May-11-25 Fischer vs A Di Camillo, 1956
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| goodevans: Having read through some of the comments before I played through the game, I was quite surprised to see just how close it was. Black was right in this until his fatal mistake of simply playing ...Nd3 and ...Rc8 in the wrong order. That let Bobby play Qb7 and there was no coming ... |
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May-10-25 O Zambrana vs I Krush, 2003 
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| goodevans: Black's first N was indeed good, sacrificing itself to give it's team the attack but her second N was a bit tardy and should have taken on f5 a move earlier. Nevertheless it was given the honour of dealing the fateful blow. In the end White panicked, walking into that simple fork ... |
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May-08-25 Short vs P Corbin, 2006
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| goodevans: <FSR> That’s a great game. Should indeed be GOTD. I’ve added it to my Game Collection: more miniatures . |
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May-07-25 A R Saleh Salem vs Duda, 2015
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| goodevans: I really like 37...Bd4!
[DIAGRAM] White is forced to sac the exchange. Trying to save the Rd3 loses the other R to a fork. |
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May-05-25 So vs A Liang, 2019
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| goodevans: So made a couple of dubious exchange sacs, 22.Qc2 and 30.Rxd5, and on both occasions Liang declined. I'm wondering whether So would have done this against a more experienced opponent and whether Liang would have been so reticent against a less illustrious one. |
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May-04-25 Lasker vs R Sze, 1910
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| goodevans: <FSR> Subjective I know, but I’d say Lasker put up more fight in that second game than here. The comparison is interesting though so thanks for bringing it to our attention. |
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May-04-25 Lasker vs R Sze, 1911
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| goodevans: Mistakes by both players at the end:
25.Bf4?
White should just let the pawn go and focus on his K’s safety - 25.Ke1 Qxh2 26.Rd2 Qh4+ 27.Rf2 25...Rf7?
25...Qf5 would have been crushing.
26.Kg3??
White needs to eliminate the R - 26.Nxf7 - then 26...Qf3+ 29.Ke1 Qe4+ 30.Kd2 ... |
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Apr-28-25 A Lundqvist vs J Coolen, 1962
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| goodevans: <OCF: ... 14. Nxg6+ was the right move.> That's probably right. It wins a pawn but White's K is still rather precarious so I'd rather be Black. And after <14...Kg8> White mustn't get greedy with <15.Nxh8> since after <15...Ne4!> he'll end up losing both Ns ... |
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Apr-24-25 M I Botvinnik vs T L Petrosian, 1998
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| goodevans: As a peculiar quirk of fate, this is a great find brought to our grateful attention by an excellent pun. The game is itself pretty good too. I don’t think the N jumping into that hole on d6 was in itself bad (it’s the sort I’d have been sorely tempted to do myself), I just ... |
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Apr-21-25 Dominguez Perez vs C Yoo, 2025
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| goodevans: I'm all for the idea of Fischer Random but it's surge in popularity has come too late for this old codger to get his head around it. Even the middle games often look completely alien. Not the case here. Things looked pretty normal after less than a dozen moves and so playing ... |
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