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Ron
Member since Mar-29-03 · Last seen Oct-26-21

"Everyone thought that the encounter of the two chess players was accidental."
--From the story "An Examination of the Works of Herbert Quain" by Jorge Luis Borges
Also, I have a blog devoted to chess:

http://chessaficionado.blogspot.com/

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   Ron has kibitzed 3659 times to chessgames [more...]

   Oct-26-21 Bronstein vs Teschner, 1965

Ron: This wonderful game by Bronstein is analyzed by my favorite chess YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4...

   Oct-07-21 World Championship Candidates (2020/21)

Ron: <OhioChessFan: https://fide.com/news/1214 NBC Sports to cover the WCC.> Maybe NBC should get AlphaZero as one of the chess analysts.

   Oct-06-21 Robert James Fischer

Ron: <Albertan: The Third Coming of Bobby Fischer?: https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-t... I agree with Frederic Friedel that Bobby Fischer did not play those internet games. Bobby Fischer himself said it was not him. Bobby Fischer did not lie about chess-related matters. He might have ...

   Sep-30-21 Daniel Freeman

Ron: Sept 30 is Daniel Freeman's birthday. He died at the age of 50. Rest In Peace. I turned 50 myself this September. Honestly, I thought there was a real possibility I wouldn't make it to 50. The genetics are against me.

   Sep-25-21 Kibitzer's Café

Ron: Wikipedia says in its article "Pawnless chess endgame": "Rook versus a bishop: this is usually a draw. The main exception is when the defending king is trapped in a corner that is of the same color square as his bishop (Nunn 2002a:31) (see Wrong bishop#Rook versus bishop). If the ...

   Jul-10-21 B Lalith vs S L Narayanan, 2012

Ron: I came across this game from the Random Game feature. The combination starts with 31.Bxg6!. If Black plays pxR, then White wins the exchange with RxR. After the game continuation 31. ... Rd1 32. Bf7 Kh8 33. Be6 axb3 White played 34. Bg5! threatening mate with Bf6. If Black plays 34. Bg7

   Jul-05-21 Yury Dokhoian

Ron: Rest In Peace

   Jun-12-21 Spassky vs Fischer, 1992

Ron: Here's a possible example of Fischer yielding: In the tournament he participated by teletype, he thought his opponent played D4 and thus played Nf6. But his opponent had played E4. Fischer, instead of making an issue about it, continued playing the Alekhine opening. Still, I don't think

   May-22-21 Daniil Dubov

Ron: <coxscorner: Says in the bio that his chess coach describes his style like that of Tigran Petrosian, perhaps when he was younger, but in the last 2 years his play has become much more enterprising and aggressive. I don't think he plays anything like Petrosian. Any thoughts on ...

   Apr-28-21 Nakamura vs A Tari, 2021

Ron: With 24. Na5! Rd4 25. Nc6, Nakamura sacrifices his bishop for two pawns, and gets two passed pawns. Stockfish 140820 says Nakamura was correct with 24. Nxa5: + (3.88) Depth=42/85 0:01:05 82 MN

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Sep-27-08		Ron: click for larger view 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8. 0-0-0 Bd7 9. f3

Sep-27-08		chesstoplay: Hi < Ron > , I know the area. I went to Loyola just south of you.

Sep-28-08		Ron: click for larger view 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8. 0-0-0 Bd7 9. f3 Be7 FINAL VOTE RESULTS: 9...Be7 170 votes (44.2%) 9...b5 150 votes (39.0%) 9...Qc7 30 votes (7.8%) 9...Rc8 16 votes (4.2%) 9...h6 5 votes (1.3%) 9...Nxd4 4 votes (1.0%) 9...h5 2 votes (0.5%) 9...Qb6 2 votes (0.5%) total # of votes: 385 draw requests: 8 (2.1%)

Oct-02-08		Ron: click for larger view 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Be7 10.Be3 h5 FINAL VOTE RESULTS: 10...h5 186 votes (46.4%) 10...b5 140 votes (34.9%) 10...O-O 47 votes (11.7%) 10...Qc7 8 votes (2.0%) 10...1-0 5 votes (1.2%) 10...e5 5 votes (1.2%) 10...Rc8 3 votes (0.7%) 10...Nxd4 3 votes (0.7%) total # of votes: 401 draw requests: 5 (1.2%)

Oct-06-08		tpstar: <Ron> I am very much enjoying your Game Collection: Games Involving Queen Sacrifices and have already found several excellent examples to use as puzzles, for my students along with our state magazine and another chess site. Note your latest diagram has 2 Black h Pawns. =)

Oct-06-08		Ron: Thanks <tpstar> I will update the diagram anyway. I created the game collection of queen sacrifices before sacrifice explorer was created I think, so I went by games I knew about and came across here.

