Samuel Maverick has kibitzed 56 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jan-21-03 Svetozar Gligoric    Samuel Maverick: This is very sad news. I have never heard anyone speak ill of Gligo.      Jan-16-03 Alexander Alekhine    Samuel Maverick: Is this it? Capablanca-Alekhine Game 11 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.Nf3 Qa5 7.Nd2 Bb4 8.Qc2 dxc4 9.Bxf6 Nxf6 10.Nxc4 Qc7 11.a3 Be7 12.Be2 O-O 13.O-O Bd7 14.b4 b6 15.Bf3 Rac8 16.Rfd1 Rfd8 17.Rac1 Be8 18.g3 Nd5 19.Nb2 Qb8 20.Nd3 Bg5 21.Rb1 Qb7 22.e4 Nxc3 ...      Jan-15-03 Howard Staunton    Samuel Maverick: Fischer's Top 10 Morphy Staunton Steinitz Tarrasch Tchigorin Alekhine Capablanca Spassky Tal Reshevsky      Jan-14-03 Bird vs Lasker, 1895    Samuel Maverick: Mr. Bird is just under even when playing the white side of his opening in the games in this database.      Jan-14-03 Blackburne vs Bird, 1892    Samuel Maverick: Blackburne really gave him the business here.      Jan-14-03 Larsen vs Fischer, 1962    Samuel Maverick: Here is an interesting Bird's Opening game between two top players.      Jan-14-03 Bird's Opening (A02)    Samuel Maverick: The numbers look for bad for white. Does anyone play it or see it at the club level? White wins 31.7% Black wins 48.0% Draws 20.3%      Jan-11-03 Ruslan Ponomariov    Samuel Maverick: Ponomariov fails to sign contracts Wijk aan Zee Jan. 11. World chess champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine had not signed the world title match contracts sent by FIDE and let the January 1, 2003 deadline pass. The first hurdle for the unification of World Chess was      Jan-10-03 Kasparov vs Karpov, 1991    Samuel Maverick: Speaking of Romantic games played by the 13th World Champion.      Jan-10-03 Fischerandom Chess    Samuel Maverick: Here is something from Gligoric's book on the game: There has long been talk of the death of chess, that it would one day be 'played out', but with the use of powerful computer programs and databases in recent years, this fear is being taken very seriously. Computers have ...

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