Apr-30-21 D Kopec vs D K Johansen, 1982 
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| avidfan: Better was
38. Rh8+ Kg7 39. Qh6#
38. Rh8+ Kxh8 39. Qh5+ Kg7 (Rh7 40. Qxh7#) 40. Qh7# |
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Jan-27-19 Chandler vs Y Gruenfeld, 1979
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| avidfan: <Ohio Chess Fan>: I was just thinking about that game Von Popiel vs G Marco, 1902 and then I saw your comment about it on page 3. |
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Dec-31-18 Grischuk vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2017
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| avidfan: Anyone who read my post above will have picked up my errors in <renumbering all moves starting from 44 by incrementing by 1 to 45> to the end - sorry for any inconvenience or confusion caused. Anyhow it is the winning method that is useful to know in the difficult endgame. |
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Dec-31-18 World Rapid Championship (2018)
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| avidfan: <<<<<Tabanus: Correction slips sent for 20 wrong game results (1 every 75 games, a little more than usual)>>>>
--- represents error of 20/1475 = 1.3559%. The resources of the <cg> staff will sorely and surely be stretched and hopefully not too ... |
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Dec-31-18 Marshall vs Capablanca, 1909
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| avidfan: Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 is the link for game 6 |
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Oct-24-17 B Savchenko vs J van Foreest, 2016
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| avidfan: 11...Bb7xd5 is better than the strategically weak
11...e6xd5? <blocking> the line of sight on the long b7-g2 diagonal for Black's Bishop also doubling and probably isolating the pawn on d5 [DIAGRAM] |
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Sep-07-17 Vachier-Lagrave vs M Khusenkhojaev, 2017
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| avidfan: Hey <ChessHigherCat>, how appropriate the observation from one feline on the amusing "copycat" moves which almost produced symmetrical positions after 18...Qc8.
[DIAGRAM] |
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Jul-22-16 Carlsen vs Giri, 2016
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| avidfan: Because it is a double round robin? |
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Aug-17-14 The World vs Naiditsch, 2014
Jul-04-14 AylerKupp chessforum
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| avidfan: Happy JULY4 from up north! The USA soccer team was marvellous against the youthful Belgian team especially the agile goalkeeper Tim Howard, saving 16 goals - most since 1966. I joined that Pogonina game midway and was surprised she was able to get a perpetual. The World Team just ... |
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