Jul-08-12 Granda Zuniga vs Tal, 1991
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Jitanjafora: I was there when Tal won this amazing game. He left the stage quickly, under big ovation. Anyone saw the checkmate net, with an only exception: Mikhail Tal. |
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Apr-15-12 Quinteros vs B Larsen, 1973 
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Jitanjafora: a good knight vs bad bishop game (Larsen) |
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Oct-02-11 Botvinnik vs Flohr, 1933 
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Jitanjafora: You can find deep positional analysis of this game, in Botvinnik's "One hundred selected games", game # 33. Of course, after g6 Flohr is in deep trouble. |
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Jul-27-11 Euwe vs S Landau, 1939 
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Jitanjafora: This game is commented by Kasparov in "My great predecessors. Vol. 2" |
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Aug-10-10 Spassky vs Korchnoi, 1977 
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Jitanjafora: Interesting: 22.Rxc3? Qh4+ and black wins. But Kasparov suggests 22.g3 instead of the actual 22.Kf1. |
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Jul-20-10 Antoshin vs Barcza, 1964
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Jitanjafora: Antoshin offers 29.g4 Qg5 30.h4 Qxh4 31.Qxe5+ with great attack. He was in terrible time trouble, only 2 min for 11 moves. |
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Jul-11-10 Gufeld vs Smyslov, 1975 
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Jitanjafora: In the magazine "Ajedrez de Estilo" # 117 (Feb. 1989) Gufeld wrote that this game was played at Riga, not Erevan. (Team Tornament, last round) |
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May-30-10 L Palau vs S Kalabar, 1927 
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Jitanjafora: Luis Palau was editor of Revista Ajedrez (Buenos Aires, Argentina) until his death. In an article he offered his memories about this game: Kalabar was a young man, who paid more attention to some postcards than to the board, so he pushed the pieces in a careless way. For that ... |
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