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Some Endgames

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  1. Doctor_VEL vs tazo7
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Evans' Gambit

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  1. Captain William Davies Evans vs Alexander McDonnell, London, 1827
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Closed Sicilians

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  1. Grand Prix Attack
  2. Nigel Short - Boris Gelfand
  3. MFCORFW Ch. 4 Game 27: Analysis from Mathilde Congiu vs. Monika Seps
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More Master's Games.

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  1. Intro and links to earlier studies
  2. Garry Kasparov - Florin Gheorghiu Moscow Interzonal, 1982.
  3. Rene Letelier Martner - Robert James Fischer, Leipzig 1960, KID
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Queens Gambit Accepted

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  1. Chapter 1
  2. Gelfand vs Huebner, Munich 1994.
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Budapest Gambit, Games by Masters

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  1. Intro, and an early trap.
  2. Main recommendation by Barrish
  3. After Yasser
  4. Akiba Rubinstein vs Milan Vidmar, Berlin Four Masters, 1918
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Ratty plays chess?!

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  1. anton7766 vs ratzinjammers Classical, Pirc vs the Wayward Queen Attack
  2. zlodd vs ratzinjammers -- Classical; Pirc
  3. 19alex - ratzinjammers 15:10 Accelerated Queen's Indian
  4. PlayfulMile vs ratzinjammers 15:10 Modern Defense
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Middlegame Studies.

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  1. Threatened checkmate allows white entry.
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A Beginner's introduction to playing the London as White (especially @bungarra)

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  1. Mainline Ideas
  2. A Slightly Older Aproach: Gata Kamsky - Maxim Dlugy
  3. A Modern Aproach: Magnus Carlsen - Wesley So
  4. Gata Kamsky - Boris Gelfand
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Example Games from Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy

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  1. Intro
  2. Jose Raul Capablanca - Samuel Reshevsky
  3. Emanuel Lasker - Edward Lasker
  4. Dvoretsky vs Smyslov, Odessa 1974
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Mating Practice

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  1. Very easy: mate on the move
  2. A simple pattern: easy mate on the move.
  3. A simple mate in 3
  4. Simple Mate in 2, Rook on the seventh.
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Ideas that grabbed my eye.

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  1. Endgame: Giving a little to get a lot.
  2. A natural move that traps a piece, and loses! (AKA power of the passed pawn)
  3. Middlegame opportunity: treyjer vs kbaysal95
  4. lucasnogueira - KapitanKompot
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Trapped pieces.

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  1. Dkgwby vs darfx_3
  2. pepellou vs Sergey_75: Trapped piece with counter sacrifice.
  3. BENCROS vs rinat8181
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Studies of Beginner's and Lower Rated Players' Games.

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  1. treyjer - Sravan_Ambala
  2. itsfungus - Andrei20
  3. penguindrum - bungarra
  4. Ruskimeister - bungarra
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Scratch Pad

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  1. Chapter 1
  2. Fide Cadets Under 10, Tihon Chernyaev vs Aleksandrs Karasevics
  3. Emanuel Berg - Anish Giri
  4. Anish Giri - Magnus Carlsen, 2018 Tata Steel, Guioco Pianissimo
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Old Master's games I'm trying to understand

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  1. Henri Grob - Max Euwe, Zurich, 1947
  2. Max Euwe - Emanuel Lasker Zurich 1934
  3. Richard Reti - Emanuel Lasker, Maehrisch-Ostrau, 1923
  4. Max Euwe - Alexander Alekhine, World Championship Match, 1935
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