May-21-10 Bird vs Chigorin, 1889 
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Dravus: A brilliant pawn sacrifice at the end to forcibly remove the king's guard of the queen in a diagonally-constricted position. |
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May-21-10 Chigorin vs Bird, 1882 
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Dravus: Killing two birds with one stone. |
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May-21-10 Mason vs Chigorin, 1902 
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Dravus: At the end, Black's connected rooks stand like draperies with a rat crawling down, the b-pawn, defeating the Masonic. |
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May-21-10 Mason vs Chigorin, 1900 
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Dravus: Chigorin beguilingly lets his bishop get trapped at 13, then let's off some tactical steam. Foretelling a variation of Alekhine's gun, he uses his rooks and queen to advantage. |
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May-20-10 Chigorin vs Schiffers, 1880 
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Dravus: Horowitz's treasury book has the game ending around White's 25th move by resignation (with the reader to figure out the variations). |
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May-19-10 A Konstantinopolsky vs Lilienthal, 1948
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Dravus: Good tactics by Konstantinopolsky as white against Lilienthal to finish it. |
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May-13-10 Bird vs Lasker, 1892 
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Dravus: It's a Bird, Bird, Bird, Bird World. |
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May-11-10 Spassky vs Geller, 1968 
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Dravus: Boar is Spassky, iff'n I'm Geller. |
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May-10-10 Geller vs Spassky, 1967 
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Dravus: Two knights, the knight. |
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May-10-10 Geller vs Spassky, 1974 
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Dravus: If I'm Geller, porous Spassky. |
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