Nov-01-22 J Curdo vs R Byrne, 1994 
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| Ratt Boy: <Phony Benoni: Well, whaddya know? Curdo got him when he was old.> Byrne was born in 1928; Curdo, 1931.
So, yes, the 66-year-old lost to the 62-year-old youngster.
RIP John Curdo, who spent four decades at the top of New England chess. He passed away on Sept. 30, at the age |
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Dec-23-20 H Santa Cruz vs K Darga, 1964
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| Ratt Boy: <perfidious
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I venture to state that most kibitzers here would have played better as White.> I believe that I've played worse in many Bullet games. (At standard TC? I hope not.) |
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Sep-14-20 Ganguly vs A Jankovic, 1994
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| Ratt Boy: <TheBish> Interesting info. Butt I'll note that his father's "homeland" would've been Austria; Vienna was his hometown. |
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Aug-24-20 Alfred Hulmes vs S Subramanian, 1968
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| Ratt Boy: Agree with An Englishman and newzild. Twice recently, I've seen peers 0-0-0 against my Benoni. Neither time was it at all pretty for them.
You *just* don't do it. |
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Aug-04-20 A Russell vs M Perez Candelario, 2002
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| Ratt Boy: About the pun: just…wow. |
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Jul-06-20 Tal vs J H Donner, 1973
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| Ratt Boy: Blitzin' Donner. |
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Jun-29-20 R Kiuttu vs Giri, 2005
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| Ratt Boy: <Rumor: How is this “very easy”?> I agree. Because it's a Monday, I kept looking for something simpler than 15…Rxg7. That's okay; it's not a bad puzzle. It's just that the bigger puzzle, is why it was posted on a Monday. I'm figuring it belongs on a Windmill Wednesday. |
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Mar-03-20 NN vs Cochrane, 1822
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| Ratt Boy: The chessers are restless today. |
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Mar-03-20 A Suleymanli vs Smirin, 2020
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| Ratt Boy: GM Ben Finegold's entertaining analysis of this impressive effort by Suleymanli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anq... |
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Feb-27-20 F Rhine vs F Lasch, 1986
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| Ratt Boy: <dumbgai: Mr. Lasch’s only game in the database. Any memory of how strong a player he was, <FSR>?> http://www.uschess.org/datapage/rat... |
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Kibitzing
