Nov-27-19 D Klein vs Beliavsky, 2015
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| nummerzwei: <Uncompromising Chess> backfired here. The less stubborn 19...Nxf5 (or taking with the bishop first) would have been satisfactory: [DIAGRAM] 19...Nxf5 (or 19...Bxf5) 20.Rxf5 Bxf5 21.Qxf5 Rxc7 (or 21...Nd4 first) 22.Nxc7 Qxc7 = |
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Nov-03-19 Carlsen vs F Amonatov, 2005
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| nummerzwei: One of the first chess periodicals that I've bought had an article by Peter Heine Nielsen on the teenage Carlsen's participation in the 2005 World Cup. This win, played on Carlsen's fifteenth birthday, was attributed to his superior power of calculation. Recently I learned that ... |
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Oct-31-19 Short vs H Melkumyan, 2015 
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| nummerzwei: Straightforward combination. Weird to see GMs play it out to mate. |
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Sep-25-19 Kupreichik vs Kramnik, 1994
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| nummerzwei: I guess White got no post-mortem that day. |
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Sep-05-19 Huebner vs L Christiansen, 1989
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| nummerzwei: [DIAGRAM] Here 26...Qf5 was played, with rough equality. Much more natural was to keep attacking with 26...g5!. |
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Aug-10-19 Lev Aronin
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| nummerzwei: Wikipedia now puts 4 October 1982 as Aronin's death date, exactly two days before the more famous Levon Aronian was born. |
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Aug-10-19 Lautier vs Kramnik, 1993
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| nummerzwei: This game is annotated in Kramnik's game collection from 2000. <We had played this all so 'creatively' that when I went for a stroll after my fifth move the Dutch grandmaster Jeroen Piket came up to me and asked: 'From what opening did you reach your position?' I was unable to |
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Jun-11-19 Adams vs Keitlinghaus, 1998
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| nummerzwei: In 1999*, Christopher Lutz wrote an article on the recently popular Berlin Endgame that was published in Schach 10/1999. About the Nxe6-structure that arises in this game after move 14, he said that it 'mostly leads to a small but enduring White edge. However, Black can then put ... |
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Jun-05-19 Euwe vs Alekhine, 1937
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| nummerzwei: 28.Bb3? is very similar to Viktor Korchnoi's error 18...Rfb8? in the last game of the 1981 World Championship ( Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1981 ). It just lets Black occupy the second rank for no reason. There was also mistake in Purdy's analysis of 30.Bxf6: After 30...gxf6 31.Bc4 Rxh2+ |
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Jun-05-19 Euwe vs Alekhine, 1937
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| nummerzwei: 11.Bxe4 is awkward and would have led to very little after 11...Bxe4 12.bxc3 c5! (12...0-0 13.Nd2) 13.Ba3 0-0 =. |
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