May-21-13 Magnus Carlsen 
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Absentee: The "risk" of being knocked out by an opponent rated 500 points less is next to zero.
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| | May-20-13 Hastings 1930/31 (1930)
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Absentee: "Dutch master Euwe won in surprising combative fashion, finishing undefeated with 6 wins and 2 draws, dropping only one game." I guess "undefeated" should be removed.
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| | May-18-13 Norway Chess Tournament (2013)
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Absentee: <Eyal: <Absentee: <Pedro Fernandez: So my friend, who were been the winner if Topalov defeats to Karjakin? Yes I can find out it, but maybe you may give an immediate response.> First place was to be decided by blitz playoffs.> Lol. Since some people seem to have an ...
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| | May-16-13 Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013)
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Absentee: <voyager39: Its possibly going to be decided not on the strength of their play (where they seem absolutely equal)> Not really. Their comparative results in the last few years should be easy enough to interpret. If something besides raw playing strength is going to make a ...
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| | May-05-13 Robert James Fischer
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Absentee: < Lt.Surena: Dear Harry you got it backwards. There are only two categories: The fighters/true champs ie. Petrosian/Spassky/Karpov/Kramnik/Euwe/Botvinnik/- Smyslov/Anand And the quitter/loser/coward/racist aka Bobby Fischer.> How do you tell one from the other?
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| | May-05-13 Wesley So
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Absentee: Chessgames isn't a commercial website.
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| | May-01-13 Alekhine Memorial (2013)
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Absentee: <mkrk17: Astronomical rating means nothing if you are not or have never been WC. You can have a rating of even 10000 ELO for all i care, if you are not WC then you're rating means nothing. History has seen so many prodigies (Radjabov, Shakh, Topalov, etc) who have all had a very
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| | May-01-13 FIDE Grand Prix Zug (2013)
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Absentee: <badest: That's the beauty of it. Get them going, and in the end they even get punished for it. Really clever. Topa and Danailov's biggest mistake was to accept to play in Russia. None of this would have been possible in a western country.> What do you think it is that ...
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| | Apr-26-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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Absentee: "Well done! Love, Garry" next to the #2 trophy was a touch of class.
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| | Apr-13-13 Vidmar vs Yates, 1930
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Absentee: <he'd been spewing 'high Victorian' drivel til Pound tuned him in.> What what WHAT?
"Crossways" and "The wind among the reeds" are high victorian drivel? No, wait, don't answer.
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