Mar-30-25 Chigorin vs Schiffers, 1878
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: White had many chances even after taking 17. Qxh7? First of all there's the incredible 18.h4 with the idea of answering 0-0-0 with Bg5 where White won't lose the queen. Secondly, Schiffers obvious looking Qg5 tactic is actually giving White chances as the simple 20.g3 ... |
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Mar-30-25 Schiffers vs Chigorin, 1878 
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: A very premature and bizzare resignation by Schiffers. He's a piece down but there's very real compensation. |
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Mar-27-25 Y Yu vs A Erigaisi, 2023
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: The position after 16...c5
That box in the center. It would give me a headache to try and work out what is happening there. |
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Mar-14-25 Mephisto vs Gunsberg, 1878
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: 11....b6 is truly inexplicable as pointed out, but Gunsberg got his chances anyway later on. He had two chances: 1) Coolly ignoring the discovered attack with 21...Rxe5 when the counter-attack would have led to a wild, chaotic game. On move 24 he could have turtled up with |
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Mar-09-25 Anderssen vs Steinitz, 1866
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: It seems extremely probable that in between the games one or both players realised the problem with 7...d3 as here Steinitz was much better. It was probably published or mentioned somewhere and d3 wasn't repeated as most players became aware of this tactic. |
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Feb-07-25 Steinitz vs F Deacon, 1863
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: Looks like blitz and rapid were the future even in 1863. |
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Feb-07-25 J Corzo vs Capablanca, 1901
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: The real mistake from Corzo was repeating this dubious 8 exd5 line. The mainline with Bxf4 is perfectly playable even in 2025 as modern NNUE engines show. But of course without any definite knowledge of what is correct or incorrect this was how opening theory developed. In |
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Feb-07-25 J Corzo vs Capablanca, 1901
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: 56.Kg2 was actually Corzo's final missed chance. After that there was no way through. As someone pointed out 43.b5 was better, but in fact White is just completely winning as there is no way through on the kingside and White will create the outside passer and win. |
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Feb-05-25 Capablanca vs J Corzo, 1901
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: Without having looked at engine analysis I really wonder if 21. Rxg7 was worth considering. After 21...Bxf5 (21...Qxg7 22.Nxg7 Bxh3 23. Nxh5 is good for White) 22. Rxe7 Bxh3 23. Re8+ Kg7 24. Rg1+ Rg5 is almost forced as as a king move allows 25. Rgg8 and winning back the ... |
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Feb-04-25 J Corzo vs Capablanca, 1901
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| Prabhat Mukherjea: @N.O.F. Najdorf
More fundamentally the suggestion 16...Kd7 "!" is actually wrong to begin with. There was simply 17.Be6+ Ke8 18. Nf7+ Kd8 19. Nxh8 Qh6 (Qh5 20.Bf7+) 20. Nf7 and White is winning. In your variation the material is fine after Black loses his Queen, but lack ... |
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