Nov-13-23 Alekhine vs A Pomar, 1944
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| Novirasputin: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eT9fd... Life Master Gene Salomon talks about the board and pieces used in this game in my interview with him in the video above. This was kind of a big deal and Gene purposefully put his chess set for Alekhine to use in this game! |
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Nov-13-23 Alekhine vs E J Salomon, 1944
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| Novirasputin: Yesterday I interviewed Gene about this specific game the video is here on YouTube please hit like and share to help keep chess history alive (how many living players have tangoed with Alekhine!) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eT9fd... Btw Gene said the game was over before the ... |
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Jul-27-15 A Yusupov vs Carlsen, 2003 
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| Novirasputin: The international chess academy uploaded this 2 part video discussing this game to youtube:
p1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_...
p2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKf...
We hope to make it into a series with all our famous coaches. |
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May-25-14 Ed Lasker vs G Thomas, 1912
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| Novirasputin: Having memorized this game one of my prouder moments is doing this in a bullet game online. I castled on the last move. My opponent thought I was using a program |
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May-12-14 Bronstein vs Gulko, 1968
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| Novirasputin: GM Gulko recently gave a lecture at our Thursday Swiss competition in Teaneck. This game was the topic of discussion. We have notes from an earlier lecture posted here: http://www.icanj.net/chess_class_in... |
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Aug-25-13 Sergey Kudrin
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| Novirasputin: We just uploaded video of GM Kudrin commenting on this specific game on YouTube. This is a rare GM draw that got a standing ovation.
http://youtu.be/zxOHKHv8aVY |
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Aug-25-13 Kudrin vs Tal, 1984
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| Novirasputin: We just uploaded video of GM Kudrin commenting on this specific game on YouTube. This is a rare GM draw that got a standing ovation. http://youtu.be/zxOHKHv8aVY |
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May-07-13 J L Hammer vs Carlsen, 2013
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| Novirasputin: Magnus now has an Arabian Mate and Anastasia's Mate to his credit. I wonder how other GMs fair with mating patterns? Can Magnus run the cycle of each mating pattern there is? And is there a player who has done so? |
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Apr-18-13 Bronstein vs I Anagnostou, 1954
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| Novirasputin: I'm wondering if this is another Bronstein Zugzwang? After Ke8 which looks forced white can get an exchange or maybe wait until black runs out of pawn moves to get more. |
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Apr-03-13 Mikhail Tal
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| Novirasputin: Here is the difference. Tal was unquestionably the best in his prime (and at other times too). The thing is he never let his health act as a crutch even though it was a logical reason for some of his subpar performance. That is admirable and showed he just loved the game. The ... |
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