Jul-10-23 Kamsky vs Nunn, 1995
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| LouE: I can't imagine what it must be like to be able to play a move like 39...Qxd5 while blindfolded. Still, it's a shame that Nunn missed the winning idea - that even after the blunder 40...Qxb5?? (which Charles Hertan in Forcing Chess Moves guesses was a touch-move error somehow...I don't |
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Feb-19-21 Blackburne vs C T Blanshard, 1891 
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| LouE: As for alternatives to 5.d4, 5.Bc4 is promising, developing a piece to an active square and maybe even threatening some Ne5 -> Qf3 stuff in future. Things look like they might get a bit messy after 5...Nd5 but it turns out that while the knight on f3 is protected by the queen on d1, |
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Feb-06-21 Geller vs Panno, 1955
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| LouE: Interesting to note that the other two, Pilnik and Najdorf, got their kings off the f-file after 13.Bb5!, and after that it was at least a game of chess. Panno allowed 15.O-O+! and got toasted in a handful of moves. |
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Jan-31-21 A Toth vs X Bu, 1999
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| LouE: I love this 11.Bc5 move - is it theory? |
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Jan-24-21 E Liubarski vs V Soultanbeieff, 1928
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| LouE: Necroposting by a degree of almost a decade, but 8.Bd3 is the move that I really take issue with (aside from the obvious blunders). I'm not sure what White (or Stockfish, who also doesn't hate the move) are trying to achieve with it, but as much as I disagree with Chernev that 7.d5 is ... |
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Jan-22-21 von Scheve vs Teichmann, 1907
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| LouE: Another interesting thing to note is that Chernev writes that 4...Qe7 prevents White from playing d4 on the next move, but further analysis reveals that actually this may in fact be possible. After 4...Qe7 5.d4!? exd4 there is 6.O-O!, gambitting a pawn in quite favourable circumstances |
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