pogo5 has kibitzed 72 times to chessgames   [less...]

Feb-17-09 A Gibaud vs F Lazard, 1924    pogo5: <Without this game, neither he nor Lazard would be remembered at all> Not true, Frédéric Lazard is well known as a composer of chess studies      Dec-18-06 Bledow vs K Schorn, 1839    pogo5: There is no stipulation for this puzzle except "White to play". Therefore any winning line is solution. Of course the mate in two is the most elegant and the one experienced players should spot within seconds/minutes. But as said above by a Tal worshipper "There's gonna be times ...      Dec-04-06 Eliskases vs Bogoljubov, 1939    pogo5: I guess the game score has been corrected from 55.Kg1? which loses, as wrongly given on cheslive.de, to 55.Kf1 :-)      Jul-11-06 Y Yakovich vs M Shkalova, 2004    pogo5: 24.Rf8+ , a line-clearance sacrifice that also leads to a self-block by the Black Q or R on f8 so as to allow the mate 25.Qd7# Very easy when you are used to solving mate in two problems!! I recommend http://dhost.info/matein2/index.php for mate in two practising :-) Hard ...      Mar-01-06 Rossolimo vs I Romanenko, 1948    pogo5: Amazing combination indeed! The last move is particularly beautiful... In case of 11...Qb6 , the tail of the combination has to be modified: 11...Qb6 12.exd6+ Kf8 13.Re8+ Kxe8 14.Qe2+ Kf8 15.Be7+ Ke8 and then 16.Re1!, because 16.Bd8+? Kxd8 17.Ng5 would now fail to 17...Qxd6!. ...      Dec-12-05 Tseitlin vs E Dizdarevic, 1999    pogo5: <erimiro1><such puzzles don't belong here> Do you fully appreciate how insulting this kind of comment must be to the readers who failed to solve the puzzle? I would rather think that _you_ do not belong here!      Oct-29-05 Jobava vs L Galego, 2005    pogo5: Black's attempt to free his game by 18...Ncxe4 backfires and he gets neatly crushed in ten more moves. Instead of 26.Rg4, the spectacular 26.Rd5(!) also wins: 26...exd5 27.Bxg7+ Kxg7 28.Qg6+ Kh8 29.Bg8 Rxg8 30.Qh6#      Oct-24-05 Anand vs Van Wely, 1997    pogo5: <jahhaj> Agreed      Oct-22-05 V Karasev vs K Klaman, 1967    pogo5: 1.Rg6 springs to the eye but 1...Rg8 defends, and then neither 2.Rxg8+ Kxg8 3.Rf4 Rd1+ 4.Kh2 Qe5 nor, obviously, 2.Rxf7 Qxf7 will do. This I had been pondering for 20 minutes or so, then I had to take care my 9 months daughter who was awakening and suddenly I hit on 1.Re6, the rook ...      Oct-08-05 Hans Berliner    pogo5: I have found "The System" fascinating in many aspects. Its "scientific approach" may well be criticized: indeed "The System" contains many dubious postulates, the most important being that White has a theoretical win in the starting position, i.e. the antithesis of Adorjan's "Black is      Oct-05-05 Topalov vs Kasimdzhanov, 2005     Aug-22-05 G Borisenko vs Simagin, 1955     Jul-27-05 Saemisch vs F Herzog, 1924     Jan-14-05 K Aseev vs V Nevostrujev, 2002     Jan-07-05 NN vs R Crepeaux, 1923     Dec-27-04 J E Littlewood vs G Abrahams, 1962     Dec-11-04 Paulsen vs Blackburne, 1873     Dec-01-04 H Clemenz vs F Eisenschmidt, 1862     Nov-29-04 Alekhine vs A Rico Gonzalez, 1943     Nov-24-04 Kotov vs Kholmov, 1971     Nov-10-04 Chigorin vs K Walbrodt, 1895     Oct-18-04 E Z Adams vs Torre, 1920     Oct-11-04 B Wall vs Bridgemen, 1996     Sep-14-04 F M Wren vs W E Mayfield, 1941     Sep-13-04 A Kaspersky vs I Mazel, 1925     Sep-05-04 Polugaevsky vs E Torre, 1984     Sep-05-04 F Berkes vs Portisch, 2003     Jul-22-04 E Post vs Nimzowitsch, 1905     Jun-09-04 Korchnoi vs Polugaevsky, 1977     May-22-04 J Flesch vs Hrumo, 1960     May-01-04 Keres vs Szabo, 1955     Apr-23-04 Karpov vs Topalov, 1994     Mar-30-04 Nunn vs C Ward, 1998     Mar-13-04 Stahlberg vs Najdorf, 1947     Feb-15-04 W N Watson vs M Stangl, 1998     Feb-04-04 L Gonda vs C Paci, 2001     Feb-04-04 B Fleissig vs Schlechter, 1893     Jan-31-04 Geller vs Polugaevsky, 1961     Jan-30-04 Chandler vs Y Gruenfeld, 1979     Dec-16-03 J Lipka vs V Mrva, 2000     Dec-08-03 Schlechter vs Kern, 1893     Nov-30-03 Bird vs Morphy, 1858     Nov-22-03 H Liebert vs Kotov, 1967     Nov-11-03 Kasparov vs X3D Fritz, 2003     Nov-09-03 W Adams vs Reshevsky, 1936     Oct-25-03 Tartakower vs NN, 1933     Oct-25-03 Denker vs H Avram, 1940     Oct-06-03 Morozevich vs S Berndt, 2003     Oct-06-03 S Brynell vs S D Sigfusson, 2003     Oct-03-03 L Winants vs Kasparov, 1987     Sep-28-03 Ehlvest vs Suba, 1983     Sep-16-03 Grischuk vs Svidler, 2003

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