DrGridlock Member since May-02-07 · Last seen Jun-18-13 Northern Michigan is my current home. I grew up near Detroit, and played chess as a junior. I attended Hope College and the University of Chicago, and lived and worked in Washington DC for 10 years. I'm just getting back into chess, and enjoying Chessgames.com as a way to find my way back.

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May-13-13 Stahlberg vs Keres, 1953   DrGridlock: "The commencement of the tournament in Zurich demonstrated something that I had in fact both feared and expected. I had clearly not yet surmounted the crisis in my form and my results in the first half of the tournament, seven points out of 14 games, were far from satisfactory. I      May-13-13 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2013    DrGridlock: Looks like a very solid advantage for White after 23 dxe5. What is Carlsen's plan for getting counterplay in this game?      Apr-30-13 Topalov vs Karjakin, 2013    DrGridlock: Good game (and tournament) from Topalov. Not sure who bungled the middle game more: Karjakin or Chessgames.      Apr-29-13 Caruana vs Topalov, 2013    DrGridlock: <PaulLovric: how do you stop a Najdorf? what should he have played instead?> 1 d4 :)      Apr-28-13 Kholmov vs Fischer, 1967    DrGridlock: <schweigzwang: I think he must have meant (1) "against a Soviet Union player" and (2) "in my last 11 games or so ... losses and draws have been my lot the last couple of years."> "Soviet" and "Russian" were sometimes confusingly used as interchangeable adjectives in the ...      Apr-28-13 Nigel Short    DrGridlock: Re Thatcher/Great Britain economy. Here is a snapshot of Margaret Thatcher in one chart: http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/04/ho... Note Real GDP percapita in France in 1979 and in 2012 compared to Real GDP percapita in Great Britain in 1979 and 2012. "One nation in 1979 started to ...      Apr-28-13 Short vs Nunn, 1986   DrGridlock: <: one who looks on and often offers unwanted advice or comment <a kibitzer at a card game>; broadly: one who offers opinions> Into which category do you fall?> As Plato wrote in, "The Allegory of the Cave" "Wouldn't he remember his first home, what passed for ...      Apr-24-13 Radjabov vs Topalov, 2013    DrGridlock: They're playing on. I wonder if Topalov is getting paid by the number of checks he can deliver in this game?      Apr-23-13 Topalov vs Nakamura, 2013    DrGridlock: < perfidious: <I think Topalov would chuckle if offered a draw in this position.> From some moves ago, but this is one time I agree with <Gridlock>.> It only hurts the first time. It gets easier after that :)      Apr-23-13 Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2013   DrGridlock: In retrospect of the match results (8.5-8.5 tie between Carlsen and Kramnik, with Carlsen advancing on tie-breaker), this 9th round game was a decisive moment in the tournament. Kramnik has an advantage, but not a win, with the White pieces and the game is drawn. In an engine ...

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