Feb-15-13 Tal vs Miles, 1981 
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| LastDaysofSaloFlohr: 7...Bd6 seems better. 7...Be7 is quite passive. And I play the Caro-Kann. Miles took a few liberties here and got crushed by Tal. I don't find these games especially instructive - one side plays badly, the other punishes it. (This isn't a criticism of Tal by any means, ... |
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Jan-29-13 Lasker - Schlechter World Championship Match (1910)
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| LastDaysofSaloFlohr: Maybe if his mother had named him Hannibal he would have had the requisite killer instinct to finish Lasker off.
(Geddit?)
Anyway, back to sobriety - I read Thomas Glavinic's novel based on Schlechter - <Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw.> An interesting and ... |
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Jan-28-13 S Belavenets vs I Rabinovich, 1934
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| LastDaysofSaloFlohr: PS: Excuse the repetition of "banalities"in the same sentence. A shocking lapse! |
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Jan-28-13 I Rabinovich vs V Makogonov, 1939
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| LastDaysofSaloFlohr: Determined defence from Makogonov who was in the top ten c.1940. He didn't get the GM title until much later because I don't think he ever played outside the Soviet Union. Rabinovich was an endgame specialist who had drawn with <Capablanca (Moscow 1925)> and beaten |
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Jan-27-13 M Bonch-Osmolovsky vs Ragozin, 1951
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| LastDaysofSaloFlohr: No, it doesn't - 18...Bh8 deserves three ???s. Nd5 is such a standard idea it is unbelievable Ragozin missed it. Maybe he just forgot, but if e.g. 18...Re8 19.Bg7 Kg7 20 Nde2 Rc6 21.f4 is a tad embarrassing. A few decades later we understand these Hedgehog setups a lot ... |
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Jan-27-13 Mikhail Bonch-Osmolovsky
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| LastDaysofSaloFlohr: Bonch Osmolovsky isn't too difficult to say. I actually quite enjoy saying it out loud. He beat Ragozin and he beat Geller so he was clearly capable. |
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Jan-27-13 Paul Morphy
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| LastDaysofSaloFlohr: An amazing insight, Conrad93.
You should write a book.
By the way, is 93 your year of birth or your IQ? |
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