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Feb-13-23 A Hoffman vs D Pereyra Arcija, 1995    Once: What I find interesting here is that the solution doesn't win material. It's rook for rook. But what it does do is to force the exchange of rooks which in turn accentuates white's material advantage. That sits a little oddly with the FAQ definition of what constitutes a solution, but ...      Feb-06-23 D Kosic vs S Cvetkovic, 1994    Once: <Timwestlund: I think it's quite silly to resign in such a position. You're not wasting anyone's time by playing one more move, and I think it's good sportsmanship to allow the mate in such positions.> Maybe. Maybe not. There are two schools of thought here. One approach is to ...      Dec-27-22 Golombek vs J Sajtar, 1948    Once: The prosaic 24. Qxb4 snaffles a safe piece as the threat of Ra5 pinning doesn’t give black time to capture the Bd7.      Jul-13-22 Miles vs M Nedobora, 1994    Once: Here we are again, three years older and greyer but probably no wiser. Should I have remembered this from 2019? Heck, I frequently find myself walking into a room and forgetting what I came there for.      Apr-04-22 E Ubiennykh vs O Girya, 2012    Once: Today we are spoilt for choice. If we don't like 41... Bxg6 42. Qg7#, we could always invite everyone to the party with 42.Rg7# Or 42. Qxg6+ with a choice of three different mates with Qg7# or Qh7# or Rh7#      Dec-06-21 B Rabar vs Polugaevsky, 1959   Once: White's novel experiment of retraining rooks to make a career change as pawns did not end well.      Dec-06-21 E Williams vs Staunton, 1851   Once: Why did Black play 34...Re8 instead of resigning? One possible explanation is that after Staunton had played his move, Williams then announced the mate in 2. This would end the game without the moves actually being played on the board. They did things a little differently in 1851,      Dec-01-21 J A Torres vs R Gonzalez, 2000    Once: I think <al wazir> has a point. The first part of the puzzle is pretty obvious. The position is crying out for 18...Bxa2+ when 19. Ka1 Qa5 is horrendous and 20. Nxa2 Qa5 isn't much better. So far so Wednesday. I imagine most of us got that fairly quickly. But up to now we have ...      Nov-15-21 A Kogan vs J Stocek, 1997    Once: 35. Nxg6 for me. It either forces black to walk into the cross-hairs of a discovered check Q+R battery, or opens the h file for a Qh3-h7 lift. Once I found that I stopped looking. Okay, so 35 Rxh7+ is one move quicker. But as that extra move is the computerish spite-block Bh6, I think ...      Nov-02-21 Tiviakov vs Ponomariov, 2001    Once: Well, um, maybe. Probably. I guess so. The easy bit is spotting how to win the queen. A fork, a deflection, a pin = a Tuesday. But then my contrarian nature kicks in. Sure, we've won her wide-hipped majesty but we've spent a knight and a rook to do it. When I was taught how to play ...      Oct-26-21 M Narva vs I Bulmaga, 2021     Oct-25-21 A Anastasian vs Tiviakov, 1999     Oct-13-21 Razuvaev vs Z Mestrovic, 1981     Oct-03-21 Morphy vs H Knott, 1859     Sep-29-21 H Stefansson vs Piket, 1998     Sep-13-21 A Sandrin vs W Shipman, 1946     Aug-25-21 M Palac vs E Agrest, 2008     Aug-23-21 N Davies vs G Crawley, 1984     Jul-26-21 T Bree vs V Krutti, 1999     Jun-23-21 Vidmar vs D Przepiorka, 1906     Jun-12-21 M Tan vs M Ulybin, 2008     Jun-12-21 C Picard vs Q Burri, 2015     Jun-07-21 Bronstein vs I Rudakovsky, 1945     Jun-07-21 Khalifman vs V Popov, 1997     Jun-02-21 Smagin vs N Vlassov, 1995     May-19-21 R Svane vs A Donchenko, 2015     May-17-21 D J Ledger vs P K Wells, 2001     Mar-24-21 Kosteniuk vs N Pogonina, 2005     Mar-03-21 Balashov vs P Biyiasas, 1976     Feb-08-21 L Keitlinghaus vs Miles, 1997     Jan-14-21 R H Steinmeyer vs H Berliner, 1959     