smirnoff has kibitzed 15 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jan-10-13 Tata Steel Group A (2013)    smirnoff: Why on earth do Americans keep praising Fischer as a chess god if his chess understanding was hardly comparable to that of russian grandmasters, and he was just lucky to get famous because his win over Spassky occured during Cold War? And not talking about today's brilliancy of ...      Jul-31-12 F Vallejo Pons vs Topalov, 2012    smirnoff: ok i actually missed something..houdini says after 34.Qg7+ Ke7 35.Qg8+ there is a forced mate in like ten moves..any line other than 35.Qg8+ is winning for black.      Jul-30-12 L Ootes vs K Yamada, 2011    smirnoff: <GordonL: Just for a bit of fun can anyone see a defense to 30.Qxe6..? > No. However, Houdini(20) suggests this line to be least sadistic: 30...Qg5 31.Rxg5 hxg5 32.dxe5 Bd7 33.Qg6 Bf5 34.Qxc6 Bxd3 35.cxd3 g4.......      Jun-18-12 Tal Memorial (2012)    smirnoff: <This is the guy that plays more like Fischer than any of the players in the last 40 years.> Cmon, why would anyone want to compare Magnus to Fischer, when there were many stronger players to be compared with? Magnus is much more complex player than Fischer was and would ...      Dec-17-11 Vachier-Lagrave vs P H Nielsen, 2011    smirnoff: nice end..g3 prevents black from posting its rook behind white´s passed pawn, which could neither be stopped by black´s King..      Sep-22-11 de Firmian vs E Tate, 2001    smirnoff: Why would anybody castle kingside when black already launched an attack there, by advancing his g- and h- pawns and with bishop on d7. I think in this case castling kingside doesn´t mean getting king into safety.      Sep-08-11 Ivanchuk vs X Bu, 2011    smirnoff: Well, after 17.Qxb5 even I would be able to finish black off..maybe :-)      Sep-03-11 Reshevsky vs Keres, 1948    smirnoff: <3 d3???!!! interesting> 6.d4 means that it was a loss of a tempo only.      Aug-05-11 S Williams vs V Jones, 2011    smirnoff: 31.Bb5 is just brilliant move..although mate was just a matter of time here      Aug-02-11 J Hawkins vs S Conquest, 2011   smirnoff: A cute mate coming from h5 square on move 47, no way to avoid it. Good game though.

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