Sep-08-21 M Muzychuk vs Kosteniuk, 2021 
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| althus: The more I look at this game, the more astonishing it is. The winning manoever is Nd8-e6-f4 and then Bg8-c4, and White's pieces are powerless to do anything for five whole moves. Judging by the postgame interview on the FIDE youtube channel, Kosteniuk didn't calculate it all out when |
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Apr-05-19 Gunsberg vs W Cohn, 1902
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| althus: Uhh.. dunno if that's a good thing or a bad thing :) But, user profile says it all :) |
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Sep-15-17 Grischuk vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2017
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| althus: ...and please forgive me for not knowing about this Game Collection: 47k_RB:R (no pawns) |
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Jun-06-17 Yuri Balashov
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| althus: Balashov-Beliavsky in round 7 of the 2017 Euro Championship. Combined age, 131: http://chess-news.ru/node/23262
Is it just me or does Balashov not look all that good for 68? Russian life is hard life. |
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May-07-17 Giuoco Piano (C50)
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| althus: Okay, everyone can agree that the GP is officially hot again at the very top. It's like a few years ago when everyone and his dog was playing the Sveshnikov. As someone whose pet line has long been the GP and has felt like a weirdo for it, I've got to wonder: what happened?? Who ... |
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May-04-17 George Atwood
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| althus: Hi Bob. I've a soft spot for Philidor. He deserves a book, a good one, akin to Michael's Lasker tome. What exists about him is so scattered, yet he's as well-rounded as Lasker. There's the music, and most chessplayers are unaware of his games of draughts. Then there was the fellow a ... |
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May-02-17 Korchnoi vs Karpov, 1978
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| althus: Most things I've seen about this game opine that the twelve minutes Korchnoi lost at the beginning of it while arguing with the arbiters about Zukhar were fatal to him. If he hadn't done that with his clock ticking, they say, he likely wouldn't have lost. I don't know how true this ... |
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Apr-22-17 Garry Kasparov
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| althus: I will maintain that KC failed because it was ten years ahead of its time. The chess supersites of today have basically the same business model: news, articles, instructional stuff, live play, forums, all in one. And they're sustainable ventures. The difference is that today, video ... |
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Apr-20-17 European Championship (Women) (2017)
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| althus: <whiteshark> I was reading an interview with her the other day on a Kharkov news site, where she cited the cost of travel + hotel + provisions as the reason for not going, particularly since she'd just gone to the WWCC in Iran. https://2day.kh.ua/gosudarstvo-nika... She seems ... |
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Mar-21-17 Curacao Candidates (1962)
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| althus: <Petrosianic> <It's clear enough. Three may qualify from the Interzonal.> But Graeme, it doesn't say that. I am being all Winterian here, but darnit, there's a reason that guy exists. <Sally Simpson> Aie! It sounds like you're a traitor on top of it all :) Isn't it ... |
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Kibitzing
