| Nov-20-09 |
Miles vs Browne, 1982
swissteam: I'm sure I'm missing something simple; what's wrong with 14. Qxb7?
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A04 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Kenneth Rogoff
chancho: The Sun is middle aged. It has about 5.5 billion years left.
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| Nov-20-09 |
Odd Lie
WannaBe: Here is a photo of Dr. <technical draw> attempting to remove a pawn that was shoved up a patient's nose!! http://tudzy.com/wp-content/uploads...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Woodpusher (Computer)
Buttinsky: Whoosh Puter
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| Nov-20-09 |
Wesley So
Nf3em: calling the attention of Chess.com BW members: <prensdepens>, <kidlat1994>, <granyid>, <jameskobe>, <art00>, <mielyglory>, <obientag>, <japz> A group "Chess Army" accepted our challenge for a ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Polugaevsky vs Tal, 1969
Buttinsky: If 22...Kxh5 23 g4+ leads to checkmate after 23...Kh6 or g6 or h4.
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D41 |
| Nov-20-09 |
O Field vs Schleckster, 1908
Phony Benoni: Yes, it's a shame that White missed 24.Nb5+ cxb5 25.Qd6#. But the actual finish is nice enough, and a move like 17.Rh6! is worth notice.
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C45 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Sergey Karjakin
Augalv: The World Cup finally begins tomorrow. Sergey plays against Uruguayan GM (best chess player in the history of his country) Andres Rodriguez with black. The GMs never faced each other before.
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| Nov-20-09 |
F Aleskerov vs S Mitrovic, 2009
droosan: Apparently something's going on off board. If one of them got tired of it and decided to go check out the night life, I'm surprised it's black, after his move. I wish these games weren't in here. But I guess there's no good way to get rid
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B20 |
| Nov-20-09 |
World Cup (2009)
waustad: So this starts tomorrow at 5AM EST? I'll see some of it.
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| Nov-20-09 |
Nigel Short
HeMateMe: but MC had to be say, one of 5 people with a realistic chance of winning this. Wouldnt money pile on mc at 16-1? BTW, why are the paddies running the gaming? Doesnt' London have its own book?
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| Nov-20-09 |
Magnus Carlsen
Matt Tsjakk: Reading an old interview with Carlsen from 2004 ( http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... ) I found this, on his training regimen: Q: How often do you practice chess?
A:: That is almost impossible to measure. It can get quite intense ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Carlsen vs Anand, 2009
Schwartz: Anand.
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D45 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Zzzzzz (Computer)
HeMateMe: its just a BEARD for another identity...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Judit Polgar
SakoTRG22: <amadeus: Judit has scalps against Smyslov, Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Khalifman, Kasimdhzkanov, Ponomariov and Topalov -- Fischer?
Not many players can say the same.
(other scalps include Bronstein, Geller, ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
H P Garcia vs R Ziatdinov, 1994
VincentL: <Once><openingspecialist>. I think there are various stages in solving these puzzles.
Firstly one must assimilate the information. What threats (immediate and less immediate) do both sides have? What is the material balance? ...
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C49 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Zzzzzz vs Joker, 2006
hedgeh0g: 47...h5 is an interesting attempt at counterplay. Anyone analyse this move?
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C00 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Lev Polugaevsky
SakoTRG22: Happy Birthday to one my favorite classical players, Lev Polugaevsky!
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| Nov-20-09 |
Kibitzer's Café
Travis Bickle: On my forum today is John Lennon & Paul McCartney solo music & Song Of The Day: Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones.
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| Nov-20-09 |
Hikaru Nakamura
blueofnoon: Dear Nakamura fans, have you read his book on bullet? I did, and found that he freely admits online bullet is completely different game from OTB chess, and that is actually one of main attractions of bullet chess. You can play bullet ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Benjamin Bok
Tabanus: FM Benjamin Bok, Netherlands, born 1995. Now rated 2337, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... U12 champion of the Netherlands:
http://www.ed.nl/regio/veldhoven/30...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Chigorin vs B Fleissig, 1882
Dravus: The White King wanders Vienna's Ring, in this king-wandering checkmate near Dobling.
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C01 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Burak Firat
Tabanus: FM Burak Firat, Turkey, born 1 January 1993. Now rated 2392, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... Placed 8th in the Turkish Ch 2008
Pictures:
http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/...
http://www.chessbase.com/news/2009/...
