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Game of the week

by Robert Huntington | Leave a comment

Sorry, this feature appears a day late this week. I am planning to post a game every Sunday but I was away for the weekend celebrating my 60th birthday. Also, I haven’t gotten around to testing various plug-ins that would allow me to include some annotations. That will happen at some point.

The winner of this game is an obscure Soviet player who never got a FIDE title (and later emigrated to Israel and the United States, where he died). But he did play in the 1959 Soviet Championship where he beat Tal and drew Spassky. I offer this game so that you can pity the poor black bishop on h8.

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Game of the week

by Robert Huntington | 2 Comments

I have managed to put together a database of some 80,000+ games not in ChessBase’s Megabase (2017 version). They’re from obscure websites, old magazines and wherever else I could find them. Many, if not most, are “fish” games but many are master and grandmaster games. I’m planning on using them for a “Game of the week” feature and posting one every Monday. The first is a nice grandmaster game from the 1985 US Open. For the time being, I offer them without any annotation since the WordPress plug-in I’m using doesn’t allow you to play through variations (I’m open to suggestions as to which plug-in I should use).

Update: In an email, Yasser writes “That was some old home brew cooking that Lev fell into. ” He also suggests that a good question for students is where White went wrong. Ideas?

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