Nov-07-20 Yagupov vs A Rustemov, 1995 
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| Swedish Logician: I considered the possibility that "26" was a typo for "16" , but that hardly made sense either, since, by a long shot, the move 16. Rxe6 was not Very Difficult to find, and hence not of the Saturday puzzle kind. |
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Oct-27-20 T Tylor vs Rupert Cross, 1933
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| Swedish Logician: Both players were blind, and went on to become knighted and very prominent lawyers in the UK. |
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Sep-28-20 F Soddy vs C E C Tattersall, 1900
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| Swedish Logician: <moodini> Cambridge is more liberal here. It awards a "HALF BLUE" for Chess (but not a full blue) to members that represent it in a match against Oxford. At Oxford, Chess does not even merit a half blue, but is "under review". |
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Sep-28-20 Frederick Soddy
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| Swedish Logician: Frederick Soddy won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. These games were played towards the end of his first Oxford period in1898-1900. Subsequently, in 1919, he returned to Oxford as Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry. |
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Sep-09-20 A Riazantsev vs K Alekseenko, 2017
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| Swedish Logician: It would appear that white's 16. Qc4 is not the best reaction to 15. – Re8. There are four white wins with 16. Qh3 in the database, and three of those are very quick. A couple even last only 20 moves . |
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Aug-02-20 Z Sarakauskiene vs Mi Wang, 2010
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| Swedish Logician: <offramp>, given the etymology of "falangism", and White impressive chain of all-mighty pawns, this (good) pun could be extended into
"The Phalanx in Zivile's Spanish War" |
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Jul-01-20 P Mach vs A Flumbort, 1998
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| Swedish Logician: <SeanAzarin>, if you want to see a truly useless queen have a look at Pretrosian's - yes PETROSIAN!! - after Gligoric's move 19 in Petrosian vs Gligoric, 1970 .
A classic position! |
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Jun-25-20 Spassky vs Seirawan, 1985
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| Swedish Logician: Spassky's splendid Kf2 brings back memories of White's going the other way, with 12. Kxd2, in what is probably the finest positional King's gambit ever played < Stoltz vs Saemisch, 1932 > |
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Jun-17-20 J Houska vs A Harley, 2001
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| Swedish Logician: The Power of those two bishops is awesome; would a rook have managed, with such ease, to win or even to hold that avalanche of pawns? |
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May-19-20 V Malaniuk vs Van der Sterren, 1983
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| Swedish Logician: <Phony Benoni>, your puzzle was by far the nicer! I suggest
1. B x e4 Rf8 2. Qxh6 R2f7 3. Qh7 ++ |
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