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| Nov-20-09 |
M Brodsky vs D Saulin, 2000
wanabe2000: See Geller vs Ivkov, 1973 for 14.Bxc4 Qxc4 15.Ra4
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B92 |
| Nov-20-09 |
SCORPION83
SirChrislov: Is Sub-Zero an elite super GM too?
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| Nov-20-09 |
Farid Abbasov
Tabanus: He's been coach and trainer of Azerbaijan Youth team for about 9 years. ICC: Oficer. From http://www.chess.com/chessopedia/vi... and from his ICC bio: Tournament results include: 1st at Alushta 2004; 1st at Kireevsk 2004; 2nd at Tula ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Fruit vs Crazy Bishop, 2005
WhiteRook48: the ...
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C47 |
| Nov-20-09 |
FIBChess vs Woodpusher, 2004
WhiteRook48: 16...Nxe3!
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D04 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Tkachiev vs Ivanchuk, 2009
luzhin: Not an everyday sort of checkmate!
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C01 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Mamedyarov vs Kramnik, 2009
WhiteRook48: nice catch of the previous world champion
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D44 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Anand vs Karjakin, 2009
aazqua: Sergey ... keep the bishop man! Keep the bishop!
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C67 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1892
Dravus: Pre-dating Tchaikovsky's debut at Carnegie Hall in 1891, Chigorin came to the Americas to conquer, an early harbinger of Russian greatness in a non-contiguous, non-adjacent foreign land (and preceding the modern Olympics). He dominated the
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C59 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Anand vs Carlsen, 2008
aazqua: Ah the good old days, eh Anand? Maybe you'll place ahead of Carlsen in a tourney again. Maybe. >>
yesnomaybeidontknow: Not yet, Mr Carlsen.
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B77 |
| Nov-20-09 |
J Low
WhiteRook48: that is low
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| Nov-20-09 |
L Bruzon vs Carlsen, 2006
WhiteRook48: 44 Rxe6!
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A39 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Hanna-Marie Klek
alexmagnus: Draw in the 9th round. Means, no chance for the title anymore (Hanna has 6/9, the leader Marsel Efroimski 8.5/9, with 2 rounds to go). After 9 rounds Hanna is on the 10th place. Opponent in th 10th round: Ana Kuchava (1932).
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| Nov-20-09 |
R Ruck vs Huzman, 2000
WhiteRook48: move 19 = pointless
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A04 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Darwin Laylo
granyid: For the best in WCC..bring me From Russia with love...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Rogelio Antonio Jr
granyid: Wishing safe arrival to Russia...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Anatoli Karpov
meth0dSNK: All the props to him for winning the world blitz championship
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| Nov-20-09 |
Carlsen vs Kosteniuk, 2009
walker: <Appaz> KamikazeAngrep er en débil.
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C43 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Franklin Knowles Young
Calli: We now expect you to whip through the cable matches in short order with lots of interesting tidbits in your reportage. 8-] I used to have a paper subscription to the Times and could look at the entire archive. Later they changed all the ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Viktor Korchnoi
Jim Bartle: <I would gladly pay 40 quid for a crack against the old boy. > Great. Just don't get your hopes up that you'll take a scalp.
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| Nov-20-09 |
E Schinske vs S Feldhaus, 2005
Lefbes: Hey, this is Sebastian Feldhaus. The match was against a team mate of mine in a local youth championship. We both just needed a draw, and since we feared some people to protest in case of a short draw we just needed some watertight drawn ...
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C46 |
| Nov-20-09 |
World Blitz Championship (2009)
zarg: <KC>
Thanks for the walk through!
It looked as several PGN's might be incomplete from the event.
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| Nov-20-09 |
Geller vs Ivkov, 1973
wanabe2000: I won with the black side when white played 14.Bg5!? Rfd8 15.Qd2 h6 16.Be3 d5!? It seems 14. Bxc4 or 14.g4 is better.
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B92 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Karpov vs Kramnik, 2009
Everett: Why is Karpov taking so much time in the opening?
