Delboy has kibitzed 792 times to chessgames   [more...]

May-19-23 E Zagoryansky vs A Polyak, 1944   Delboy: 27. Rd7 was crushing, e.g. 27. ... Bxd7 28. Rxd7 Qf8 (28. ... Qe8 29. Qh4, attacking both f6 and h7) 29. Qh4 h5 30. Bxg6 followed by Qxh5. Nice follow-on blow 28. Rxh7+ with the second Rd7 three moves later      May-16-23 G Iskov vs Plaskett, 1979   Delboy: 18. ... Rh1! is a clinical blow that forces mate. 18. ... Qh6 or 18. ... bxc6 should also win, but in a more prolonged fashion.      May-14-23 Ragozin vs A Cherepkov, 1957    Delboy: Bold play by black, with several offers of material to keep the exposed white king in the centre and exploit white's slower development. Puzzle-like finish with 24. ... Rc1!      Apr-30-23 C Bauer vs D Anic, 1997   Delboy: Our player of the day had a beautiful refutation on hand had white snatched the bishop offered with 32. ... Bxg3. (i) 33. fxg3 Rd2+ 34. Kg1 Qxh3, or (ii) 33. Kxg3 Re3+!! 34. fxe3 (not taking the rook loses even faster) Nh5+ 35. Kg2/h2 (35. Kh4 Qg5#) Rd2+ with mate to follow      Apr-06-23 M Tosic vs M Lazic, 1991   Delboy: Good puzzle position after black's 17th move. Defending g7 with 20. ... Ne8 or 20. ... Nh5 allows instant mate through Qg8 and Nxf7 (in either move order)      Mar-19-23 Kashdan vs Hornerman, 1930    Delboy: What a nice finish to this miniature      Mar-10-23 A Chudinovskikh vs O Nikolenko, 2007   Delboy: A very clever mating combination, initiated with 30. Rf2      Mar-09-23 H Brameyer vs W Dietze, 1971   Delboy: Interesting variant of the thematic Bxh7 sacrifice. White correctly calculated that the tedious but effective Rh1-g1-g3-f3 manouver could not be prevented without loss      Feb-24-23 Klatovsky vs M Janata, 1968    Delboy: No shortage of action in this humdinger      Feb-20-23 V Varlamov vs L Schulman, 1979   Delboy: Memorable bold attacking play. Unfortunately the engine does not think that the spectacular 19. Nd6 is the best move. But it was crushing in the end

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