Apr-02-13 Hort vs A Pomar-Salamanca, 1975
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Chessical: <26...Qxg3> 27. Rxd8+ Bxd8 28. fxg3 Kc7 29. Ne5 f6 [DIAGRAM] should be a draw but Pomar obviously wanted more.
<36...Qc3?!> (36... Bf6) looks good at first glance but leads to an unfavourable minor pieces endgame for Pomar as Hort's K is able to make rapid progress ...
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| | Mar-30-13 A Pomar-Salamanca vs Hort, 1972
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Chessical: <21.Qd5!> seems to be a significant improvement.
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| | Mar-28-13 H Kestler vs P Peev, 1972
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Chessical: Peev's <32..Kf6>
[DIAGRAM] loses what had been an more or less equal game by blundering away the exchange. <32...Bf7> gives White only a small advantage, for example: <32... Bf7> 33. Nf4 Re7 34. Kf2 g5 35. Ne2 Nb5 Peev overlooked the revealed attack on the ...
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| | Feb-01-13 Gligoric vs F Olafsson, 1959
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Chessical: A favourite system for Gligoric, Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System (E54) , but one which gives him nothing here. At the adjournment Fisher took it upon himself to tell Gligoric that the position was dead drawn.
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| | Feb-01-13 Keres vs F Olafsson, 1959
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Chessical: Olafsson equalises, only to blunder by overlooking a hidden threat to his back rank in time trouble. [DIAGRAM] He had to play either <27...Be7> or <27...Qa7> with reasonable prospects. Olafsson is eyeing a mate on <g1>, and he calculated that the threat to his ...
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| | Feb-01-13 D Mardle vs B H Wood, 1959
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Chessical: <47. Nf4+!>
[DIAGRAM] 47...Kg5 48. e6 Kxf4 49. e7 wins immediately.
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| | Jan-26-13 Keene vs R Kneebone, 1974 
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Chessical: <24...f5!?> seems a better defensive try with the idea of <e4> to follow. [DIAGRAM] For example:
<25. Ne3> Nxe3 26. Bxe3 e4;
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<25. Ra2> e4 26. f3 exf3 27. Qxf3 Qc8 28. Bg5 Re8.
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| | Jan-22-13 Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko
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Chessical: From the article brought to our attention by Resignation Trap: "I never worked within a coaching group, instead I went a completely different way, on an independent path. It so happened that I was taught to play chess by a worker in a camp in 1931... A large role in my development
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| | Jan-22-13 Schiffers vs Chigorin, 1880
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Chessical: Schiffers loses what appears to be a drawn K+P ending by miscounting who will have the move with <44. Ke3?> . [DIAGRAM] <44. hxg5!> fxg5 45. f4 and now either pawn capture leads to a draw by the same method: <45...gxf4> 46. gxf4 exf4 47. e5 h4 48. e6 h3 49. e7 h2
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| | Jan-21-13 M Jakubowski vs Vokac, 1998
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Chessical: A basic but instructive R+P endgame position, showing the advantage to the defender of having one of his opponent's pawns on a rook file so limiting the options to manoeuvre. [DIAGRAM] White plays <59.Kc3?> and loses. He could have held the position despite being a pawn down
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