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Jul-31-21 Staunton - Saint-Amant Match (1843)    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: ...      Jun-16-21 Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1981    Lossmaster: <Breunor> If you feel those two players deserve a better pun, may I interest you in Beliavsky vs Kasparov, 1983 ?      Nov-14-20 H Seidman vs K Burger, 1954    Lossmaster: In the "frying" pun genre, this one wrote itself: M French vs D Fryer, 2015 .      Oct-20-20 L Endzelins vs H de Carbonnel, 1965   Lossmaster: "Carbonnel Copy"      Sep-05-20 NN vs Lucena, 1497    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 ...      Aug-24-20 J Addicks vs Duchamp, 1931   Lossmaster: "Ready Mate"      Aug-11-20 J C Moore vs M J Read, 1981   Lossmaster: "Moore Correspondence to Read"      Aug-06-20 M Perunovic vs R Soltanici, 2017    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.      Aug-03-20 A Zaitsev vs Adorjan, 1971    Lossmaster: "Do as Zaitsev, not as Ado"      Jul-19-20 Beliavsky vs Kasparov, 1983    Lossmaster: "Alexander's Siege of Gazza" (History buffs will get it.)

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