Jan-21-14 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972 
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| TomOhio: The poisoned pawn "blunder" was intentional. It was part of the shtick of him being an eccentric, strange, unpredictable person. It gave everyone a shock... "What's wrong with bobby????" THAT was the point. |
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Sep-03-13 B Lalic vs J C Hannet, 1998
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| TomOhio: Why isn't there a "???" behind 29. ... Be8? |
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Aug-01-13 J Kozma vs L Alster, 1953
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| TomOhio: It always comes back to that damn e5 Bishop. I even tried 23.... Nh5. No luck. Black is toast. |
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Jul-31-13 Spassky vs J Marsalek, 1960
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| TomOhio: An incredible Black blunder on 20. What if he had played 20.... h6? |
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Jul-18-13 Alekhine vs O Tenner, 1911
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| TomOhio: I thought this game looked familiar. I played essentially this exact line and finished with the same mate in a local tourney 30 years ago. That was back when KG was unknown to most and playing it actually offered an advantage to White. |
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Jul-17-13 Ding Yixin vs T Lei, 2013
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| TomOhio: When a solution you do lack...
Look first for a nice Queen sac.
Too easy for a Wednesday. |
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Jul-14-13 Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2010
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| TomOhio: Wow... I saw g5 immediately and never even considered anything else. What an odd choice White made. |
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Jul-06-13 A Moiseenko vs B Esen, 2011
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| TomOhio: <bubuli55: < davedude9 > there is mate with 30...Kg7 31.Bf5 Re7 32.Bxh6+ Kg8 33.Rg5+ Kh8 34.Bg7+ Kg8 35.Bf6+ Kf8 36.Bh7 ~ Rg8#> What about 32.... Kf6. |
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Jul-05-13 Nisipeanu vs Radjabov, 2010
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| TomOhio: Every once in a while, I run into one of these in which I have absolutely no idea what is going on. That would be this one. |
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Jun-30-13 P J Morris vs C Ward, 1983
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| TomOhio: Holy crap, I actually got a Sunday one. |
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