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Pawn and Two has kibitzed 1515 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jun-01-23 Tarrasch vs Maroczy, 1922    Pawn and Two: There are two editions for 'Vienna 1922' by Larry Evans. The 1948 edition has Tarrasch as White in this game. The 2011 edition has Maroczy as White.      Apr-21-23 R Byrne vs P Bachmann, 1952    Pawn and Two: Byrne actually did play 41.Rh6!. See Chess Review article - Nov. 1952 - p.339/340 - Finland 1952 - Helsinki Preliminaries - game titled 'Fast Thinking' - Byrne had only 5 minutes left on his clock when the beautiful rook sacrifice in the following game caught his eye.      Dec-06-22 United States Championship (1977)   Pawn and Two: There is a game, Ghizdavu- Zuckerman, U.S.A 1977, won by Zuckerman on chesstempo.com. Can someone verify if this is their game from the 1977 U.S. Championship?      Jun-22-22 B Finegold vs K Sorenson, 1982    Pawn and Two: In the 1982 U.S. Chess Open, Knute Sorenson scored 5 1/2 points, his brother Arne scored 3 1/2 points and his brother Jacob scored 3 points. Their father, Somner Sorenson, who also played in the 1982 U.S. Open scored 6 1/2 points. Somner was a long-time instructor of English at      Jun-15-22 Berlin BSG (1928)   Pawn and Two: The 100-year anniversary of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft occurred in 1927. However, due to delays, the international tournament to celebrate this event did not take place until February 1928. The prizes for this tournament were as follows: 1st prize - 2,000 Mark - ...      May-02-22 USSR Championship (1940)    Pawn and Two: From the book: 'Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships - Volume II (1938-1947)' by Sergey Voronkov. Tournament time limits for the 12th Soviet Championship - Moscow - 1940 - noted from the above book: 'On playing days, the games start at 6:30 p.m. and end at 11:30 ...      Jan-14-22 Showalter vs Halprin, 1898   Pawn and Two: Per the edition Olms Vienna 1898 tournament book, this game, Showalter vs Halprin, 1898 , was played in round 21 on July 1st.      Jul-14-21 Janowski vs Tarrasch, 1902    Pawn and Two: <KEG> Yesterday I submitted a correction request for the indicated moves. This morning I noticed the corrections had already been made. Thank you for all your hard work. I find your comments and analysis of these old games and tournaments to be very instructive and ...      Jun-03-21 Smyslov vs Szabo, 1953    Pawn and Two: <Phony Benoni & Retireborn> Bronstein's original tournament book, in Russian, shows the move as 20....Rf8c8. Other Zurich 1953 tournament books, by Najdorf, Stahlberg and Wood, all show the move in question, as 20...Rfc8. In my opinion, our database should be corrected to      Jun-03-21 Szabo vs Smyslov, 1953   Pawn and Two: <stevenashs20mworkout> Bronstein's original Zurich 1953 tournament book, in Russian, and other Zurich 1953 tournament books by Najdorf, Stahlberg, and Wood, all show the move 33.Rdc1. Thanks for catching this. I requested a correction for our database.

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