Aug-26-25 Timothy Headlong 
Aug-25-25 I Smikovski vs V Ossipov, 2001
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fredthebear: It certainly threatens to. |
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Aug-25-25 fredthebear chessforum
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fredthebear: From WTHarvey's page:
How about these chess tactics haiku?
Sneaky knight's attack
Double threat, fork in the road
Checkmate is in sight
A skewer in chess,
Piercing through two pieces deep,
A victory's sweep.
Pieces multi-task
Overloaded, can't keep up
Checkmate, ... |
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Aug-25-25 Sinquefield Cup (2025) 
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fredthebear: Be consistently, reliably good, true and greatness will eventually come in some form. The Great Man
by Eunice Tietjens (1884-1944)
CANNOT always feel his greatness.
Sometimes he walks beside me, step by step,
And paces slowly in the ways—
The simple, wingless ways |
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Aug-25-25 Bill Wall
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fredthebear: Such an angry pud, always lacking originality, the weakest of posters just for the sake of posting but proudly adding to the lamest of climbing totals. If pud's play resembles such useless remarks, 1...f6 is your go to. But this series is tasty: ... |
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Jul-27-25 M Erdogdu vs K Laciner, 2001
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fredthebear: Boden's Mate by the Bishop pair next, with assistance from the Rooks. 11...f6? |
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Jul-24-25 Alexandru-Bogdan Banzea
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fredthebear: Most of us are quite bored of hearing you yap about yourself stalker who spends his waking hours obsessing over what others post and then makes an utterly useless post himself. You are intelligent enough to make far better use of your time and written contributions, but ... |
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Jul-20-25 offramp chessforum 
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fredthebear: FTB agreez with perfidubious, but copying a lozer who haz upped hiz game to imprudent drawz, drawz, drawz https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblPlr... https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblPlr... https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblPlr... is NO WAY to be a Winner.
So, FTB will include some ... |
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Jul-20-25 K Simunovic vs R Buzak, 2009
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fredthebear: 10.h3?!? when the obvious 10.0-0, 10.Bg5, and 10.dxe5 are all winning. <these were not strong players> Clearly, White does not understand the need to maintain the initiative after a piece sacrifice. Resulting in an appropriately strange finish... FTB has never seen a game ... |
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Jul-20-25 Firouzja vs Carlsen, 2024
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fredthebear: 5...Nxd5? from The Ghost of himself? Was MagC blitzed again? Is this for real??
Just 44 games in the database through 8 ply, including an FSR miniature. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... Draws are almost non-existent, and White wins twice as much as Black. |
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