patzer2 Member since May-20-03 · Last seen Mar-04-09 A former class A player almost 20 years ago, I'm returning to chess as a hobby in retirement. Spending more time studying end games and middle games than openings now. I may try playing in tournaments again later, but for now I like the challenge of analyzing and trying to understand the subtlties of strong Master games.

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Mar-04-09 M Umansky vs The World, 2009    patzer2: Grabbing and hanging on to pawns for dear life, at the expense of falling behind in development to a stronger player reminds me of the song by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons "let's Hang On:" "Let's hang on to what we've got Don't let go, girl; we've got a lot Got a lot of ...      Mar-04-09 Fischer vs Shocron, 1959    patzer2: <FSR> You provide a good description of the tactics involved in today's Wednesday puzzle, which utilizes a defensive decoy and deflection combination with the threat of a discovered attack with check in Fischer's 40. Bd7! for it's solution. Having seen the puzzle before, I ...      Mar-03-09 Polugaevsky vs E Torre, 1984    patzer2: Although I've obviously seen this amazing game before, it's good to see it again as the GOTD. Good choice CG.Com! I also enjoyed the pun. For the most part White's attack is accurately and precisely conducted after the demolition sacrifice 19. Bxh7+! White might have shortened ...      Mar-03-09 Kolisch vs Loyd, 1867    patzer2: White's 26. Qxg6! solves a Tuesday puzzle with a quick and easy mating attack.      Mar-02-09 De Ronde vs G Hand, 1945    patzer2: Some of the recent games from Linaires 2009 would make for good choice for the GOTD, such as the recent brilliant Sicilian Dragon win by Black in L Dominguez vs Carlsen, 2009 .      Mar-02-09 J Krejcik vs D Hell, 1921    patzer2: <OhioChessFan> Well said! <Blacksburg> You ask if <you tell a cop to go play in traffic, does that make traffic a dirty word?> As <OhioChessFan> indicates it's usage and context for the most part that defines whether a word is profane. For your example, I ...      Mar-02-09 N Sakr vs Ali Atwi, 2001    patzer2: White's 26. Qxc8+! initiates a Knight Fork to win the Queen and leave him a piece up in the endgame. It also solves today's Monday's puzzle.      Mar-01-09 O De la Riva Aguado vs Bologan, 2001    patzer2: Although it's certainly a bad move that White would never have made over the board, the position after 45. Qg2? leads to an amusing mate in three composition: [DIAGRAM] (Position after 45. Qg2? Find Black's move to mate in three.) See my previous post for the solution.      Mar-01-09 Anand vs Wang Yue, 2009   patzer2: It's hard to believe that such a natural looking try as 23...Ke7? is the losing move. Yet it would seem Black just might save his game or at least give himself practical drawing chances with the alternative 23...h6! After 23... h6!, the move 24. b5 is no where near as effective for ...      Feb-28-09 Gavrilov vs Kevorkian, 1990    patzer2: <starkidaway> After 28. Bg5 hxg5 29. Qh5+ Kg7, you are correct that 30. hxg5 wins big. Perhaps 29...Kg8 isn't necessarily any worse for Black since both it and 29...Kg7 clearly lose to strong play by White.

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