Jan-29-23 S Fenil vs L Guliev, 2011
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DaltriDiluvi: Assuming the game score is correct, this game ended in a strange way. It's move 60 with Black to move: [DIAGRAM] First, Black turns a winning position into a losing one by playing <60...Rxg3??>. Now White could have won with the skewer <61.Rg6+!>. Instead, he hands ... |
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Jan-24-23 Giri vs D Gukesh, 2023 
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DaltriDiluvi: I think that Giri had prepared <13.exd4!?> and <14.Rc2!?> in advance. In the CG Opening Explorer, there are 30 games with <13.Qxd4> and only 2 games with <13.cxd4>. There are no games with <14.Rc2>. |
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Jan-22-23 Marcel Post 
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DaltriDiluvi: He was two letters away from being "Marcel Proust". |
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Jan-21-23 T Beerdsen vs R Vaishali, 2023 
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DaltriDiluvi: Here's the position at move 22 (White to move): [DIAGRAM] The following engine line gives White an endgame with four pawns for the exchange - it should be winning: <22.Bc4! Bg5 23.Bxe6 Qe8 24.Qxg4 Rg6 25.Bxd7 Bxd7 26.Bc5+ Kg8 27.Qxd7 Qxd7 28.Rxd7> I'm a little ... |
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Jan-21-23 Lobron vs D Doncevic, 1993
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DaltriDiluvi: I know you're supposed to attack the white pawn center in the Grünfeld defense, but sacrificing a knight at move 10 is a bit too much. |
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Jan-18-23 P Maghsoodloo vs V Keymer, 2023
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DaltriDiluvi: For the first 16 moves, the present game followed a game from the Baku olympiad: M Machin Rivera vs Z Zhang, 2016 |
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Jan-17-23 Y Yu vs E Safarli, 2022
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DaltriDiluvi: I think the position after <44.bxa3> deserves a diagram: [DIAGRAM] |
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Jan-14-23 Kramnik vs Topalov, 2016
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DaltriDiluvi: Even in blitz, I'm surprised to see Kramnik make a mistake like <60.Nxg4?>, simplifying to a lost ♖+♙ vs. ♖ endgame. Any other reasonable move would have maintained the draw. |
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Jan-08-23 Frederic Lazard
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DaltriDiluvi: I came across a YouTube video featuring one of his studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkD... |
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Jan-05-23 A Puranik vs K Alekseenko, 2022
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DaltriDiluvi: <11.Bd2> is the first new move with respect to the CG Opening Explorer. There are 22 games with <11.Nbd2>. |
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