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Feb-06-22 Rapport vs V Fedoseev, 2022    sofouuk: only when you see a game like this do you realise how insanely good the top GMs actually are      Nov-26-21 Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Match (2021)    sofouuk: < It's easy to make armageddon perfectly fair at any overall time amount. Each player writes down how little time they will accept to have draw odds with black, and whoever wrote the smaller amount gets it. … I don't know why all armageddon chess isn't done like that.>bcz ...      Jul-03-20 L Karlsson vs H Olafsson, 1979   sofouuk: <Curious is the observation that black does not need to play 25...exf4, he can continue 25...Bf7, 26...b5 etc.> thx for this confirmation as b5 was my immediate candidate - with Bf7 first (which I didn't consider, ho hum, logical tho it is) white is just grovelling never chase      Jun-02-20 D Laylo vs O Dimakiling, 2012    sofouuk: <Although this game became very interesting, the first 17 moves are a totally standard, dull old QGD Exchange. Years ago in the London League I sat next to a geezer called Michael Rose who played this opening every week he had white. He had the same positions over and over again,      Oct-03-19 Koneru vs A Kashlinskaya, 2019    sofouuk: <Wednesday puzzle at most> you're funny      Sep-26-19 Ding Liren vs K Alekseenko, 2019    sofouuk: ...by a similarly frivolous h4 on move 6?      Jul-03-17 V Malaniuk vs I Ivanov, 1989    sofouuk: <because Ur was in Jordan>... really?      Jun-29-17 Carlsen vs Grischuk, 2017    sofouuk: <Jovanka Houska was adamant that Black wins> WK on h1, WR g1, BK h3, BN f2mate?      Feb-25-17 Karpov vs A Sznapik, 1986    sofouuk: <Karpov played other good attacks against the Dragon> he sure did :-) including this masterpiece, for anyone who hasn't seen it for a while Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974      Feb-25-17 Bacrot vs I Lysyj, 2009    sofouuk: <<al wazir: <RandomVisitor: 17.Ndxf7 hxg5 needs a refutation.> So does 17.Ndxf7 hxg5 18. Qxe6 hxg5.> I'm getting 17.Ndf7 hxg5 18.Qe6 Bd5 19.Bh7 Nh7 20.Qd5 Nf6 21.Nh6+ Kf8 [DIAGRAM] not dissimilar to the game but here there's no way to force queens off quickly - that ...

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