Mar-14-06 Iweta Radziewicz Rajlich 
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Durcet: I think we need a picture of WGM Radziewicz here...
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| | Jan-10-06 Carolina Lujan
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Durcet: Carolina Lujan is neither a GM nor an IM; she is a WGM with a FIDE rating of about 2350.
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| | Nov-28-05 Odd Lie
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Durcet: Almira will beat Junior!
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| | Nov-08-05 Marina Makropoulou
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Durcet: How many national championships has Makropoulou won?
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| | Oct-23-05 Veselin Topalov
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Durcet: On the chessboard so brave and aggressive, in the real life - a pitiful coward. How sad for chess.
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| | May-24-05 Birchbeer vs NN, 1995
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Durcet: Birchbeer's standard rating is a provisional rating based on three games; GM Shaposhnikov holds the ICC all-time record at 2857.
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| | Apr-02-05 John Pope
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Durcet: Irrespective of our faith, or the lack of it, John Paul II commands our deepest respect. A truly great man has passed away. Let us also remember that he was a chess enthusiast, and a problem composer. In 1999 FIDE awarded the title "Grand Commander of the Legion of Grandmasters" to ...
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| | Apr-01-05 Anatoli Karpov
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Durcet: I have always thought of the Sonas ratings as a joke, or more precisely a joke with an intent of financial gain and some little fame in the chess community. Karpov's rating - it's about 25 points short of 2700 now, and general consensus seems to be that he uses very little time with ...
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| | Mar-29-05 Hikaru Nakamura
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Durcet: Fair and correct? At least on the ICC he is bad sportsmanship embodied - rude kibitzing, moretiming the opponent in won positions, letting his clock run low on the first move if the opponent is not "worthy", etc... Stuff you could expect from a disturbed five-year-old, not from a ...
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| | Mar-27-05 Robert James Fischer
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Durcet: By the looks of the guy, I wouldn't believe Monokroussos even if he insisted two plus two equals four. :-)
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