Karpov vs Kramnik, 2008
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D12 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Viswanathan Anand
tsj2000: Anand needs to play e4 openings as white if he has any chance to win against Topalov
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| Nov-20-09 |
Renato Naranja vs Fischer, 1970
zanshin: <Eyal> Little numerical change in the evaluation after <19.Bb2>: [DIAGRAM] [+0.68] d=18 19...Kh8 20.Nd5 e5 21.Rg3 Rg8 22.Nc3 Qf4 23.Qxf4 exf4 24.Rf3 Ne8 25.Rxf4 Be6 26.Rh4 Be5 27.Na4 Ng7 28.Bd3 Bf5 29.Kf2 a5 30.b5 (0:11.15) ...
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A34 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Cochrane vs Staunton, 1841
hedgeh0g: I liked ...f6.
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C23 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Mamedyarov vs Ivanchuk, 2009
KamikazeAttack: It is easy to be gentlemanly when one his winning, isn't it? The test is how one reacts to defeat and in this regard Mame is no better than a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal.
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C43 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Levon Aronian
KamikazeAttack: I expect Levon to crack 2800 before mid 2010. There is an unspoken ratings race involving Carlsen and Kramnik, this will suck Aronian in. A lot of motivation to do well next year.
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| Nov-20-09 |
Crazy Bishop (Computer)
ILikeFruits: I go crazy
When I look in your eyes I still go crazy
No my heart just can't hide that old feelin' inside
Way deep down inside
Oh baby, you know when I look in your eyes I go crazy I go crazy
When I look in your eyes I still ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
H High
ILikeFruits: am i...
high...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Tal vs F Olafsson, 1961
tonyboy: good game ol tal
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B48 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Kieu Thien Kim Le vs V Gunina, 2008
Justawoodpusher: White could have secured an easy draw with 45.h5, sealing in the black king.
No idea what white hoped for in playing differently.
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D05 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Anand vs Carlsen, 2009
Ulhumbrus: Instead of 17 Ne3, 17 f5 Bh7 18 Ng5 gains the bishop pair unless Black chooses 18...Bg8
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B30 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Morphy vs Maurian, 1866
cornflake: <xrt999: 6...d5 is the refutation to this line. After 7.exd5 Qh4 8.Kf1, the game is in black's favor by a small margin, typical of the kings gambit; although white has traded down material, he has a slight spatial advantage and will ...
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C37 |
| Nov-20-09 |
I Hatem
laskersteinitz: <Clocks that don't add time at a time control but instead wait to reach zero before adding the requisite time.> Although I did just realize that this obviates the need for a move counter...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Ron Steensland
eric the Baptist: This guy plays like me.
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| Nov-20-09 |
Le Quang Liem
swordfish: Now he plays Tkachiev in the World Cup. Slight underdog, but it'd be great to see Le Quant Liem advance.
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| Nov-20-09 |
Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2009
karik: Here is a more complete score, carefully compiled from http://video.russiachess.org/#sessi... . After a blunder 26. -Nd4 it looked an easy win for Carlsen but probably both players missed a few possible saves. 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 ...
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B01 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Yifan Hou
ILikeFruits: hou can...
win...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Leko vs Carlsen, 2009
Raulone: Nobody told about: 33. Rxe4 f4 34. Bh2 Rh4 35. Bg1 Rg4 36. g3 fxg3 37. fxg3 Rxg3 38. Bd4 Is a better position for White (is a draw actually) than 33. Bb8
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B90 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Morphy vs Maurian, 1866
cornflake: <heuristic: mo' better moves :
9...Qf6 10.Nc3 Nd7 11.Nb5 Kd8 12.Qe3
11...Kd8 12.Na3 Ne7 13.exd6 cxd6 14.Rae1
12.Na3 Kd8 13.Nb5 f6 14.exf6 Bxf6
13.Nc3 Qg6 14.Nb5 Kd8 15.Rae1 f5
13...Qd7 14.Bh6 Nxh6 15.Bb5 Nf5 16.Bxd7+
...
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C37 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Piket vs M Gurevich, 1989
plang: 12..Qe7 was an improvement that makes the variation questionable foe White. McDonald after 15..f4!: " Given one more move White would have expelled the knight from d4 with 16 e3. Then, having defeated or prevented a Black attack at its ...
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A89 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Mamedyarov vs Svidler, 2009
nd792001: I find this to be one of the more entertaining games of the tournament of the 50 or so I've seen.
