Jun-10-12
 | | Sneaky: I'm watching this live right now at http://www.livestream.com/uschess with analysis by "Bennifer". |
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Jun-10-12
| | Sneaky: Karpov just played Rd1. He's short on both time and pawns. 
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Jun-11-12
 | | visayanbraindoctor: A surprise. Karpov still playing rated classical games? I wonder if Karpov and Seirawan are playing this match for some charitable cause. |
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Jun-11-12
 | | Strongest Force: What's up with this? Yaz tell Karpy he's hard-up for money? |
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| Jun-11-12 | | The Curious Emblem: They have similar FIDE rating, so likely close in strength. They were also from the non-computer age, competed with a lot of the same people over the decades. I'd say they are from the same chess generation. Why not? |
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Jun-11-12
 | | Shams: It's Rex, he gets ideas and he wants to see things happen, so he gets on the phone and gets out his checkbook and things happen. I don't suppose Seirawan is eligible for another $400 from Korchnoi? |
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Jun-11-12
 | | Eggman: Just heard about this match. I hope it's 24 games with classical time controls! |
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| Jun-11-12 | | offramp: Karpov is playing for the Scottish Building Federation Edinburgh and District Charitable Trust. Sierawan is playing to raise money for the Grupo de Pesquisas Científico-UFOlógicas (Brasil). A tied match is resolved by fisticuffs.
FIDE calls this a BANFF-playoff. (BANFF = bare-knuckle fist fight.) |
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| Jun-11-12 | | RookFile: Well, Yasser should be pleased that he's even with Karpov so far. |
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| Jun-11-12 | | jackpawn: <RookFile> Why should Yasser be pleased with being even? He was definitely better in both games so far. |
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| Jun-12-12 | | zoren: In the post-mortem white had a lot of tricky tricks and traps in what appeared to be a dry and easily drawn endgame. |
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Jun-12-12
 | | HeMateMe: Clearly, they're just trying to go quickly to the rapids playoff. |
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| Jun-12-12 | | Petrosianic: I don't know how you can say that when both games went past Move 40. I know you're trying to defend the Anand-Gelfand match here, but it's possible to do that if you don't understand the criticisms you're defending it from. |
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| Jun-13-12 | | QueentakesKing: Yasser Seirawan, if I my memory serves me right, was predicted to be the next big thing from the U.S after Bobby. That just went pffftttt.tsk,tsk,tsk. |
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Jun-13-12
 | | Natalia Pogonina: The blitz was very exciting and tense! Great show by both players. |
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Jun-13-12
 | | Kinghunt: Karpov won the blitz match with a +2 score. He seems not to have lost that much of his touch after all. |
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| Jun-13-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <Natalia> and <Kinghunt> I agree! LTJ |
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Jun-13-12
 | | PhilFeeley: So where are the blitz moves? |
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Jun-14-12
| | PhilFeeley: TWIC has all the rapid and blitz games. Why don't you <CG>? |
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| Jun-16-12 | | Everett: <QueentakesKing: Yasser Seirawan, if I my memory serves me right, was predicted to be the next big thing from the U.S after Bobby. That just went pffftttt.tsk,tsk,tsk.> I guess you have filled your expectations by becoming a kibitzer on this site. Congratulations. Seirawan started playing the game at age 12, so he did just fine, all things considered. |
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| Jun-16-12 | | diceman: <offramp:
Karpov is playing for the Scottish Building Federation>You'd think he would have played stonewalls? |
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Jun-19-12
 | | achieve: And 6-2 wins in favor of the Black pieces.
Now is it me or is there a pattern in Blitz games that most of the time Black wins the Black-White battle? I loosely base this on my observations of the last two World Blitz championships, and of course I may be wrong. |
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Jun-21-12
| | achieve: And considering that Karpov is 10 years Yasser's elder good old Anatolya may be proud of this result. |
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| Jul-01-12 | | King Death: < Everett: <QueentakesKing: Yasser Seirawan, if I my memory serves me right, was predicted to be the next big thing from the U.S after Bobby. That just went pffftttt.tsk,tsk,tsk.>
I guess you have filled your expectations by becoming a kibitzer on this site. Congratulations. Seirawan started playing the game at age 12, so he did just fine, all things considered.> Good call <Everett>, maybe one day this kibitzer will have a mental age of more than 12. This is still another yahoo that can hide behind his computer and spew garbage, just like the local sewer pipe. |
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Karpov-Seirawan Match (2012)
