May-28-22 Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 
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| chessperson2222222: 12..a6? was pretty weak. a5! would have been much more aggressive, with ideas of b4 in the air |
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Feb-05-22 Arthur Feuerstein
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| chessperson2222222: Farewell, Mr. Art. You will be sorely missed. RIP |
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Aug-30-21 B Finegold vs R Hess, 2017
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| chessperson2222222: 28..g5!! was a stroke of brilliancy. |
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Jul-03-21 J Waitzkin vs E Frumkin, 1987
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| chessperson2222222: Frumkin still is an active player today. |
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Apr-29-21 D E Cori Tello vs Z Abdumalik, 2020
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| chessperson2222222: White missed a forced checkmate with 38. Rxh7+. What was the time control in this game? |
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Mar-27-21 J Bonin vs Dlugy, 1990
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| chessperson2222222: I don't know what Jay was thinking when he sacrificed all his pieces. He gave up his knight with Nd5, then gave up his bishop with Bxh7+, then gave up his other bishop with Bxg7, then captured Dlugy's queen but in doing so he lost his rook with Rxb6. Then Jay looked at ... |
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Jan-26-21 A Rustamov vs S Volkov, 2014
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| chessperson2222222: Jonathan Schrantz covers this game in a great lecture-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYl... |
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Oct-25-20 E Shabanaj vs L Unuk, 2020
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| chessperson2222222: 12. Ne5?? was extremely premature and only resulted in a weakened structure for white. Simply Rc1 and white is fine. 23. Rg3??, pursuing a useless attack, should have lost the game. Bc2 was correct, although black would still have been close to winning. 28..Qc4?? ... |
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Sep-24-20 Korchnoi vs Mecking, 1974
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| chessperson2222222: Here's another one where Korchnoi missed a mate in 1- he missed Qe1# on move 51. Interestingly, he covers this game in one of his books and doesn't even acknowledge this. https://old.chesstempo.com/gamedb/g... |
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Sep-03-20 C Holt vs Benjamin, 2013
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| chessperson2222222: 22..Rf8? was a pretty bad move. |
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