Jul-31-21 Staunton - Saint-Amant Match (1843) 
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Lossmaster: A very high-resolution scan of the Laemlein lithograph showing game 19 is downloadable from the Musée Carnavalet:
https://www.parismuseescollections.... Identification of the 32 people depicted is discussed (in French) on pp. 37-38 of this document:
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Jun-16-21 Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1981 
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Lossmaster: <Breunor> If you feel those two players deserve a better pun, may I interest you in Beliavsky vs Kasparov, 1983 ? |
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Nov-14-20 H Seidman vs K Burger, 1954 
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Lossmaster: In the "frying" pun genre, this one wrote itself: M French vs D Fryer, 2015 . |
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Oct-20-20 L Endzelins vs H de Carbonnel, 1965
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Lossmaster: "Carbonnel Copy" |
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Sep-05-20 NN vs Lucena, 1497 
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Lossmaster: <Marcelo Bruno: As far as I know, it seems to be the first exemple of a game with opposite castlings.> In the manuscript score of the game (game 14 in the "Lucena manuscript"), both "castlings" are actually played in a two-move sequence. First a normal rook move (10... Rd8 ... |
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Aug-24-20 J Addicks vs Duchamp, 1931
Aug-11-20 J C Moore vs M J Read, 1981
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Lossmaster: "Moore Correspondence to Read" |
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Aug-06-20 M Perunovic vs R Soltanici, 2017 
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Lossmaster: In the position at the beginning of the puzzle, there’s a nice pattern where the four knights together control all the white squares around them except the one right in the middle of them. |
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Aug-03-20 A Zaitsev vs Adorjan, 1971 
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Lossmaster: "Do as Zaitsev, not as Ado" |
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Jul-19-20 Beliavsky vs Kasparov, 1983 
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Lossmaster: "Alexander's Siege of Gazza"
(History buffs will get it.) |
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