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Mar-04-20 David Moody    SVarden: Hello David, Thanks for providing the score sheet of the 1963 US Open. I played in the tournament scoring 5 points. It was my first big event and a thrill to be "rubbing elbows" with GMs. I eventually became an "A" rated player and still play from time to time. Cordially, Stuart ...      Jul-13-19 von Bardeleben vs Alekhine, 1908    SVarden: It is indeed a shame that the remaining gamescores appear to be lost, but WWI was raging and most other things had to take a back seat. My computations conclude that Alekhine was just 15 when the game was played. And that was in the days when teen-aged GMs didn't exist. The ...      Jun-10-19 Lasker vs Reshevsky, 1936    SVarden: Yes, but not in connection with this games. Instead, it was Reshevsky-Smyslov from the USSR-USA Radio Match from 1945. Apparently Reshevsky ran into a variation of the Slav Defense that was well known to the Soviet players, and so Smyslov didn't have to spend much time during the ...      Mar-24-19 V Akobian vs G Szabo, 1993   SVarden: If 30 ..., RxR, then 31 R-h7+, QxR, 32 NxQ, KxN, 33 Q-h4+ and White picks up the Rook on d8.      Aug-05-18 R Byrne vs S L Jones, 1962    SVarden: GM Byrne also dropped his first round game in the 1965 US Open to little known Ralph Betza, who was an expert at best. I guess that GMs take their wins for granted in the early rounds against non-masters. But in chess, it doesn't pay to take things for granted.      Nov-22-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016    SVarden: The circumstances here remind me of the Lasker vs Schlechter match of 1910. What remains to be determined is whether Carlsen will come storming back to even the match in the remaining games. And will Karjakin feel that he needs a second win so that he will be regarded as the worthy ...      Mar-14-14 Judit Polgar    SVarden: As is the case in most situations like this, if someone comes up with enough money to finance such a match, it could easily happen. But I don't think that the interest is sufficiently high to stimulate such an investment. If Hou's rating at some point approaches Judit's, an ...      Mar-12-13 Irina Krush    SVarden: I agree. It was a gutsy performance with a 2607 performance rating. But can a player earn a GM norm in a team event? After all, one's opponent in a given game might force a draw in a superior position if the draw secures a team victory. Does anyone know? Thanks.      Nov-17-12 Ehlvest vs Benjamin, 1993    SVarden: This game took place at a tournament held on the Pleasantville campus of Pace University (Butcher Suite). I helped post moves on the wall board. The other competitors were: Daniel Edelman Alexander Goldin Ferdinand Hellers Gregory Kaidanov Alexander Shabalov ...      Aug-12-12 Geza Maroczy    SVarden: I have always wondered why Maroczy is not included in the list of names of the player search function. Although his career as a chess professional often took a back seat to his career as a government official, he was easily a top five player for a decade and was one of the first ...

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