Jul-10-25 P Dely vs J H Donner, 1961 
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| goodevans: It was great to play through this game again and notice things I'm sure I hadn't spotted a few years ago. For instance, after 20.Rxa6... [DIAGRAM] .. opening up the diagonal with <20...Bxd5!?> looks decidedly risky. However, after the apparently 'safer' <20...Bb7> ... |
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Jul-09-25 Rotlewi vs Teichmann, 1911
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| goodevans: <FSR: White could have claimed a draw by three-time repetition before playing 33.Kb1, right? Or were the rules different at the time of this game?> Likewise before 61.Ka1, though the repetition isn’t quite so obvious there. |
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Jul-07-25 Cotter vs G Atwood, 1795
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| goodevans: Apart from the misguided 17...Qc7?, Black seems to have played pretty well here. The same can't be said for White. Of all his strange moves, 12.c3? is the most perplexing. I mean, why??? It's really been bothering me. After devoting an unreasonable amount of time pondering this, ... |
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Jul-05-25 F Borm vs J van Baarle, 1978
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| goodevans: I like the pun. |
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Jun-30-25 Fischer vs S Rubin, 1964
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| goodevans: I guess the other slice that completes the sandwich is Fischer vs S Rubin, 1964 . A more straightforward win for Bobby and no missed mate-in-2. |
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Jun-17-25 Santasiere vs C F Tears, 1957
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| goodevans: 12.cxd4 was a bad decision, married with a lack of vision. |
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Jun-13-25 Giri vs J Christiansen, 2013
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| goodevans: Allowing Giri to trade off the last two pieces when his pawns were so superior and K so much better placed was a ‘schoolboy error’ but then Christiansen was indeed just a 14 year old schoolboy at the time. |
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Jun-12-25 Blatny vs K L Deng, 1998
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| goodevans: After 20...Be6:
[DIAGRAM] ... Black is threatening both 21...Qxd6 and 21...Nf4, winning White's LSB. But fear not for we have 21.Bxe5 which stops both. Unfortunately for White, but fortunately for us, that sets up the truly wonderful finish. I love <21...Nc3!> but I really, |
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Jun-11-25 Niemann vs Carlsen, 2025
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| goodevans: 26...f4 looks for all the world like a one-move blunder and in a blitz game if it was anyone else but MC you’d assume it was that. But maybe, just maybe, it was a much deeper miscalculation. Even after that there was plenty of work to do to convert the win so much kudos to ... |
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Jun-10-25 B H Wood vs P Devos, 1948
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| goodevans: <17...Re6, which looks pointless...> Have you been hitting the sauce my dear chap?
17...Rxe6 is far from pointless. The first point, surely, is to capture White's N and the second is to protect his own which is attacked by White's Q. These two alone are sufficient to ... |
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