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Sep-15-25 Giri vs Niemann, 2025    goodevans: <stone free or die> I’d say the critical point came a little earlier. By the time you reach your diagram the c-pawn is doomed (the only alternative is to exchange it but then Black’s N is trapped). Here… [DIAGRAM] Black had to find a way to stop Ba6, forcing the R to ...      Sep-15-25 FIDE Grand Swiss (2025)    goodevans: <1300patzer> regarding our earlier conversation, I’ve played it through a few more times and forcing the B to g4 does indeed win. In my earlier attempts I missed that White must get e5 in as soon as Black moves his K away from d4. I’ve made some comments to that effect ...      Sep-13-25 Y K Erdogmus vs Aronian, 2025   goodevans: Aronian's plan to grab a pawn with 28...Rc3 and 29...Rxa3 clearly left his K-side vulnerable to attack but there's no way I'd have seen that, and how to exploit it, like this young Turkish lad did. He's quite the talent and one to keep an eye out for.      Sep-12-25 A A Murray vs F Hebert, 1949    goodevans: Black got oh so lucky here. White had him on the ropes but let him escape the mating net. To be fair, the correct moves aren't all that easy to find but the blunder <26.Rh8?> saw the tables turned completely. I'd say the worst miss by far came just a few moves later. ...      Sep-10-25 V Chekhover vs I Rudakovsky, 1945    goodevans: <11...b5?> is just a plain awful move. [DIAGRAM] White could have won a pawn with 12.Nxd5 exd5 13.Bd3. What compensation would Black have had for that? What Chekhover chose instead was more subtle but very effective. Nice game.      Sep-09-25 A Mittal vs Y K Erdogmus, 2025    goodevans: White's own aggressive tendencies in his pursuit of a second Q helped create this spectacular battle when a more guarded approach might have seen him win a fairly unremarkable game.      Sep-06-25 S Volkov vs Y Hou, 2008    goodevans: A couple of poor moves in quick succession saw Hou's position slide from being just a little uncomfortable to being properly unpleasant. With <18...Qd7?> it's possible she missed <19.e6!>. That would have been sloppy but it makes more sense, at least to me, than ...      Sep-04-25 Kamsky vs Kramnik, 1993    goodevans: In the final position, White has any number of ways to win. <37.Qc6 Rf7 38.Nd5> is a pretty obvious alternative to the <37.Nxg6> already mentioned.      Sep-03-25 C Stanley vs E Delmar, 1879    goodevans: <OCF> Pink Floyd recorded the track that’s the basis for the pun some months after the American leg of a world tour that included over 20 gigs there, so I guess they were also pretty popular your side of the pond by then.      Sep-03-25 J Pinter vs Bronstein, 1977   goodevans: I think this is the book to which <OCF> refers. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapt... If that was deliberate then it raises the pun to a whole new level.

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