Jul-26-12 M Robert Sinn 
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Diagonale du Fou: Bad news for M. Sinn. I hope they have good prison chess in South Florida!
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| | Nov-30-10 NN
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Diagonale du Fou: NN is my favorite player. He is the only one who ever played against all the best chess players in history. More than anyone, he is responsible for the success of chess as a game throughout the centuries. This was a great man, and yet there are no monuments to honor his ...
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| | Nov-19-10 Jose Raul Capablanca
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Diagonale du Fou: crazybird, that interview shows that Carlsen indeed has a very high level of intelligence and, more importantly, burgeoning wisdom. RIP Jose Raul Capablanca
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| | Nov-15-10 Israel Albert Horowitz
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Diagonale du Fou: I cherish the memory of the hours I spent in the early and mid 70s playing over games from his Treasury of Chess compilation.
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| | Nov-10-10 Ludek Pachman
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Diagonale du Fou: <Karpova: Edward Winter's feature article "Pachman, Bohatirchuk and Politics" from 2003: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... > At the foot of the article Winter includes two rare photos of Bohatirchuk. And unfortunately, given the context of his written dispute ...
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| | Oct-23-10 Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852
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Diagonale du Fou: "Partie" was the continental (French) term for a specific game, particularly in the 19th century. In Spanish, for example, the term for a game of chess is "una partida de ajedrez." Game (juego) would sound too general in that language and, I guess, also in French. "Juego de
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| | Jan-27-08 Robert James Fischer
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Diagonale du Fou: <znprdx wrote: "Emergency,emergency >effryboty< to get from street"> Thanks for the brief stroll down memory lane. I thought I was the only one who remembered that line from the "The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!"
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| | Jan-26-08 Alexander Alekhine
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Diagonale du Fou: AA's My Best Games (two volumes in one in the Dover publication) is one of the greatest chess classics. Don't give the book away, you'll find yourself returning to it frequently. I just finished "Alekhine, Agony of a chess Genius" and it is sad to read, but rewarding. It ...
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| | Jan-11-08 Diagonale du Fou chessforum
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Diagonale du Fou: The contemporary perception of AA's preeminence was widely shared, such as that stated by C.J.S. Purdy's after Bled 1931, "That was when he bestrode the chess world like a Colossus." I wonder how many champions have merited that judgment in their heyday. Not Lasker, not ...
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| | Jan-07-08 Pal Benko
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Diagonale du Fou: The famous dark glasses in the photo were reportedly to protect himself from Tal's supposed 'hypnotic' gaze. This has been frequently reported, although who knows what the truth is.
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