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Aug-03-25 Tal vs A Feuerstein, 1958   Zugzwangovich: The July 2025 issue of Chess life gives Arthur Feuerstein as the player with Black and the concluding moves 18...Kd8 19.g8=Q+ Kc7 20.Qxc8+ Kxc8 21.Bxd2, Black resigned. I have submitted a correction slip.      Aug-03-25 Arthur Feuerstein   Zugzwangovich: <perfidious> You hit the nail on the head in at least one sense. A profile of Feuerstein in the January 2012 Chess Life issue mentions that he joined the army in 1958, requested a stint in Europe, and was assigned to Munich.      Jun-04-25 Fischer vs Tal, 1959    Zugzwangovich: <beatgiant> Thank you. I really appreciate your help in enlightening this poor patzer.      May-04-25 Bagirov vs Spassky, 1961   Zugzwangovich: <beatgiant> Thanks again; that was fast! I had just played it through on the board and found that 45...Kg6 was correct. I was going to delete my previous post and post a new one with Ke6 changed to Kg6 but you beat me to it.      Apr-25-25 Spassky vs K Vinogradov, 1961   Zugzwangovich: It looks like Vinogradov overlooked that White's 32nd is check. Except for that Spassky's king is a dead duck.      Apr-03-25 I A Zaitsev vs Spassky, 1960    Zugzwangovich: How does White continue after 23...Qf3?      Apr-01-25 W Addison vs Fischer, 1963   Zugzwangovich: "I've never been able to find any support for the claim that he claimed he'd found a refutation of the Ruy Lopez" would have better expressed what I wanted to say.      Mar-25-25 Fischer vs J Bednarski, 1966    Zugzwangovich: <Alaric>: Black resigns because 22...Qxe6?? taking back the piece falls into 23.Qxb7+ Ke8 24.Re1! pinning the queen. Isn't 24.Qxa8+ just as good as if not better than 24.Re1?      Mar-17-25 J Yuchtman vs Tal, 1959    Zugzwangovich: In Hilary Thomas' collection of Tal's games, for this game he exclams five Misha moves in a row beginning with 16...e4! BTW, the December 1998 Chess Life issue has a great article on Jacob Yuchtman, starting on pg. 70.      Mar-07-25 Tal vs A Russell, 1958   Zugzwangovich: <FM David H. Levin>I'm not familiar with the book but recognize the punch line from a joke about a hungry, gun-toting koala. The book sounds like one I'd like to read but chances of finding it here in Japan are not good.

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