Jul-17-23 Furman vs Taimanov, 1965
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| itay72: It seems black would need to give the pawn back at some point regardless of what he does. For instance if 24... Ra8 to try and give protection to the pawn than 25. Nxe6 Qxe6 26. Ra6 Rb6 27. Rfa1 and black finds himself in a very uncomfortable position. |
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Jul-08-23 Averbakh vs Furman, 1960 
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| itay72: Black should have played 27... Qd6 in my opinion, trying to go into a hanging pawns structure with ...c5 and placing the queen more actively. I feel like Qa5 led his pieces to be forced into passivity which allowed Averbakh to improve his position easily. Very instructive endgame ... |
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Jun-07-23 Greco vs NN, 1623
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| itay72: Damn, chess players played like a bunch of crackheads back in the 17th century |
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May-19-23 Chigorin vs J Mortimer, 1900
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| itay72: Lmao, it is completely insane how it is possible to get away playing like this. Beautiful game though. |
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May-06-23 H Steiner vs Pachman, 1950
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| itay72: 14...d5!! is such a subtly brilliant move in my opinion, the ability to assess that the best course of action here is to play for a draw to avoid white from getting a very strong attack, and doing this by calculating 10 moves ahead into an endgame where he is down a pawn but ... |
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Mar-01-23 Ed Lasker vs G Thomas, 1912
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| itay72: I saw a random music video that featured this game and I recognized it. Got so proud of myself. Music video in question: https://youtu.be/BWTI8-guT-U Great song too. |
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