Jun-04-25 Fischer vs Tal, 1959
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Zugzwangovich: <beatgiant> Thank you. I really appreciate your help in enlightening this poor patzer. |
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May-04-25 Bagirov vs Spassky, 1961
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Zugzwangovich: <beatgiant> Thanks again; that was fast! I had just played it through on the board and found that 45...Kg6 was correct. I was going to delete my previous post and post a new one with Ke6 changed to Kg6 but you beat me to it. |
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Apr-25-25 Spassky vs K Vinogradov, 1961
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Zugzwangovich: It looks like Vinogradov overlooked that White's 32nd is check. Except for that Spassky's king is a dead duck. |
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Apr-03-25 I A Zaitsev vs Spassky, 1960 
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Zugzwangovich: How does White continue after 23...Qf3? |
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Apr-01-25 W Addison vs Fischer, 1963
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Zugzwangovich: "I've never been able to find any support for the claim that he claimed he'd found a refutation of the Ruy Lopez" would have better expressed what I wanted to say. |
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Mar-25-25 Fischer vs J Bednarski, 1966 
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Zugzwangovich: <Alaric>: Black resigns because 22...Qxe6?? taking back the piece falls into 23.Qxb7+ Ke8 24.Re1! pinning the queen. Isn't 24.Qxa8+ just as good as if not better than 24.Re1? |
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Mar-17-25 J Yuchtman vs Tal, 1959 
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Zugzwangovich: In Hilary Thomas' collection of Tal's games, for this game he exclams five Misha moves in a row beginning with 16...e4! BTW, the December 1998 Chess Life issue has a great article on Jacob Yuchtman, starting on pg. 70. |
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Mar-07-25 Tal vs A Russell, 1958
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Zugzwangovich: <FM David H. Levin>I'm not familiar with the book but recognize the punch line from a joke about a hungry, gun-toting koala. The book sounds like one I'd like to read but chances of finding it here in Japan are not good. |
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Feb-28-25 Fischer vs Reshevsky, 1966
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Zugzwangovich: In "Bobby Fischer Rediscovered", Soltis labeled 9...Nd7 a "Tchigorin maneuver", and in the Wade-O'Donnell collection of RJF's games, all of those in which 9...Nd7 was played are called "Chigorin". How can this be justified? According to the 365chess DB, the first appearance of |
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Jan-27-25 I Zilber vs Tal, 1958
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Zugzwangovich: Hanon Russell's article "The World's Chess Archives" (pg. 48 of the August 1998 issue of Chess Life) includes two more early (1949 and 1950) Tal-Zilber games. They split those games, so overall Tal beat Zilber 4-3 with no draws. |
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