Nov-04-21 So vs B Gundavaa, 2010
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| Noflaps: An interesting exercise is to decide why black did not simply capture white's knight on c3 when back played his 14th move. At least it's interesting to do that without computer assistance. Of course that takes a certain amount of discipline. Not a lot. But some. |
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Nov-04-21 United States Championship (2021) 
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| Noflaps: When @Williebob@ mentions Reshevsky, as in:
"Reshevsky dominated US Chess for decades, there can be no doubt." He shows himself to be a man (judging by the pipe) of fine chess culture, and makes me happy to add: And Reuben Fine was no weakling, either. Indeed, Fine breezed through |
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Aug-01-18 Gelfand vs A Beliavsky, 1991
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| Noflaps: As great as the POTD is (think Times- crossword level tradition, for some), there are plenty of other good reasons to keep coming to this site, in my own steadfastly humble opinion.
Playing guess the move, or reading the kibitzes from all over the place about most of history's ... |
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Aug-01-18 T Florian vs Benko, 1945
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| Noflaps: One of the interesting points of this artful game is this: 5...Ne4 may look at first like a blunder. But it is actually the start of a useful pawn sacrifice by black. The sacrifice happens when white sees a chance to win a pawn with the tiny combination played here, and goes after ... |
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Jun-17-18 von Scheve vs Teichmann, 1907
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| Noflaps: Thanks to Irving Chernev, the author, for presenting this game in his remarkably long-lived book Logical Chess....
Its appearance in that book motivated me to study the game, move by move, with a strong computer engine by my side. By doing that, I noticed, as others have (see their ... |
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Jul-18-17 Steinitz vs Lenhof, 1859
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| Noflaps: The Englishman is quite correct about the Bohemian: the great man gave much to look at in this very game. Try playing it with "guess the move" and its charms become even more apparent. |
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Aug-05-15 Kibitzer's Café
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| Noflaps: With all due respect, don't assume that "green" sources necessarily "lower" power costs. It is often the contrary. Against intuition, perhaps, the power isn't really free, even from "green" sources. |
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Aug-02-15 Biographer Bistro
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| Noflaps: It would be difficult to be "to the manor born" in Soviet Russia. Was Spassky born into a grand manor owned by the landed gentry? And yet, in any event, he was as gracious as one might hope such gentlemen to be. (I realize that not all might have the same view on that point). So, if |
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Jul-27-15 Steinitz vs P Meitner, 1859
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| Noflaps: 8 e5, as played here by Steinitz, is unusual. Much more usual is 8 Qb3, which at present apparently scores better in practice. Furthermore, 8 Qb3 was the choice of a relatively powerful chess engine after a 30-ply search. Steinitz's 8 e5 was evaluated more than three-fourths of a ... |
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Jun-09-15 Kasparov vs S Muratkuliev, 1973
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| Noflaps: I have coached young chess players, and while all were jewels in many ways just a few showed surprising talent. In that context, if I had ever seen a 10-year-old play like White played here, my jaw would still be on the floor. This is a very interesting game, with evidence of a ... |
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Kibitzing
