Feb-15-12 Kupreichik vs S Vratonjic, 1988
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| Sasportas: 35 points at "guess the move" - not so bad (par = 25) but I doubt if I could ever reach a position over the board like this! |
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Feb-14-12 Rudolf Teschner 
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| Sasportas: 2 weeks ago I submitted a fine and theoretically interesting Teschner game to chessgames.com: Barendregt - Teschner 0:1, European team championship Hamburg 1965 (Ruy Lopez, exchange variation). It should really be included in the game collection! |
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Feb-03-12 Moshe Czerniak
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| Sasportas: <Feb-03-12 Rook e2: it's interesting that he first became champion of Palestine and later played for Israel, or am I missing something? > Yes, you are in a way. The land between the Mediterranean sea and the river Jordan was the British mandatory area of Palestine for almost |
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Jan-09-12 Graf-Stevenson vs Semmler, 1932
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| Sasportas: Nice puzzle, perhaps more difficult than a normal Monday - ut one complaint: The game was most certainly played in MUNICH (German: München, Czech: Mnichov), and not in one of the tiny villages in Czechoslovakia also called Mnichov! |
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May-02-11 G Timoscenko vs A Elfert, 2011
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| Sasportas: @ meetjain 2295 It's mate in any case: 24..Rg7 25.Rxh7+ Kg8 26. Qxd8#. But we Monday fans know that we probably wouldn't see even an easy combination like this over the board! |
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Feb-28-11 Dawid Daniuszewski
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| Sasportas: The middle consonant in David is spelled "w" in Polish, there is no "v" in Polish words. |
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May-29-10 Kasparov vs N McDonald, 1986
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| Sasportas: The first time I solved a Saturday - but it was so easy after all we had this week: The questions was not "What would be the best move?" but "How do you get a stalemate?" - which reduces moves to be considered dramatically. |
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Feb-02-10 Svetozar Gligoric
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| Sasportas: Happy birthday Mr. Gligoric!! Wishing you all the happiness and health you deserve. This comes from the German journalist - not writing about chess - whom you so kindly received in Belgrade in the horrible year 1996 and for whom you incorporated the best sides of the old ... |
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Feb-02-10 L Rogule vs A Habesi, 2006
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| Sasportas: This is a nice opening trap. White's eighth move would make a nice Tuesday quiz though the solution is pretty obvious. |
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Oct-14-08 Kramnik vs Anand, 2008
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| Sasportas: Welcome to the Rhineland, friends! I'm writing this from my desk some 100 kilometers to the north of Bonn. The last time we in this Western part of Germany had a world championship match was exactly here in Dusseldorf in 1908: Lasker vs Tarrasch, 1908 was Emmanuel Lasker's first ... |
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