Sep-26-24 Petrosian vs Najdorf, 1967
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| CharlesSullivan: White has a very clever win at move 20:
20.g4!! (20.Nb5 also leads to a probable win, according to Stockfish) 20...Bg5 21.gxf5!! Bxd2 22.Rxd2 Qg5+ 23.Kf1.
[DIAGRAM] Now, if Black "wins" the rook with 23...Qxd2, then 24.f6 and Black can: (a) give up his queen with either ... |
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Oct-05-22 AlphaZero vs Stockfish, 2017
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| CharlesSullivan: As usual, faster machines present new insights... My 32-core Threadripper 3970X says: (A) Black does NOT draw at move 34 or move 32, but (B) Black does draw with 30...Rh8 31.Qg4 Rf8 32.Bd4 Qd6 33.Be5 Qxe5 34.Rxe5 Bxe5 35.Rh1 Rf5 36.Qh3 Kf8 37.Rd1 Na6 38.Qh6+ Bg7 39.Qxg6 Rf6 ... |
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May-05-21 Fischer vs Stein, 1967 
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| CharlesSullivan: Sad to say, there is an obituary for Howard Sample of Toledo, Ohio, dated 13 August 2020. He was only 60 years old. RIP |
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Feb-21-21 O Bernstein vs A Nimzowitsch, 1914
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| CharlesSullivan: This is a very famous game: Chernev called it the "most brilliant drawn game ever played"; Martin Beheim called it "almost the ideal game of chess." Modern computers show that Black needed to play 25...f4 because White had a win at move 28 that has been overlooked for 107 ... |
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Aug-12-20 O Ulvestad vs F Reinfeld, 1939
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| CharlesSullivan: <Benzol>: Internet source says "Showpiece of the Tournament." |
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Aug-04-20 Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1927
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| CharlesSullivan: <Albion1959>: Stockfish-11 creates this in response to 51...Rc3+: 52.Ke2 Bg3 53.Rd5+ Ke8 54.f5 Rc1 55.Rd8+ Kf7 56.Rd7+ Ke8 57.Rh7 h4 58.Bd4 Re1+ 59.Kd3 Bf4 60.Kc4 Kf8 61.f6 Rc1+ 62.Kd5 and it is mate-in-14. |
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Dec-09-18 Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1927
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| CharlesSullivan: Note: I am submitting a second correction slip -- Black played 44...Qe8 in this game, NOT 44...Qf8. At least, that is what Skinner & Verhoeven (Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902-1946), Alexander Alekhine (My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937; On the Road to the World ... |
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Nov-03-18 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927
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| CharlesSullivan: < Mystery of the Unpunished Blunder, [Conclusion] > [D]
The main line is 37.Nc5! Rb8 <+5.30, depth 65, 15 hours> 38.Rc6 Qe8 39.Nxe6!!
[DIAGRAM]
39...fxe6 40.Rxe6 Qf7 41.Rxg6+ Bg7 42.Rg5 Rb6 43.h4! <+7.19>
[DIAGRAM]
Black's defenses are no match for ... |
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Oct-17-18 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972
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| CharlesSullivan: <Howard: ... how many forced wins did Bobby miss?>
After Spassky's blunder at move 31, Fischer maintained a winning position until he missed 38...Rd1. So I would say that Bobby missed only 1 forced win.
If your question is, How many (ill-defined) "better" moves ... |
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Sep-27-18 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972
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| CharlesSullivan: <Tiggler> < I would appreciate a bit more information on the total effort involved in his analysis, and about his hardware. >
Tiggler, thanks for your comment. I have an AMD 16-core Threadripper 1950X with 32 GB of memory and all the important 6-man Syzygy ... |
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