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Dec-05-12 Kenneth Rogoff    Softpaw: < Abdel Irada: ... I am doing neither myself nor anyone else any good in this forum...> Hold on a second there! You've written more than a few deeply insightful--and beautifully expressed-- posts, many of which no doubt required fresh research and thinking. Certainly, you ...      Apr-19-12 Kramnik vs Aronian (2012)    Softpaw: <shach matov:... it seems Dostoyevsky could have communicated it in a much more compact manner, say 300 pages? Although then it wouldn't be classical literature anymore... > It's a great novel, with many oft-referenced scenes (e.g., The Grand Inquisitor parable)--but it does ...      Jan-13-12 Levon Aronian    Softpaw: <Normally in modern chess if you have positional skills you will find the theoretical lines yourself-> Then again there is the problem of time...it takes time to find the best lines.      Dec-12-11 London Chess Classic (2011)    Softpaw: David Howell...bye!      Dec-12-11 Kramnik vs Aronian, 2011    Softpaw: <Wild Bill: I also predict a draw...> Going out on a limb, are you?      Nov-26-11 Hikaru Nakamura    Softpaw: <shach matov: Carlsen will become a World Champion. But I wish everyone would stop ASSUMING that he will do it...> Yep. There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.      Nov-25-11 Tal Memorial (2011)    Softpaw: <<Is he still the best player?> There is no simple "best player". Only a someone best *at something*. And you can't simply say "at chess", because there are many forms of chess. "Best at tournaments" (of a certain type); "Best at WC matches (of a certain type); Best at ...      Oct-11-11 4th Bilbao Masters (2011)    Softpaw: <Mr. Bojangles: Can anything in the world be more painfully boring than strength comparisons between past and present players?> Unending discussions about chess scoring systems?      May-13-11 World Championship Candidates (2011)    Softpaw: <Imposter: ... risk reduction will still play more of a role than in a longer match where mistakes and losses can be more easily absorbed.> Good point.      Oct-21-10 Viswanathan Anand    Softpaw: <WiseWizard: ... we all want to see that dominance that Fischer, Karpov, and Kasparov have traditionalized.> Personally, I can do without this much-begged-for dominance. Who wants to see one person win tournament after tournament with no real competition? Too predictable. 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