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| Jan-15-04 | | tayer: An uncommon ending and interesting ending. |
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| Jul-05-04 | | kevin86: Not only does white underpromote-but also forces black into a skewer. |
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| Jul-16-04 | | Capafan9: Wow! Endgame perfection by Janowski. Having the presence to promote to a knight after 99 moves is incredible. |
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| Dec-15-05 | | DAL9000: <Wow! Endgame perfection by Janowski. Having the presence to promote to a knight after 99 moves is incredible.> Actually, what's even more amazing about the position is that 99. f8=N+ is /forced/. Any other move by White leads to disaster. |
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| Jan-21-09 | | WhiteRook48: excellent play by White. |
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| Jan-24-09 | | WhiteRook48: check out the first 6 moves |
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| Feb-14-09 | | WhiteRook48: let's make it game of the day people |
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| Feb-21-09 | | WhiteRook48: underpromote and skewer- great! |
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| Dec-26-09 | | Whitehat1963: Yes, agree! Excellent game! |
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Jan-07-12
 | | Penguincw: White puts up great defense then just throws everything at black. |
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May-17-14
 | | offramp: Good pun for today, and a good game. |
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May-17-14
 | | Check It Out: This ups my estimation of Janowski quite a bit. |
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| May-17-14 | | ThumbTack: A game this long I usually don't even like to start. And Four Knights Symmetrical..how boring! But I'm glad I had the patience to play it through. Beautiful chess. |
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| May-17-14 | | Conrad93: Ah, the days when you could get away with playing like crap in the opening... |
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| May-17-14 | | Shams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgz... |
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| May-17-14 | | morfishine: One of the most interesting games I've seen in awhile On a side-note, One of my old chess buddies is the spitting-imgae of Janowski: mustache, hairline, glasses, everything So we nicknamed him 'Janowski' |
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| May-17-14 | | goodevans: Lots of little gems in here, like <85.Kg8> breaking the pin for the f-pawn advance. At first sight this hangs a pawn, but of course <85...Rxf6> is answered by <86.Rxf6 Qxf6 87.Rf7> with a pin of his own. What stamina these guys must have to keep playing inventively for so many moves. |
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May-17-14
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May-17-14
 | | FSR: <Check It Out: This ups my estimation of Janowski quite a bit.> We tend to think of Janowski as a joke, largely due to the horrific beatings Lasker gave him in Lasker - Janowski (1909) and Lasker - Janowski World Championship Match (1910), and perhaps also his last-place finish at New York (1924) and his notorious loss in Janowski vs Reshevsky, 1922. However, he was a very strong player at his peak. Chessmetrics
actually rates him the No. 1 player in the world from May to September 1904. http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... (I think that Lasker got knocked down on the list for inactivity, which Chessmetrics "punishes" by taking away rating points - on the theory that inactivity makes a player weaker, although in point of fact that rarely seemed to be true for Lasker.) |
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May-17-14
 | | perfidious: <FSR> Maroczy also ascended to the top spot for a time during Lasker's reign after the latter was penalised, under Sonas' system. This, thankfully, did not last overlong and order was restored. |
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| May-17-14 | | RookFile: Lasker would have been amused, and probably would have found a way to get a sponsor to set up a match. |
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| May-17-14 | | Eusebius: Fantastic play. |
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| May-17-14 | | kevin86: Both sides promote...but only white UNDERpromotes! |
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| May-17-14 | | Howard: FSR has a point in that Janowski has gone down in chess history as an underrated player---no question about that. His two devastating losses to Lasker were mainly because Lasker was in a class all by himself back in those days. As for his last place finish at New York 1924, let's bear in mind that the man was in his 50's by then and way past his prime. But, on the other hand, I find it hard to believe he ever deserved to be ranked #1 in the world---regardless of what criteria chessmetrics uses. Janowski might very well have been in the world's top-5 at various points in his career, but not Numero Uno. |
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| May-17-14 | | RookFile: I guess he played five (!) matches against Marshall. My impression is that Marshall and Janovsky were roughly the same strength, although of course this fluctuated during their long careers. |
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