| Nov-08-03 | | Bad Star: Miles actually spent some time polishing the e2-square with his finger (until Christiansen's face had assumed a suitable shade of red) before making the move 6. xe4. The game was of course agreed drawn in advance. |
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Nov-08-03
 | | Eggman: 6.Qe2 wins, e.g. 6...Qe7 7.Nd5 Qd7 8.d3, as Anand found out the following year: A Zapata vs Anand, 1988 |
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| Dec-12-05 | | AlexanderMorphy: What's with the pre-arranged draws??? Can they do that? |
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| Dec-12-05 | | azaris: This was during the Cold War. You know how the dirty Westerners always colluded to prevent those poor Soviet communists from winning. |
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| Jan-05-07 | | RookFile: Pretty clever too, in a tournament in San Francisco. |
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Nov-04-07
 | | whiteshark: Yes, a draw as result has been agreed before. Miles and Christiansen were playing together in the Porz team in German 1st league.
Therefore Miles couldn't play the winning move <6.Qe2> after Christiansen blundered with <5...Bf5??>. Instead the game continued this way and was published in the next Informator. Anand, of course didn't know about this background but trusted the Informator game blindly. |
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| Jan-09-08 | | TigerG: What's wrong with miles? He could have won with 6. Qe2. Did he not see that or what. |
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Jan-24-08
 | | parmetd: first of all the anand game was played in 1986 a year before this not a year after, and second this game was not agreed draw, larryc messed up and miles messed up back. |
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| Jun-15-08 | | Manic: <parmetd> That sounds a pretty ignorant comment, considering that nobody else supports that argument looking over kibitzes on both anand's and this games page. |
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| Jun-08-09 | | sheaf: <parmetd> zapata-anand was played 1988...larryc messed up is obviously true, but to claim that miles missed Qe2 is like claiming lightening struck me twice...and I am still alive..;-)...This game was actually a pre-arranged draw. Qe7 doesn't defend the piece because of the obvious Nd5, well its not obvious to u I am sure.. |
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| Jul-17-09 | | WhiteRook48: 6 Qe2 wins from zapata-anand |
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Jun-01-10
| | parmetd: how exactly is the comment the ignorant? It is the truth whether you like the truth or not. |
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| Jul-07-10 | | MaczynskiPratten: <parmetd>: if you claim it is the truth, you need to provide some evidence to counter all the material pointing the other way. Several records seem to show that Zapata-Anand was 1988, none 1986 as you state. |
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