Apr-16-13 M Playa vs R Watanabe, 1991 
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dougiejfresh: 31. Bxd5 loses material. Black replies 31. ...Bc1, and White has no safe square for the rook on the d-file (Rd4 loses the rook to the knight fork Ne2+) Moving the rook off the d-file leaves the bishop hanging to the knight, and 32. Rf2, threatening the loose bishop on f5, loses
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| | Feb-20-13 Kasparov vs R Ballantyne, 2008
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dougiejfresh: the original - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJi... a favorite - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugl_...
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| | Jan-29-13 A Rico Gonzalez vs F Ballbe Anglada, 1955
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dougiejfresh: I think its 26. Rh1+ Bh5 27. Rxh5+ gxh5 28. Rh7+ Kxh7 29. Qg7#
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| | Jan-27-13 E Myhre vs G Lorson, 1952
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dougiejfresh: Erlenmeyer flask - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenm...
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| | Jan-18-13 Kavalek vs J Grefe, 1973
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dougiejfresh: Black seems lost anyway. What happens after 41. Bg6 Kf6 42. Bh5, threatening Qg6#? Black cannot defend g6. Seems 42...Kg5 is forced, but 43. Qg6 still wins (43...Kf4 44. g3#; 43...Kh4 44. Re4+ wins the queen). What am I missing?
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| | Aug-14-12 Kupreichik vs Razuvaev, 1980
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dougiejfresh: 29...Rxe6 won't delay the pain at all - 30 Nf6# is still good. 29...Qxe6 is hardly better, as 30 Rxe6 once again leaves f6 undefended and black is down a queen. Black can only delay the pain with 29...f6. But mate follows anyway: 30. Nf6+ Kf7
31. Qh7+ Kf8
32. Qg8+ Ke7
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| | Aug-14-12 J Finnegan vs R P Allen, 1948
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dougiejfresh: Black plays the Morphy defense, but it is White that really channels Morphy. White cuts through Black using surgical precision, making use of all of his pieces in the process.
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| | Jul-23-12 Biel Chess Festival (2012)
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dougiejfresh: Giri missed 46...f5+, but 49. Re4?? gave him another chance to seal it, and he did.
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| | Jul-23-12 E Sigurdarson vs H Ragnarsson, 2011
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dougiejfresh: Another Monday, another Q-sac. Qxh6+ and its mate in 2 more.
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| | Jul-13-12 T Kosintseva vs Kotronias, 2007
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dougiejfresh: Black threatens Qg3+ with a strong mating attack. If white allows 36...Qg3+ (by playing e7, for example), then black can wrap things up as follows: 37. Kh1 Rd1+ 38. Rf1 Rxf1#
37. Kg1 Rd1+ 38. Rf1 Qe3+ 39. Kh2 Rxf1, where Black is now up a rook, has his Queen on the e-file to ...
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