Oct-06-08		Ron: click for larger view 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Be7 10.Be3 h5 11. Kb1 Qc7 11...Qc7 195 votes (53.1%) 11...b5 149 votes (40.6%) 11...O-O 7 votes (1.9%) 11...Qa5 4 votes (1.1%) 11...1-0 3 votes (0.8%) 11...Rc8 3 votes (0.8%) 11...Ne5 2 votes (0.5%) 11...e5 2 votes (0.5%) total # of votes: 367 draw requests: 6 (1.6%)

Oct-13-08		Ron: click for larger view 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Be7 10.Be3 h5 11. Kb1 Qc7 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 FINAL VOTE RESULTS: 12...Bxc6 332 votes (85.6%) 12...bxc6 36 votes (9.3%) 12...1-0 5 votes (1.3%) 12...Qa5 4 votes (1.0%) 12...Qxc6 2 votes (0.5%) 12...O-O 2 votes (0.5%) 12...Kf8 2 votes (0.5%) 12...Qb6 2 votes (0.5%) total # of votes: 388 draw requests: 5 (1.3%)

Oct-18-08		Ron: click for larger view 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Be7 10.Be3 h5 11. Kb1 Qc7 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 13. Bd3 b5 FINAL VOTE RESULTS: 13...b5 205 votes (57.7%) 13...Nd7 87 votes (24.5%) 13...O-O-O 24 votes (6.8%) 13...O-O 13 votes (3.7%) 13...1-0 7 votes (2.0%) 13...d5 6 votes (1.7%) 13...Rc8 4 votes (1.1%) 13...e5 2 votes (0.6%) total # of votes: 355 draw requests: 7 (2.0%)

Oct-22-08		Ron: click for larger view 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Be7 10.Be3 h5 11.Kb1 Qc7 12.Nxc6 Bxc6 13.Bd3 b5 14.Ne2 Rc8 FINAL VOTE RESULTS: 14...Rc8 145 votes (40.1%) 14...d5 142 votes (39.2%) 14...O-O 27 votes (7.5%) 14...Nd7 16 votes (4.4%) 14...Bb7 8 votes (2.2%) 14...1-0 6 votes (1.7%) 14...Rd8 4 votes (1.1%) 14...a5 3 votes (0.8%) 14...e5 3 votes (0.8%) 14...Rb8 2 votes (0.6%) total # of votes: 362 draw requests: 9 (2.5%)

Nov-02-08		Ron: click for larger view 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Be7 10.Be3 h5 11.Kb1 Qc7 12.Nxc6 Bxc6 13.Bd3 b5 14.Ne2 Rc8 15.Nd4 Nd7 FINAL VOTE RESULTS: 15...Nd7 148 votes (45.1%) 15...Bb7 108 votes (32.9%) 15...Bd7 36 votes (11.0%) 15...O-O 10 votes (3.0%) 15...d5 7 votes (2.1%) 15...1-0 6 votes (1.8%) 15...Qb7 3 votes (0.9%) 15...e5 2 votes (0.6%) total # of votes: 328 draw requests: 4 (1.2%)

Nov-09-08		Ron: click for larger view 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Be7 10.Be3 h5 11.Kb1 Qc7 12.Nxc6 Bxc6 13.Bd3 b5 14.Ne2 Rc8 15.Nd4 Nd7 16. h3 Bb7 FINAL VOTE RESULTS: 16...Bb7 148 votes (42.5%) 16...Ne5 146 votes (42.0%) 16...Bf6 21 votes (6.0%) 16...h4 15 votes (4.3%) 16...Nc5 5 votes (1.4%) 16...d5 4 votes (1.1%) 16...1-0 3 votes (0.9%) 16...O-O 3 votes (0.9%) total # of votes: 348 draw requests: 6 (1.7%)

Nov-09-08		Ron: click for larger view 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Be7 10.Be3 h5 11.Kb1 Qc7 12.Nxc6 Bxc6 13.Bd3 b5 14.Ne2 Rc8 15.Nd4 Nd7 16. h3 Bb7 17. 17.Bg5 Bxg5 FINAL VOTE RESULTS: 17...Bxg5 140 votes (43.2%) 17...Ne5 136 votes (42.0%) 17...Qb6 18 votes (5.6%) 17...Nc5 13 votes (4.0%) 17...1-0 6 votes (1.9%) 17...h4 2 votes (0.6%) 17...e5 2 votes (0.6%) total # of votes: 324 draw requests: 12 (3.7%)

Jan-16-10		I play the Fred: Ron, if you are interested in adding to your Queen sac collection, have you seen Andruet-Spassky 1988 before? It reminds me a bit of Lewitzky-Marshall.

