Posted in Moves I could never play on July 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
This game I recently discover via research conducted a month or so back. The game is from a simul, where the play is often more gung-ho. That still, you have to admire Fox for threatening mate in 1 given his king position against former Russian champion, and soon to be world champion Alekhine.
I neither have the bravery nor the calculation skills to play such a move.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012317
MJM Colombia
Posted in Moves I could never play on July 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Lautier was right up there in his day and beat everyone. The manner in which he beat Kasparov in the game below shows just how strong he was. In the diagram below, he plays a move I most certainly couldn’t.
You need to play through the game to appreciate its finesse. It does need to be asked if anyone ever had two queens on the board against Kasparov faster than Lautier did. I doubt it very much.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070708
MJM, Colombia
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I can’t link this game, you may find it on Chessbase however.
That is not a move I could play. Where is the win coming from? What’s so wrong with 10. Bf3?
This game is analyzed extensively in the following publication. Well worth purchasing.
MJM, Colombia
Posted in Moves I could never play on July 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
A pamphlet was written about this game due to the attention it attracted. If you look at the position below, how well could you calculate the win ahead from the move played? Assuming of course, the sacrifice is accepted, which it doesn’t have to be.
I could never play such a move in classical chess. In blitz as a hit and hope maybe but I doubt it. I am not tactically strong enough to calculate correctly why it works, like almost everyone else.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478
For instructive analysis on this game, you may wish to consider purchasing the following publication.
MJM, Colombia
Posted in Moves I could never play on July 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I’ve decided to collate all moves I have been impressed by over the years in the many, many books I have bought; and all the many, many games I have watched or flashed through. In this position Ivanchuk played a move I could never make. Why? Unable to calculate why it is winning. Doesn’t seem to put black under enough pressure. Well that’s my take anyway.
You can find the game here, and if a member of the site, you can see the engine rating of the move above.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060750
MJM, Colombia
A side note on how to read old Tom Sweby's columns
Not perhaps, but quintessentially, Old Tom Sweby is best thought of as a passionate devotee to the newspapers he wrote for. He was well read and knowledgeable of the Bedfordshire chess scene and well beyond, given that he was the president of the S.C.C.U. once upon a time. He was generally well-respected and rubbed shoulders with many, if not all, of those eminent within British chess circles. It would, however, be a critical mistake to see his column is primary source material entirely. That it is not. You will also find secondary source material quoted too, and the reliability of that is not quite as Tom hoped. Given that he wrote for decades, this is to some degree inevitable, and after all we are all prone to error whether we realize it or not. Thankfully, with regards to old Tom Sweby, they are infrequent and for the most part old Tom continued to document events and developments in the Bedfordshire league from the get go as best he could but, of course, everything lies open to interpretation. Despite this, and generally speaking. this does indeed make him informative and thus worth reading. Dare I say his columns constitute a narrative describing the latest developments, match reports and changing nature of the Beds league...he knew his audience and wrote according. This manifested itself over decades but brevity was always in play courtesy of the restictions imposed by writing a column. Should you wish to read a in instrumental figure of the Beds' league post WW2, you are quite welcome to peruse what has been posted here... . :-) I should, however, point out that as the decades wore on he gradually moved on away from narratives concerning the Bedfordshire league towards affairs both historical and international. The reasons for this are multifarous, old age was a predominante factor presumably, however, the bottom line is with regards to how the Bedfordshire chess scene developed post WW2: old Tom Sweby is your go to guy. He wrote more about chess in Bedforshire than anyone else did but given he was a Lutonian and writing for a Luton newspaper there is both bias and greater coverage of his hometown than the rest of the county.
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