Sep-24-23 C Carls vs H Johner, 1927 
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| JohnBoy: Looking at the puzzle position, I couldn’t begin to guess what opening lead here. |
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Aug-24-23 A R Saleh Salem vs Smeets, 2013
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| JohnBoy: What's wrong with 11...Nf3+? |
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Jul-26-23 Wei Yi vs G Jones, 2018
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| JohnBoy: I’m curious if 12…f6 13.Be3 f5 would improve for black. At least it moves the bishop from a place where it somewhat cramps black, and poses an immediate threat. |
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May-10-23 M Kolesar vs O Sikorova, 1998
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| JohnBoy: Very entertaining game, full of delightful surprises. Nice pick |
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Apr-07-23 T Foster vs P Lalic, 2023
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| JohnBoy: Is the 50 move rule no longer in effect? |
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Mar-10-23 Epishin vs V Karpman, 1990
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| JohnBoy: Like everyone, I saw 24.g6 right away. What I totally missed was how 25.Nd5 picks up an X. That was sweet. |
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Dec-09-22 Reshevsky vs S Katz, 1922
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| JohnBoy: The Budapest is loaded with these traps.
And, <fred>, the kid was 10. |
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Nov-01-22 D Russell Wada
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| JohnBoy: Russ went from 1600 to 2300 in about six months ~1977. And ever the nicest guy. I only played him once. Drawn but tricky endgame I managed to screw up and lost. |
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Oct-05-22 Shirov vs H Wang, 2009
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| JohnBoy: Here is what got me stuck: 23.Rxh6 Qxh6 24.Nf6+ Qxf6 25.Bxf6 gf6 & how does white win this? Black can break the pin on f7 w -Be6 almost certainly at the cost of another pawn, but has a lot of material to confuse the white efforts. |
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Sep-01-22 N Kosintseva vs W Ju, 2009
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| JohnBoy: My familiarity w the term is, like <OCF>, as a plant. I doubt that most of my Jewish colleagues and friends would take much if any offense one way or another. Amusing is that his comes from the same <FSR> who criticized me for "Cordoned Negro" where black (Fressinet) got |
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