Amarande has kibitzed 385 times to chessgames   [more...]

Mar-13-25 Stein vs I Birbrager, 1966    Amarande: A nice way to end it after 20 ... Kg6 21 Qe8+ Kh6 is 22 Nf7+ Kg6 23 Nxh8#. I mean you could just do 22 Qh5#, but why pass up the fun of two double checks in a row ending in the corner like some old timey King's Gambit?      Nov-28-24 Marshall vs M Brody, 1900    Amarande: Drawn either way of course, but ... it's too bad it's not Black's move in the final position ...      Oct-04-24 Duda vs V S Gujrathi, 2024    Amarande: Splendid! If instead: 26 ... Kh7 27 Qxf7+ Bg7 28 Rh6+! Kxh6 29 Qg6# 26 ... Kg7 27 Rg6+! fxg6 (Kh7 28 Qf7+ Bg7 29 Qxg7#) 28 f6+ Kh7 29 Qf7+ Bg7 30 Qxg7#      Sep-08-24 A Haik vs S Skembris, 1981   Amarande: The finale reminds me of the famous Reti game. Interference on the same square too.      Aug-10-24 Nakamura vs Sasikiran, 2005   Amarande: The various treatments of 2 Qh5 shows the variety and balance of Chess quite well indeed. (I expect its poor record is likely tied to skill difference; how is White's rating compared to Black's in the games it's been played in?) 4 Qf3 feels a little much though; the Queen should ...      Aug-02-24 Lasker vs A Goldberg, 1905    Amarande: Black is up on material (R+B+N vs Q+P) and there is no forced mate. White's only immediate threat, in fact, is 16 Ne6 hitting the B to gain tempo for 17 Nc7+, which is easily parried by 16 ... Bf6. It is certainly too soon to resign. It's a true pity we don't have the rest of the ...      Jul-07-24 Bird's Opening (A02)    Amarande: A curious line in the From that I notice has not got even a single game in the database: <1 f4 e5 2 fxe5 d6 3 exd6 Bxd6 4 e3> The double step of the e-pawn is losing, but what is Black to do against the modest single step? If the same method that defeats 4 e4 is attempted, we      Jun-29-24 J Brunnemer vs W Failing, 1920   Amarande: <Chess Review, Jan. 1949>, gives 17 Bh6+ (B-R6+) rather than Ba3+, along with annotations about the variation 18 ... Bd2 19 Ng7+ upon which 19 ... Ke7 leads to a mate in four while 19 ... Kf8 20 Qxb7 is an untenable position for Black. In CG's version, of course, 18 ... Bd2 ...      Jun-09-24 U Rasmussen vs R Andersen, 2000    Amarande: Perhaps when Steinitz brings out his king for marches there needs to be that blinking "DO NOT ATTEMPT" at the bottom of the screen? LOL White's King can move to 3 squares, but all of them actually lead to the exact same mate in 3: 37 ... Nxa4+ (it's a discovered check no matter ...      Jun-06-24 Botvinnik vs V Chekhover, 1935    Amarande: Fine cited it in The Middle Game in Chess to my recollection as well (ugh why must the Fine books' publisher not be a fan of publishing ebooks! I wore out my copy of both that and BCE a long time ago and wish there was an electronic version). I'm guessing self-embarrassment by ...

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