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Old 10-08-2007, 03:50 PM
NajdorfDefense NajdorfDefense is offline
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Default Chess Game of the Month

#1 on Soltis and some other lists:

www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224863

GM Berliner wins the WCC title in Estrin's favorite variation - balls of steel.
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Old 10-11-2007, 12:01 AM
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I know, no one comments because no one here fully grasps it. It's awesome.
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Old 10-11-2007, 12:11 AM
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I'll go through it this weekend.
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Old 10-11-2007, 02:18 AM
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Default Re: Chess Game of the Month

this game is great. I can't decide whether it being a correspondence game takes some of it away from me or not.
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Old 10-11-2007, 12:17 PM
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Default Re: Chess Game of the Month

For a beginner like me, this looks pretty sick
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Old 10-11-2007, 04:37 PM
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Default Re: Chess Game of the Month

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For a beginner like me, this looks pretty sick

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One of the sickest ever. Try Reti-Alekhine for another sick one slightly easier to analyze.
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Old 10-14-2007, 12:31 AM
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Default Re: Chess Game of the Month

I love this line. The fact that it boils down to a sterile endgame sort of kills part of it for some people, but taking on Estrin in a Two Knights, the guy that WROTE THE BOOK, does take cojones, that's for sure...
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Old 10-17-2007, 02:44 PM
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Default Re: Chess Game of the Month

Not just taking him on, but winning the WC while doing so.
Sick is right.
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