Mar-31-19 S Shankland vs Caruana, 2019 
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| OBIT: Draw agreed in this game, and Nakamura's game still has all 32 pieces on the board. |
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Mar-30-19 A Zatonskih vs Jennifer Yu, 2019
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| OBIT: While Zatonskih is definitely in trouble after 29...Be3, the move 30. Qe1?? is still a shocking oversight. The finish after 30...Bf2 31. Qd2 is about a Tuesday level puzzle, IMO. Oh well, this combo did clinch the championship for Yu. |
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Mar-30-19 Jennifer R Yu
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| OBIT: https://new.uschess.org/wp-content/... |
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Mar-30-19 S Sevian vs T Gareyev, 2019
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| OBIT: <rcs784>If your plan is to promote the pawn next turn, that doesn't work: 57. Rxh3 e1Q+? 58. Bxe1 Rxe1 59. Kxd4 Kf7 60. Rd3 and White can reach the Lucena position for a win. Better is 57...d3, but it probably ends up in another R+B vs R endgame, e.g. 58. Ke3 Kf7 59. Rh8 Ke6 60. ... |
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Mar-28-19 Sahovic vs L Christiansen, 1977
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| OBIT: This wasn't a triumph of patience and perseverance so much as a brain fart by Christiansen. Despite having a good endgame with a pawn advantage at move 40, Sahovic never made a serious attempt to win it. For the next 49 moves, not much happened except a mindless shuffling of pieces. At |
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Jan-03-19 Kibitzer's Café
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| OBIT: Re the solution to puzzle #19: Sheesh, and I thought the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem was hard to follow... |
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Dec-21-18 Seirawan vs C Schulien, 1987
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| OBIT: This line is his "bust to the Budapest." No win in this case. |
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Dec-19-18 F Hemmer vs R Splain, 1994
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| OBIT: Yeah, Russell got some splainin' to do. |
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Dec-16-18 H Shearer
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| OBIT: Harry Shearer, the voice of all those Simpsons characters, was born in 1943. This game was played in 1939. D'oh! |
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Nov-21-18 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018
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| OBIT: After Bf3 Magnus' advantage is gone, says the computers. ...h4 is good for Black. |
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