Zugzwangovich has kibitzed 505 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jun-04-25 Fischer vs Tal, 1959   Zugzwangovich: <beatgiant> Thank you. I really appreciate your help in enlightening this poor patzer.      May-04-25 Bagirov vs Spassky, 1961   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.      Apr-25-25 Spassky vs K Vinogradov, 1961   Zugzwangovich: It looks like Vinogradov overlooked that White's 32nd is check. Except for that Spassky's king is a dead duck.      Apr-03-25 I A Zaitsev vs Spassky, 1960    Zugzwangovich: How does White continue after 23...Qf3?      Apr-01-25 W Addison vs Fischer, 1963   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.      Mar-25-25 Fischer vs J Bednarski, 1966    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?      Mar-17-25 J Yuchtman vs Tal, 1959    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.      Mar-07-25 Tal vs A Russell, 1958   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.      Feb-28-25 Fischer vs Reshevsky, 1966   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      Jan-27-25 I Zilber vs Tal, 1958   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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