Jun-16-18 Alekhine vs A Velikanov, 1916 
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| ChrisWainscott: According to Sergei Tkachenko’s book Alekhine’s Odessa Secrets, the opponent in this game was Alexander Alexandrovich Velikanov. He was the owner of the Central Hotel where Alekhine would give a simul in 1918. |
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Sep-04-17 Bronstein vs Lutikov, 1959
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| ChrisWainscott: This game is an excellent example of why you should never move "automatically" in the opening. In his book "Grandmaster Performance" Polugaevsky says that the main line after 6...b6 was 7.d5 c5 8.dxc6 Nxc6 which wasn't giving White the desired result. So Bronstein prepped ... |
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Aug-23-17 E Najer vs Tomashevsky, 2014
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| ChrisWainscott: Boris Gelfand gives a position from near the end of this game in his book Positional Decision Making in Chess as an excellent example of a position where one side has a space advantage, but can't take advantage of it due to there being no useful breaks in the position. |
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Aug-16-17 Short vs Topalov, 1995
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| ChrisWainscott: The position after 33.Nd4 is the first position given in the amazing book Imagination in Chess by Paata Gaprindashvili. |
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Jun-03-17 Ivanchuk vs Smirin, 1985
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| ChrisWainscott: 15.Nb5 gives me the impression that Chucky was really looking at a lot of Kasparov's games at this time. |
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Mar-11-17 Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858
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| ChrisWainscott: Knowing historical games can be useful. This game was one of the tests in the third lesson of the first orange Yusupov book. Of course that made me want to come here and play through the entire game again. |
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Nov-26-16 Saemisch vs Z von Balla, 1921
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| ChrisWainscott: Wow, what an insane blunder with 31.h4 rather than 31.Nxb6. White dominated this game until then. Chess is hard! |
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Nov-26-16 Euwe vs J Schweiger, 1921
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| ChrisWainscott: Nice Technique by Euwe as always. Once he was up material he just improved his position until Schweiger collapsed. However, Schweiger seemed to hasten his defeat with 13...Qb5 and then especially with 17...Bc5, after which this game seems strategically lost. |
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Nov-26-16 Alekhine vs Bogoljubov, 1921
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| ChrisWainscott: The Romanovsky book above is Soviet Middlegame Technique, and the game in question begins on page 18. |
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Sep-27-16 S Tatai vs L Christiansen, 1977
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| ChrisWainscott: Sad news today to hear of the passing of Mark Izrailovich. I also looked at this example in the same book tonight. RIP Legend. |
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Aug-06-16 Nakamura vs Smeets, 2011
Jul-19-16 Gelfand vs Grischuk, 2013
Jul-02-16 Gelfand vs Y Wang, 2010
May-23-16 Petrosian vs Y Estrin, 1968
Mar-02-16 Torre vs Marshall, 1926
Jan-04-16 V Artemiev vs E Najer, 2015
Jan-04-16 Gelfand vs G Oparin, 2015
Jan-04-16 O Reeh vs C Mann, 2008
Dec-20-15 Nakamura vs J Friedel, 2009
Dec-08-15 Nakamura vs Anand, 2015
Nov-03-15 Gulko vs J Waitzkin, 1995
Nov-03-15 M Ashley vs Korchnoi, 1995
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