Apr-29-06 S Kagan vs Dzindzichashvili, 1978 
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| LivinFree: Perhaps one shouldn't put the microscope on the T.P. phase, but
37 Rxc5 dxc5 38 Qxa5 does clip a
rather significant pawn. |
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Apr-29-06 S Kagan vs S Webb, 1977
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| LivinFree: 16 Nxe6! fxe6 17 Rxd7 Kxd7 18 Bd4!
trapping the h8-rook.
It's easy to criticize 39 c5, which
may be right after all, since it restrains the pawns, and 40 Nb6 was available, which is better than 40 Rd7. Remember - Restrain, Blockade, Destroy! Probably it would be hard to
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Apr-29-06 S Kagan vs Reshevsky, 1973
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| LivinFree: 17 ab might have been addressed in
Reshevsky's book 'The Art of Positional Play'. Not sure, since I've
lost that book. However, there is a
later game here in Kagan's lineup
where Black already has ...b5 in,
Kagan then plays a4, and Black responds with ...bxa4, which ... |
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Apr-29-06 S Kagan vs K Darga, 1967
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| LivinFree: Nice game by Darga. |
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Apr-29-06 S Kagan vs I Polgar, 1966
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LivinFree: 30 Qa7? Unfortunate errors...
It is  after 24 Rc1!, yet White
missed 30 Bf1!, cleanly clipping a pawn. |
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Apr-29-06 S Kagan vs B Kurajica, 1966
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| LivinFree: Still debating 21 Rxf6! as late as
move 34, since Black's play hasn't
really refuted it. 34 Bf2? is a
blunder, and 34 Rg1 Bf4 35 Qh5+ Bh6
is better. |
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Apr-29-06 Kibitzer's Café
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| LivinFree: $6.40 an hour?? For labor that used
to command $16.40 an hour?
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Apr-24-06 S Kagan vs Geller, 1973
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| LivinFree: Nobody's sneaking a peek in
'The Application of Chess Theory'
are they?
Some of us have been forced to
throw that book out...
'She is wild and innocent, enslaved to Love / through all disaster...' |
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Apr-24-06 Yanofsky vs S Kagan, 1966
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| LivinFree: Chess the hard way! |
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Apr-04-06 D L Rowe vs Keene, 1963
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| LivinFree: With profuse apologies to Raymond Keene for doing this on one of his games, it often takes great patience to answer a newbie's question.
But this turned out to be an extremely taxing position, much more complicated than an innocent newbie's question, which is what got my raydar ... |
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