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Dec-12-10 S Marder vs J Dlugosz, 2007    zenpharaohs: I've done quite badly with the chessgames puzzles the past few weeks (oddly enough I'm doing well in other chess puzzles I do). But I got this one. The key to seeing the first move was that White is really lacking tools with that rook off the board, and Black's queen is a bit ...      Nov-24-10 Topalov vs M Lodhi, 2010    zenpharaohs: @al wazir: I came up with the same line as yours.      Nov-03-10 C Guimard vs Euwe, 1946    zenpharaohs: Well that makes sense that it was supposed to be Black to Play. I was reduced to thinking about whether move 34 was too early to start drumming on the table to tickle the opponent's flag to fall before I gave up entirely.      Oct-12-10 Najdorf vs R A Redolfi, 1959    zenpharaohs: For some reason this one was immediate to me, I saw the stalemated king, the extra white pawns, so when I looked for the queen sac, and saw it forced the stalemate, I went for it without calculating much else. Hope I'm not overlooking something....      Oct-11-10 V Vepkhvishvili vs D Magalashvili, 1966    zenpharaohs: The game is from 1966, where it appears the players will very young. Magalashvili's rating is almost certainly from his later career.      Sep-13-10 B Larsen vs R Bogdanovic, 1960    zenpharaohs: @ungeneral: The reply to 50 a6 is 50 ... Be5+ since it's with check, Black steals a tempo and can play 51 ... Bb8, stopping the pawn. The e-pawns go next, and I think Black wins.      Jul-25-10 A Volokitin vs Rublevsky, 2004    zenpharaohs: @Jimfromprovidence: 20 ...Qxe7 Ah yes, apparently we are past my bedtime... but in that case what is the reply to 21 Qf5 which I think is 21 ... g6 22 Qxf6 Qxf6 23 Rxf6 Rfc8 so at least White shaves back the material disadvantage. Maybe he has better activity?      Jul-19-10 D Lima vs P C de Souza Haro, 2001    zenpharaohs: This one comes under one of Tal's rules "First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns."      Jul-11-10 Salov vs Karpov, 1994    zenpharaohs: Strangely the same unexpected ease as yesterday's. Quite simple to sac the Bishop, and then Black will be wrongfooted either way he turns.      Jul-10-10 Dzindzichashvili vs Ljubojevic, 1985    zenpharaohs: I got Nxa6 and immediately found others here agreeing with me that it seems easy. Maybe we missed a line for Black?      Jul-08-10 D Dumitrache vs D Baratosi, 2008     Jul-02-10 P Wiese vs H Schulz, 2007     Jun-15-10 Karjakin vs Jakovenko, 2010     May-31-10 Anderssen vs J Finch, 1851     May-30-10 Portisch vs Lengyel, 1964     May-28-10 E Post vs A Nimzowitsch, 1905     Mar-29-10 Smyslov vs Lutikov, 1960     Mar-28-10 J Vetemaa vs Shabalov, 1986     Feb-18-10 S Zhigalko vs D Obolenskikh, 2010     Jan-24-10 Short vs Ljubojevic, 1991     Jan-21-10 Tiviakov vs T Roussel-Roozmon, 2009     Jan-17-10 Gipslis vs Hracek, 1991     Jan-15-10 G Kuzmin vs B Alterman, 1989     Jan-11-10 Eliskases vs T P Accioly Borges, 1946     Jan-09-10 Nunn vs H Pfleger, 1989     Jan-06-10 E Tate vs S Sulskis, 2001     Jan-03-10 Miles vs Z Mestrovic, 1990     Jan-01-10 B Kreiman vs Kaidanov, 1994     Dec-18-09 Y Marrero Lopez vs A Perez Quinones, 2005     Dec-09-09 Spielmann vs B Hoenlinger, 1929     Nov-30-09 G Neumann vs Steinitz, 1870     Nov-18-09 Keres vs Verbac, 1933     Nov-12-09 Van 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