Dec-17-12 Magnus Carlsen 
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Benjamin1981: This is perhaps off topic, but anyway. In Sweden, being formally found worthy of being a professor (having "professorskompetens") should not be confused with having "professors namn" (professors name). Professors name is an honorary title given to non-academians who have ...
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| | Dec-08-12 London Chess Classic (2012)
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Benjamin1981: Hm, my post was obviously slightly (well actually quite) hyperbolic. Of course I consider Keres and Korchnoi to have been great players (great players whose careers were largely fuelled by the idea of becoming WC, by the way). But still: i think much to great emphasis is placed
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| | Oct-27-12 SPICE Cup (2012)
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Benjamin1981: What will happen when his 30? He'll grow a beard? Start wearing sandals?
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| | Oct-25-12 Capablanca vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1922
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Benjamin1981: You might be right Marmot PFL but Znosko-Borovsky was also past his peak in 1922, he really wasn't one of capas main competitors. In chessmetric terms this was a game between a 2850 and a 2480.
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| | Oct-25-12 Emanuel Lasker
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Benjamin1981: That composition was beautiful!
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| | Oct-01-12 Bilbao Masters (2012)
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Benjamin1981: Absentee is that chessmetricranking? If so Kasparov was #1 on chessmetric at 19y 5m compared to Fischer #1 on chessmetric at 20y 11m. If you mean chessmetric then please dont mix Chessmetric with ELO.
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| | Sep-10-12 A Shiplay vs E Shipley, 1977
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Benjamin1981: 1. Bh6 fails.
1. Bh6 Qa5+ 2. Bd2 QxQ 3. KxQ leads to pretty much equal position. 1. Bh6 Qa5+ 2. Ke2 Qh5+ leads to disaster for white.
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| | Sep-05-12 Chess Olympiad (2012)
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Benjamin1981: Since the last day off Kramnik has played Aronian, Radjabov and Ivanchuk. If he plays Nakamura tomorrow thats 4 top-10 players in 4 days: about as tough a schedule as you'll ever see.
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| | Jun-13-12 Alexander Morozevich
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Benjamin1981: Morozevich performance rating since his comeback: 2841 over 73 games. Indeed quite impressive.
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| | May-12-12 Nigel Short
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Benjamin1981: Nigel, this is a completely different question, but i know that you have visited my home town of Skellefteċ, for the world cup in 89. I was there with my father but to be honest the only player i remember was Tal. Anyway what did you think about Skellefteċ? Horribly boring ...
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