Feb-16-21 A Grosar vs Jirovsky, 1991 
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| boringplayer: Puzzles are getting tougher. Sunday should be interesting.. |
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Feb-12-21 J Celis vs F Pancevski, 2012
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| boringplayer: I went with Rd2. |
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Jan-04-21 S Sevian vs H Gabuzyan, 2019
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| boringplayer: Ah, Monday! |
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Oct-28-20 N Gaprindashvili vs Pomar Salamanca, 1973
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| boringplayer: Stockfish gives 36. Kb1 as equal, and 36. Qa3 as +0.26. It appears the puzzle is White to Move and Draw. |
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Sep-22-20 V Balint vs M De Rosa, 2016
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| boringplayer: I managed to confuse myself into 30.Qc5, feeling there must be something I was missing with the straightforward 30.d7. Then, I saw it. If 30.d7 Nb7; 31.d8=Q+ Nd8; 32.Rd8+ Bf8; 33.Bh6, Black has the brilliant 33...Rc1+!! 34.Kg2 Rc8; 35.Rc8 Qb7+, followed by 36..Qc8. I felt so ... |
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Sep-20-20 D Navarro Lopez-Menchero vs L Aroshidze, 2012
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| boringplayer: I got the first 2 moves and called it a day. A couple of things then came to mind. First, I'm lazy. It isn't enough to see there's something on the a8-h1 diagonal. Our game demands a bit more than that. Second, It appears Black's main purpose in going into the tactics arising ... |
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Sep-17-20 D Dvirnyy vs Shirov, 2020
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| boringplayer: I got this one, but no way I would have played ...Rc4. Shirov is still amazing! |
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Aug-25-20 B Fiedler vs R Brice, 1995
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| boringplayer: I didn't see 12. Qb3. I'm certain I would have grabbed the roof on a8. |
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Aug-09-20 Reti vs Spielmann, 1912
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| boringplayer: I got 16.Nh5+ Kh8; 17.Qh6 Rf7, and couldn't see a way through. Backing up, I thought 17.d6 might work. After 17...Nc4; 18. Qc3, with the threat of d4+. This didn't come up in any of the comp. analyses, so I'm sure I missed Black's defense. |
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Aug-03-20 McShane vs Z Andriasian, 2017
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| boringplayer: So much for "Easy Monday." I went with 39) Rg8+ :( |
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