Jun-13-25 Giri vs J Christiansen, 2013 
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| goodevans: Allowing Giri to trade off the last two pieces when his pawns were so superior and K so much better placed was a ‘schoolboy error’ but then Christiansen was indeed just a 14 year old schoolboy at the time. |
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Jun-12-25 Blatny vs K L Deng, 1998
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| goodevans: After 20...Be6:
[DIAGRAM] ... Black is threatening both 21...Qxd6 and 21...Nf4, winning White's LSB. But fear not for we have 21.Bxe5 which stops both. Unfortunately for White, but fortunately for us, that sets up the truly wonderful finish. I love <21...Nc3!> but I really, |
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Jun-11-25 Niemann vs Carlsen, 2025
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| goodevans: 26...f4 looks for all the world like a one-move blunder and in a blitz game if it was anyone else but MC you’d assume it was that. But maybe, just maybe, it was a much deeper miscalculation. Even after that there was plenty of work to do to convert the win so much kudos to ... |
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Jun-10-25 B H Wood vs P Devos, 1948
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| goodevans: <17...Re6, which looks pointless...> Have you been hitting the sauce my dear chap?
17...Rxe6 is far from pointless. The first point, surely, is to capture White's N and the second is to protect his own which is attacked by White's Q. These two alone are sufficient to ... |
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Jun-07-25 J Green-Krotki vs L Day, 1978
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| goodevans: The way that Day cracked open White's K-side was most impressive. After 46...g5
[DIAGRAM] ... would I have played 47.Kxd3, letting the f-pawn go? No. But that's because I'm not smart enough to realise that the f-pawn was a gonner anyway. Black was threatening 47...Rxf3+ 48.Rxf3 ... |
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Jun-04-25 G Moehring vs J Kaikamdzozov, 1978
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| goodevans: <FSR: The conclusion of this game raises the question why Black didn't play 82...Kg7 rather than 82...Kh7.> For that I think we have to credit Black with seeing that White would need to give up his extra Q to stop the perpetual. When he's done that it's not obvious, to me at |
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Jun-01-25 Nunn vs W Hartston, 1976
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| goodevans: Love the pun!
<Apparently chess never caught on re: British television.> Well here’s one Brit that never missed an episode of ‘The Master Game’ and without it my budding interest in chess might never have blossomed. |
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May-30-25 Alburt vs Polugaevsky, 1965
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| goodevans: I baulked at Black’s decision to put all his K-side pawns on light squares then trade off his DSB. Whilst not instantly losing it did place his K in jeopardy from then on. For instance, just a few moves later <21...Qxc3? 22.Bxf7+> would have been fatal. I wonder about ... |
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May-29-25 B Adhiban vs E Roebers, 2023
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| goodevans: White's excellent sac on e5, whilst not directly winning, brought on an attack so fierce that Black was almost bound to err eventually. Here's what I think is the critical position after 21.Rg5: [DIAGRAM] The pawn on e5 can't be saved. <21...f6?> would fail to <22.Rxh5! ... |
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May-28-25 Rubinstein vs Spielmann, 1926
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| goodevans: I prefer <Domdaniel>'s second suggestion, <21...Bxe5> to his first. That would have transformed Black's LSB into a powerful piece. In the end it was such a 'bad bishop' that it would actually have been better not being there at all. Wholly good pun, <WannaBe>. |
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