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Curiosities

Trade restrictions – a very long game with no captures in 93 moves

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February 20, 2023March 1, 2023

The game was played at the World Junior Chess Championship in Stockholm (August 1969, Anatoly Karpov dominated the finals). If you click through the moves, you can observe that the first capture really happened at the move 94. Until then, white kept a positional advantage, but for reasons unknown didn’t manage to open any attack.

Tools

RPB Chessboard

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February 18, 2023March 3, 2023

RPB Chessboard is a plugin for WordPress, the popular blog CMS. It allows typesetting and displaying chess games and diagrams in posts and pages of WordPress blogs, using the standard FEN and PGN notations.

Full Game Analysis

Introduction, and a deep game analysis – King’s Gambit Declined, Keene Defense

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February 16, 2023March 1, 2023

The defense already appeared in a textbook from the 19th century. The author was Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, a German master and theoretician, a member of the “Berlin Pleiades” group. Raymond Keene was credited with exploring it and finding a better game for black.