Retireborn Member since Feb-18-07 · Last seen Nov-24-20 no bio

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Nov-22-20 G Barcza vs Golombek, 1952    Retireborn: <Telemus> The original English-language "Pawn Endings" was a Batsford hard back. I recall seeing it in the 70s, so it must have been a translation of the old one. The book I have now is a large paperback, volume 4 in "Comprehensive Chess Endings", published by Pergamon in ...      Nov-16-20 Bird vs Steinitz, 1873    Retireborn: <offramp> meets his destiny in quite a similar way.      Nov-13-20 Romanishin vs Geller, 1981   Retireborn: Very interesting stuff. The game is in Informator,where they claim that White is actually winning after 23.Qd1! You have to conclude that 16.b4 is just a bad move.      Nov-11-20 H E Atkins vs Burille, 1897    Retireborn: <keypusher> He was a Constant mover.      Nov-11-20 A Hessenbruch vs Plachetka, 1986    Retireborn: <woldsman> You possibly know David Boyle then? Played him once in real life (he won easily) and drew a couple on gameknot 30 years later :)      Nov-11-20 Larsen vs Tal, 1965   Retireborn: I would tend to assume that Tal sealed 41...Rhc8 and then resigned without resuming. The sealed move counts as part of the game, even if never actually played at the board. Toran, working from a score that shows 41.R1c6 as the last moved played at the board, assumes (perhaps ...      Nov-11-20 Bird vs M Fleissig, 1873   Retireborn: <sneaky pete> This Fleissig seems like a pukka sahib.      Nov-11-20 Rubinstein vs Z von Balla, 1906   Retireborn: <iron john> It's still a draw if Black replies 49...f4! Only move - anything else would lose, it seems.      Nov-11-20 E Spencer vs Menchik, 1930    Retireborn: Geoff, as A French player I like 2.Bb5 Qg5 3.Bf1 d5, and now it's White who is going to have to improve the position of the black queen.      Nov-07-20 E Nikolic vs Ivkov, 1968   Retireborn: <jerseybob> That's possible, yes. 19.Nxb7 Qb6 and 19.Qb4 Bf8 are the other things Ivkov needed to see in advance. After White lashes out with 20.b6? Ivkov cleverly wins the exchange. I think the score has been mangled by Chessbase; could the players really miss that ...

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