May-13-13 Gata Kamsky 
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Gryz: Good luck in the tie-breaks today !
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| | Apr-23-13 FIDE Grand Prix Zug (2013)
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Gryz: <Jimmy W: Probably another round of draws considering how close it has been.>
Five decisive games and one draw.
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| | Apr-01-13 V Malinin vs D Gurevich, 1967
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Gryz: My guess would be that this is indeed a game played by GM D. Gurevich. Both Gurevich and Malinin were born in 1956. That would make this a game between two 11-year old Russian kids. Who were both talented enough to become Grand Masters later in their lives.
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| | Apr-01-13 Vasily Borisovich Malinin
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Gryz: My mistake. Malinin was not regular champion of the USSR, he was the correspondence-chess champion.
http://www.iccf.com/Country.aspx?co...
And if I understood correctly, the last correspondence championship was held between 1995 and 1999. (My guess, as the previous one ran between ...
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| | Apr-01-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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Gryz: Useless statistic of the day:
Number of rounds with:
4 draws: 3 rounds
1 decisive game: 1 round
2 decisive games: 7 rounds
3 decisive games: 2 rounds
There were no rounds were all 4 games were decisive.
Not bad. I would have expected many more draws. This is a very ...
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| | Jan-27-13 Tata Steel (2013)
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Gryz: Van Wely and Giri share a spot with 6/13 (-1). Van Wely might be slightly disappointed. I bet he would have enjoyed being the best Dutch player.
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| | Dec-30-12 World Cities Team Championship (2012)
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Gryz: Read my comment, waustad. It was only a few lines back. Hoogeveen is the host of the annual Unive chess tournament. All 4 Dutch players have played in that tournament before. So yes, they all have been to Hoogeveen.
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| | Oct-27-12 Nijboer vs Z Kollen, 2012
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Gryz: If you ever looked at Nijboer's results in the last 20 years, you know that they are very unpredictable. Nice attacking games combined with silly losses. There were only 7 others above 2450, out of the 78 participants. And he did play one of them. (L'Ami, against whom he lost in the ...
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| | Oct-24-12 16th Unive Tournament (2012)
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Gryz: Today (Wednesday) is a resting day for the Crown Group. (The others, including the Open Group are playing).
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| | Oct-24-12 Leon Pliester
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Gryz: A bit more information about Leon Pliester can be found here:
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/d...
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