Jan-12-21 Suetin vs R Shcherbakov, 1991     Jan-05-21 M Lodhi vs G Milos, 1988     Jul-28-20 I Panagopoulos vs H Stefansson, 1993     Jul-21-20 Romanishin vs A Vaisser, 1982     Jun-02-20 I Cheparinov vs S Nikolov, 2005     Jun-01-20 M Mrva vs Movsesian, 1998     May-19-20 V Malaniuk vs Van der Sterren, 1983     May-18-20 S Landau vs Reti, 1927     May-13-20 S Iskusnyh vs A Moskalenko, 2018     May-04-20 Schiffers vs G Janny, 1898     Apr-14-20 Szabo vs T van Scheltinga, 1947     Apr-07-20 V Mikenas vs S F Lebedev, 1941     Sep-16-19 C Coppola vs B Macias Murillo, 2009     Aug-22-19 Tartakower vs Rubinstein, 1925     Jul-04-19 L Babujian vs A Deviatkin, 2009     May-06-19 T C Fox vs Timman, 1970     Mar-12-19 D C Cadelago vs S Decuadro, 2009     Jan-07-19 H Brechin vs A Druckenthaner, 2009     Dec-25-18 R Mateo vs Chessmaster, 1998     Nov-24-18 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018     Nov-09-18 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2018     Nov-02-18 P Bobras vs P Schreiner, 2017     Oct-30-18 F Patuzzo vs K Raisanen, 2008     Oct-29-18 Pier Paolo Pedrini vs D J Ledger, 2008     Oct-24-18 K Emmrich vs B Moritz, 1922     Sep-13-18 Von Scheve vs Teichmann, 1907     Aug-29-18 V Rozic vs M Velcheva, 2008     Aug-28-18 Y Hernandez Guerrero vs E Lin, 2008     Jul-31-18 Boleslavsky vs Lisitsin, 1940     Jul-31-18 Averbakh vs Kotov, 1953     Jul-30-18 Daniel Freeman     Jul-30-18 S Volkov vs D Anikonov, 2016     Jul-17-18 A Rotstein vs Y Gonzalez Vidal, 2005     Jun-15-18 K Rohonyan vs A L'Ami, 2008     Jun-14-18 G Jones vs V Dobrov, 2017     Jun-13-18 A A Marguerite vs M Siban, 2008     Jun-07-18 Z Zhang vs Yu Ruiyuan, 2015     Jun-06-18 Fridman vs S Maze, 2006     Jun-06-18 B Adhiban vs D Andreikin, 2017     Jun-05-18 Quinteros vs Seirawan, 1985     Jun-05-18 D Perez vs J Jackova, 2008     Jun-01-18 Denker vs Botvinnik, 1945     May-29-18 W Jacobusse vs S Potter, 2008     May-28-18 M Elgohary vs K Elfelo, 2008     May-21-18 S Maroroa vs A Diamant, 2018     May-15-18 M Rodshtein vs T L Petrosian, 2008     May-14-18 F Beltz vs A Guerrero Rodriguez, 2008     May-09-18 C Bleis vs K Haznedaroglu, 2005     May-08-18 E Safarli vs A Donchenko, 2017     May-07-18 S Maroroa vs J Wilson, 2008     May-01-18 J Lansing vs R A Hart, 1907     May-01-18 J Moreby vs P Roberson, 2017     Apr-30-18 R Vidruska vs O Badelka, 2017     Apr-25-18 P Tregubov vs Efimenko, 2008     Apr-17-18 GRENKE Chess Classic (2018)     Apr-17-18 Caruana vs T Petrik, 2006     Apr-03-18 K Wight vs H R Jung, 2008     Mar-29-18 F Frenkel vs C Lakdawala, 1987    Mar-29-18 Schlechter vs J Perlis, 1911     Mar-21-18 R Pokorna vs N Gaprindashvili, 2003     Mar-21-18 Karjakin vs D Frolyanov, 2013     Mar-12-18 S Williams vs M Simons, 1999     Mar-11-18 Caruana vs E Berg, 2008     Mar-10-18 M W Healey vs G J Moore, 2017     Mar-09-18 Fischer vs S Schweber, 1970     Mar-06-18 A Rychagov vs A Lanin, 2008     Feb-27-18 H Milligan vs S Wu, 2008     Feb-27-18 K Zakoscielna vs K Bulski, 2008     Feb-23-18 Adorjan vs I Polgar, 1972     Feb-19-18 B Jeran vs D Cawdery, 2017     Feb-17-18 J van Foreest vs A Liang, 2017     Feb-13-18 Blackburne vs NN, 1898    Feb-08-18 Csom vs Yusupov, 1982     Feb-06-18 Kaidanov vs D Gurevich, 1997     Feb-05-18 Vidmar vs Euwe, 1929     Feb-03-18 A Huzman vs Dreev, 1987     Feb-02-18 Larsen vs Najdorf, 1968     Feb-01-18 Sergey Urusov     Feb-01-18 Movsesian vs M Saltaev, 2016     Jan-30-18 A W Fox vs A Clerc, 1901     Jan-29-18 Ivanchuk vs N A Legky, 1987     Jan-26-18 Kovalenko vs Fressinet, 2016     Jan-10-18 Kostic vs D Avirovic, 1945     Jan-08-18 L Cooper vs I Ivanov, 1987     Jan-02-18 Short vs E Blomqvist, 2017     Jan-01-18 McShane vs Anand, 2017     Dec-31-17 Boleslavsky vs A Ufimtsev, 1944     Dec-27-17 Mo Zhai vs Qi Guo, 