Aug-17-24 V Artemiev vs N Pogonina, 2017 
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| deSitter: So it seems to me that Black exchanging his KB was a fatal positional error. He fatally weakened himself on the dark squares. His Ns were curiously helpless. |
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Sep-21-22 Pillsbury vs Tarrasch, 1898
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| deSitter: Tarrasch took a draw because this was the 4th game of a playoff to determine the tournament winner. The draw secured the win. Pillsbury and Tarrasch played 13 games with only 2 draws! All the games are interesting, and the 1st meeting is one of the great masterpieces of chess. |
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Jun-28-19 Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961
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| deSitter: maxi you had to be there. Instead of a quiet time playing Dr. Turner with his pipe and his friendly manner, there were a lot of kids making noise and playing 5 minute chess and trying to one-up each other. I myself was a kid but I learned the culture of Chernev and Reinfeld, not ... |
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Oct-04-18 Alekhine vs A Munoz, 1945
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| deSitter: This is a sad case of Alekhine faking it.
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Oct-04-18 H Mattison vs Alekhine, 1931
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| deSitter: The Alekhine of 1930-33 was the greatest player in history. Not only was he utterly dominant, his games have an artistic quality that can never be matched. This was his only loss in a serious event for years. It's a shame a rematch with Capablanca did not take place during this ... |
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Aug-10-18 C Stanley vs Morphy, 1857
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| deSitter: This is Morphy's first recorded loss under even conditions (no odds, use of eyes). |
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Aug-07-18 A Saidy vs Fischer, 1964
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| deSitter: The controversy over move ..47 is just another example of how compressed algebraic notation is a PITA. I still prefer traditional English notation. I never understood what all the controversy about notation is. Both systems are trivial to understand, but mistakes are far more ... |
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Mar-03-18 A Nimzowitsch vs Marshall, 1910
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| deSitter: Interesting how the first two games between Nimzovich and Marshall both end with them blundering away a piece! |
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