May-11-12 Botvinnik vs G Szilagyi, 1966 
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| raydot: Botvinnik turns Black's bishop into a lamppost. Doesn't have to capture it because he completely cripples it. Very cool game! |
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Apr-02-12 Kibitzer's Café
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| raydot: In response to <Kriegspiel> on Sep-28-05: My Stean Simple Chess collection is now complete! So you can wipe that off of your list of gripes... |
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Feb-03-11 Morphy vs A Morphy, 1849
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| raydot: You guys are hilarious. I'm sorry I missed this the first time around. As much is it's total "Who would win: Superman or Batman?" bs it's a great debate! I have to give the edge to what I think Nimh's point is. Morphy by virtue of existing in the modern world would cease to be ... |
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Jan-16-07 L Horta vs M Dos Santos, 1984
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| raydot: Where is the pun in "Resistance is Futile"? (Ok, that's almost a cheap shot, but my grammar is MUCH better than my chess.) |
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Jan-05-07 Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967
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| raydot: Here's a question...is this really a "queen sac?" I mean, it's one thing to give up your queen to deal some tactics or gain a huge positional advantage, but quite another to simply allow the queen to be captured to bring about mate. This game does not, for instance, come up in the ... |
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Mar-12-06 A Pearsall vs F Ruys, 1947
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| raydot: Heck of a way to play the Two Knights, and a heck of a finish. Good game to know. |
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Mar-09-06 A Mazzeo vs Bandoni, 1983
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| raydot: It's an interesting attack arising from the King's gambit, but I'm not sure Bandoni played much of a game here. 6. Kf2 didn't seem to be much of a liability for white! |
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Mar-08-06 A Reggio vs J Mieses, 1903
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| raydot: <Richard Taylor>"Epaulette Mate," who knew there was a name for it? You learn something new every day... |
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Mar-04-06 Blackburne vs Janowski, 1905
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| raydot: I'm sitting here looking at that same question mark...maybe the amount of incursion Black gets by forcing white to do things like castle into the pin? |
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Mar-03-06 Anna Muzychuk
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| raydot: <Jim Bartle>I wish I thought you were kidding! |
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