Feb-26-06 Bacrot vs Aronian, 2006 
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| Procopius: Well I'll be. Black has a cute little pawn groupie...go Armenia LOL! |
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Nov-02-05 Capablanca vs J Corzo, 1940
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| Procopius: <Whitehat1963> In the final option, I wonder why Black cannot play 23...RxB as opposed to the cautious 23...P-Kt3. Doesn't the former move win something? |
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Aug-02-05 M Weiss vs J Schwarz, 1883
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| Procopius: In a recent (meaning five years or so ago) article of Chess Life, a master commented on this encounter as the only "perfectly" played one in the history of the Royal Game. I wonder why, LOL... |
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Jul-03-05 J MacDonald vs G Ng, 2004
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| Procopius: The fifty-move has ALWAYS confused me. Look at the game. Black makes the last capture on move 72, viz. Kxb3. Moves 73 through 122 INCLUSIVE constitute 50 moves. So couldn't Black make his 122nd move and declare a draw right then and there? Why did both sides play the extra 123d ... |
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Jun-25-05 Adams vs Hydra, 2005
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| Procopius: <Procopius: A black King maneuver to e2 wins in all variations. A Black king on e2 attacks any square from which the White Rook can attack the d5 pawn (d4 excepted, but how does White put a Rook on d4?) and what's more, I don't see White's Rook going BEHIND Black's passer in ... |
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May-21-05 Topalov vs Ponomariov, 2005
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| Procopius: <nirvanand: Rh8+ Kf7 Qg6+ Ke7 gf6+> ...Already aptly pointed out by <Glycerius>, please read the aforementioned posts. |
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Apr-16-05 Mona May Karff
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| Procopius: Like almost every other woman in chess, Miss Karff limited herself to women's tournaments, qualifying as an international woman master when the International Chess Federation created the title in 1950 to encourage women's competition. After women's world championship competition ... |
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Jan-27-05 Gioachino Greco
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| Procopius: Actually <cade>, contemporaries of the educated seventeenth-century world knew that the world was round, a fact well established by the late antiquity period, if not earlier, I think. The notion that these individuals did not know about the earth's roundness is a myth dating |
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Jan-23-05 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1990
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| Procopius: <ArturoRivera> Actually, Black has little to worry about at all with 9...Nxg3. After 10. Qf2, Black can try 10...Nxf1!!? 11. Qxh4 Nxe3 and then 12...Nxc4 with two pawns and a pair of Miters for a Queen. The famous Bronstein-Spassky encounter utilizes this but a modern ... |
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Jan-20-05 Francois Devinck
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| Procopius: Francois Charles Devinck (I believe that that is how is name is spelled) played Morphy by the odd game and was also depicted as one of the witnesses of the St. Amant-Staunton match; as a matter of fact he was the last surviving chess player depicted there. Sergeant notes that "[he |
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