Nov-16-23 M A Tabatabaei vs P A Gines Esteo, 2022 
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| skeptic50: Hey, Brenin, nice find! |
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Dec-07-14 T Ernst vs F Hellers, 1986
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| skeptic50: Ummm -- nice 34-move combo to force the draw?? |
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Nov-03-14 A Elwin vs R Hughes, 2014
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| skeptic50: The game was over after 8.Nxd8 -- my guess is that either Hughes had nothing to do for the rest of the day, or else had a side bet that he could survive for at least 30 moves. |
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Oct-21-14 H Stefansson vs A Baburin, 1991
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| skeptic50: Fairly hard for a 1.5 star -- I'm rating this one 3-stars (or I'm giving my Tuesday morning brain 1 star). |
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Jul-07-14 G Mazzoni vs J Minaya, 1964
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| skeptic50: Expecting the Monday morning Q-sac, then saw Rg7. Got it in about 15 seconds (my personal best). |
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Apr-08-14 Tarrasch vs Kolb, 1894
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| skeptic50: Kolb was a class C player as Black, but a Grandmaster as White (he just never got to play with the White pieces) |
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Feb-10-14 A van Weersel vs A Kelly, 2001
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| skeptic50: Got it in under a minute! Oh, wait, it's Monday - no big whoop. |
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Jan-21-14 A Blackmar vs L S Atkinson, 1884
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| skeptic50: Having problems viewing the chess games after updating your Java? To fix it do the following 3 steps(for Windows 7): 1) Click Start -> Control Panel -> Java;
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Jul-01-13 Bird vs NN, 1888
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| skeptic50: And NN loses another one in grand fashion! But it did take 2 people (Bird and Nobell) to clean his clock! |
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May-21-13 Korchnoi vs I Krush, 2007
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| skeptic50: okay, never mind my earlier post-- I was looking at 27. Bd5 Rxd5 28.Qf8#. Simply 27. Bd5 Qxd5 and white just gives up a bishop |
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