| Nov-04-04 | | Minor Piece Activity: Nice game nikolaas. What is the palace of pioneers? |
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Nov-05-04
 | | Eatman: Pioneers was the Soviet Youth organisation. Think of Boy/Girl Scouts , except everyone had to join from grades 3 to 7 and wear those silly red scarves. Most big cities had Pioneer Palaces, those contained clubs for all kind of activities including chess.
This game comes from a simul visiting Korchnoi gave to young 12 year old pioneer Garry. |
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| Nov-05-04 | | Minor Piece Activity: Thanks for the history lesson Eatman! Wow, imagine giving a simul to Kasparov! |
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Nov-05-04
 | | offramp: <Ray Keene> once beat Karpov and Kortschnoi simultaneously! He'll tell you about it! |
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Nov-05-04
 | | ray keene: <offramp> sadly not-not at chess anyway-the only game i beat korchnoi consistently at was bridge and that was only because i kept on getting mega hands but bid very cautiously. by the way-your calais to vladivostock railway-i presume the 3 stops are in addition to the basic journey time. i cant believe that kasparov didnt crush korchnoi from this opening-whites play was awful. |
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| Nov-05-04 | | Griffin: As soon as White played g4 I stopped viewing the game in disgust. |
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Nov-05-04
| | offramp: <ray keene: <offramp> sadly not-not at chess> I did have a vague recollection that you and Bill Hartston had beaten the 2 Ks in a hand of bridge - that was what I was thinking of. The three stops are St. Omer - Hazebrouck - Birobidzhan. |
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Nov-05-04
 | | Sneaky: Bridge, now there's a game which is totally over my head. Funny story, though... offramp had me going for a while. |
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Nov-05-04
| | nikolaas: Bride is not as good as Whist. Color Whist (Klerurenwiezen) is, after Life an Chess the best game I know. |
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| Aug-15-09 | | UnicornChessman: I've never fully understood how top-level players can manage to play so awefully as this... Apparantly the trick to becoming a world champ is to throw poo at each other while giggling like a little girl, haha. |
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Jan-20-10
 | | HeMateMe: korchnoi must have been wondering, if a 14 year old is doing this, will I be near the top much longer? |
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Mar-07-13
| | Chessbing: haha, i'm only twenty and i'm going to the world open this year. yes!!!=D |
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