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Opening: QGD Slav: 3.Nf3
Annotations by: Paul Georghiou
From the analysis: This game shows just how boring the chess of super grandmasters can be when they can't be bothered to make a fight of it!
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Sicilian: Scheveningen (Paulsen), classical variation
Annotations by: dconterno
From the analysis: Every single great players has had a Nemesis in his Chess career - a player against whom they could not achieve great success. Karpov had his Kasparov, Fischer had his Geller, ..., Tal had his...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Reti Opening
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: The above quote of Capablanca is really exemplified in this game. Larsen gets off to a bad start and is on the ropes for most of the game, but his virtually unknown opponent misses a couple of...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Nimzo-Indian: classical variation
Annotations by: cuppablanca
From the analysis: In the last round of the 2007 British Championship, Jacob Aagaard had to win with the Black pieces to have any chance of winning the title outright. But his GM opponent wasn't about to make it...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: French defence
Annotations by: EnasYorl
From the analysis: Judge Alexander Beaufort Meek (1814-1865)was the president of, and participant in, the first American national chess congress in 1857. A knockout competition without seeding this game was from...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Latvian gambit, 3.Bc4
Annotations by: EnasYorl
From the analysis: One of the best pieces of chess wisdom is to always calculate the consequences of you opponents forcing moves such as checks and captures. In this miniature white omits to do this producing one...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Queens pawn game
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: All master-level players are capable of producing beautiful games. This is definitely true of Akiba Rubinstein, whose record is filled with many beautiful games. The game presented below is...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Evans gambit
Annotations by: jim42078, Lord Ptarmigan
From the analysis: Adolf Anderssen was one of the great players of the 1800's. He was renowned for his romantic style, and two of his games live on today as the Immortal and the Evergreen games. Samuel Rosenthal...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: English opening
Annotations by: jim42078, Lord Ptarmigan
From the analysis: in progress In contrast to the 1960 Championship, which Tal won rather convincingly, 1961 saw Botvinnik dominate throughout. There are several reasons for this, such as Tal's ill health, but...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Queens pawn game
Annotations by: SuperMac
From the analysis: This game starts with a Torre attack with slight variations, Players use these unusual openings to take opponents out of the traditional well trod opening lines
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