2016     Dec-12-17 R J Dive vs P W Stuart, 1987     Dec-07-17 M H Horton vs P G Heilemann, 1987     Nov-27-17 J Hector vs G Barbero, 1991     Nov-17-17 Kasparov vs Andersson, 1981     Nov-14-17 L Schandorff vs T Willemze, 2016     Nov-10-17 Sasikiran vs Anh Khoi Nguyen, 2016     Nov-08-17 Short vs Vaganian, 1989     Nov-01-17 I Gurevich vs K K Karanja, 1987     Oct-24-17 B Savchenko vs J van Foreest, 2016     Oct-21-17 Y Hou vs B C Yildiz Kadioglu, 2012     Oct-18-17 Bachmann vs V Fedoseev, 2016     Oct-17-17 Once chessforum     Oct-17-17 S Polgar vs S Kamberi, 1996     Oct-16-17 G Lasya vs I Barchuk, 2016     Oct-15-17 Kamsky vs Kazhgaleyev, 2016    Oct-11-17 N Marache vs Morphy, 1857     Oct-10-17 H Rolletschek vs G Lither, 1987     Oct-03-17 Short vs Ljubojevic, 1987     Sep-27-17 NN vs D Ponziani, 1769     Sep-26-17 E McCormick vs H Rolletschek, 1987     Sep-23-17 W Schmidt vs J Lewi, 1968     Sep-15-17 NN vs R Crepeaux, 1923     Sep-12-17 D Byrne vs A Bisguier, 1966     Sep-04-17 Janowski vs E Tenenwurzel, 1916     Aug-30-17 Hertneck vs J Gallagher, 1997     Aug-29-17 E van den Doel vs Nijboer, 1997     Aug-23-17 Shirov vs Nakamura, 2016     Aug-19-17 E Grant vs Salov, 1983     Aug-15-17 T Oral vs S Brodbeck, 1997     Aug-01-17 Anand vs J Hickman, 2007     Jul-26-17 C Li vs X Bu, 2009     Jul-19-17 A Gavrilov vs B Grachev, 2007     Jul-18-17 Borbely vs Kovacs, 1948     Jul-14-17 K Spraggett vs P Llaneza-Vega, 2007     Jul-13-17 P Carlsson vs J Campos Moreno, 2006     Jul-12-17 D Mastrovasilis vs A Volokitin, 2017     Jul-10-17 I Pleci vs L Endzelins, 1939     Jul-05-17 B Adhiban vs Dreev, 2016     Jul-03-17 J Montezinos vs Euwe, 1927     Jun-29-17 M Hebden vs A Madan, 2007     Jun-27-17 Korchnoi vs Simagin, 1960     Jun-27-17 G Chandler vs E Gilliand, 1981     Jun-26-17 I Bukavshin vs E Inarkiev, 2015     Jun-19-17 Van der Wiel vs J van Baarle, 1983     Jun-12-17 Prince Dadian vs Doubrava, 1896     Jun-05-17 R Hess vs E Sevillano, 2006     Jun-04-17 Shirov vs Lautier, 1995     May-30-17 P Makoli vs F Doettling, 2007     May-23-17 B Savchenko vs A Kostin, 2007     May-10-17 B Firat vs P Carlsson, 2007     Apr-19-17 E Bone vs L Dubeck, 1971     Apr-18-17 A Anastasian vs L Babujian, 2008     Apr-17-17 S Schweber vs Spassky, 1955     Apr-10-17 B Blumenfeld vs 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Polifka vs Matthew Evans, 2005     Nov-07-16 M Antipov vs J van Foreest, 2015     Oct-25-16 Alburt vs Fedorowicz, 1981     Oct-24-16 Prince Dadian vs S Kostrovitsky, 1896     Oct-22-16 Jobava vs H Wang, 2006     Oct-16-16 Dominguez Perez vs Ivanchuk, 2006     Oct-15-16 J F Cubas vs Avrukh, 2006     Oct-10-16 V Malaniuk vs E Kengis, 1981     Sep-26-16 M Pitz vs S Stark, 2009     Sep-23-16 Jakovenko vs Gelfand, 2015     Sep-21-16 Tartakower vs E Steiner, 1921     Sep-20-16 G Lambert vs Nunn, 1977     Sep-06-16 R Naranja vs Portisch, 1970     Aug-23-16 Toldsepp vs Keres, 1934     Aug-18-16 Chiburdanidze vs M Sharif, 1995     Aug-16-16 D Orzech vs N Popova, 2009     Aug-05-16 A R Saleh Salem vs Duda, 2015     Aug-04-16 Kotov vs Kholmov, 1971     Aug-03-16 G Ferrantes vs A Giustolisi, 1956     Aug-02-16 V Stepovoj vs E Chasovnikova, 1996     Aug-01-16 V Vepkhvishvili vs Davtian, 1966     Jul-31-16 J Diez del Corral vs Portisch, 1978     Jul-31-16 B Adhiban vs G Antal, 2015     Jul-28-16 F A 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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 59 OF 59 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-12-14    Fusilli: <Once: <Fusilli> Nicely played game! I salute you from over the pond. Your opponent must have fallen off his chair when he played 29. h4 to "protect" his knight, but you captured it anyway.