Dec-13-19 J Klinger vs W Arencibia Rodriguez, 1986 
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| belgradegambit: I was also proud to solve this but then realized I had solved it back in 2007 as well. Let's see if I can solve it in 2031. |
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Dec-01-19 A G Murphy vs C Witte, 1957
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| belgradegambit: A nice companion game to this P Chrz vs J Tuma, 2001 |
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Oct-22-19 Sznapik vs D Komljenovic, 1987
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| belgradegambit: When White plays the waiting move Kb1 black responds with 14...Re8!. |
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Oct-10-19 A Firouzja vs M Karthikeyan, 2019
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| belgradegambit: Murali thought for 21 minutes before playing Qc3 so I doubt any of it was home prep. Impressive. |
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Sep-21-19 World Cup (2019)
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| belgradegambit: Wow Xiong beat Duda and Dominguez beat Grischuck to force playoffs in both matches.
Tomorrow will be exciting. |
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Sep-16-19 Kibitzer's Café
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| belgradegambit: As Janis Joplin said to Leonard Cohen:
You told me again you preferred handsome men
But for me you would make an exception |
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Sep-16-19 C Coppola vs B Macias Murillo, 2009
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| belgradegambit: I swear I looked at it and assumed it was black to move and that made it an easy Monday puzzle. |
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Sep-11-19 T Palmer vs D Moody, 1999
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| belgradegambit: Wow I submitted this about 8 or 9 years ago. I like the pun. I need to re-submit Knights in White Smirin. |
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Aug-26-19 Pal Benko
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| belgradegambit: I've told this story before but it bears repeating now. When I was about 12 or 13 I was at the Macalpin hotel in Manhattan where there were constant high level tournaments with Byrne, Benko etc taking part. After a game Benko was holding a post mortem in the skittles room. He |
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Jun-27-19 Psakhis vs I Efimov, 1991
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| belgradegambit: Really easy Thursday. Nb6 is the first candidate move in the position in an OTB game. |
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