Sep-20-25 Kramnik vs Anand, 1994 
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| Olavi: The fact that Black absolutely has to play 12...d5 shows it. It is terrible after that. |
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Sep-19-25 E Leino vs J Lillja, 1904
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| Olavi: The game was published in Suomen Shakki 7/1946 p. 136. So, it was known then, but forgotten for decades. |
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Sep-17-25 FIDE Grand Swiss (2025)
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| Olavi: Well I have other Batsford titles here from the 70s which spell it correctly Hübner, so they just weren't consistent. |
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Sep-16-25 Botvinnik vs Bronstein, 1951
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| Olavi: <kingscrusher> (This is admittedly off topic - but when I see a diagram like the one you posted on Sep-13-25 and the suggestion that Stockfish seems to call it a draw, then I'm more likely to believe that the engine has a bug, even now in 2025.) |
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Sep-15-25 Keymer vs Bluebaum, 2025
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| Olavi: I like that, what Blübaum said there in the last paragraph. Every real chessplayer knows that that's the truth nearly always, but they make a show for the audience, the sponsors, pretending that they fought, like in a sport... |
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Sep-14-25 Polugaevsky vs Stein, 1968
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| Olavi: He resigned during adjournment, analysis having convinced him that it's a loss. |
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Sep-14-25 M Rodshtein vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2025
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| Olavi: <boz: Why is it called a mirror mate?> Presumably because there is a frame around the king. |
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Sep-12-25 Hikaru Nakamura
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| Olavi: Nothing wrong with what he is doing - he stands a much better chance of making the candidates this way than for instance at the Grand Swiss. He will easily find the necessary games until the end of the year. If he times it right, he can afford to lose something little. |
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Sep-12-25 Gelfand vs R Praggnanandhaa, 2025
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| Olavi: <JohnBoy> He was substantially better in the sense that the position was impossible to lose - unless you play a very weak move. Whether that amounts to "huge", well, your choice. Sometimes you can have a much better position, comparatively, but it doesn't need such an obvious ... |
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Sep-12-25 J Seret vs Adorjan, 1985
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| Olavi: I don't think the ending after move 56 has been dealt with in general endgames literature... it's seven pieces so now we know for fact. (But I prefer not to check just yet.) Adorjan gives 74.Be2 a question mark and quite some (adjournment) analysis of 74.Bf1 in his 'Black is OK!', ... |
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