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| Sep-28-08 | | Goran: <unsound>, Mikhalevski reached exactly the same position against I.Karim at the Gibraltar Open and continued playing. It still ended in a draw, but the game was also interesting. |
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| Sep-28-08 | | unsound: <Goran> Thanks, that's interesting: V Mikhalevski vs I Karim, 2008
I guess this latest is an indication that there are no reliable improvements to be found for white after 29.a4. |
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Sep-28-08
 | | sisyphus: It looks like Leonid Kritz will take the cup based on tiebreaks. He held off Varuzhan Akobian in a final-round meeting of the leaders. |
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| Sep-28-08 | | bharatiy: does anyone know who has the cup for sure? |
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Sep-28-08
| | sisyphus: The way I figure it, Kritz, Akobian, Onischuk, and Harikrisna finished with 5.5; but Kritz had five Blacks and the others had four. |
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| Sep-28-08 | | Ragh: Hearty Congratulations to Pentala Harikrishna from India, for clinching the SPICE Cup after a spectacular final round victory and finishing at 5.5/9 points. |
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| Sep-28-08 | | Xeroxx: Hello ilikefroots |
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| Sep-28-08 | | shr0pshire: First place only achieved 5.5 points? Only parity or laziness can achieve that. I am inclined it to think it was the latter. |
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Sep-28-08
| | sisyphus: Ok, let me get it straight: Harikrishna, Onischuk, and Kritz had five Blacks. Sonneborn-Berger scores: Harikrishna 23.25
Onischuk 23.0
Kritz 22.5
A very competitive field! |
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| Sep-29-08 | | tsj2000: Great news
Congrats Harikrishna!
You made all Indians proud!!
You deserve it and keep your good work going in future events! |
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Sep-29-08
 | | Stonehenge: <Sep-25-08 tsj2000: What a shameful performance by Harikrishna, when other Indians are shining at world level.> Interesting. |
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| Sep-29-08 | | tsj2000: Dear Stonehenge, that is called as motivation mate! after that harikrishna's performance improved!Harikrishna is indeed a talented player, but he needs to have the will to win.He has good opening and endgame technique and he can easily be 2750+ super GM if he works hard. Just watch him in Olympiad mate |
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Sep-29-08
| | Stonehenge: No problem mate :) I like India and their chessplayers! Anand of course and Harikrishna and Sasikiran and Humpy for example. I'm Dutch btw. The other day I was on the site of Auroville, quite interesting! |
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| Sep-29-08 | | tsj2000: Oh nice Stonehenge.India is a great place to visit.Good that you visited closer to my native place and Indian Mecca of Chess CHENNAI City where Anand and Sasikiran hail from. I hope ur trip was nice and enjoyable! |
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| Sep-29-08 | | ravel5184: aeiou! |
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Sep-29-08
 | | PhilFeeley: So why didn't they play one of those ridiculous tie-break things? How does one determine whether a tie-break blitz match should be played? |
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Sep-29-08
| | PhilFeeley: So it is possible to draw your way to victory - providing you get at least a couple of wins along the way... |
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| Sep-29-08 | | Slaven MNE: >So it is possible to draw your way to victory - providing you get at least a couple of wins along the way...> Well that is one of the good sides of 3-1-0 system. But i am afraid that is the only one... |
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| Oct-03-08 | | Super Chess Man: The spice cup didn't really have much spice now did it ? |
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Oct-06-08
 | | technical draw: At one time there use to be a Spice War. This what not it. |
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Oct-06-08
| | technical draw: This was not it. |
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Oct-07-08
 | | Peligroso Patzer: Seems that the Round 9 games are still missing from the database. One of them was featured in last Sunday's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/c... |
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| Oct-21-08 | | savagerules: Talk about inflation! Supposedly this sad excuse of a tourney was the highest rated round robin in the US ever. Higher than the Piatigorsky Cup in 1966 in California?? Fischer, Spassky, Larsen, Portisch, Petrosian, and others played there. What a joke to compare this farce to the 1966 tournament and claim it's higher rated. There must be a way to force players to play for wins or chess deserves to slowly die of irrelevance, all I know I wouldn't pay a dime to see the mostly lame games like these in this Spiceless tournament. |
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| Oct-21-08 | | jon01: <savagerules> Yes, this was rather poor tournament. No superstar players involved or whatsoever. However, you could see some of US top players there excluding Kamsky and Nakamura. I was shocked to read that Perelshteyn had been the winner last year. Pathetic. |
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Jan-02-09
| | Stonehenge: <tsj2000> Sorry, I meant I visited the website of Auroville. Not the place itself, alas. |
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