Apr-14-25 G Ilivitsky vs Botvinnik, 1952
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| Nerwal: Instead of the losing 39. b4, the computer shows the amazing idea 39. ♗f1!! intending to play the geometric manoeuver ♗a6-♗b7 and it seems it holds in all the lines. |
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Feb-11-25 Garry Kasparov 
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| Nerwal: <When Kasparov and Short played their world championship match outside of FIDE, both were removed from the rating list. Exactly how long were they off it? From when to when?> Olimpbase has all the old ratings list. Kasparov and Short were missing on the two 1994 lists. |
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Dec-15-24 Ganguly vs P Shuvalova, 2024
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| Nerwal: This game is a gem. Big opening preparation, lots of sacs, twists and turns and a highly entertaining finish giving quite a fair result. 23... ♘xg5 is not the best but it's just very hard to calculate and assess correctly all the lines. 23... fxg6 is probably a good practical ... |
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Oct-07-22 Vachier-Lagrave vs E Can, 2022
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| Nerwal: <Presumably Vachier had his reasons for not playing 8.f4 Qc7 9.g4, a reason Black's seventh move has long been considered dubious.> Presumably his main reason was that you're mixing up 6. ♗e3 e5 7. ♘b3 ♗e6 (main) and 6. ♗e2 e5 7. ♘b3 ♗e6?!. |
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Sep-30-22 Suetin vs Korchnoi, 1960
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| Nerwal: 20. ♕g2 is really strange. Perhaps 20. ♕f2 was played instead , but it still doesn't solve the mystery manoeuver 23. ♖d1 24. ♖d4 25. ♖d1 |
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Sep-22-22 D Charochkina vs L Garifullina, 2022
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| Nerwal: Atfer the faulty 36... ♕f7 the engine found the absolutely amazing move 37. ♗g7!! keeping the game balanced. |
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Sep-16-22 O Girya vs M Yakimova, 2022
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| Nerwal: the point of 60. ♖c2 is 60... ♘b4 61. ♖b2 and the knight is lost because of the position of the black king on the sixth rank. |
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Sep-16-22 O Girya vs N Pogonina, 2022
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| Nerwal: Critical was something like 87. ♔g5 ♗g6 88. ♔h6 ♖d5 89. ♗c3 ♖d8 90. ♖a7 ♗c2 ♔xh5 and White has much better winning chances than in the game anyway. |
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Sep-13-22 N Pogonina vs L Garifullina, 2022
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| Nerwal: White was "completely" winning the entire time and probably just missed ♖xd6 and ♖xf2. But now I remember what Lautier once wrote : If you can't calculate a forced win, you're not winning. |
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Aug-27-22 I A Zaitsev vs E Ubilava, 1967
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| Nerwal: White has lost all initiative and Black is two pawns up for nothing. Back then the games were adjourned after the time control at move 40, so Ubilava would have all the time in the world to work out the details on how to convert this position. Therefore playing on was a waste of time |
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