Jun-08-14 Short vs Kramnik, 1993 
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| wingpawn: Mr Short just told the story of this game on Norway Chess 2014 live commentary. He said that he was completely oblivious about why Kramnik resigned but eventually spoke to his opponent the next day. Vlad said "Oh, the game was totally losing" and then set up the board to ... |
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Apr-07-14 W Berry vs M Rudge, 1874
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| wingpawn: Guys, how about "Rudger Power"? |
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Jul-13-13 Kasparov vs Short, 1987
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| wingpawn: The move 30. e5, allowing the Kingside to be locked up really shocked me. Kasparov hardly ever refrains from dumping his weak pawns and rarely allows his pieces to be tied to the permanent drawbacks of his position. He still managed to create some funky counterattacking mess in the |
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Jul-13-13 Karjakin vs Ivanchuk, 2011
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| wingpawn: Well, this is one complicated middlegame position... 18. ♘f6+ Black has hardly a choice but to remove this Knight because 19. ♕xh7# is threatened and If 18...♔f7? 19. ♘xh7 both attacking the Rook and thretening 20. ♘d4+ - White wins an exchange and a ... |
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Jul-12-13 H Wang vs Giri, 2013
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| wingpawn: Someone please make a collection <VICTIMS OF SACRIFICIAL SHOCK>. Oh, nevermind, I found it: Mikhail Tal . |
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Jul-12-13 A D Martin vs J Horner, 1983
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| wingpawn: Coincidentally, if Black's King was safer, there would have been even cooler combination in form of 26... ♕c1+ 27. ♗d1 ♗b3! 28. axb3 a3 and suddenly the pawn runs to the promotion square. That's what I was investigating for a second but here, the reality knocks it |
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Jul-11-13 A G Preusse vs W Schelfhout, 1910
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| wingpawn: Schelfhout failed to resolve the problem of White's powerful e5-Knight, though he could have immediately challenged it with 11...Nd7 and 12...f6 (before castling!). After finding himself under siege, he realized too late that his King belongs to g7. It costed him to tempis and ... |
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Jul-11-13 Epishin vs S Zagrebelny, 1983
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| wingpawn: I admit I can't really calculate this to the end from the given position; all I have is some general thoughts. Black has just attacked White Rook on d7 with a Knight. White doesn't want to retreat his most active piece and the enemy King is almost asking for a punch like: 37. ... |
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Jul-10-13 H Hecht vs Keene, 1966
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| wingpawn: Oh dear, great attacking game by Hecht! The idea of 23. ♘d7!! ♘xd7 24. ♕h5! is pure beauty. Although having ♕e8 and ♙g6 on those squares that early in the middlegame is a good hint for White that something went really wrong in his opponent's game. |
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Jul-10-13 A Lukin vs T Khasanov, 1983
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| wingpawn: Whew, that took me about 20 minutes. I saw 30. ♗xh7! as my primary candidate, but got mentally stuck on 30...♔xh7 31. ♖xf7+ ♔g8 32. ♖g7+ ♔h8 33. ♖g8+ ♔h7. In my mind, f7-square was still bulletproof to the attacks, so I failed to ... |
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