Mar-29-25 Frans G Bengtsson 
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| PJchess: <Tidskrift för Schack>, Sept. 1944, pp. 227-229 has a short article about Frans Bengtsson, which includes a quaint photo and two games annotated by him. |
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Dec-29-24 Kostic vs A Selezniev, 1920
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| PJchess: In their <500 Master Games of Chess> (Dover 1975, p. 73), Tartakower and Du Mont comment on 9...Ne5: "Eliminating the 'Spanish bishop,' but thereby Black creates weaknesses in his own camp. The most active defence is 9...a6 10.Bd3 Ng4; 11.h3 Nge5 or 11.Ng3 Bf6, etc., with ... |
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Dec-31-23 Taimanov vs Boleslavsky, 1952
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| PJchess: This game with colourful annotations, apparently from an arbiter who acted as the game's 'mediator', appears in <Petrosian's Legacy> by T. Petrosian (Erebouni, 1990). |
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Dec-17-23 Mona May Karff
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| PJchess: Her Winnipeg 8 April 1940 simultaneous exhibition photo is now to be found at: https://www.bcchesshistory.com/wome... |
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Sep-14-23 Keres vs Stahlberg, 1960
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| PJchess: <jbcol: What is wrong with 15.Ng6> About his 15th move, Keres writes, "Of course, White does not want to exchange his strong knight for the opponent’s inactive rook, because Black’s principal difficulties lie in the liberation of this rook." |
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Sep-04-23 Erich Marchand
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| PJchess: Marchand won the Rochester City Championship held in January-May 1948. A photo of Marchand appears in the <Chess Review> of July 1948, p. 6. |
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Jul-19-23 Moscow (1963)
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| PJchess: Keres reports on this tournament in the 'Chess Life' of January 1964, p. 10. He writes, "the traditional tournament of the Moscow Chess Club, which usually takes place in May, was held this year [i.e. 1963] from October 28th to November 20th. There was a really good participation ... |
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Kibitzing
