May-06-20 Flamberg vs Duras, 1912 
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| knightfly: Duras seems to have missed a mate in 2 with 17...…..Bf5+ 18.Kc3 Qe3# |
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Jan-17-15 Antoshin vs A Sokolov, 1982
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| knightfly: The mystery is cleared up. According to Chessbase 'Antoshin retired ill' |
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Sep-02-14 Anderssen vs Zukertort, 1868
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| knightfly: Though he wins fairly soon anyway Zukertort appears to miss a forced mate with 28.....Qxg5+ 29.fxg5 Re4+ 30.Kh5 g6+ 31.Kh6 Rh4# |
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Apr-09-13 A Filipowicz vs P Smederevac, 1966
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| knightfly: I believe this is the longest ever game without a capture and also possibly the most boring game ever. |
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Feb-15-12 J Polgar vs L B Hansen, 1989
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| knightfly: 33.Rbxf7 can met by 33......Re4+ which confuses things a bit though white is still probably winning. |
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Jul-26-08 Napoleon Bonaparte
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| knightfly: Here is an interesting article which claims that Boney was little better
than Hitler.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art... |
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Mar-21-08 Fine vs A Reynolds, 1937
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| knightfly: Arthur Reynolds was a British player who was born 1910 and died as a Japanese Prisoner-of-war in 1943. |
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Dec-20-06 G Welling vs V Eingorn, 2006
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| knightfly: <Pelgrino Patzer>White wins by 1.Kg2! Kxb5 2.f4 gxf4 3.g5
The plausible looking 1.Kg3 only draws to 1...Kxb5 2.f4 gxf4+ 3.Kxf4 fxg4 |
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Dec-03-06 Tartakower vs H Fahrni, 1909
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| knightfly: As eloquent as ever Tartakower wrote after 27.Bxf6+
"This is a case where one can distinctly observe the sympathetic influence of disease from one sick part of the organism to another; indeed, in the end it is not the square f7 but its neighbour on f6 through which the assailant ... |
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Nov-09-06 Cecil Brown chessforum
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| knightfly: Yes I agree with you about Winston, he was never one to back down from a fight starting from his early days as a cavalry officer. 'Young Winston' has always been a favourte film although how much is poetic license I don't know. I've given up on the Napoleon Bonaparte vs General ... |
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