Apr-04-25 Negi vs S Erenburg, 2005 
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| ndg2: Difficult, but not bc of the knight sac, which is the only real chance for a win. Instead, you have to _know_, that the resulting queen vs h2-pawn endgame isn't a draw (it normally is) due to the position of the white king. |
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Feb-23-25 Vincent Keymer
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| ndg2: Congratulations to winning the first leg of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Championship tour! |
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Feb-13-25 P Galperin vs J Hector, 2024
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| ndg2: Platon was deep in the cave here, looking at shadows. |
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Feb-13-25 D Rensch vs Z Young, 2007
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| ndg2: ^A wordsmith worthy of a Wordsworth! |
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Jan-07-25 T Lei vs T Hoefelsauer, 2015
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| ndg2: Why resign as black? 33..Rxc5 34.Qxc5 (34.Bxc5 Ra5) 34..Qxc5 35.Bxc5 and black is ok. |
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Jan-07-25 A Prameshuber vs Huebner, 1970
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| ndg2: My first thought (native German here): "what a bad pun". But on second thought, it's acutally clever and funny. |
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Jan-06-25 F Blohberger vs Keymer, 2018
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| ndg2: White cannot avoid the loss of the rook: 42.Kxh4 runs into 42..Qf2+ 43.g3 (43.Kg4 f5+ and 43.Rg3 Rd4 both lose the queen) 43..Qf6+ 44.Kg4 Qf5+! 45.Qxf5 gxf5+ 46.Kxf5 Rxd3. |
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Jan-05-25 Robert Huebner
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| ndg2: Farewell, Doc!
Hübner was the best German player after Em. Lasker. Some of the young players of today are
nominally stronger than him, but he was the only German player after WWII reaching candidate matches (even a final against Korchnoi in Meran 1980). |
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Dec-20-24 Keymer vs Firouzja, 2024
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| ndg2: Tough loss for Vincent. He played mostly correctly until more 30 where 30.g4 would have kept some of the advantage he still had at this moment. After 30.Rd1 the balance moves to black's favor. |
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Dec-20-24 Shirov vs Kasparov, 1992
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| ndg2: Most of the above analysis is inaccurate or plain wrong, lol. |
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