Apr-12-13 World Championship Candidates (2013) 
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Chuckles: Blitz Armageddon was used in the US Women's Championship a few years ago, and was a bit of a disaster. http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/...
http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/...
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| | Sep-06-12 Chess Olympiad (2012) 
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Chuckles: Nakamura passes Kramnik on the live rating list, yes? And he will be within about a point of Radjabov?
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| | Jul-05-12 Nigel Short 
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Chuckles: Also, you can consider what the TPR should be for a player who wins all games in a tournament. There is no rating gap that predicts a score of 100% - even a gap of thousands of points gives a predicted score like 99.99%. Using the normal TPR formula would give a TPR of infinity, ...
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| | May-30-12 Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship (2012) 
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Chuckles: <Boris Gelfand and Vishy Anand: Joint holders of the Classical-time play Chess Championship of the World.>Don't forget Leko.
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| | Jan-25-12 Tata Steel (2012) 
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Chuckles: <Kinghunt: Unbelievable 41st move by Aronian!> Fantastic!
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| | Dec-06-11 Hikaru Nakamura 
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Chuckles: +1 in 4 games (3 blacks) against the top 4 players in the world is not too shabby :). He's certainly set himself up well for the second half of the tournament.
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| | Oct-21-11 15th Unive (Crown Group) (2011)  Oct-19-11 Alexander Morozevich 
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Chuckles: With the electronic boards, you have to place the two kings onto the center squares to indicate that the game is over. You place both kings on light squares (d5, e4) to indicate a white win, dark squares (d4, e5) to indicate a black win, and one dark & one light square (d5, e5) for
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| | Sep-07-11 L Dominguez vs Judit Polgar, 2011 
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Chuckles: Judit and Radjabov are in opposite sides of the draw, so they could meet in the final.
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| | Sep-04-11 A Moiseenko vs Navara, 2011 
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Chuckles: Does the rook get captured during the tablebase line? If so, he only has to get to that point in the 50 move limit, not all the way to the mate.
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