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Sep-23-22 F Sideifzade vs Yurtaev, 1980   phantasmagorium: <Straclonoor> It is unfortunate indeed that this otherwise interesting, hard-fought (if imperfect) game was finished by such blunders as 37 ... Bg3? and 39 ... Re8? I could only guess that Yurtaev (a GM-level player from an era where there were <200 GMs worldwide) ...      Sep-17-22 W N Watson vs Piket, 1987    phantasmagorium: <GrahamClayton> Maybe so - but I wonder if he was simply unaware of the rule. We are all aware that one cannot castle if the king is under direct threat (check), or if the king's path is under attack. What many people seem unaware is that the same rule does not apply ...      Sep-09-22 Arovah Bachtiar   phantasmagorium: I suspect Arovah Bachtiar has passed, but cannot find any concrete info. In http://chess.gunadarma.ac.id/attach... page 2, right column, second full paragraph, the first two sentences are: "Target saya mencetak atlet-atlet catur andal seperti Utut Adianto. Dulu Kalimantan ...      Aug-30-22 Coenraad Zuidema   phantasmagorium: <Olavi> Yup. Those would not have been an easy time for anyone there too. I could only wonder, when he/his parents moved to the Netherlands.      Aug-29-22 Florencio Flores vs C Zuidema, 1964   phantasmagorium: I cannot help wondering if White probably loses precisely because he wants too badly to win. What if in the moves 31-37 he does not try too hard to stay one full piece up? Say, 31. Qf2. Or 32. Qf2 (32... Nxe1 33. Qxe1 f5 33. Qc3). Or 34. Rc1, or 37. Re1. Would he have lost ...      Aug-17-22 Z Mestrovic vs Polugaevsky, 1965   phantasmagorium: <Honza Cervenka> Agreed - this is weird. Severe time crisis, maybe? Without actual info on this though, we could only guess.      Aug-17-22 Yanofsky vs O Neikirch, 1939   phantasmagorium: Bizarre finish. With 35... f6, clearly Black is aware of the Re8+ x-ray attack (35... Qxd5? 36. Re8+). So, why does he make that mistake (36... Qxd5?) anyway? Having made mental mistakes of the same type myself, I could only guess that our brains do weird things when tired. ...      May-25-22 R Seoev vs Kholmov, 1961   phantasmagorium: <Straclonoor> I could only hypothesize that the scoresheet is wrong for move 15-18, and the correct moves are probably: 15. cxb4 Qxb4 16. Qxb4 Nxb4 17. a3 Rc8+ 18. Kd2 Rc2+ Moves 1-14 and moves 19 onward are probably correct. I wonder if probably anyone has more info ...      Apr-08-22 Bondarevsky vs Kotov, 1948    phantasmagorium: <cehertan> I don't know if the vartiation you showed had been played in practice, but probably it was already played. The game Hulak-Crepan 1998 did (from a different opening) line reach a similar position (with a possibly important difference that White's QRP is in a4      Mar-31-22 Westerinen vs S Arkhipov, 1973   phantasmagorium: This game and Westerinen vs S Arkhipov, 1983 seem to be duplicates. Does anyone know which one is the real one?      Mar-02-22 V S Gujrathi vs Shirov, 2022     Feb-16-22 A Vitolinsh vs I Viksni, 1985     Jan-16-22 Richard Vedder    Jan-07-22 V Mikenas vs P Romanovsky, 1943    Jan-03-22 Kramnik vs Lputian, 1992    Dec-21-21 Tal vs Springall, 1964    Dec-19-21 S Slonim vs N Riumin, 1931     Dec-16-21 Keres vs A Khasin, 1961     Dec-01-21 J A Torres vs R Gonzalez, 2000     Nov-29-21 Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Match (2021)     Nov-29-21 I Madl vs J Horvath, 1999     Nov-14-21 Gelfand vs Kramnik, 1996    Nov-10-21 L Espig vs Tal, 1982     Nov-06-21 M Sorokin vs M Ulybin, 1986     Oct-25-21 M Kappe vs Kasparov, 1977    Oct-12-21 Miles vs Sosonko, 1984    Oct-11-21 G Szuveges vs A Kulashko, 1999    Sep-03-21 Las Palmas (1977)     Jul-15-21 Y Rantanen vs B Denman, 1972     Jul-05-21 S Garcia Martinez vs J Macles, 1974    Jul-05-21 G Kuzmin vs A S Segal, 1974    Jun-22-21 S Nadel vs Margulies, 1932     May-20-21 F Olafsson vs Hort, 1966    May-19-21 Marjanovic vs Beliavsky, 1987    Apr-30-21 K Honfi vs T Florian, 1959    Mar-25-21 L Christiansen vs A Balshan, 1979     Mar-22-21 Pelletier vs C S Matamoros Franco, 2012     Mar-21-21 E Handoko vs S J Solomon, 1991    Mar-16-21 V Mikenas vs Sokolsky, 1942     Mar-16-21 Smyslov vs Petrosian, 1953    Mar-09-21 A Kuzmin vs G Timoscenko, 1987     Mar-02-21 Zeyu Xiang vs Yibo Zhou, 2019     Feb-25-21 K Regan vs D Cramling, 1980     Feb-09-21 A Abdul Rahman vs J E Ostos, 2012     Feb-02-21 M Keller vs W Bogatzki, 1976     Jan-09-21 Karpov vs Dorfman, 1976    Dec-17-20 Portisch vs Browne, 1971     Dec-09-20 V Ciocaltea vs G Tringov, 1962     Nov-30-20 Benko vs G Fuster, 1958    Oct-06-20 B Max vs B Reinhardt, 1977    Aug-28-20 Eliskases vs Gilg, 1934     Aug-24-20 W Arencibia Rodriguez vs Z Fayvinov, 1999    Aug-22-20 Taimanov vs Alburt, 1966    Aug-06-20 Hort vs Portisch, 1973     Aug-03-20 M Vilenchuk vs R J Moon, 2011     Jul-30-20 J Yrjola vs E Grivas, 1984    Jul-03-20 L Karlsson vs H Olafsson, 1979

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