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C69 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Hebert Perez Garcia
kramputz: Name: Hebert Perez Garcia
Federation: NETHERLANDS
Born: 1947
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| Nov-20-09 |
V Gashimov vs Carlsen, 2009
Sbetsho: <Jafar219> I would be interested of the reason for your ridiculous bashing of Carlsen. Not only here, but in other posts you seem to have something very personal against him.
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B25 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Robert James Fischer
Riverbeast: <A guy like Tal, serious about the game, but not obsessed, would have played as long as Korchnoi, if he had been healthy.> I think Tal had a bit of the 'mad genius' in him also...It's in his eyes! :-)
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| Nov-20-09 |
Fischer vs Keres, 1962
engmaster: Birthtimes, after 17)Nd5,Nxd5 18)exd5 g6 19)a4,c4 blacks weak king side pawn structure is exploited by the activation of white bishops. Both black bishops are weak and the black Kt on a4 misplaced. Black is weak on the Q side as well on
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C96 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Veselin Topalov
KamikazeAttack: <Anyway, Topa has never complained about the financial part of their relation...
>
Servants don't complain about their pay Badest:)
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| Nov-20-09 |
Ivanchuk vs Kosteniuk, 2009
offramp: After 30...d6
[DIAGRAM]
the difference in co-ordination between the two sides was VERY noticeable.
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C25 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Anand vs Aronian, 2009
Ulhumbrus: <notyetagm: A WEAKNESS IS *NOT* A WEAKNESS UNLESS IT CAN BE ATTACKED>
Suppose that instead of 12 b3? Anand does try to attack Black's King. On 12 Qh5+ Kg8 12 Bc2 White will castle, Black can hardly prevent e4, and Black seems in ...
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D15 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Gelfand vs L Dominguez, 2009
offramp: A very poor advert for the Bb5 Closed Sicilian. Black gets an initiative in the opening that simply would not give up. He took control of the d-file on move 19 and kept it right to the end. Black exchanged some pieces to make white's ...
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B50 |
| Nov-20-09 |
C Sandipan vs M Kobalia, 2006
kurtrichards: Kobalia and Sandipan will face each other again in the first round of World Cup 2009.Although Kobalia is slightly favored to win against Sandipan, fans of the Indian star are hopeful that their favorite (Sandipan) can pull the rug ...
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B44 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Tony Palmer
James Demery: Happy Birthday wishes are in order for tpstar - one of the great annotaters of our time. If you`ve never read Tony annotations you`re in for a treat. Hey Tony, do you have a game collections list for the games you have annotated. ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Judit Polgar vs Karjakin, 2009
melianis: white has a responsibility to attack... in blitz! One for more detailed analysis.
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C48 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Natalia Pogonina
kingscrusher: I have video annotated Natalias win against a Womens World Champion - Antoinette Stefanova: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V59X...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Raymond Moon
ILikeFruits: Picture of the moon you gave to me that night
The stars were out to play; the moon was shining bright
If only I had known that it would end so soon
I was left with a picture of the moon
The sound of soft guitars beneath the ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Heiling
ILikeFruits: HEIL!!!
:D
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| Nov-20-09 |
Anand vs Carlsen, 2009
pawn to QB4: I expect that Carlsen, Kramnik and Topalov have a lot more respect for Anand than you do. Like you, I would predict Carlsen to become the dominant player of his era, but that's been an easy prediction for some years now. I also expect
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D31 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Kosteniuk vs Judit Polgar, 2009
Whitehat1963: Beautiful finish.
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B46 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Karpov vs Spassky, 1974
gezafan: Spassky played significantly better against Fischer than he did against Karpov. Spassky's play also seemed to decline after he won the WC.
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E91 |
| Nov-20-09 |
S Sharma vs Jester, 2006
returnoftheking: <htmtblair> <I don't see how someone could see that far ahead in the game! How did white formulate the plan! > On the 15th move: white has way more pieces on the king side. Black has weakened his position with h6 and ...
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C11 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Mikhail Tal
Everett: <MDWilson> I wonder how strong Botvinnik's constitution would be if he chain smoked and was a heavy drinker.
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| Nov-20-09 |
Nezhmetdinov vs P Ermolin, 1946
tommer: Seems to me instead of 7..dXe5 the best move for black is 7 .. Bg4 in order to develop at least one queen side piece.
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B71 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Edelman vs I Mazel, 1928
JRG: haha love it
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C57 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Spassky vs Korchnoi, 1968
M.D. Wilson: Korchnoi hated the KID with black. Why he used it against one of the greatest Saemisch players, I'll never know.
