Dec-30-17 Ernesto Inarkiev 
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JonDSouzaEva: Yeah, what a bounder (I wasn't allowed to use any of the words I wanted to due to chessgames.com comment filtering!). Here is Kasparov's take, courtesy of David Robertson on the English Chess Forum: A disgraceful incident at the FIDE World Blitz Championship on Friday. Russian ... |
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Feb-15-17 Morphy vs F Perrin, 1860 
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JonDSouzaEva: Morphy was getting thrashed until 36. ... Rxg6?? The simple 36. ... f2 seems to win very easily. |
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Feb-15-17 James A Leonard 
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JonDSouzaEva: Here is the game given in the New York Clipper article above:
[White "Leonard, James A"]
[Black "Perrin, Frederick"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Nxe5 d5 6. Bb3 Bd6 7. d4 O-O
8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 Be6 10. f4 c5 11. Qd2 c4 12. Ba4 a6 13. O-O-O ... |
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Sep-18-15 Vera Menchik 
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JonDSouzaEva: According to freebmd.org.uk, Clifford Glanville Rubery, the husband of Olga Menchik, was born in the 3rd quarter of 1912 and he and Olga married in the 4th quarter of 1938. Elsewhere it is recorded that he died in 1999 at the age of 87. |
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Sep-17-15 Alexander Areshchenko 
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JonDSouzaEva: I hate it when your grandelius gets crushed. |
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Aug-13-15 A Bernfield vs P R Scott, 1978
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JonDSouzaEva: 28. Rd1 was the crucial mistake. After 28. Rc1 White should win. e.g.
28. ... d2 29. Rd1 Bh6 30. f4
28. ... c4 29. Rxc4 d2 30. Rd4
28. ... f6 29. f4 Kf7 30. Kf3 |
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Feb-25-15 Michal Hajek 
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JonDSouzaEva: Now that's a chess addict - playing chess five years before he was born! |
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Feb-16-15 Lionel Kieseritzky 
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JonDSouzaEva: "When the mind collapses and the brain degenerates it is a pathetic thing to see the shell that was the man. There he sits, the once famous chess master, his face upturned to the sun as its rays glide through the window like some stealthy predator come to suck out life rather ... |
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Jan-28-15 Aryan Tari 
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JonDSouzaEva: He's getting beaten to a pulp by Richard Rapport at the moment:
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. e3 Nbd7 4. Nf3 c5 5. c3 e6 6. Nbd2 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. a4 b6 9. Qb1 Bb7 10. h4 h6 11. Bf4 Ng4 12. Ng5 Ngf6 13. Rh3 Qc8 14. Ndf3 hxg5 15. hxg5 Ne4 16. Bxe4 dxe4 17. Kd2 g6 18. Qh1 f6 19. Rh7 |
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Jan-23-15 Geoffrey L Bishop
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JonDSouzaEva: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn... |
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