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Nov-07-19 W So vs A Korobov, 2019    syracrophy: After the best 36.♖e1 ♖d1 liquidates the house, but the brilliant finish comes after 36.♕e1 ♖h3!! [DIAGRAM]      Nov-04-19 Shirov vs J Westerberg, 2019    syracrophy: Shirov's 14.g3!! reminds of an historic parallel: Bronstein vs Tal, 1968 [DIAGRAM] Mr. Bronstein here applied a recipe of his own and played 15.g3!. Keres commented: <"I asked Bronstein why he played 15. g3?! when 15.♖e1+ seemed to be fine enough. Bronstein stared at me ...      Oct-30-19 M Perez Candelario vs C Bauer, 2019   syracrophy: [DIAGRAM] Sweet.      Oct-27-19 Ragozin vs Keres, 1939   syracrophy: [DIAGRAM] White played the neat 36.♗d4! with a discovered attack over the ♖/ Δ 37.♗xf6#. Black reacted with 36...♖f8. Now White played the brilliant 37.♖b8!!: [DIAGRAM] This tactic resembles Tal's 34.♖a8!! in Tal vs B Brinck-Claussen, 1966      Oct-19-19 Chandler vs Piskov, 1995   syracrophy: Neat.      Oct-13-19 A Riazantsev vs E Polovnikova-Atalik, 2019   syracrophy: The final duel of four ♕ was missing: 37...♕e5 38. ♕d8 ♔f8 39. a5 ♕b2+ 40. ♔h3 ♕a1 41. c5 b3 42. c6 b2 43. c7 b1=♕ 44. c8=♕ [DIAGRAM] ♕b5 45. ♕d6+ ♔g8 46. ♕e7 <Better was 46. Qdd7> ♕h5+ 47. ...      Oct-07-19 Euwe vs A Speijer, 1924   syracrophy: The neat conclusion: 22...♘e4 23. ♘xe4 ♖d1 24. ♘d6+ (the pinned ♕ still has punch!) ♔d8 25.♖c(f)d7#. The conclusion that I would like more (though longer) goes 24.♘f6+ ♔d8 25.♕xd1+! ♗xd1 26.♖c(f)d7#      Oct-05-19 A Vitolinsh vs Tseshkovsky, 1981   syracrophy: Douglas Griffin pointed out he came across this game in an old edition of 'Shakhmaty': << [DIAGRAM] In the position, Vitolinsh indicated the clever try 66...a4!, with the point that on 67.Rd2 Black even wins, thanks to the remarkable 67...Qd1!! [DIAGRAM] >>      Sep-29-19 Capablanca vs W Schlage, 1911   syracrophy: 28...d2+! was the elegant finishing blow <29.♔xd2/f2 ♘xe4+> but Black missed 29...♘d3#.      Sep-29-19 Stefansson vs C G Ward, 1998   syracrophy: After 35.♕e2 ♖a3+!

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