Nov-29-12 FIDE Grand Prix Tashkent (2012) 
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Atalante: Agreed. One ! is better than two.
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| | Oct-06-12 Hikaru Nakamura
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Atalante: Fischer spoke and read fluently in Spanish, without having ever studied the language. He sort of picked it up during his early travels to South America.
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| | Oct-05-12 Bilbao Masters (2012)
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Atalante: When is the second leg of this tournament going to start? Next year?
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| | Jul-27-12 Wang Hao vs Nakamura, 2012
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Atalante: The usual fare with the Polugaevsky and other very sharp lines is to study them in detail, rarely if ever get a chance to play them and end up forgetting most of the analysis.
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| | May-24-12 Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship (2012)
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Atalante: Gelfand is an excellent rapid player but not as good as Anand. My estimate is that the latter's chances to win the playoff are around 75%.
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| | Jan-27-12 Tata Steel (2012)
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Atalante: Karjakin will take down Van Vely in that endgame, ruining his "perfect" score.
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| | Jan-25-12 Vassily Ivanchuk
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Atalante: Rebounding in great style after the four straight donuts in Reggio Emilia.
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| | Jan-25-12 A Giri vs Aronian, 2012
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Atalante: Extraordinary. Giri fiddled too much in the opening but the long termed exchange sacrifice, followed by d5!, apparently hemming in Aronian's own bishop, are mind blowing.
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