Apr-02-13 World Championship Candidates (2013) 
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Creg: <ReneDescartes> Great post! I agree with all 5 of your points.
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| | Jan-28-13 Magnus Carlsen
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Creg: I agree with <Bobwhoosta>. The presumption that Magnus must win the Candidates is absurd. Both Kramnik, and Aronian are just as strong, and capable of winning this tournament. Not only that, but I am confidant that these two men, along with Carlsen, are just as able and ready to ...
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| | Jan-25-13 Tata Steel (2013)
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Creg: <frogbert: here's a hypothetical debate: how many think that carlsen would've failed to convert the winning advantage anand had against hou today? next question: does one's ability to convert such advantages say anything meaningful about how strong a chess player one is? and ...
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| | Aug-23-12 H Murphy vs A Kinsman, 1981
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Creg: <PinnedPiece> White has a more direct line after 17...Ke8 18.Qxd8+ Kxd8 19.Rc8 mate
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| | Dec-03-11 Carlsen vs D Howell, 2011
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Creg: Great finish by Carlsen. I do not understand the moves of GM's many times. Such as white's 23.h3, but fortunately Nigel Short was commenting live, and he explained how black had no plan. White was calmly improving his position, and once everything was ready he brought down the hammer.
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| | Nov-04-11 Kasparov vs K Lerner, 1979
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Creg: Is it me or is everyone making a big deal out of this?! GK wasn't even a GM in 1979, and he was still a teenager!
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| | Sep-27-11 T Ernst vs J Benjamin, 1990
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Creg: 38.Qxh7+ Kxh7 39. Rgxg7+ (not the other rook) 39...Kh6 (39...Kh8 40.Rh7+ Kg8 41.Rdg7 mate) 40.Rg7+ Kh5 41.Rh7+ Qh6 42.R7xh6 mate.
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| | Sep-24-11 Gulko vs Anikaev, 1983
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Creg: I believe we need to take advantage of the white square weakness around the black king. 20.Rxe6 After that I'm not certain where to go with this, but it seems like a plausible track. 20...Rxe6 21.Nxd5 now the white lines to the king are open and white can play his knight to f4, or his ...
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| | Sep-23-11 M Yudovich Sr. vs Ragozin, 1937
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Creg: The first thing that I looked at was 32.Nf5.
32...Rxd2 33.Rc8+ with mate to follow
32...Bxf5 33.Qxd8 mate
32...Nxd2 33.Nxg3 and white is up a piece.
I don't see what else black can try considering white has the g7 square under attack as well. Lets see how this went down.
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| | Sep-22-11 Judit Polgar vs M Rivas, 1993
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Creg: <dzechiel In my defence, my wife was asking me to hurry up and join her in the family room. Still, that's not an excuse, just an explanation.> Depends on what happened in the living room. A) If your smiling then it's an explanation, B) Other wise she was nagging you and it's an ...
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