May-18-25 D H Campora vs Speelman, 1981
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| Plaskett: Speelman told me precisely what I have here kibitzed. |
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May-18-25 Speelman vs Timman, 1989 
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| Plaskett: Speelman took the draw after fifty moves even though the rules, then, permitted the ending of Rook and Bishop Vs a Rook to be continued for a full seventy-five moves.
He explained why he disagreed with that rule.
"Chess should not be torture." |
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Apr-08-25 Plaskett vs W N Watson, 1990
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| Plaskett: William could have put me to sleep, of course, after my 40 Kd4?? ... with 40...Rf2. However, see the position I myself managed to lose against him a few weeks before that in Luxembourg, if you think I am a lucky so-and-so!!
HE won that game and that tournament.
I won this above ... |
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Apr-08-25 A E Hanreck vs G Iskov, 1981
Apr-08-25 Plaskett vs W N Watson, 1990
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| Plaskett: Even I am finding it hard to believe I could have lost the position I had at move 31 in this game. (Oooohhhhhh!!) |
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Apr-08-25 Hodgson vs Plaskett, 1991
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| Plaskett: TYPICAL Hodgson. |
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Mar-02-25 Speelman vs Short, 1989
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| Plaskett: No. Short just got bloody good as well.
That´s all. |
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Mar-02-25 Short vs Speelman, 1988
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| Plaskett: Speelman admitted afterwards that he had not even seen 22 f6. As IM Tibor Karolyi observed,
"The world´s top players are also lucky." |
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Mar-02-25 Short vs Spassky, 1985
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| Plaskett: Short told me that - in a pre-computer era - it took him four days to annotate this game. |
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Mar-02-25 Schlechter vs Lasker, 1910
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| Plaskett: I allowed 7 Nxc6 in a Spanish League game of February 22nd 2025. My opponent eschewed it and preferred 7 Be3. So I continued 7...Ng4 and then he took. 8 Nxc6 bxc6 9 Bd4 e5 10 Be3.
Here I just captured his bishop and, with the bishop pair and central pawn majority, converted the ... |
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