Oct-15-19 Art Zhao vs D A Yeager, 2011 
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| Gouvaneur: Really? This game literally is of no chess value. White plays like a patzer and swindles a mate. Choosing games as the GOTD just for the sake of a good pun is really unnecessary. There are so many magnificent games played in tournaments daily. Can't be too hard to choose a decent ... |
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Jan-07-19 Hort vs O Sarapu, 1974
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| Gouvaneur: Surely, 9...Nd7 looks very risky. 9...Nf6 seems stronger, but 10.f4 asks very uncomfortable questions to Black. For instance 10...fxe4 11.fxe5 dxe5 looks inferior, giving White a strong protected passer on d5. 10...exf4 11.Nxf4 or 11.exf5 Bxf5 12.Nxf4 looks very risky as well with |
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Dec-11-18 Miles vs Polugaevsky, 1984
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| Gouvaneur: @GlennOliver: Does it really win? 40...Rh1+ 41.Kxh1 a1D+ 42.Kh2 and Black still has to deal with the mate threat on f8. 42...Qg7 43.Rxf8+ would transpose to the game continuation - with Black having two rather useless queens!
The alternative would probably be to play 42...Qxg2+ ... |
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Dec-04-18 Balashov vs Jansa, 2017
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| Gouvaneur: Maybe should have started the tactics question with the position after 38.Qg5. I suppose this was declined due to the fact that 38...gxf3+ seems to be quite crushing as well. |
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Nov-09-18 C Boor vs J Kraai, 2004
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| Gouvaneur: 4...f5? is known to be refuted. And yes, compared to the King's Gambit, which people claim to be incorrect, 4...f5? really has a clear refutation. |
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Oct-26-18 M De Verdier vs A Lauber, 2010
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| Gouvaneur: Looks awefully similar to Fischer's Nxe3! against Byrne. |
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Apr-12-18 G Goldberg vs Bronstein, 1961
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| Gouvaneur: @Honey Blend:
Sometimes it makes more sense to choose the simplest win. Here White declared with his last move Kf2 that Black has no constructive plans whatsoever. At any given moment White will chop on e6 and force mass exchanges either disposing Black's king hopelessly or ... |
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Mar-07-18 Morozevich vs A Anastasian, 2003
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| Gouvaneur: @Breunor: The line given with 25...Qd2 is not that simple over the board though. Especially 30.cxb4 Qd6! -+ is difficult to see in advance. Now the White b-pawn is pinned and the Rb8 can't stay on the b-file due to Qc6+. Also, even if White loses the piece: If White manages to ... |
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Feb-03-14 R J Dive vs Westerinen, 1989
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| Gouvaneur: Not a good game of the day. Probably chosen for the sake of the pun.
Anyway, <Phony Benoni> is right of course, White simply oversaw a mate with 22.Bxe5.
The game looks quite spectacular, but if you analyze it a bit you will find out that both sides played rather mediocre ... |
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Jan-08-14 S Ernst vs A H Wohl, 2009
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| Gouvaneur: @morfishine:
If you argue that way, then none of Morphy's games are worthy of GOTD. And actually, no game with a gambit-opening is worthy of GOTD.
I really liked Spike Ernst playing in a "geometric" way, swinging the Queen from e1 to b1 to h7. Amateurs like me only see the ... |
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