May-06-25 Cochrane vs Moheschunder, 1850 
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: The tactical sequence that begins with 21. Rxa7 is quite insane by even modern standards. Determining whether or not the capture works requires a lot of calculation. The defence 20...Nh5 by Banerjee was a truly impressive conception. |
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May-04-25 Paulsen vs Steinitz, 1882
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: All commentators missed the spectacular winning shot that both players missed. 22.Nxf5!! Qxe1 23. Qb3!! when 23...Qxc1 loses to 24.Qb6+ Kc8 25. Nxd6# and the defence 23...Qe5 which looks to cover everything fails to 24.Qb6+ Kc8 25.Nb5! which threatens Mate in 1 and taking ... |
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Mar-30-25 Chigorin vs Schiffers, 1878
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: White had many chances even after taking 17. Qxh7? First of all there's the incredible 18.h4 with the idea of answering 0-0-0 with Bg5 where White won't lose the queen. Secondly, Schiffers obvious looking Qg5 tactic is actually giving White chances as the simple 20.g3 ... |
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Mar-30-25 Schiffers vs Chigorin, 1878
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: A very premature and bizzare resignation by Schiffers. He's a piece down but there's very real compensation. |
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Mar-27-25 Y Yu vs A Erigaisi, 2023
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: The position after 16...c5
That box in the center. It would give me a headache to try and work out what is happening there. |
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Mar-14-25 Mephisto vs Gunsberg, 1878
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: 11....b6 is truly inexplicable as pointed out, but Gunsberg got his chances anyway later on. He had two chances: 1) Coolly ignoring the discovered attack with 21...Rxe5 when the counter-attack would have led to a wild, chaotic game. On move 24 he could have turtled up with |
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Mar-09-25 Anderssen vs Steinitz, 1866
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: It seems extremely probable that in between the games one or both players realised the problem with 7...d3 as here Steinitz was much better. It was probably published or mentioned somewhere and d3 wasn't repeated as most players became aware of this tactic. |
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Feb-07-25 Steinitz vs F Deacon, 1863
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: Looks like blitz and rapid were the future even in 1863. |
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Feb-07-25 J Corzo vs Capablanca, 1901
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: The real mistake from Corzo was repeating this dubious 8 exd5 line. The mainline with Bxf4 is perfectly playable even in 2025 as modern NNUE engines show. But of course without any definite knowledge of what is correct or incorrect this was how opening theory developed. In |
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Feb-07-25 J Corzo vs Capablanca, 1901
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: 56.Kg2 was actually Corzo's final missed chance. After that there was no way through. As someone pointed out 43.b5 was better, but in fact White is just completely winning as there is no way through on the kingside and White will create the outside passer and win. |
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Feb-05-25 Capablanca vs J Corzo, 1901
Feb-04-25 J Corzo vs Capablanca, 1901
Jul-06-24 Kholmov vs Boleslavsky, 1947
Jul-24-23 V Tarasov vs Korchnoi, 1957
Jul-24-23 Tolush vs Bronstein, 1957
May-24-23 A Boruchovsky vs B Savchenko, 2012
May-07-23 T Moriuchi vs A Yusupov, 2006
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