May-05-13 Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013) 
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Daodejing: Second I wish both the very best
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| | Jul-10-11 Judit Polgar
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Daodejing: Judith is great!
http://chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp...
She is such a tough player.
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| | May-26-11 Boris Gelfand
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Daodejing: Age List of the oldest Challengers Chess World Championships 60 Steinitz
50 Kortschnoi
50 Botwinnik
46 Tarrasch
45 Bogoljubow
44 Zuckertort
44 Gelfand
42 Janowski
41 Tschigorin
There was never a "first time" World Champion in Chess over 40. (excluding Steinitz ...
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| | May-26-11 World Championship Candidates (2011)
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Daodejing: "All time Ranking":
1892 Steinitz - Tschigorin 98
1890 Steinitz - Gunsberg 96
1886 Steinitz - Zuckertort 94
1889 Steinitz - Tschigorin 92
1896 Lasker - Steinitz 87
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| | May-12-11 Andrew Jonathan Mestel
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Daodejing: Photograph:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... Speelman, Nunn, Chandler, Mestel, Watson, Short,
Schacholympiade 1988 Thessaloniki
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| | Mar-15-11 Raymond Keene
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Daodejing: Interesting cover for a book about a history of chess openings: http://www.scr-kuppenheim.de/test/a...
Bought it 20 years ago but really didn't recognise then. Must be some side(step)variation of Ruy Lopez ...
;-)
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| | Nov-10-10 Tal Memorial (2010)
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Daodejing: It's not, that this list is very accurate,
BUT it can give an impression of Chess and Age:
http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/AgeL...
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| | Oct-20-10 J Klinger vs Glek, 1990
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Daodejing: I saw this game, when it was played. I lived in Salzburg and started chess this year. Joseph Klinger was my hero then. A young austrian GM - we only had Robatsch and him at this time. Klinger was very talented and promising in the mid 80ies, but leaved chess for poker in the ...
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| | Oct-02-10 alexmagnus chessforum
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Daodejing: Maybe 1963 is about 2760?
1984 is weak compared to others.
Yes I know - he is not active -
but still it is Kasparov :-)
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| | Oct-02-10 Chess Olympiad (2010)
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Daodejing: Maybe an interesting list to watch on a rest day:
The Top Dogs of their Year of Birth:
(up 2700 is liverating frogbert, beneath the numbers are fide rating) 1990 Carlsen 2811
1969 Anand 2800
1982 Aronian 2790
1975 Topalov 2786
1983 Grischuk 2763
1985 Mamedyarov ...
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