woodthrush has kibitzed 82 times to chessgames   [more...]

Dec-26-13 Fischer vs Geller, 1967    woodthrush: <DrChopper>, you're choices of era names and dates are variously uninformed, arbitrary and incorrect. For example, the scientific era was ushered in by Steinitz, his positional play was evident in the mid 1860s, was well developed in the 1880s, and adopted by Lasker in the ...      Dec-14-13 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1913    woodthrush: <goodevans> thanks for sharing! so what really bothers you about americans? and why do you shoot all the dogs just cuz one has fleas?      Jan-25-11 Kramnik vs L'Ami, 2011    woodthrush: In my previous note, black should play 21...cd before playing Nb6.      Jan-25-11 Nakamura vs Anand, 2011    woodthrush: on ..g4, white better play Rxe4      Jan-23-11 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2011    woodthrush: 27..Nxb2 28 Kxb2 Rxc3 invokes mate threat on a2 which can be stopped by white's Nxe6. If black could find a way to preserve the B, mate threats would be on.      Jan-17-11 Nakamura vs Shirov, 2011    woodthrush: Lot's of ways to loose a piece here!      Jan-08-11 Robert James Fischer    woodthrush: Just as there are many forms of intelligence (not one IQ, but many), there are many ways to compare the great chess players (not one rating, but many). Rating based on game results (win, lose, draw) and strength of opposition is one measure, but does not tell the whole story. ...      Dec-17-10 V Zvjaginsev vs Karjakin, 2010    woodthrush: White gave up both Bs by move 9, then declined Q trade at move 10 in a position where opposite castling could happen either way; this is a recipe to hand black the attacking advantage. While white pushed a 4 pawn roller, black pushed a two pawn roller, faster by far.      Dec-12-10 Fischer vs V Kovacevic, 1970    woodthrush: <YCP>, 31... Bxf3 looks like a closer, with loss of a piece (or Q for R and B) to follow. If 31. Kd1 then 31 ... Nxe2 32. Rxe2 Bxf3 nets a pawn and the exchange.      Dec-04-10 Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997    woodthrush: Friends play chess, Foes play chess, but a computer, its not a person. It does not revel in the battle, exalt in victory, despair in defeat. Its a tick-tock, and its programmer worships computation, not the game of chess. Chess was a game, a challenge, a contest between ...

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