Jun-08-24 Korchnoi vs Fischer, 1962 
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| Saul Goodman: <perfidious: That is far from clear; he also had significant periods during that time in which he did not play serious chess at all.> From the end of 1965 on, Fischer won every single match or tournament he played in for the rest of his life. In the one tournament he ... |
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Feb-25-24 Tartakower vs Rubinstein, 1925
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| Saul Goodman: Tartakower had one of the most interesting lives among the elite chess players. A great movie could be made about his life. |
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Feb-25-24 Stein vs Kholmov, 1967
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| Saul Goodman: Beautiful game. Stein was one of the greats. |
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Jan-21-24 Reshevsky vs Capablanca, 1935
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| Saul Goodman: Never mind, your part is to be what you'll be. |
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Jan-21-24 W Ju vs Firouzja, 2024
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| Saul Goodman: The position is drawish before 22 . . . e2. Firouzja wanted to win against a 2550 and made the more aggressive move. It takes a lot of patience to play for a win as black in a boring position, and patience is not Firouzja’s strong point. |
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Jan-04-24 Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968
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| Saul Goodman: <keypusher: <Here's what is actually written in OMGP II at p. 161 (Kasparov is quoting Lev Alburt>Nice job cherry-picking your quotes. On the previous page Kasparov asserts that Botvinnik met with the head of propaganda of the Soviet Union, supposedly at the behest of ... |
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Jan-04-24 Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967
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| Saul Goodman: <jerseybob: Fischer's 1970 2-0 blitz win over Tal, the games which evened their lifetime series. If they had played an early-70s match, it would've been interesting, and no predictions on the result!>. According to Chessmetrics, in September 1971, Bent Larsen (#5 in the ... |
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Aug-12-23 D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956
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| Saul Goodman: Kudos to Donald Byrne for not resigning. |
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Jun-23-23 Fischer vs Spassky, 1992
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| Saul Goodman: <sorrowstealer: I never understood why Kasparov said this games as old man's chess. > At the time Kasparov wrote the Fischer book, there were really only two candidates for best player ever, Fischer and Kasparov. Accordingly, Garry spends a good deal of effort trying to ... |
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Jun-11-23 Maroczy vs Tartakower, 1922
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| Saul Goodman: According to Jeff Sonas’ research, Geza Maroczy was the best player in the world during the period of 1905-1906, and was still a top ten player at the time of this game, although he was 52 years old. |
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