N.O.F. NAJDORF has kibitzed 552 times to chessgames   [less...]

Sep-24-23 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972    N.O.F. NAJDORF: Thank you for your suggestion. After 29...Rd8 30. c3 Rh8 31. Nf3 Bxf3 32. Qxf3 Rh4 33. g4 f5 34. Rd7+ Kh6 35. Bd3 Bd6 36. Rxd6 (36. Qg2 Qe1+ 37. Bf1 fxg4 38. Rxd6 Rxh3+ 39. Kg1 Qe3+) Qxd6 white must not play 37. gxf5 because of 36 ... g4 38. Qe3+ Kh5 39. Bf1 Qd1 winning ...      Sep-23-23 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972   N.O.F. NAJDORF: <While f3 is probably good, I'm not sure what the idea is.> White has to play f3 eventually if he is to save his e-pawn. After 15. Bd2, he cannot play f3 because of: 17. f3 Bd4+ 18. Kh1 g3 19. h3 Bxh3      Sep-22-23 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972    N.O.F. NAJDORF: On the move 14 ... Qb7, discussed in the early pages of this thread, it has been reported that according to Kasparov, Geller suggested it to Spassky but he forgot it when the opportunity to play it arose in this match. As has been pointed out already, Geller played it ...      Sep-16-23 Euwe vs Najdorf, 1953   N.O.F. NAJDORF: 37...Kxh5 38. Bf7+ Qxf7 39. g4#      Sep-10-23 G Botterill vs R Thomas, 1974    N.O.F. NAJDORF: <Chessical: Black tries a little trick at the end, if White carelessly hits the Bishop with <17.g3> he loses his Queen to <Bg5+>. Never give up!> 17. g3? Bg5+ 18. Bxg5 Nxg5 19. Qxg5 Qe5 and material is equal.      Sep-02-23 Reshevsky vs Fischer, 1961   N.O.F. NAJDORF: An afterthought: 24...Rc2 25. Qb4 Qe6 loses to 26. d5      Aug-31-23 Marshall vs Capablanca, 1909   N.O.F. NAJDORF: <zenwabi: Capablanca annotates this game at p. 81 of his CHESS FUNDAMENTALS, Everyman Chess edition.> I owned a copy of that book many years ago, but made the mistake of lending it to someone, together with two other chess books, and when I got them back, Capablanca's ...      Aug-30-23 Karpov vs Spassky, 1974   N.O.F. NAJDORF: 23. Bc5 Qg5 24. Rd7 Nxc2 25. Rf1 Ne3 26. Bxe3 Qxe3+ 27. Kh1 Ra7 28. Rfxf7 wins      Aug-28-23 Fischer vs Reshevsky, 1961   N.O.F. NAJDORF: Very nice! Thanks. I recall looking at the move Nd4 in a variation last night presumably after playing Nxf5+. Here is one possible finish: 27...Bf5 28. Rxg7 Kxg7 29. Nxf5+ Qxf5 30. Nd4 Qf6 31. Qxh7+ Kf8 32. Nf5 Qxf5 33. Bd6+ Re7 34. Qh8#      Aug-24-23 Fischer vs Gligoric, 1959    N.O.F. NAJDORF: <Once: Returning to the "is there a quicker finish" argument, Fritzie says that 32. Bxe6+ is mate in 3 and that 32. Qh7+ is mate in 5.> Having read the earlier comments, I was about to make the same point myself, but then noticed that you had beaten me to it by 13 ...      Aug-20-23 Stein vs Portisch, 1962    Aug-17-23 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Aug-16-23 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927    Aug-15-23 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972    Aug-13-23 Smyslov vs Denker, 1946    Aug-07-23 J Penrose vs Fischer, 1960     Aug-06-23 Reshevsky vs Savon, 1973     Aug-06-23 David Bronstein     Aug-03-23 Karpov vs Spassky, 1974     Aug-02-23 Kashdan vs I A Horowitz, 1938    Jul-31-23 Bronstein vs Geller, 1961    Jul-30-23 Fischer vs M Pavey, 1956     Jul-27-23 Spassky vs N Rashkovsky, 1973    Jul-27-23 Spassky vs Korchnoi, 1978    Jul-26-23 Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1977    Jul-24-23 Fischer vs Petrosian, 1971     Jul-24-23 Fischer vs E Hearst, 1956    Jul-24-23 A Bisguier vs Fischer, 1956     Jul-23-23 D Mayers vs Fischer, 1953    Jul-21-23 Alekhine vs Yates, 1922    Jul-18-23 Capablanca vs R Rey Ardid, 1929    Jul-16-23 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