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Opening: KGA: bishops gambit, Cozio (Morphy) defence
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Judit Polgar has become the strongest female chess player of all time. She and her sisters Susan and Sofia were all child prodigies. Below is a game she won against a grandmaster when she was...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Philidor: exchange variation
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Paul Morphy was America's first strong chessplayer. In fact, he was the strongest player of his day, defeating everyone he played. His first important match was against Daniel Harrwitz, the...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Sicilian: Anderssen variation
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: In tribute to the recently deceased former World Champion, I annotated this game which was taken from a Soviet Championship tournament played in Moscow, 1945.
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Queens pawn: Torre attack
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: In the New York Tournament of 1924, there was some dispute as to who should have won the First Brilliancy Prize. Richard Réti won it for his game against Bogoljubow, but at the time many thought...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Nimzo-Indian: 4.e3 O-O, 5.Bd3 d5
Annotations by: dconterno
From the analysis: The young Master gives the old Master a lesson on time management. Not the clock time but on how to utilise precious tempi to create a devastating advantage.
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Annotated Master GameOpening: English opening
Annotations by: dconterno
From the analysis: Kotov does not play the opening in a clear and logical manner - a poor Bishop move (14. Bd2) let Tal improve his position at Kotov's expenses. This Bishop move leads to the loss of one tempo and...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Ruy Lopez: Morphy defence, Duras variation
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Oldrich Duras, from Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic) in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of the world's top players in the decade prior to the outbreak of World War I....
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Queens pawn game
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Long before the advent of chess-playing computers, José Raúl Capablanca of Cuba played chess that seemed so perfect and flawless to his contemporaries, that they dubbed him "The Chess Machine."...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Sicilian defence
Annotations by: Paul Georghiou
From the analysis: This is an exciting game where Shirov launches a sacrificial attack but is forced to bale out with a perpetual check
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Reti opening
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Richard Réti was one of the founders, along with Savielly Tartakower, Gyula Breyer, and Aron Nimzovitch, of the "Hypermodern" school of chess thought, which, in the 1920s, revolutionised chess...
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