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Dec-17-24 Honza Cervenka chessforum    Freelance Assassin: <Honza Cervenka> It is amazing how some of those players played despite having relatively sparse chess books (compared to today), no engines, no internet chess sites, and, for the very top players, having to travel to different countries just to practice against ...      Dec-13-24 Ding - Gukesh World Championship Match (2024)    Freelance Assassin: A short match of 14 games means an uncharacteristic blunder is much more likely to decide the outcome than a longer match.      Dec-12-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    Freelance Assassin: 55. Rf2 is BS, but it is a genuine part of the human experience.      Dec-07-24 Gawain Jones    Freelance Assassin: That was some good stuff at the London Chess Classic.      Dec-02-24 Sergey Karjakin    Freelance Assassin: So Karjakin stopped playing under FIDE because he came out in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? I thought the FIDE ban was six months, and that was in 2022.      Oct-20-24 J Waitzkin vs A Baburin, 1998   Freelance Assassin: 23. Bd4? A GM usually doesn't allow a move like this without having some way to counter it, but at least Waitzkin didn't make the psychological error of automatically assuming White must have something just because he's a GM. 41...h4+ was a nice way to finish this, though      Oct-16-24 Niemann vs Kramnik, 2023    Freelance Assassin: Nothing he could do!      Oct-15-24 Capablanca vs Ragozin, 1936   Freelance Assassin: After 45. Kd4?, White probably thought 45...Bb5 46. Re3+ Kd6 47. Nc3 is good for him, missing ...c5+ 48. Ke4 Bc6+.      Oct-14-24 Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924   Freelance Assassin: <<31. g4> Anxious nature might have moved the King towards the queenside, but Capablanca adheres to the principle of aggression that governs rook endings. -- Reti> I will gladly play 31. Kf2 over g4, though I prefer Rd7.      Oct-10-24 Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858    Freelance Assassin: Anderssen lost here because of a simple blunder, not because Morphy straight up outplayed him, but it's still a nice little tactic.

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