Aug-26-18 Daniel King 
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| Returning Native: There's a good picture in the book 'Sveshnikov vs the anti Sicilians' plus many other more or less hilarious pictures of past and present chess greats. |
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Aug-12-18 Nigel Short
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| Returning Native: <Miss Scarlett> As an English 'Remoaner' I'd be proud to play under the EU flag. I just don't have the talent. |
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Jun-21-18 Y Chan vs E Galvez Dastin, 2008
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| Returning Native: < RT Mind you these things are only easy if one is experienced at chess. When starting out, it would look silly to give up a bishop.
So it's only easy if you have seen the patterns..>. Right. A lot of people at club level are wary of any kind of sacrifice. It's a ... |
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Jun-08-18 S Volkov vs D Anikonov, 2016
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| Returning Native: No! It's a White win |
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Jun-07-18 F Sun vs W Ju, 2017
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| Returning Native: Sorry, <Mostly Watch> |
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Jun-08-16 N Bakulin vs Korchnoi, 1950
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| Returning Native: 'SNEAKy;Korchnoi is incredible. I wonder at what point he saw the move ...Nc4+ !!' Strange, I found Nc4 straightaway. It was the followup stumped me |
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May-31-16 B Hammar vs E Jonsson, 2014
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| Returning Native: I saw as much as the players - my first ever 'success'- but no more, Seeing 'Black to play' I wasn't looking for a resource for White though it did occur to me that Queen for Rook & Knight wasn't a huge gain |
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Oct-08-13 J Richardson vs A Eva, 1939
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| Returning Native: Thumbs up if you checked <13. Nxd6+> first. I did. I was looking at the possibility of creating a half open file. I didn't see the danger to the queen. She takes up an aggressive position on the flank early in so many games despite what we're always being told about ... |
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Oct-02-13 Keene vs K Bowyer, 1963
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| Returning Native: I found the key move and the following two moves, my best performance so far. I missed Kh5, but even I should have found the right response OTB. |
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Sep-29-13 Leonard Barden
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| Returning Native: He has written a 'puzzle' column daily in the London Evening Standard since the mid 1950s (though now relegated to their website). More information on Wikipedia. I used to read it when I first started working in London nearly 40 years ago. He's a mine of information and ... |
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