Aug-30-04 A Planinc vs D Baretic, 1968 
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| gollum70: The blind man saw among other things that if Bxc4 (on White's 26th or 28th move) there is the devastating d3! |
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Aug-29-04 Nigel Short
Aug-29-04 Paul Morphy
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| gollum70: <SBC> Winter's clarification on the Steinitz/Morphy "affaire" (visibly on our friend's <Lawrence>'s indications) : http://www.chesscafe.com/winter/win... |
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Aug-29-04 Spassky vs Y Sakharov, 1960
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| gollum70: Nigel Short on this game (and the King's Gambit in general) : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/mai... |
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Aug-28-04 M Watai vs J Xu, 1999
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| gollum70: David Norwood gives two positions from her games in his Telegraph column today http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/mai... To me, it looks like 1800 Elo chess ... |
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Aug-21-04 Tal vs Botvinnik, 1960
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| gollum70: 72.-Qb2+ 73.Ke6 Qe2+ 74.Qe5! forces either mate or the exchange of queens. |
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Aug-13-04 F Thorbergsson vs Tal, 1964
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| gollum70: Threat is 37.-Bg4+ 38.Ke4 f5 mate.
If 37.Bg3 Qe3 mate.
If 37.Bc1 Qg4+ 38.Kf2 Qg2+ 39.Ke1 Qg3+ 40.Ke2 Bg4+ 41.Kd2 Qe3 mate. If 37.Bh6 g5!
Looks like a composition ! |
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Aug-11-04 Tartakower vs F Villard, 1937
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| gollum70: White's 18th move would do for a nice puzzle ! |
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Aug-09-04 Howard Staunton
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| gollum70: <Mr Keene> If you haven't, you should read JRRT's collected Letters. Obviously yours isn't in :-) but you'll find that anti-nazi correspondance and a lot more : witty, wise, cristal-clear english language and deep ethics. For those who don't see a "point to the story" (like ... |
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Aug-09-04 Kasparov vs Salov, 1989
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| gollum70: <Jim Bartle> If you are still there, i'd be highly interested to read some of that Informant analysis. Garry's play is a masterwork of relentless activity, but is it really a forced win (say after 17.e5!??) ? And what happens on 17.-dxe5 ? |
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