Nov-06-24 A Meek vs Morphy, 1855
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| ekw: Back to the game -- after 15.g3, Yusupov says, quite diplomatically, "15... Qxe4+ leads to a won endgame, but Morphy prefers to attack." Shades of PM vs. the Count and the Duke! |
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Sep-15-23 E Winslow vs E Strickland, 1984
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| ekw: Here are the notes to the critical phase:
20.Rxd5!! exd5?
(20...Qb4! 21.Rd3! Nxf4 22.exf4 Qxb3! (22...Qxf4? 23.Nd5!) 23.axb3 ±)
21.Nxd5 Ne6! 22.Nc7!! Nxf4 23.exf4 Qb6!?
(23...g6 24.Qxe6 +-)
24.Nxe6?!
(24.Nxa8! Rxa8 25.Rc1! +-)
Rc4! 25.Nxc4?
(25.Qf3! +-)
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Oct-13-22 K Shirazi vs J Peters, 1984 
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| ekw: <Dredge Rivers: What do you expect? The Sicilian Wing Gambit is garbage!>
That attitude will cost you a few points against it. |
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Jan-02-17 V Danilov vs M Marin, 2011
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ekw: Marin notes in CBM that 15.Bh4? was a mistake, and they both missed 15...Ncxd5 "(!!)" 16.Nxd5 Nxd5 17.Qxd5 Bxh4 18.Rxe8+ Rxe8 19.Nxh4 Qxa4!!  . "Huh, one has to sense what is happening over the whole board in order to see this ... |
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Jan-18-13 C Li vs H Wang, 2006
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| ekw: It's a transposition into the QGD, Semi-Tarrasch. ECO code: D42. Li Chao had pretty much nothing out of the opening, but kept afloat. Perhaps 26...Rb3 to get something going. It was like a soccer (sorry, football) game where nobody even has a shot at the goal, until 48...Qe2?? when it ... |
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Mar-27-12 Jay Whitehead
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| ekw: Hello all. I spent the last month helping Jay out in San Diego and then San Francisco; he passed the last week at the Zen Hospice Guest House on Page Street, with his mother present. His brother Paul made it in for a week (from Virginia, where he's lived for many years). |
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Nov-27-11 Browne vs Ftacnik, 1983
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| ekw: Doesn't chessgames.com check game scores? 21.d6 is check. |
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Jan-24-11 K Georgiev vs Ivanchuk, 1993
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| ekw: Anybody know why there's no "+" after 23...e3? |
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Jan-24-11 E Winslow vs Korchnoi, 1983
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| ekw: The obvious 15.f5 was pretty good. Tarjan showed it in the analysis room; I was walking around after 15.0-0-0 and total strangers were walking up to me and asking me why I didn't play it. I'm surprised that Columbo didn't come up to me and tell me his wife thought it would have won. ... |
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Jan-24-11 E Winslow vs J Grefe, 1981
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| ekw: I'm pretty sure I play 26.Rf4 (1-0). I'll try to find my scoresheet. |
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