Delboy has kibitzed 869 times to chessgames   [more...]

May-13-25 Gligoric vs E Nievergelt, 1959    Delboy: I have not seen any post pointing out the beautiful finish if black tries to stop the mate with 29. ... Kf8 30. Rxc6 Re5 31. Rc8+ Re8. It is 32. Rdd8!      May-12-25 Lucas te Velde   Delboy: Only three games in the database, two of them wins against International Masters. Another name for the long list of 'might have beens'      Apr-25-25 Chindin vs V Komliakov, 1987   Delboy: The chess equivalent of experiencing a hole-in-one in golf: 16 ... Rh1+!      Apr-14-25 A Blank vs R Sielaff, 1992   Delboy: The player of the day here gave a very nice demonstration of why the bishop on g4 was poisoned      Apr-08-25 E Brondum vs G Iskov, 1972   Delboy: A fun game for fans of these type of positions. If 13. Kxg2 then 13. ... Rxh2+ 14. Kxh2 Qxf2+ 15. Kh1 g3 16. Qe2 g2+ 17. Kh2 g1=Q++18. kh3 Qg3#      Mar-30-25 J Kapu vs L Sapi, 1964   Delboy: White was clearly not expecting the very clever 36. ... dxe2!      Mar-11-25 A Avshalumov vs Rozentalis, 1979   Delboy: Those knights are wreaking havoc. The most fun lines at the end include 16. ... Kxh7 17. Nxf8+ Kh8 18. Nxf7+ Kg8 19. Nxh6++ Kh8 20. Qg8+ Nxg8 21. Nf7# and 16. ... Kh8 17. Nxf8 Nxb3 18. Nxf7#      Mar-08-25 A Kubicek vs I Privara, 1976   Delboy: Attractive Monday puzzle: 15. ?      Mar-01-25 K Kulaots vs D Hausrath, 1992    Delboy: Is 24. Rxh8+ Kxh8 25. Qh6+ even stronger? 25. ... Nh7 26. Rh1 or 25. ... Kg8 26. Rxg6+ Nxg6 27. Qxg6+ Kh8 28. Qf6+      Feb-20-25 K Kulaots vs D Kadric, 2024    Delboy: The glorious reason for the resignation being 27. ... Rxe7 28. Qd5+! I did not see that when I correctly figured that the puzzle solution was 26. Nf5

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