Aug-12-16 J Burke vs S Arun Prasad, 2015 
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| lalla: Well I got close. 1 Ne7 Kf8 2 Qh8 ke7 3 Ra7 Kd8 4 Ra8 Kc7 5 Q e8 and white wins.
The test continuation Nxg6 is even better. |
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Sep-18-15 A Matanovic vs H Kramer, 1951
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| lalla: 72 ....Re1,73 Kg3 Rg1 74 Kh2? Rg2 75 Kh1 Nf3 wins |
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Aug-06-15 Rubinstein vs Lasker, 1909
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| lalla: Isn't something wrong with the photo? Both the players are playing the black pieces. |
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Jul-11-15 Svidler vs Topalov, 2002
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| lalla: I never thought that the position studied by Philidor can occur in real life. the last position is exactly the position studied by him. |
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Jul-11-15 I Nikolic vs G Arsovic, 1989
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| lalla: What on earth is this? Don't they have wife and children to look after at home? One can easily be qualified for a lunatic asylum if compelled to play a game to such incredible length. |
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Jul-06-15 Wei Yi vs L Bruzon Batista, 2015
Jun-22-15 Morphy vs A Morphy, 1849
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| lalla: Any ordinary students can solve the problems of simple pendulum.Kids know the law gravitation. Does that mean they are smarter than Galileo or Newton? That does not even mean that Galileo and Newton were ordinary people. If Newton were to be born again, he would still be the great ... |
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Oct-10-13 Lasker vs Rivier / Henneberger, 1919
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| lalla: Why not 14...c6 directly? Why not drive away the knight |
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Jul-21-13 R Domenech vs Flohr, 1935
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| lalla: Why let black double his rooks on the d file? I think 18. Nf1 in order to exchange rooks on the file would have left both sides with a bishop and knight where white has nothing to fear. |
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Apr-17-11 Steinitz vs A G Sellman, 1885
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| lalla: i studied this game in Reinfeld's chess mastery by answer and question. Why not 12. b4 with aim at a5 and thus making both bishops active? |
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