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E83 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994
M.D. Wilson: What do you mean, whatthefat?
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E93 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Anand vs Karpov, 1998
Dubirka: Why didnt Karpov play Bf3xg2 after 30.Nf7? it would be a really strong move. 30. ..Qh4 just looks silly.
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A45 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Ponomariov vs Judit Polgar, 2009
Boomie: The way Judit used her knights with 14. g5! is miraculous. Here and against Naiditsch, Judit showed that you don't get into a bar room brawl with the girl. Even Anand got his ears boxed.
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E10 |
| Nov-20-09 |
E J Diemer vs Heiling, 1984
Dubirka: sorry i meant stopping the white queen from getting to the d5 square
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A45 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Anand vs Kosteniuk, 2009
noviant: After I saw the video, I guessed Anand try to make AK lost on time...AK was in time trouble (in move 23, AK's time around 25s left)...great escape...
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D44 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Tomasz Markowski
BIDMONFA: Tomasz Markowski MARKOWSKI, Tomasz
http://www.bidmonfa.com/MARKOWSKI%2...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Carlsen vs Svidler, 2009
laskersteinitz: What language are they speaking in at the end. I assume English...?
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B40 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Carlsen vs Grischuk, 2009
slomarko: <Ouch, Grischuk clearly didn't notice 77.Rd6!(probably missing that d8=Q is check) in the bad time trouble he was in.> actually he took quite a lot time for that so the blunder is weird
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E32 |
| Nov-20-09 |
S Hornecker vs Z Kornin, 2007
Lovuschka: The problem was, I simply didn't see 22...Rxd5 when playing 20.Sxa7+. If I did, maybe I would have found the foreplan 20.Sxb6+! axb6 21.Sa7+ Kb7 22.Rxd8 Kxa7 with still a bad but maybe not completely hopeless position. The real mistake ...
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C10 |
| Nov-20-09 |
Carlsen vs Anand, 2009
cionics: Smokin'!
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D37 |
| Nov-20-09 |
George Hatfeild Gossip
FSR: <parisattack: . . . Excellent work! Read, printed and placed with my copy of The Chess-Player's Manual. . . . Have you done any other players?> Thanks! Yes, I've done many. I haven't gone into nearly as much depth on anyone else as I ...
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| Nov-20-09 |
Lasker vs Pillsbury, 1895
Buttinsky: I think White plays d4 rather than d3 for better piece mobilization, which is somehow worth allowing the knight on e4.
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C42 |
| Nov-20-09 |
V Sikula vs Paschall, 2005
zenithooligan: I have been studying this variation of the scandinavian. not sure how sound it is for black...it looks pretty tenuous after 10. d5- white seems to have a huge spacial advantage. this is one of the few games i could find in which ...
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B01 |
| Nov-20-09 |
O Matjushin vs G Matjushin, 2000
notyetagm: http://www.chesscafe.com/dgt_chesst...
Event "Step by Step"]
[Site "Kharkov"]
[Date "2000.03.01"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Matjushin, Gennady"]
[Black "Matjushin, Oleg"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "2275"]
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C45 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Gelfand vs Aronian, 2009
notyetagm: 25 ?
[DIAGRAM] Game Collection: TACTICAL TARGETS: components of DOUBLE ATTACK 25 Qe5-g3! one target is pin on g-file, 2nd is clearance of e5 25  e5-g3! <double attack: ...
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D47 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Bird vs Englisch, 1883
dotsamoht: How Bird was deprived of his worm... a famous game...
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C53 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2009
notyetagm: How does Carlsen meet the threat of 69 ...  h5xg5 ? 69 ?
[DIAGRAM] He ignores it by making a bigger threat, <OVERLOADING> the Black h5-rook with 69 h6-h7!. 69 h6-h7! ...
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D15 |
| Nov-19-09 |
O Sarapu vs Korchnoi, 1967
Richard Taylor: LOL! Bit of a fizzer - but such is chess!
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C49 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Kramnik vs Ponomariov, 2009
cornflake: <Eyal: An extremely rich and dense game - bold opening strategy by Kramnik (Joel Benjamin on ICC: "8.dxc5 is not a line that you should necessarily show to your kids"), lots of complications and sacrifices in a very unbalanced ...
