Nov-14-09 LIFE Master AJ chessforum 
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TheSlid: Hey - AJ - don't talk it down, beating Fritz 11 is a great achievement. It's not like tiddlywinks or baseball where there's mainly luck involved! (I'm having a Brit laugh about the baseball, btw).
Go Goldsby!
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| | Nov-14-09 Anand vs Aronian, 2009
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TheSlid: Thanks <Eyal>, d4 is indeed unpleasant. I have a chess engine (Fritz), but use it even more rarely than I visit the site here these days. This has been a great tournament and I have sort of followed the results on a daily basis. Good to see that there are still some helpful, ...
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| | Nov-14-09 Leko vs Carlsen, 2009
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TheSlid: Looking at the position at W's 50th move (as per the useful diagram provided by the helpful <zarg> on page 1), we see the "book" situation of RP, BP and R vs R. This can be drawn, but the drawing Tabiya, as I remember it, has (in this case) the White King on g2 and the White ...
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| | Nov-14-09 Ponomariov vs Morozevich, 2009
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TheSlid: Oh, gosh, I'm reading a tactics book by John Emms at the moment and the position at move 26 might so easily be a page 2 "elementary puzzles" position with W to play. Like - "ouch!" - so too can I play, Alexander.
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| | Sep-25-09 Kibitzer's Café
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TheSlid: <Domdaniel: <maxx> #2 is Stevens, #3 is Blake. I thought #1 might be Yeats on an off-day, but he isn't one of your options. It's bad enough to be Tolkien, I guess.> LOL
I never actually read ANY of the poems in LOTR but spotted No 1 as a definite Tolkien for the same ...
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| | Sep-25-09 Levon Aronian
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TheSlid: <I really believe aronian is more champion material than carlsen at the moment. Most people think the Kasparov Carlsen team will be indistructible but i simply disagree kasparov style is so different from carlsen the boys game might get worst if he try to play in such a way.> ...
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| | Sep-18-09 Nigel Short
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TheSlid: <The chess Gods do not like people abusing them: they also punished Leko against Kramnik for trying to draw his way to the world title> Thanks, mate, for making me laugh out loud. Great stuff you put on here and better still on the board. Well done, Nigel, we still remember ...
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| | Sep-18-09 Aronian vs Grischuk, 2009
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TheSlid: <Can someone explain to me when a game is won by luck?> Maybe, <Stoned Knight>, if I were playing, the other guy's mobile goes off...and he's Levon Aronian!
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| | Sep-18-09 C F Schultz vs Carls, 1900
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TheSlid: <GM Lev Alburt taught me that - when you see an idea - you should use as many different move orders as possible. > And I, of course, have this as a major failing. I would have played Qg3 in the 2 seconds it took for me see it. Then I'd have left the board theatrically and ...
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| | Sep-18-09 Grischuk vs Aronian, 2009
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TheSlid: I had a look at <Albertan>'s analysis - cheers for this, btw! Is it just me, or is Lev just busted after 22.g5? No compensation whatsoever for the exchange and white has better pawns on the K side than black on the Q.
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