Nov-21-13 L Alster vs Smejkal, 1963 
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| darksquare67: Meh. For the cost of almost no material, White reduces Black to 3 pieces - one pinned, and another tied down to its defence. And then he gets to push a passed pawn to the 6th rank, supported by a rook. Looks good to me! |
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May-27-13 F Jackson vs C Flanders, 2006
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| darksquare67: Isn't there a mate in 2 at move 45? |
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May-13-13 Chigorin vs Davydow, 1874
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| darksquare67: Not so very easy, I thought! Nd7+ is such an obviously appealing move that I stared at it for a good minute before giving up on it. |
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Dec-05-12 M Rohde vs W Martz, 1977
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| darksquare67: Am I missing something with 17.Qg3? I can't see a defence to the dual threats against the black queen and g7 after 18.Ne6. To me, Qg3 looks like a familiar plan after a sacrifice on h7 when the king runs to g6; I'd look at it before Qh3. |
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Oct-31-12 Hill vs C Janeway, 1946
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| darksquare67: <newzild> I can forgive Mr Hill the slight inaccuracy. He played this game at -25 years of age. Quite the prodigy! |
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Apr-13-12 Duras vs E Cohn, 1911
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| darksquare67: I liked 47. Qd7+ as well, <agb2002>, to be followed by 47...Ke5 48 Re8+ Ne6 49 Qxe6+ winning the queen as well as the knight. But once we've seen as far as 46...Kf5, there are a few good options to finish things off. |
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Oct-05-11 J Augustin vs A Lanc, 1975
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| darksquare67: The posts from <chrisowen> remind me of the Viagra spam I get. They're full of plausible but meaningless text designed to fool my ISP's content filter. But with <chrisowen> we have to read the gibberish without even having the opportunity to buy the Viagra (or ... |
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Sep-14-11 K Krantz vs J Sellberg, 1974
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| darksquare67: OK, I'm going to bite. What's the deal with <chrisowen>? I've been looking for a while, and everyone just lets this go through to the keeper. |
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Aug-29-11 A Timofeev vs S Azarov, 2011
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| darksquare67: 5...d5 doesn't fail. It's the old main line. After 6 Nxe5 dxe4 7 Nxc6 Black has some high-stepping to do with the queen, either to d5 or g5. Both moves have been played by strong grandmasters recently; however, 5...Nf6 has generally been preferred in the last decade or so. ... |
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Jun-21-11 Bitanov vs Schmidt, 1971
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| darksquare67: A little bit of a shame that Black didn't play 18...Bh3+ 19 Kxh3 Qh4+ 20 Kg2 Ne1+ 21 Kg1 Qd4# to finish it off. |
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