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D38 |
| Nov-19-09 |
M Pavlovic vs G Cabrilo, 1991
MiCrooks: The rest of the game seemed to be played out pretty poorly though. Why on earth does Black go into the line he does where he goest from having the Queen for two pieces to just a Queen for a Rook and a Knight. And allowing all of the pawn
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E80 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Arianne Caoili
Richard Taylor: Evil.
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| Nov-19-09 |
Capablanca vs Janowski, 1911
waustad: Why are you calling this a Colle System game? Yes, there is an early e3, but the typical c3, Bd3, Nbd2 leading to an eventual break with e4 is what I think of as the Colle System.
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D04 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Judit Polgar vs Anand, 2009
shintaro go: Anand shouldn't have played on given Judit's advantage with the pawns.
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C78 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Jose Raul Capablanca
HeMateMe: Some nice words about Capa from past chess greats:
Emanuel Lasker, world champion to who Capablanca defeated him in 1921 and with the one he faced in several opportunities, manifested: "I have known many chess players, but among them ...
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| Nov-19-09 |
Menchik vs F Schubert, 1928
zdigyigy: 31.Re2!
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D35 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Judit Polgar vs Karpov, 2009
notyetagm: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
Polgar,Ju (2680) - Karpov,Ana (2619) [B13]
World Blitz Moscow RUS (16), 17.11.2009
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Nf6 6.h3 e5 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Qe2 Qe7 9.Bb5+ Bd7 10.Bxd7+ Nexd7 ...
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B13 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Hans Arild Runde
Blunderdome: Actually, it appears that a loss of 1.1 will leave him with just a large enough fraction to be rounded into a tie for first?
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| Nov-19-09 |
Mieses vs Tarrasch, 1916
Richard Taylor: This was a close fought game with many quite complex tactical variations in it.
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C45 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Vugar Gashimov
Thuellin: You seem to be a little confused about what inflation entails.
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| Nov-19-09 |
Grischuk vs Carlsen, 2009
prolixity: I just learned a great endgame lesson from this game; bringing the king to help your passed pawns in a QKvsQK is essential. Did anyone else notice how the checks against Black's King in the endgame really just help the King get into an ...
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B30 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Morozevich vs V Gashimov, 2009
uaregg: probably he didnt have enough time to think about it
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A60 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Leko vs Ivanchuk, 2009
Hesam7: <Q. How do you like the rule, used here, that draws can only be agreed with the permission of the arbiter? Kramnik: It seems to me that this is an imaginary problem, but if the organisers do not want players to agree an early draw, then
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B90 |
| Nov-19-09 |
James Mason
HeMateMe: They are doing a remake of Lolita, for the new century.
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| Nov-19-09 |
Lubensky vs Petrosian, 1949
guaguanco: He thought he would recover his bishop with Rd1, but overlooked Nb6...
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E46 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Spielmann vs Tarrasch, 1922
beatgiant: <psmith>
On 43. Ne5 Nb3 44. Rd5, Black has 44...Na1, planning 45...Nc2 aiming at both b4 and e3. I don't see White winning it. For example, 43. Ne5 Nb3 44. Rd5 Na1 45. Rd8+ Kg7 46. Rb8 Nc2 47. Nc4 Nd4 48. Rb7+ Kg8 49. Ne5 Nc2 ...
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C01 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Tal Memorial (2009)
AuN1: can we get a forum for the world cup now?
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| Nov-19-09 |
Sokolsky vs I Nei, 1955
WhiteRook48: powerful display of passed pawns
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A00 |
| Nov-19-09 |
O Lie vs K Saga, 1965
WhiteRook48: 11...Kxe7?? is more dangerous than it looks
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D00 |
| Nov-19-09 |
T Van Scheltinga vs A Gulbrandsen, 1937
WhiteRook48: R+B is powerful coordination
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D61 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Mamedyarov vs Tkachiev, 2009
WhiteRook48: Tkachiev needed to look at the board...
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D02 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Najdorf vs H Rossetto, 1947
WhiteRook48: 12 Bxh7+ is so tempting
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D62 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Sakaev vs Kramnik, 1989
WhiteRook48: Kramnik got greedy
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A85 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Ivanchuk vs Naiditsch, 2009
nd792001: the "flying knight" tactical shot moves 24-28 is quite amusing
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B23 |
| Nov-19-09 |
P Ostojic vs Fischer, 1970
WhiteRook48: 21 Rf4?
