Retireborn Member since Feb-18-07 · Last seen Jul-30-25 no bio

Retireborn has kibitzed 3215 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jul-30-25 Forintos vs Adorjan, 1968   Retireborn: The black queen is attacked in the final position, so another possibility is touched the wrong piece, followed by instant resignation. Although one thinks this game would be better known in that case.      Jul-29-25 Chessgames - Guys and Dolls    Retireborn: Sydney Sweeny. She's got good genes.      Jul-25-25 Wei Yi vs Aronian, 2025   Retireborn: <offramp> Houdini thinks Black can equalise with 21,,,Re7 22.Qh5 Nf4 and (i) 23.Bxf4 Be8! 24.Qd1 [24.Nxc6 Bxc6] Rxe1+ (ii) 23.Qf3 Ne6 For a computer variation this doesn't seem very complicated, but I suppose 21...Ne7 is the natural human move. One wonders what percentage      Jul-23-25 Biographer Bistro    Retireborn: <MissS> I like to have board numbers for Olympiads and other team events, where possible, but they seem to be of no real significance for round robins or Swisses.      Jul-19-25 Seirawan vs Karpov, 1990    Retireborn: I think Seirawan was unlucky, in having reached peak strength in the late 80s, he was overtaken by a large wave of younger players - what I think of as the Kramnik, Anand, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Kamsky, Shirov bunch. He could have fought one of those players, but not all of them. It ...      Jul-19-25 Reti vs K Treybal, 1926   Retireborn: Yes, thanks Alan. Well, put it down to being a first round game, and the players not being warmed up yet! (laughs)      Jul-18-25 J H Donner vs R Blow, 1982   Retireborn: OK, found it now, thanks.      Jul-15-25 Geza Fuster    Retireborn: <perf> Apart from Alekhine and Bogo these players are mostly unknown to me, but I think that might be Stoltz standing rightmost.      Jul-07-25 Gligoric vs Ljubojevic, 1979    Retireborn: Geoff, it's a fascinating endgame. Without going the full herbert, I think Kg3 is necessary to keep control of the f4 square. Ljubo may have found the idea in adjournment analysis though, as it's from the bad old days.      Jun-30-25 Kasparov vs Topalov, 1996   Retireborn: Analyzed by Kasparov in Informator; he points out that 36.Qe1 allows the reply ...e5! with equality, and presents a variation starting 36.Qg5! followed by h4-h5 which wins. Houdini prefers to win with 36.g4!

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