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Apr-27-23 Hans Niemann    SymphonicKnight: I will say that the most alarming thing I ever heard Niemann say, and I was a subscriber to his Twitch steam for a while, was that the only thing that matters is winning and losing, and he implied that the quality of the games do not matter. That being said, he played ...      Apr-07-23 Dubov vs D Lazavik, 2023    SymphonicKnight: It was an armageddon game, and Dubov was white and would have lost on a draw too, so he was forced to continue.      Mar-22-23 American Cup (2023)    SymphonicKnight: This is a double elimination tournament of 8 players. Each match is best of two, with tiebreaks to determine a match winner. In the Champions Bracket, for the first two games time control 90 minutes for the first 40 moves + 30 seconds/move from move 1. Games 3 and 4 then, if      Mar-22-23 Winawer vs Englisch, 1883    SymphonicKnight: Winawer in this hugely instructive Exchange Ruy Lopez game reminds me of a squirrel trying to break open a nut, or a chimpanzee trying various methods to break open a coconut. While this game should have ended in a draw, Winawer shows great persistence after opposite side ...      Mar-05-23 Lasker vs Rubinstein, 1923   SymphonicKnight: Masterful play of the Deferred Steinitz Defense to the Ruy Lopez at levels that have scarce ever been exceeded for this opening, if one believes the engine. It is simply delusional that the best players of yesteryear would not compete with the players of today where they ...      Mar-05-23 A Selezniev vs Lasker, 1923    SymphonicKnight: Lasker here in 1923 faces an Accelerated London System against Selezniev, popularized by Mason back in the 1880s. Lasker, however, chooses to ensure the immediate trade of the active white dark-squared B with his own, a plan not preferred in the games by Mason's opponents, ...      Mar-04-23 Lasker vs Euwe, 1923   SymphonicKnight: Lasker here plays a London System in 1923 against an East Indian that turns into a double fianchetto, and is in some trouble for a while before showing outstanding rook endgame technique to conclude the game.      Mar-04-23 A Pokorny vs Lasker, 1923   SymphonicKnight: The first black Bogo-Indian win in the database. Pokorny, Lasker's opponent, just blunders a pawn, and Lasker proceeds to sacrifice several of his own, showing amazing positional feeling and endgame technique.      Feb-04-23 6th American Chess Congress, New York (1889)   SymphonicKnight: That Mason-Gunsberg won the prize for Best Game of this gigantic tournament shows how far chess had come to value accurate positional play during the reign of Steinitz as World Champion while he was living in America. It is true that perhaps Showalter-Gossip may have won the      Feb-04-23 J Mason vs Gunsberg, 1889   SymphonicKnight: That this game won the prize for Best Game of this gigantic tournament shows how far chess had come to value accurate positional play during the reign of Steinitz as World Champion while he was living in America. It is true that perhaps Showalter-Gossip may have won the ...

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