Fast Gun has kibitzed 147 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jul-05-08 Ragozin vs Botvinnik, 1951    Fast Gun: Only Ragozin's third win against MB, it took 67 games to manage this. It was his only win with the white pieces !!      Jul-05-08 Botvinnik vs Ragozin, 1936    Fast Gun: At last a Ragozin win against Mischa, it took him fifteen games to manage this !!      Jul-05-08 Ragozin vs Botvinnik, 1936   Fast Gun: Maybe Botvinnik felt sorry for Ragozin? After all he had beaten him in their first eleven consecutive games and felt obliged to give Ragozin something for his efforts:      Jul-01-08 Tal vs Uhlmann, 1971    Fast Gun: This game also appears in Cafferty's Tal's 100 Best Games (1973) Quite an achievement to outplay and demolish a specialist on the French like Uhlmann in less than 20 moves !!      Jun-16-08 Fischer vs Taimanov, 1971    Fast Gun: Had a closer look at this game recently, what I notice about Fischer's games is that there is much to learn from them and usually find something that I missed before, I first saw this game in 1978: As for this particular endgame, this has to be one of his finest technical ...      Jun-03-08 Spassky vs Fischer, 1992    Fast Gun: After this the last game of the match, Fischer had played his final game of his career and disappeared into the wilderness with $5 million in his back pocket never to play again !! What a waste of chess talent:      Jun-01-08 Tal vs Karpov, 1971    Fast Gun: Yes, Kg2 is an easy win for white !! How is possible for both players to overlook this ? (Time trouble?) On move 91 instead of Qb1?? Karpov should have played Qh1!! Threatening a series of checks against the white king: However Tal gets a second chance on move 93 with Rd7 (Who is ...      Jun-01-08 Tal vs Karpov, 1988   Fast Gun: Games like these are "pants" there is plenty of play left in this position. Surely they could have played on. A typical Russian Grand Master draw, I doubt whether Fischer would taken a draw here, no matter which colour he had !!      May-30-08 A Matanovic vs Benko, 1958    Fast Gun: Subtle bishop tempo moves near the end to promote the pawn:      May-30-08 R Byrne vs Benko, 1963    Fast Gun: Is this not the same US Championship where Fischer won with a clean sweep of 11 - 0 ?

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