Feb-13-10 Topalov vs V Gashimov, 2010 
Apr-16-09 Triantafyllos Siaperas
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| algol: I read this interesting anecdote by Alkinoos (on the blog chess-problems-gr): Allow me, (fourteen years after his passing) to reveal a private conversation I had with him, in order to describe the wonderful mind of Triantafyllos Siaperas.
I had organized a problem solving contest ... |
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Sep-23-08 Euwe vs A van Foreest, 1921
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| algol: Game 2 in "Meester tegen amateur" by Max Euwe and Walter Meiden, Variant 1983 |
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Sep-23-08 T Gruber vs Euwe, 1921
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| algol: This is the first game from "Meester tegen Amateur" by Max Euwe and Walter Meiden published by Variant 1983. |
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Sep-12-08 H Uuetoa vs A Mayo, 1999
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| algol: <jack1501: i have a question that is off topic, does anyone remember yesterday's opening of the day? thanks> May be the Tarrasch variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined... Not sure, I looked in the history of my internet browser for access to the Opening explorer and it is the ... |
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Aug-28-08 E Lowe vs Staunton, 1847
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| algol: Here are the moves for those who don't see them:
[Site "London, England"]
[Date "1847.??.??"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Edward Lowe"]
[Black "Howard Staunton"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN " [DIAGRAM] "] 1.d4 Staunton gave ♙awn and Two moves. e6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 d6
4.Bd3 Be7 ... |
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Aug-23-08 Lasker vs Janowski, 1910
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| algol: Thanks for the pointer to Euwe's book! |
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Aug-07-08 The World vs G Timmerman, 2007
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| algol: <YouRang> Both: studied astrophysics using Algol-68 when I was young... 30 years later I use mostly C# on vibration problems, not really that much different. But I do play different chess openings! |
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Jul-31-08 Ed Lasker vs G Thomas, 1912
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| algol: I prefer 18.0-0-0# |
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Jun-18-08 Carlsen vs A Volokitin, 2008
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| algol: On http://www.ukrchess.org.ua/ they have some annotation of the games. I do not have the cyrillic characters, but I see 33.d6! in the game Carlsen-Volokitin |
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