Jan-17-17 P Rout vs M Al Sayed, 2016 
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| Mess With Da King: Hmmm, something very odd happened with this puzzle. Both agb2002 and dzechiel are excellent contributors to this site, and way stronger players and problem solvers than me. But they both missed that after 35 ...Kg8, White has 36 Qg7 mate, due to the pin on the rook, which ... |
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Mar-27-16 Caruana vs Svidler, 2016
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| Mess With Da King: mercy1023: who wins tomorrow on tiebreaks if Caruana and Karjaken draw? or do they go to rapid?
The possibilities tomorrow are:
1) If either player wins, the winner will qualify
2) If it's a draw, Karjakin will go through unless Anand (with Black) beats Svidler. In ... |
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Dec-27-15 F Peralta vs K Grigoryan, 2014
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| Mess With Da King: Wow, fascinating that two such strong players could apparently both have brain freezes on move 38. Playing through the game, the queen trap win for Black just looks so natural (simple Tuesday level) that you'd expect a GM to play it automatically. And as patzer2 says, ... |
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May-06-15 J Augustin vs J Vesely, 1965
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| Mess With Da King: Thea / agb / Phony,
I went for Qxg7, as I think it either mates or wins at least a rook if black plays Ke8. But surely 30 Qxe6?? loses to Bxe6. Ok, Black should have resigned by that point. But you've gotta love those distant bishops moving backwards... |
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Jul-24-14 H Richards vs S Williams, 2003
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| Mess With Da King: Chess Dad: in your line B the rook is pinned, so the queen mates next move as in line A |
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Mar-22-13 J Tarjan vs Hodgson, 1983
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| Mess With Da King: As is so often the case towards the end of the week, there is an obvious candidate (Bxh7), but working through all the variations OTB would be far from trivial. Interestingly one of the strongest players here, Abdel Irada, seems to agree - precisely because he is so good ... |
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