Aug-27-17 Karpov vs Topalov, 1998
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| kafkafan: This is a system against the Dutch invented by Dzindzihaschvili who gave advice to Karpov to play this system.
There is a video on chess.com about the system and info about advice to great Karpov. |
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Jul-05-14 Botvinnik vs Flohr, 1936 
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| kafkafan: Yaroslavl Srokovski claims in his book that Florh was so shocked by 33.c5 that he wanted to resign but continued playing because the spectators would not have understood his decision. After manoeuvre Nc3 - b1-a3-c4-d6 if black exchanges bishop for knight on d6 White gets strong ... |
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Jul-09-10 Morphy vs E Morphy, 1856
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| kafkafan: Yes,mate 25.Rexe8 would be fabulous. More importantly, it is practically game over by move 9.Ba3, which is, by the way, NOVELTY OF THE STEM GAME AT AGE 11!! |
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Jul-08-10 Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858
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| kafkafan: Just did "guess the move" Andersson vs Staunton 1851 (French, 1-0 Andersson) and got 68 points. Then did this one immediately and got 80 points. Helps pattern recognition doing it this way (although it was by accident). |
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Jun-21-10 Fischer vs Matulovic, 1970
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| kafkafan: Tal was jewish and so was Fisher. Majority of great players were Russians. |
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Jun-01-10 Eric Benatar vs M Bus, 1998
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| kafkafan: It is clearly marked at the top "latvian gambit, poisoned pawn variation". |
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