev Polugayevsky (1934-1995) in the early 90s, he told me the following story about Keres. "It is true that the behaviour of Keres during the war allowed him to be condemned to death or deportation according to our ...      Mar-31-19 E Mukhin vs Korchnoi, 1969    Chessical: <Birdysboy> <8.Qa4!?> does not seem to promise any particular advantage for White. [DIAGRAM] <8.Qa4!?> Bb7 9. Nf3 Be7 10. f5 (or 10. g3 O-O 11. Bg2 Qc8) 10... exf5 11. Nf4 cxd4 12. cxd4 Bb4+      Mar-31-19 T Gareyev vs Robson, 2019    Chessical: <23... Bxf6> [DIAGRAM] leaves Black an exchange and two pawns down after, <24. Bh7+> Kh8 25. Nxe6 fxe6 26. Bf5+ Kg8 27. Bxe6+ Rf7 28. cxd5 Re8 29. Bxf7+ Kxf7 30. dxc6 bxc6 31. Rxc6      Feb-06-19 Taimanov vs G Estevez Morales, 1973    Chessical: <10...Qa3> is much better as it stops 11.Qg4. After the moved played, Estevez Morales never recovers. <17.Rg3+> seems to win outright, [DIAGRAM] after <17...Ng6> 18.h4 Kh8 19. Qh6 Rg8 20. h5 Nf8 21.Rhh3      Jan-06-19 Vasiukov vs Ermenkov, 1972   Chessical: <23...e6> seems better and if 24.f5, then 24...Qg5 =. The ending to the game is rather neat.

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