> Thank you! He didn't expect the queen sac (should have played Bxf4 but the position is lost anyway) but reacted calmly. Aug-12-14    Once: <sevenseaman> Good to hear from you again! How have you been? Aug-12-14    Once: <Fusilli> I ran the game through Fritz who confirms that you were winning comfortably whatever he played. 28...Nf4 was an excellent move - really enjoyed that. Sep-17-14    Once: <Announcement!> I'm making my first book "Love, Death and Tea" free on Kindle for the next five days - 17 September to 21 September 2014. There is no chess in it - sorry! - but a lot of my trademark off the wall humour. And it's free. Did I mention that? Follow the link above for Love, Death and Tea. Sep-17-14    Once: Or get it from here: UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Death-... US: http://www.amazon.com/Love-Death-Te... Sep-21-14    Once: It's the last day of my free promotion for Love, Death and Tea. So far I have had 240 downloads of the book, which I think is pretty good. Sep-21-14    Shams: <Once><[L]ast day of my free promotion for Love, Death and Tea.> I tried to get in on that action! Alas, UK only. 1776 was a long time ago; can we put an end to the spite at last?? Sep-22-14    Once: <Shams> Sorry! It was available for free all round the world - but Amazon have this funny thing about only letting you buy it from your own regional version of their website. So people in the States have to use Amazon.com, the UK has to use Amazon.co.uk and so on. If you had clicked on the second of the links it should have taken you to the .com website where it was free. I had more than 100 downloads from the former colonies, so it should have worked. But the link I gave in my profile was for amazon.co.uk only. So, my bad. I'll change the link. You can buy it from Amazon.com, but I'm afraid the free promotion period is over. You're only allowed one five day free period in every three months. I am thinking of dropping the price to 99 cents in a couple of weeks time when I bring out my third book. Oct-04-14    Once: I have two new books out! Details in my profile. Dec-19-14    alexrawlings: Hi <Once>, just wanted to let you know I really liked your comment on the POTD today. I love how you draw out the salient points using minimal and concise chess move annotations, and your use of diagrams. Dec-19-14    alexrawlings: Also, I bought your puzzle book on amazon a while back and I love it! As on the website I generally can't get puzzles harder than a Friday difficulty level (maybe 1 in 3 I'll find the right initial move) but love your little stories. I've recently (5 days ago) had a little girl (my first child!) and I hope I will one day impart my love of the game to her. I will most probably use your book at some point to see if I can stoke the fire in her! Cheers, Alex Dec-25-14    Once: Alex Happy Christmas. Congratulations on your new arrival! It's a wonderful experience to watch them grow. My boy is now 14 - leaving childhood behind and becoming a man. Those have been 14 magical years. I would not have swapped them for the world. One thing I have found is that it is very hard to predict how they will develop. My boy knows how to play chess but he has no interest in the game. I tried a few times to interest him but it didn't stick. Science and computers are his thing. I'm about to start a second chess book which might be more relevant for your girl. I'm aiming it at new players who know the moves but want to win more often. It will also have stories and jokes - a mixture of my serious posts (with diagrams) and my digressions. I'll send you a copy when it's written. Dec-25-14    wordfunph: <Once> Merry Christmas! Dec-25-14    Once: And a Happy Christmas to you too! Apr-13-15    prn: Hi Will, I have always enjoyed your comments and stories. I'll be happy to be a beta reader for your new boook. I don't see a way