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Casey Ydenberg
Boston, MA, United States

Member Since: Nov 30, 2007
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Homepage: www.endlessformsmostwonderful.blogspot.com

Birthday: Aug 19, 1981

Occupation: Postdoctoral researcher

About Me:
Cell biologist; like skiing, hockey, talking about science, reading books, listening to music, and interesting food. Not new to the game, but new to taking it seriously.

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The Philidor Position

Submitted by direwolfe on Nov 9, 2008 1:33pm.

I found the explanation of the Philidor position in Seirawan's "Winning Chess Endings" a bit confusing and thought I would create a pneumetic to remember it by.       In the poisiton above, Black's easiest Draw is to move Ra6.  As the long as the...Read more »

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