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B90 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Pirc vs Tylor, 1932
WhiteRook48: 19 bxc5?
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D64 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Karjakin vs Bu Xiangzhi, 2008
feitang: A very good game of Bu
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B90 |
| Nov-19-09 |
V Gashimov vs Leko, 2009
Marmot PFL: What makes you think black resigned?
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C84 |
| Nov-19-09 |
S Sharma vs K Patel, 2007
htmtblair: anyone?
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C65 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
Eyal: Btw, I've recently been involved in an attempt to collcet all of Fischer's exchange sacs at Fischer vs Larsen, 1971 , following somebody's comment that "It's uncanny how many late middlegames / endgames Fischer goes into the exchange down ...
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| Nov-19-09 |
Vasily Smyslov
KamikazeAttack: Many thx Plato.
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| Nov-19-09 |
E Schiller vs K Mohr, 1984
TheFocus: I totally agree with <FSR> about Schiller. I have also contributed some things to Winter's Chess Notes that have been published, and can say that Winter has always been very helpful to me, and very polite and cordial in our ...
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A56 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Vidmar vs Lasker, 1936
smitten: And there are some flaws in the annotation. For example, on Black's move 15, <Qxb4> should be replaced with <Qxb2>, etc.
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D66 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Wilhelm Steinitz
theagenbiteofinwit: <BishopBerkeley> I can't thank you enough for providing that link.
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| Nov-19-09 |
Vladimir Kramnik
ChessBossMan: Great article, I think I may have to add Vladimir Kramnik to the grandmasters section with in our website, this week we are featuring Natalia Pogonina. Check us out: http://www.ChessBoss.com/ .
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| Nov-19-09 |
Beer
Travis Bickle: Here's a great video to drink beer to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfHf...
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| Nov-19-09 |
L Dominguez vs Kosteniuk, 2009
chillowack: Something tells me the opposite might have been true! ;)
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C55 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Tkachiev vs Mamedyarov, 2009
nd792001: this game ending/score does not seem correct
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E60 |
| Nov-19-09 |
T Nyback vs U Von Herman, 2009
waustad: It tells something about the strength of the team when Tomi Nyback is playing 4th board.
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E11 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Keith Arkell
Jim Bartle: You must have had an interesting childhood, FHB.
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| Nov-19-09 |
Leonid Stein
returnoftheking: thanks krolock, kadlec!
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| Nov-19-09 |
Carlsen vs Judit Polgar, 2007
jmboutiere: Carlsen 31/42
Anand 28/42
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E10 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Breyer vs Bogoljubov, 1920
fred lennox: <Pawn and Two> You are an informative kibitzer. Thank you for that.
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B10 |
| Nov-19-09 |
H Wernich vs J Mason, 1876
YoungEd: Interesting game! White's initial development looks threatening, but nothing come of it. I think that taking the pawn sac with 19. xd7 was White's error, because that allowed ...
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C43 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Greenblatt (Computer) vs Fischer, 1977
Garech: Brilliant attacking chess from Fischer, who totally destroyed his silicon opponent. But now a question for the masses: Fischer at his prime Vs. The most recent Rybka w/ opening book and tablebases - who wins?
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B92 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Lasker vs E Jones, 1900
rjsolcruz: 9. Nd5 is what GM Torre played vs Rhal Sol Cruz, Jr. in a training game in preparation for the 3rd Asean Primary School Sports Olympiad in Jakarta, Indonesia in Nov 2009. I would like to add that the APSSO was well managed and Jakarta ...
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D61 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Capablanca vs M Fonaroff, 1918
Whitehat1963: My favorite bit of Capablanca's tactical wizardry. Happy birthday, Jose!
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C62 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Mark Paragua
rjsolcruz: The Mark vs 600 willl not push through but The Mark for RP PARA will push through on Nov 28 at MERALCO. Entry fee is P500 and proceeds will go to our blind players of the RP Para Chess Team This is a good chance to play former SuperGM ...
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| Nov-19-09 |
J Mason vs Max Weiss, 1882
OlavDalkeith: what about this move?
32. Nxe5 + !?
black looses the queen!?