to contact you other than your profile page here, but you can contact me at Paul R Neubauer at gmail dot com (just remove the spaces and replace the obvious symbols) Apr-13-15    Muztang: Good morning Sir! A little disappointed to be second to say this, but I've been a fan for a while now, and would love to help out if I can. My chess level is something around Fridayish. Sometimes I get both patient and lucky during the week-ends, but can't give myself much credit for those unexpected sparks of lucidity. Using the same idea than the previous post, please drop me a mail at muztang 86 at gmail dot com if I can be one of your beta readers. Have a beautiful day, Mathieu Apr-13-15    Once: That's brilliant, thanks both! And what a clever way of writing an email address without the bots finding it. I'm a couple of days away from finishing the books. I'll email to you them later this week. Using your clever method, my email address is will@will-once dot com Jun-05-15    Once: I am giving away Global Domination for Beginners for absolutely nothing until 8 June. Click on one of the links in my profile or search your local Amazon. Even if you don't read it, just downloading it adds to my sales figures and helps to publicise the book. And you never know you might like it. Jun-05-15    al wazir: So far, so good. Katie is a prig and Robbie is a cipher. Lump is the character I care most about. But if they all grew up together, why is he the only one who speaks with a regional accent? (West Midlands is my guess.) Jun-05-15    Once: Excellent guess! The opening scenes are set in Worksop, Nottinghamshire - the Midlands town where I grew up. The accent tends to vary according to education and class. The tough sons of miners tended to speak closer to the Yorkshire dialect, but the sons of bank managers generally wanted to head south and speak like Londoners. I would be fascinated to hear how your thoughts on what happens next! Dec-25-15    wordfunph: <Once> Merry Christmas! Dec-26-15    Once: And a merry Christmas to you too. Oct-11-17    alexrawlings: Hi <Once>. Hope you’ve been well? I’m getting back in to club chess and was thinking of trying to learn how to play the Queen’s Gambit Declined as Black... do you have any tips or books you’d recommend? I normally play the Grunfeld defence but am falling out of love with it a bit! Oct-17-17    Once: Alex All is well here. How about you? I tried to learn the QGD as black some years ago and couldn't get on with it. White seemed to have all the fun, and in club chess you could well find yourself facing someone who would bash out the colle or London or somesuch. Those aren't great openings at GM level, but the old timers at the chess club have been playing them for decades. They're easy to play and not all that easy for black to get an advantage. So I ended up with my black defence to everything except 1. e4 being the Dutch defence. More specifically, I play the classical Dutch where Black plays f5, Nf6, e6, d6, 0-0. My e4 black opening is the French, so I get into the Dutch with 1. d4 e6 to cut out some of the anti-Dutch lines. The best book on the classical dutch that I have found is by Simon Williams. I don't have a QGD book to recommend, I'm afraid. I'd probably start with Capa's games as black. He seemed to go through a phase of endless QGDs. Talking of books, my next two are out on Amazon now. I'm going to be publicising them soon when work quietens down and I get some free time. May-24-18    takchess: Plan on reading your puzzle book over my memorial day extended vacation. Cheers, Jim Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 59) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 59 OF 59 ·  Later Kibitzing>		Bobby Fischer Tribute Shirt

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