SetNoEscapeOn Member since Jun-18-07 No matter what I say, the truth is that I love chess and I love chess players. http://xkcd.com/1112/ "If one wants to rid oneself of an unbearable pressure, one needs hashish." - Nietzsche "As usual: the pawns are all sacrificed." - Garry Kasparov "Why do you want to televise chess? Obviously, to fill your pockets. This way you're not profaning just chess; also chess fans and chess players." - Louis Baquero "Great players and many of their followers returned to the classical heritage and discovered new depths of this great, most solid defense." - Kasparov, how to play the King's Gambit http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...

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May-25-13 FIDE Grand Prix Thessaloniki (2013)    SetNoEscapeOn: I don't think any player in chess history has had quite the range of Mr. Vassily Ivanchuk.      May-22-13 Magnus Carlsen    SetNoEscapeOn: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=... Has graphs with expected scores by rating difference. 400 points is theoretically around 92%.      May-18-13 Norway Chess Tournament (2013)    SetNoEscapeOn: To play such a great tournament and then get a lost position on move 16, @#$%... maybe Anand was convinced that either Magnus would win or Karjakin would draw and so he went in for Bxa2. That would be consistent with yesterday's "chance at first or I don't care" play, which ...      May-17-13 Karjakin vs Topalov, 2013    SetNoEscapeOn: I just drank a fifth of vodka. Dare me to drive?      May-14-13 Anand vs Karjakin, 2013    SetNoEscapeOn: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz      May-13-13 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2013    SetNoEscapeOn: A classic Magnus victory.      May-09-13 Carlsen vs Anand, 2013    SetNoEscapeOn: I can't wait for this match. Check the post-mortem http://chessbase.com/Home/TabId/211...      May-05-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)    SetNoEscapeOn: <solskytz> That will never happen, but if I did I certainly don't see it as a matter of integrity. All things considered, Kramnik had a much greater ethical obligation to step aside in 2000. In the end common sense prevailed, as it would in your scenario.      May-03-13 US Chess Championships (2013)    SetNoEscapeOn: Go Gareev!      Apr-23-13 Alekhine Memorial (2013)    SetNoEscapeOn: I would like to know Kramnik's record when he plays an early g3 and Bg2. Not just the Catalan. The performance rating is probably about 2900.

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