Aug-07-18 Fred Wilson 
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seagull1756: Perpetual chess podcast has a painfully boring episode featuring Fred, where he does not listen to interviewer’s questions and goes on talking about his precious self in the most pompous way imaginable for 1h 20 min. The podcast is usually brilliant, but this episode... simply |
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Dec-05-17 Dubov vs S Volkov, 2017 
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seagull1756: Wow. A piece sacrifice a-la Bronstein from Dubov.... |
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Mar-09-17 Waitzkin vs Svidler, 1994
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seagull1756: According to this podcast ( https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast... ) Svidler had vastly superior tiebreaks, so no chance of "sharing glory" for Josh, he was simply obliged to play for a win. Why not be truthful in the book, then? |
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Sep-20-16 Tkachiev vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2010
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seagull1756: Dramatic game.. |
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Jul-22-16 K Stupak vs V Gashimov, 2010
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seagull1756: RIP "Mr. Modern Benoni" |
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May-23-16 M Omariev vs A Kachko, 2007
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seagull1756: Soviet school of chess, innit... This dude also tried 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 h6, and without much luck. But the very end of this game is just hilarious |
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Sep-01-10 Landa vs M Leon Hoyos, 2008 
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seagull1756: sorry, 26..Bc4 27.Rxc4, 28.Bxa8, 29.Qxc4 looks even better |
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Aug-31-10 G Malmqvist vs D Miskulin, 1998
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seagull1756: Haha, this is simply awesome! |
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Aug-27-10 Ftacnik vs A Aleksandrov, 2008 
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seagull1756: shall we also calculate all the lines leading to checkmate after black queens the pawn? do you guys seriously think that going into a pawn ending with a clear extra pawn requires some sort of profound analysis? |
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May-07-10 Topalov vs Anand, 2010 
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seagull1756: whoa, I take my words back! Gorbachev is still alive! |
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