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D00 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Adzemovich vs E Schiller, 1978
seagull1756: beautiful annotations. Bronstein himself would throw his Zurich book into a rubbish bin after seeing this.
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E18 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Fischer vs J B Bednarski, 1966
spotkicker: Today 9...Nfe4 and especially 9...Nfe4 10.fe6 Qh4 are abandoned variants in Sozin Attack. The best thing after 9.f5 is playing 9...Be7 for black. 10.fe6 fe6 11.Qe2 Qc7 is more playable.
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B90 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Ivanchuk vs V Gashimov, 2009
Sem: Yes,<Raf>, Ivanchuk is a different man here. Looking at his scores in Hoogeveen and Moscow and now in this rapid tournament, I cannot help thinking that his genius is more manifest in normal games.
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B70 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Kasparov vs Gelfand, 1993
spotkicker: Moving b5-b4 is not very good for these variations. Black should play 13...Nc6 instead of 13...b4?! 14.Ne2 Kh8 15.Bg5 (15.Be3? Nf6 is too difficult to solve the problems) 15...Nf6 16.Qh4 and Black's position is not bad.
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B87 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Ivanchuk vs Gelfand, 2008
spotkicker: What does 19...Qa7 mean? Is it a right move really? Why black gives the pawn back? The main problem is that: Why black played 18...Ng7? 18...b4 looks better. 19.Nd5?? ed5 20.ed5 Bb5 21.Rfe1 Qa7 provides white nothing.
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B87 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Jimmy Liew Chee Meng
Benzol: See Jimmy Chee Meng Liew also.
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| Nov-19-09 |
Vassily Ivanchuk
KamikazeAttack: In the long run, with a career spanning 20 years at the top, and many opportunities to contest for the world title, Ivanchuk can only blame himself for missing out. This is due to his main weakness - consistency.
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| Nov-19-09 |
Kosteniuk vs Anand, 2009
extremepleasure2: psmith,
13. Bd5 if 13... ed4 then 14. Nxd4! Nxd4 (14... Bxd4 15. cd4! so that if 15... Qe8 15. Qc2! wins) 15. Be4! d5 16. Bxd4! Bxd4 17. Bxh7+ Kh7 18. cd4 and white's position looks better. However, I should concede the fact ...
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C78 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Carlsen vs Gelfand, 2009
achieve: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Critical position after 65 Nf3-h4
[DIAGRAM] Even Ke8 would be sufficiant here as White is in a sort of Zugzwang: if he moves his King he'll allow ...Nc4! - which is hard to find with 2 secs/move, and if the Knight ...
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A33 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Leinier Dominguez-Perez
Plato: Well, Dominguez didn't come close to defending his world blitz title (not that there's any shame in that, when faced with such an incredible field this year), but he does have the honor of being the only player who didn't lose at least one ...
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| Nov-19-09 |
Keene vs E Torre, 1980
ssien: hello ^_^
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A43 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Morozevich vs Kosteniuk, 2009
dr.carreras: Moro gave point for bj !!! >:>
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B50 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Naiditsch vs Carlsen, 2009
dr.carreras: Actually, one more move was played before black resigned. Magnus played 64..Rc3, and Naiditch then resigned
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C69 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Naiditsch vs Karpov, 2009
achieve: Remarkable COLLAPSE here from move #41 onward - Naiditsch really lost the plot, or must have been in extreme Zeitnot.
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B12 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Leko vs Carlsen, 2009
achieve: Took me a few seconds, but spotted Bd4+ during the Live transmission, but didn't get to ...f5 mate as Carlsen, in the time-scramble, had already taken off the Queen; Point being - he didn't have "a few seconds" when he was about to make ...
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B90 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Sasikiran vs Harikrishna, 2002
GaeBulg: I don't think I've ever seen grandmasters play out an elementary ending like this. Q+K vs K is one of the easiest checkmates to do.
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D49 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2009
AgentRgent: <Atking: Why not 29.Be6> Nice find, but after <29...QxQ 30.fxQ> 30...Ba5 looks better; although white still likely holds.
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A30 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Carlsen vs Karpov, 2009
sergeidave: Guys don't forget that this is a blitz game, and 3-min for that matter... Time troubles can make you overlook moves...
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E20 |
| Nov-19-09 |
Hebden vs Nunn, 1979
Smothered Mate: too bad...
Hebden resigned instead of letting me happen.
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C36 |
