Jan-23-05 Kramnik vs Svidler, 2005 
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| TheAussiePatzer: Tricky little tactical opening here. For example 15. Bh4 is only possible due to 15...g5 16.Bg3 exd4? 17.Be5 Also, 14...exd4 is interesting. I guess white just gets too much rook pressure after something like 15.cxd4 h6 16.Bxf6 gxf6 17.Rf2 etc. |
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Jan-23-05 A Sokolsky vs Kotov, 1949
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| TheAussiePatzer: I wonder if Kotov included this in his famous book about calculation ;) |
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Jan-19-05 Kramnik vs I Sokolov, 2005
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| TheAussiePatzer: Yes, from the 31st move Kramnik was very accurate, Sokolov must miscalculated something in this attack when he played 30...Kg7. |
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Jan-18-05 Eduard Nemeth
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| TheAussiePatzer: I seriously doubt his chances in a full match against say, fritz on the best hardware today. But, his games are interesting and I thank him for them. |
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Jan-16-05 Short vs Miles, 1984
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| TheAussiePatzer: Well, I just want to say that although I didn't get it, I think a decent player ought to be able to solve it with enough time and patience - the first thing should be "why not the simple knight fork?", the answer should be "wow, Ne2!?" and then since you know that there is a |
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Jan-12-05 A Planinc vs Matulovic, 1965
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| TheAussiePatzer: 25...g5 seems to make it too easy. Better is 25...Be6 26. g4 Ng7 (forced) when it's all gonna come off the board with something like 27.Ne7 b5 28.Nxg8 Rxg8 29.fxg7+ Rxg7 At least that avoids the disaster. |
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Jan-07-05 Short vs W N Watson, 1986
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| TheAussiePatzer: Fascinating. Does anyone know if there is an annotated version (preferably by Short himself) somewhere on the web? |
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Dec-21-04 Sasikiran vs P Thipsay, 2002
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| TheAussiePatzer: ein tolles zwischenzug! |
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Dec-15-04 Steinitz / Hirschfeld / Mason vs Zukertort / Bird / Hoffer, 1880
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| TheAussiePatzer: well, steinitz might have resigned sooner... was he hoping for a blunder from a committee? |
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Dec-12-04 Polugaevsky vs Smyslov, 1979
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| TheAussiePatzer: Wow. That's hard-core chess. |
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Kibitzing
