Apr-02-13 Carlsen vs Svidler, 2013 
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| bvwp: Why do people so much like sneering? Always a sign of psychological damage. Carlsen didn't lose his nerve: he launched a dangerous attack than only someone with the aplomb and tenacity of Svidler could have seen off. Svidler played wonderfully well. Like Ivanchuk, he can beat anybody ... |
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Apr-02-13 Svidler vs Ivanchuk, 2013
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| bvwp: I like Svidler because he likes cricket so much. Striking that he's done much better than his ranking would suggest (which would have made him seventh out of eight). |
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Jun-18-12 Tal vs J Miller, 1988
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| bvwp: Five vowels in order. Also abstemious. |
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Feb-28-12 P Larsson vs Englund, 1942
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| bvwp: gizmo: 11..Qe3 mate |
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Jan-25-12 Charousek vs Skultety, 1891
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| bvwp: Round about move 12, I started thinking "This just isn't fair." Wonderful stuff. |
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Aug-17-11 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1913
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| bvwp: Not enough talk about money in all this. Lasker was champion and wanted money, the more the better, if his title were going to be at risk. I don't think anybody has ever claimed that Lasker wasn't a little grasping. |
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Aug-01-11 Keres vs Alekhine, 1937
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| bvwp: Have always respected Max Euwe's response to invasion by Nazis. He went on teaching; he would not play in their chess tournaments. |
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Jun-14-11 Steinitz vs Blackburne, 1876
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| bvwp: Blackburne did imbibe. Said it was good for the thinkers. |
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Mar-29-11 Blackburne vs Steinitz, 1883
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| bvwp: The thing about 18...Nc8 is that Steinitz was always confident he had time for manoeuvres. Usually he was right. Sometimes a sharp player like Blackburn could catch him on the hop. |
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Sep-30-10 C Kottnauer vs Kotov, 1946
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| bvwp: I think it was Harry Golombek who said that, in all due modesty, he had been able to think like a grandmaster. What he'd not been able to do was to win like one. |
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Jun-17-10 R Shamshin vs I Polovodin, 1989
Nov-19-09 Menchik vs F Schubert, 1928
Nov-11-09 H Buckle vs Anderssen, 1851
Jul-28-09 Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924
Jul-21-09 R Nezhmetdinov vs D Grechkin, 1949
Jun-15-09 G MacDonnell vs Bird, 1874
Jan-15-09 H Atkins vs Blackburne, 1909
Dec-17-08 Polugaevsky vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1958
Dec-16-08 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972
Jun-10-08 Morphy vs T Bryan, 1859
Sep-27-07 W Spens vs de Vere, 1867
Sep-13-07 Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri, 1560
Aug-20-07 Hromadka vs M Schreiber, 1936
May-29-07 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1986
Apr-19-07 Anand vs Karpov, 1996
Nov-07-06 Kibitzer's Café
Sep-20-06 Yates vs Rubinstein, 1925
Sep-13-06 Pillsbury vs Schiffers, 1898
Aug-15-06 McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834
May-18-06 L Didier vs Pillsbury, 1900
Dec-12-05 Suetin vs Gligoric, 1967
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