HaydenB has kibitzed 67 times to chessgames   [more...]

Aug-10-22 C Yip vs P Paredes Bustamante, 2022    HaydenB: Wow a humiliating loss by an IM to a Candidate Master. Whites entire opening strategy failed. Very quickly 2 pawns down with no compensation. And very soon after that Black secures 5 connected passed pawns and Stockfish says it's -6      Jun-26-22 Nakamura vs Caruana, 2022    HaydenB: Right. Back. In it. Huge win for Nakamura. Masterful use of his King.      May-21-22 Morozevich vs Movsesian, 2008   HaydenB: The position looked very safe and secure for Black. I wouldn't have thought anything was amiss here. But seeing how this is a puzzle with White to Play and Win I started examining the position. After a few seconds all I could say was, well one of those Knights has to go to f5. The ...      Mar-12-22 Sevian vs Robson, 2022    HaydenB: Wow incredible blunder by Robson allowing a mate on and open board. I would have resigned long before reaching that humiliating position; maybe when I lost the piece.      Mar-12-22 Xiong vs Nyzhnyk, 2022    HaydenB: I like Jeffery Xiong, he seems like a pretty cool kid; humble and introspective in interviews. But here it appears 19. f4 was the strategically losing move allowing black to break up the kingside and create 2 connected passed pawns. The rest was just Grandmaster technique. I stopped      Mar-12-22 Repka vs C Ali Marandi, 2022   HaydenB: Wow what a blistering attack. Black must've been wearing a "come at me bro" tee shirt. White was nonstop, pausing only to finish development. The deflection sacrifice winning the queen was a gratifying conclusion.      Jan-31-22 Anand vs Plaskett, 1988   HaydenB: This game was played when Anand was still only taking a few seconds per move; using only 10-15 minutes for the entire game!      Nov-12-21 Bisguier vs Stein, 1962    HaydenB: 24. h4 was the losing move. Bisguier misses a draw with Qh7+      Sep-22-21 Bronstein vs Shcherbakov, 1992   HaydenB: The last 16 moves of this game are analyzed instructively in Andy Soltis' book The Inner Game of Chess. Highly recommended.      Jul-01-21 Fine vs Botvinnik, 1938    HaydenB: I think this game illustrates just how strong Fine was; Botvinnik was no pushover. He would be World Champion 10 years later. Who knows how strong Fine would've become had he not retired.

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