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Apr-15-03 Kibitzer's Café    Lethe: <Sacrifices:>Here's a double exchange sac for long term positional compensation: Lilienthal vs Ragozin, 1935 , and here's a speculative queen sac: Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 <epos:> I may be wrong, but the line of play in Poe-Waitzkin (from Searching for Bobby ...      Apr-08-03 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972    Lethe: You could see Morphy's Law in the NCAA game last night, when Syracuse, the underdog, flattened Kansas. But it really is a matter of nerves. If you look at the 'also-rans', the ones who collapsed after the nerves cost them the first few games, they did not have the nervous power of the      Apr-02-03 Einstein vs Oppenheimer, 1933    Lethe: wow... Einstein just tore Oppenheimer up... Mathematics and physics are just as interrelated. But Einstein's advantage was that he took the pure physics and did 'thought experiments' that he couldn't actually test, like the famous "car at the speed of light." This probably is ...      Mar-23-03 Capablanca vs NN, 1918    Lethe: I don't think that was *just* opening prep. Probably Capa saw that his opponent was going to copy moves, and exploited that to set up an attack. But still...wow...      Mar-23-03 Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858    Lethe: Also good appears to be 13 ♕d5+ and with best play, White wins a bucketful of pawns and gets a queen for a rook and a piece (I think, but I don't claim to be a comp!) Thanks for the eval, chessgames.com.      Mar-23-03 Janowski vs Schlechter, 1899    Lethe: 34 ♕xh7+ ♔xh7 (34 ... ♔f8 35 ♕h8#) 35 ♖h5+ ♔g8 36 ♘g6 ♖f6 (36 ... any other 37 ♖h8#) 37 ♖h8+ ♔f7 38 ♖f8#      Mar-13-03 D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956    Lethe: One thing with Fischer is that he knew the openings that he played extremely well. However, that does not mean that he played his beautiful games off opening prep alone *cough* *cough* Kasparov! *cough* ...ahem. But obviously Fischer was well acquainted with the TYPE of position ...

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