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Jun-21-22 Jansa vs F Nordstrom, 2006    goldfarbdj: After 26. Bg6 Ke7, white is doing well and probably winning, but it's a lot less "clearly" than forced mate in two moves.      Jan-24-22 A H Robbins vs Showalter, 1890    goldfarbdj: I have to admit that I didn't think of the underpromotion!      Jan-20-22 Firouzja vs Lupulescu, 2019    goldfarbdj: <Lloyd Gross>: In your line, why can't White just play 28. Ka1? As far as I can tell, Black has no way of giving check, and White is up a whole queen.      Jan-11-22 A Ozsvath vs G Kluger, 1962    goldfarbdj: And I was the exact opposite: I saw 32. ... Ne4+ and didn't consider Nb1.      Oct-13-21 Razuvaev vs Z Mestrovic, 1981    goldfarbdj: My choice was 38. Ne7+, which has the disadvantage of not actually being a legal move.      Oct-07-21 Blackburne vs J Schwarz, 1881    goldfarbdj: I was wondering why 26. Rxh5 wouldn't work. I wasn't until I played through the game and then backed up to the problem position again that I realized 26. Rxh5 would be an illegal move.      Sep-20-21 E Schiller vs T Redman, 1975    goldfarbdj: Nice easy one even for a Monday! Check the queen sac — it forces the deflection and then it's easy to see that Rb6 will be mate.      Sep-17-21 Hodgson vs A D Martin, 1992    goldfarbdj: Pretty sure that PJs Studio meant 19. Qc5 as actually played, not 17. Qc5. According to the quick analysis from Stockfish 11. exf4 is actually somewhat better, but Qc5 is very good.      Sep-13-21 A Sandrin vs W Shipman, 1946    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.      Aug-25-21 M Palac vs E Agrest, 2008    goldfarbdj: As with everyone else, I found Rxg2+ to be an obvious and only try. I ran into a little difficulty because I kept wanting to force mate, and after 37. Kf1 I couldn't. Finally I worked out that I could win the queen, and figured I needed to "settle" for that.

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