May-02-22 J J O'Hanlon vs B Goulding Brown, 1914 
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| Halldor: Monday at its best! Chessgames.com going family-friendly again?! |
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Apr-12-22 M Shapir (Porat) vs B Lengyel, 2008
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| Halldor: I got the game line to the end, and my continuation was a kind of futile breakout try for the white king: 44 Kf2 Nxc1† 45 Ke3 Re2† 46 Kd4 Re4† — and now the rook on b4 is lost, either by 47 Kc5 Nd3† forking King and Rook, or by 47 Kc3 Na2† forking King and Rook as well. |
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Apr-06-22 Safin vs M Ali, 2001
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| Halldor: I found the game line after first trying 22 Rf1† for a few seconds. In the end I wanted to check if immediate 21 Qg6 would also work, but then Black has some options, and I was too lazy to find the possibilities. The general rule of thumb is to find a winning line that is as ... |
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Mar-21-22 C Ratsimikatry vs N Faulks, 2008
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| Halldor: The White King is in stalemate position. Therefore, my first thought was to find if any of the white pieces was overworked — and the Queen proved to be. A decent Monday level. |
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Mar-16-22 E J Diemer vs A Schuppler, 1937
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| Halldor: Fun to work on this. I started with 23 Bxf7+ but soon saw that 23 Rxf7 was playable. |
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Nov-17-21 Yifan Hou vs M Sebag, 2011
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| Halldor: I decided to start with the most forcing move, 30 Qxh6+ just to check it out. But after BxQ I saw that the passed pawn can queen, and the following double check did the trick. Magnificent ending! |
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Mar-17-21 Short vs I Ivanov, 1984
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| Halldor: I began with 40... Rd1, but soon started working on 40... Nxh3+. When I couldn't get it to work I started again with 40... Rd1 (I thought that just a violent first move could work to prevent QxQ). Got stuck for a long time and was about to give up... Then at last ― suspecting ... |
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Mar-16-21 A Saric vs N Pogonina, 2007
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| Halldor: The f7 pawn is only defended by the King, and the Rooks can invade the f-line. So I started with 37 Rxf7, and it it worked well. |
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Feb-12-21 J Celis vs F Pancevski, 2012
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| Halldor: I immediately decided on 31...Rh1!! because in such positions it never fails...! So I didn't try Rd2 (but it still came up in one line: 34...Rd2 and Qh1#). I went for 36... Qxg2?! which is much weaker than text, but also leads to mate in the end. |
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Feb-10-21 Yudasin vs Kramnik, 1994
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| Halldor: I tried to exploit the stalemate position of the White King (Ng3+ hxg3?? Qh6#), but couldn't get it to work. But for similar mate pattern with Rook on h5 after the Knight sacrifice the Queen wasn't needed. So then at last I tried: 24... Qxe3!! 25 fxe3 (otherwise White will lose a ... |
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