Oct-18-21 J L Watson vs S Cronick, 1966 
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| gawain: Easy even for a Monday. An attractive swallow's tail mate. |
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Sep-28-21 H Olafsson vs S Agdestein, 1987
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| gawain: I mistakenly thought 25...Qh3 would win for Black. |
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Sep-20-21 E Schiller vs T Redman, 1975
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| gawain: I did not get this on the first go-round. A few minutes later I took a second look and found the mate right away. How did I miss it the first time? |
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Sep-14-21 J Frenklakh vs E Schiller, 1994
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| gawain: I could see only one candidate move. Fortunately it was the right move. |
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Sep-13-21 A Sandrin vs W Shipman, 1946
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| gawain: <goldfarbdj: Qf2+ was the intuitively obvious move, but it took me an oddly long time to notice that after the king took the knight, Qf3 was mate.> My experience exactly! An oddly long time. |
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Sep-08-21 B Lalic vs Kengis, 1997
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| gawain: To my credit, I saw that White could safely play 36 Rg6+ since 36...QxR allows 37 Qh4# To my shame, I did not see how White would follow up after Black's better reply 36... Kh3. 37 Qg5 was too subtle for me. |
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Sep-06-21 R Fontaine vs M Sebag, 2003
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| gawain: I could see nothing better then trading the two rooks for Black's queen and pawn, with a seemingly winning position. Then I realized that in fact there *is* nothing better than that. |
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Aug-10-21 Panno vs Spassky, 1955
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| gawain: Very easy--but also very nifty. |
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Aug-03-21 Plachetka vs G Kluger, 1972
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| gawain: <OhioChessFan> Quite right. The solution to this one leaped out at me. Yesterday, not so much. |
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Jul-21-21 Myagmarsuren vs M Cuellar Gacharna, 1967
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| gawain: I didn't get this one. |
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