Jul-12-25 E Azerbajevs vs Tal, 1955
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| generror: Ironic that so-called Botvinnik-Carls Defense (3...c5) was actually first used Tal 40 years after K Treybal vs C Carls, 1912 , and six years before Botvinnik used it against him in their 1961 return match. |
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Jun-28-25 Huebner vs Kasparov, 1992 
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| generror: yes, hübner didn't have the toughness to be at the very top. watching him interact with humans you just realize that he wasn't the most self-assured person, to put it mildly. and i'm pretty sure that the fact this was played live on TV was a factor in him blundering so bad. |
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Mar-09-25 Kasparov vs Huebner, 1992
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| generror: this was part of a two-game TV match and you can watch the game being played on German early 90s TV here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdj... |
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Mar-08-25 Gruenfeld vs Alekhine, 1923
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| generror: Dang, I start to get why Alekhine is counted among the greatest. This is yet another combination that's just so tricky and yet so simple and makes me realize how complicated and beautiful chess is. It's all the better because Grünfeld also does some really nice moves. |
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Feb-26-25 G Atwood vs Verdoni, 1800
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| generror: this is a duplicate of G Atwood vs Verdoni, 1800 |
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Feb-25-25 Anderssen vs Morphy, 1858
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| generror: Really interesting game. Anderssen's attack is pretty bad in my opinion, the simple 16.Qc2 g6 Bxh6 is far better. He was lucky that Morphy missed the amazing queen sacrifice 26...Qxf5! -- after 27.Bxf5 Rxa1, he is still way up material with White having no compensation whatsoever. ... |
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Feb-22-25 Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri, 1560
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| generror: Not sure what you mean by ...Qf8. Maybe the continuation 10.Qxh7+ Bg7 11.Bh6 Qf8? Then I'd go 12.Bxg7 Qxg7 13.Qxg7+ Kxg7 14.exd5 (D) and I'm up the exchange plus a whopping extra pawns. [DIAGRAM] Sure, no drama, because on the level I'm playing, the only drama is the drama people ... |
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Feb-18-25 NN vs P Lewin, 1864
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| generror: In his 2013 book <The Complete Albin Counter-Gambit>, Luc Henris mentions a game "Keresev - Urs" played in 1864 as being the first Albin Countergambit game. Guess it's this one. He also claims that Serafino Dubois was the first to mention this opening in the second volume of ... |
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Feb-15-25 Harrwitz - Horwitz (1846)
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| generror: They really liked the Ponziani opening, didn't they. |
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Feb-14-25 Stockholm Allmanna Club vs Riga Senior Club, 1934
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| generror: In his 2001 book "The Latvian Gambit Lives", Tony Kosten claims that this correspondence game (which ran until 1936) was "famous" and inspired FIDE to officially rename the opening from Greco Countergambit to Latvian Gambit on their 1937 Congress. However, according to Edward ... |
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