Jul-01-25 M Ragger vs Grischuk, 2015
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| JohnBoy: Stockfish seems to think 32.Nd6 was impetuous. |
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Mar-15-25 Matulovic vs A Tsvetkov, 1965 
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| JohnBoy: I am w <scormus>. Qc1 was dismissed as losing two pawns. The puzzle requires six moves by white, spotting that giving up a pawn for the trade of queens leaves the black knight stranded. Well beyond me. |
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Mar-02-25 Carlsen vs Aronian, 2024
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| JohnBoy: I love this as a treatment of the open Ruy. Pressure the c6 weakness & completely take away the mobility of black’s rooks. Never seen this particular constriction before. |
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Dec-23-24 C Lakdawala vs W Boctor, 1993
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| JohnBoy: Bago was always a materialist. His philosophy was *show me that Im wrong.* At the 2200-2350 level not all of us were able to sustain momentum for material. |
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Dec-23-24 Wageeh Boctor
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| JohnBoy: Nice to see Wageeh’s name here. I was a friend & competitor of both him & his brother (Waheed, ~2250 as I recall). |
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Dec-09-24 J van Foreest vs M Dehn, 2013
Dec-05-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024
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| JohnBoy: Can someone please describe the kind of pull white gets if black takes the gambit pawn with 10 - dc4 ? It is stuff like this that drives me crazy. I could never play a decent Catalan from either side |
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Oct-22-24 J Nogueiras vs Kasparov, 1989
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| JohnBoy: Is 24.Qf6 Qc4 better for black than the game? |
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Oct-22-24 B Amin vs TransWarp, 2009
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| JohnBoy: For the last 200 moves white had nothing. But black had some speck of play with a -g5 lever. Consider around 130. Why does not black trade queens, put a B on e7, bring the king to g7, and play -g5? Is there some problem w the black position after this? |
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Oct-04-24 A Sznapik vs S Holm, 1972
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| JohnBoy: <patfoley> - I presume you mean 31.Bd5+. It is neither as clear or efficient, due to 31.-Re6. I made that mistake as well. |
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