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John Owen vs Isidor Gunsberg
6th BCA Congress, Manchester (1890), Manchester ENG, rd 13, Sep-02
Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (A46)  ·  1-0

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1-0

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Dec-20-19
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  keypusher: This received the best game prize for the tournament.

So you may want to skip the rest.

Dec-17-22
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  keypusher: <So you may want to skip the rest.>

What a jerk! Pay no attention to him.

Dec-17-22  stone free or die: Ah, <kp> don't be so hard on him, just one of those misadventures of youth... (we paid him no nevermind anyways).
Dec-20-22
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  keypusher: My 2019 comment was obnoxious, but it is genuinely surprising this was considered the best game of the tournament. After a quiet opening, Black blunders on move 13 and never looks like he'll survive after that.

It should not have lasted as long as it did, e.g. after 23....h6:


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White has 24.Qg4 threatening Qh3. If 24....Nxe5 25.Qf4 Nd7 26.Qd6 wins.

Dec-20-22  Olavi: "The most Instructive Rook and Pawn Ending Ever Played" (Chernev): Tarrasch vs E Thorold, 1890

Beside the point of course.

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