Mar-23-10		Honza Cervenka: Hi Ron, I don’t know whether you have read my recent messages at Kibitzer’s Café or not and so I am posting it here too. On Monday of last week I have become proud father of (the second) daughter named Aneta. You can see her picture on the site of regional newspaper “Kladensky denik” (Kladno’s Daily) at http://kladensky.denik.cz/miminka/m... where is just now till this Friday (12:00 A.M. CET) running a polling contest for the most sympathetic baby born last week in regional maternity hospitals organized by the newspaper. Personally I am not much interested in such a kind of competitions but my wife likes it very much and she would be much happy to see our little girl on the top. Right now we are on the second place in very tense and close race with two other contenders and so every additional vote is very important for the final outcome. If you would like to help me to make my wife even happier than she already is now, just click on the link above, flag “Aneta Cervenkova, Stredokluky” (the first name in gray box on the right side on the screen) and hit the “hlasovat” button below. It is possible to vote repeatedly always after 60 minutes from one IP address... :-D Thanks and warm regards, Honza

Feb-26-12		David2009: Re your post Kibitzer's Café on 14 January 2012 - an interesting game position worth recirculating: click for larger view White (Ron Dwyer) to play and win. For solution see your post referenced above.

Jun-19-14		cormier: Ron: Hello <Cormier>. I am interested in Houdini analysis after <1. e4 e5 2. nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Qe2> ... click for larger view Analysis by Houdini 3 Pro w32: <<4...Bc5 5.c3 0-0 6.d3 Re8 7.0-0 a6 8.Bc4 d6 9.Be3 Bxe3 10.fxe3 h6 11.Nbd2 Be6 12.Bxe6 Rxe6 13.b4 Qd7 14.a3 Rd8 15.c4 Ne7 16.h3 b6 17.Rab1 Qa4 18.Ra1 Re8 = (-0.03) Depth: 31/67 12:09:35 61541mN> 4...Bc5 5.c3 0-0 6.d3 Re8 7.0-0 a6 8.Ba4 h6 9.Be3 Bxe3 10.fxe3 b5 11.Bb3 Rb8 12.Nbd2 d6 13.Nh4 Na5 14.Qf3 b4 15.Nf5 Bxf5 16.Qxf5 Re7 17.Qf3 Qd7 18.Qg3 Qg4 19.Rf3 = (-0.03) Depth: 32/68 17:01:14 86266mN>

Dec-26-14		cormier: Joyeux Noël ...

Jan-20-18		Ron: List of games where there was connected passed pawns. Games obtained via the Random Game feature of this website: Lutikov vs Y Sakharov, 1968 H Montgomery vs Morphy, 1857 Didier vs L Rosen, 1900 Here the side with the connected passed pawns loses: R Edouard vs M Hovhanisian, 2011 Mamedyarov vs Gelfand, 2011 Anand had connected passed pawns briefly here, the game ended in a draw:Anand vs REBEL, 1998

Jan-20-18		Ron: A continuation of the study of chess games where one side had connected passed pawns: The side that had connected passed pawns--though briefly--lost here: Flear vs A Mista, 2016 J Bruehl vs Philidor, 1783 M Yurenok vs Z Borosova, 2012 Loman vs J W te Kolste, 1928

Jan-20-18		Ron: I remembered this game, the wining side had connected passed pawns towards the end of the game: AlphaZero vs Stockfish, 2017 Another AlphaZero game: AlphaZero vs Stockfish, 2017

Jan-21-18		Ron: Additional connected passed pawns games: Tartakower vs B Kostic, 1926 S Atteslaender vs Johannes Dusold, 1910 Wroclaw vs Leipzig, 1873 Lasker vs F Chalupetzky, 1917 Salwe vs Fahrni, 1911

Jan-21-18		Ron: More games: S Shankland vs Onischuk, 2011 K Pitschel vs Anderssen, 1876 Here the side with the connected passed pawn loses: J Mieses vs Teichmann, 1895

Nov-19-18		ketchuplover: Happy holidays to your circle

Jul-31-19		gambitfan: Can we trust Stockfish ? In the Opening Explorer, after 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 0-0 d6 5 d4 ?! (2 games · 1871-1949) the Opening Explorer gives 5 ... exd4 (126 games) or 5 ... Nxd4 (1 game) Stockfish gives : 1) -0.42 (18 ply) 5...♗xd4 6.♘g5 ♘h6 7.c3 ♗b6 8.h3 O-O 9.♘f3 ♘a5 10.♗d3 ♗e6 11.♘a3 ♘c6 12.♘g5 ♗d7 13.♘c4 ♔h8 14.♘xb6 On chess.com this move is said as an INACCURACY... What can we think of Stockfish ???

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