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Once
Member since May-19-08 · Last seen Jul-28-24
Have you tried Naked Chess yet?

I now have three chess books for sale:

"Naked Chess: How to Win" is aimed at club players who would like to improve their playing strength and win more often.

"Naked Chess: Learn from the Champions" is a collection of games played by world champions against much weaker players. This includes many games played in simultaneous displays against NN.

Naked Chess: Once upon a Chess Game is a collection of my posts on Chessgames.com when I was going through my story-telling phase.

To help promote the two new books, I am giving away my third book for free. All you need to do is to join my mailing list at www.will-once.com.

>> Click here to see Once's game collections.

   Once has kibitzed 5874 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Oct-16-23 B Adhiban vs R Deepthamsh, 2008 (replies)
 
Once: I am always a little wary of throwing lots of material to win the enemy queen. Sometimes we get so obsessed with her majesty that we throw too much material at her. After all, we are investing a minor piece and a rook to win the enemy queen. By counting alone that's a level trade. Sort
 
   Feb-13-23 A Hoffman vs D Pereyra Arcija, 1995 (replies)
 
Once: What I find interesting here is that the solution doesn't win material. It's rook for rook. But what it does do is to force the exchange of rooks which in turn accentuates white's material advantage. That sits a little oddly with the FAQ definition of what constitutes a solution, but ...
 
   Feb-06-23 D Kosic vs S Cvetkovic, 1994 (replies)
 
Once: <Timwestlund: I think it's quite silly to resign in such a position. You're not wasting anyone's time by playing one more move, and I think it's good sportsmanship to allow the mate in such positions.> Maybe. Maybe not. There are two schools of thought here. One approach is to ...
 
   Dec-27-22 Golombek vs J Sajtar, 1948 (replies)
 
Once: The prosaic 24. Qxb4 snaffles a safe piece as the threat of Ra5 pinning doesn’t give black time to capture the Bd7.
 
   Jul-13-22 Miles vs M Nedobora, 1994 (replies)
 
Once: Here we are again, three years older and greyer but probably no wiser. Should I have remembered this from 2019? Heck, I frequently find myself walking into a room and forgetting what I came there for.
 
   Apr-04-22 E Ubiennykh vs O Girya, 2012 (replies)
 
Once: Today we are spoilt for choice. If we don't like 41... Bxg6 42. Qg7#, we could always invite everyone to the party with 42.Rg7# Or 42. Qxg6+ with a choice of three different mates with Qg7# or Qh7# or Rh7#
 
   Dec-06-21 B Rabar vs Polugaevsky, 1959
 
Once: White's novel experiment of retraining rooks to make a career change as pawns did not end well.
 
   Dec-06-21 E Williams vs Staunton, 1851
 
Once: Why did Black play 34...Re8 instead of resigning? One possible explanation is that after Staunton had played his move, Williams then announced the mate in 2. This would end the game without the moves actually being played on the board. They did things a little differently in 1851,
 
   Dec-01-21 J A Torres vs R Gonzalez, 2000 (replies)
 
Once: I think <al wazir> has a point. The first part of the puzzle is pretty obvious. The position is crying out for 18...Bxa2+ when 19. Ka1 Qa5 is horrendous and 20. Nxa2 Qa5 isn't much better. So far so Wednesday. I imagine most of us got that fairly quickly. But up to now we have ...
 
   Nov-15-21 A Kogan vs J Stocek, 1997 (replies)
 
Once: 35. Nxg6 for me. It either forces black to walk into the cross-hairs of a discovered check Q+R battery, or opens the h file for a Qh3-h7 lift. Once I found that I stopped looking. Okay, so 35 Rxh7+ is one move quicker. But as that extra move is the computerish spite-block Bh6, I think ...
 
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