Apr-17-05 Mooijaart
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| semesterian: "Mooijaart" seems a fairly unenviable name for a chess player (smiles). |
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Apr-17-05 Paul Keres 
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| semesterian: In Keene's list, I believe Keres ranks as the sixteenth greatest chess player of all time. |
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Apr-17-05 Korchnoi vs V Liavdansky, 1965
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| semesterian: Maybe it's just me, but in the French Defense I've always been a bit afraid of White's three-to-two pawn advantage on the Queenside. It takes a lot of guts to play the French nowadays, although this comment would only make sense to a 2700+ player. For us chess peons, anything ... |
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Apr-15-05 L S Hwang vs H Kim, 2005
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| semesterian: <mellow> What is Seoul like? I'm sorry if my kibitzing is slow--I'm Andrew West's (valerianus) cousin and we are "fighting" for possession of the same computer as I eat dinner in his house. =) |
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Apr-15-05 Geller vs Dreev, 1990
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| semesterian: After 20...If 20...Nf6?!, White pulls a Rapier as follows: 21.Rc4 Rxd2 22.Rxc6+ Kd7 23.Qxd2 Kxc6 24.Qc3+. |
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Apr-15-05 Ftacnik vs Geller, 1977
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| semesterian: <pilobolus> Hey, LOL, Geller returned the favor as an elderly master in 1990 by beating the daylights out of the then-young Alexey Dreev: Geller vs Dreev, 1990 |
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Apr-15-05 R Felgaer vs Azmaiparashvili, 2005
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| semesterian: It is a terrible shame that he had to concede half a point in this game. He did very respectably in the 2001 Nadjorf Memorial Tournament, which was attended by some very leading lights, like Karpov, Korchnoi, Polgar, and the budding Radjabov. |
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Feb-13-05 J Fischer vs Beliavsky, 1998
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| semesterian: White resigned perhaps a little too early, although he doesn't seem to be in great shape. White can win a Knight with 31. ♖b1 but then Black will give up his Knight for a powerful Queenside pawn army, i.e.: 31...b5 32. ♘e3 ♘d4 33. cd ed 34. ♘g2 ♖a8 ... |
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Feb-13-05 A I Zakharov vs A I Petrushin, 1973
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| semesterian: Wow, I get the first post. I got this puzzle wrong. My only experience with Knight endgames was solving this cute problem where in the final solution, Black had a Queen and King versus a White King and two Knights. I'm not sure who wins this endgame, but Black's king (at h8) ... |
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Feb-12-05 D Heisman vs J Buhalo, 1967
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| semesterian: Tpstar is right, as usual. |
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Feb-12-05 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927
Feb-12-05 D Reinderman vs Kramnik, 1990
Feb-12-05 Morozevich vs Topalov, 1995
Feb-12-05 Ivkov vs Matulovic, 1957
Feb-12-05 H Buckle vs Anderssen, 1851
May-17-04 Anatoly Karpov
May-10-04 Etienne Bacrot
May-10-04 Bacrot vs Karpov, 1993
May-01-04 Steinitz vs Tarrasch, 1895
May-01-04 Akiba Rubinstein
May-01-04 Karel Hromadka
May-01-04 J Bruehl vs Philidor, 1787
May-01-04 Owen vs T Barnes, 1857
Apr-25-04 Rubinstein vs Hromadka, 1923
Apr-25-04 Schlechter vs J Mieses, 1909
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