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May-13-22 Karpov vs Yusupov, 1988   Llera: After 24.Ng5!, Mark Taimanov writes in "The Soviet Chess Championships": "Now the threat is 25 Rxe6! fxe6 26 g4! Qh6 27 Nf7+, so Black's reply is forced." [Black's reply was 24...Rf8 to avoid the Knight check in f7.] But Mark Taimanov missed something. If White is allowed to play on      Apr-30-22 Olgerts Bergmanis   Llera: Is he still alive?      Apr-02-22 Geller vs Ivkov, 1969   Llera: <Whitehat1963> Probably 16.Qg3?! is a mistake (Better was 16.Rae1= with equality). After 16...Nc4! (Black advantage), 17.Bf2 is practicvally the only move because if 17.Bf4, then Black plays 17...Bc5, and White black squares [the diagonal g1-a7] is weak. Ivkov could have taken ...      Apr-01-22 Ivkov vs Szabo, 1963   Llera: It seems to me after 43.Kg6 Kg6 44.Kf4 Kf7 45.Ba3, the White King would walk over the dark squares (Ke3-Kd4-Kc5-Kd6) and then would go to d7 (Kd7) so that Black would be forced to move (he would be in zugzwang) and would lose the e6 pawn. You could argue that White does not move six ...      Mar-21-22 A Moiseenko vs A Iljushin, 2006   Llera: 22.Qg3!? bxc3 23.Bf1 cxb2 24.Bxg7 Nh5 25.Qh4 Nxg7 26.exf5 exf5 27.Bxc4+ Be6 28.Ng5 h5 29.Nxe6 Txe6 30.Rg6 Kh7 31.Bxe6 Qe8 32.Qg5 Qxg6 33.Bg8+ Kxg8 34.Qxg6 Rb8 35.Rb1+ (+-) Followed by 36.Qxc6-37.Qc2-38.Rxb2 or 36.Qg2-37.Rxb2.      Jan-25-22 Carlsen vs Mamedyarov, 2022    Llera: <technical draw: "(...) 19..Be6 is a mistake (...)">. But taking the poisoned d4 pawn is also a mistake: 19...Nxd4? 20.Nxd4 Qxd4 21.Rd1 Qxe5 22.Rxd5 Qe1+ 23.Bf1, and the queenside black pawns will fall like ripe fruit.      Jan-22-22 R Praggnanandhaa vs Carlsen, 2022    Llera: <Ulhumbrus: Let us try a few moves: 25 Rxd7 Bxd7 26 Rxd7 c4 27 Nb6 c3 28 Nxa8 cxb2 29 Qxb2 Rxa8 and if White's knight can reach c4 White stands better> But if White plays now 30.Nd2?, then Black wins with 30...Qe1+ 31.Nf1 (Only move), 31...Ra1 and Black mates.      Dec-17-21 Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935   Llera: <Llera> For 8...Ng4, see: L Laurine vs Keres, 1941      Nov-16-21 P Romanovsky vs I Rabinovich, 1939   Llera: <Phony Benoni> Black threatens Bf4 and Bf1+, creating a mate net, and probably, Black pawns will queen before white ones. Furthermore after Black Bf1+ and Bb5, defending the c6 pawn, Black king is ready for take the walk Kd6-Ke7-Kf7-Kg6-Kxh6-Kh5-Kh4-Kg3-pg5-g4 and White pawns in      Nov-11-21 Gipslis vs Tal, 1958   Llera: <waddayaplay> Tal was preparing an exam for the university (he was studying Philology) when he received the issue of Shakhmaty Bulletin by the post mail, and he felt the fate was auspicious to relax and examine the magazine instead of the Philology books, so he read the magazine      Jun-22-21 Fischer vs C Clement, 1964     May-15-21 Karpov vs Portisch, 1989    Mar-12-21 Shirov vs Piket, 1996    Feb-28-21 Evgeni Dragomarezkij    Feb-21-21 Mikhail Steinberg    Jan-28-21 Fine vs Maroczy, 1936    Dec-30-20 J P Wallace vs Taimanov, 1995    Nov-04-20 kevin86 chessforum    Nov-02-20 Furman vs Smejkal, 1971    Oct-18-20 Kramnik vs Timman, 1995    Oct-02-20 Morozevich vs J Rowson, 1999     Sep-01-20 Wouter Spoelman    May-18-20 S Webb vs F Baumbach, 1999    May-14-20 S Williams vs M Simons, 1999     May-12-20 Tihomir Toshkov    May-09-20 P Dely vs E Varnusz, 1961     May-05-20 G Borisenko vs Dorfman, 1975    Apr-12-20 Ivanchuk vs Yusupov, 1991     Mar-26-19 Dieter Mohrlok    Nov-28-18 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2018     Nov-18-18 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018     Jun-16-17 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2017     May-24-17 Kamsky vs Yermolinsky, 1987    Apr-13-17 Z Almasi vs Van Wely, 1994    Nov-30-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-30-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Nov-30-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Nov-28-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-26-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Nov-24-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-23-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Nov-21-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-17-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-15-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Sep-17-15 Jakovenko vs Li Chao, 2008     Mar-04-15 Igor Berenboym vs R Hovhannisyan, 2015    Apr-09-14 Bologan vs Shimanov, 2014     Jan-31-13 Michael Richter     Jan-26-13 A Stefanova vs Kamsky, 2010     Sep-29-12 Carlsen vs Aronian, 2012     Jan-29-08 Paul Saint-Amand     Jul-29-07 F Duz-Khotimirsky vs Kotov, 1938     Feb-06-07 Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938     Feb-02-07 Van Wely vs Svidler, 2007     Feb-01-07 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2007     Sep-25-06 Reti vs Rubinstein, 1923

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