Nov-20-09 Mamedyarov vs Ivanchuk, 2009 
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aragorn69: Video of the last part of the game (and Invanchuk ruining it...) at http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/s...
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| | Nov-18-09 World Blitz Championship (2009)
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aragorn69: <This form of the game has less relationship to FIDE ratings.> Look at the final table <kingcrusher> and you'll see, on the contrary, a remarkable correlation between classic ratings and blitz results (at least OTB and in this testing format). Even blitz specialists ...
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| | Nov-18-09 Magnus Carlsen
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aragorn69: First world title for Magnus! Congratulations!!!
It might just not be the last... ;))
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| | Nov-17-09 Carlsen vs Svidler, 2009
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aragorn69: In this tournament (and generally it has to be said), Magnus plays endgames with flair and relentless precision.
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| | Nov-17-09 Kosteniuk vs Carlsen, 2009
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aragorn69: Very Fischeresque win!
(BTW Magnus' way of outplaying his opponents in the middlegame if he is slightly worse in the opening reminds me a lot of the early Fischer)
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| | Nov-10-09 Gelfand vs Kramnik, 2009
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aragorn69: how about 12.h4!??
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| | Nov-09-09 Movsesian vs O Cvitan, 1997
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aragorn69: Here is the decisive part of Miles' analysis. (For the amusing story of how this "absolutely
beautiful piece of opening analysis by a Portuguese player - whose
identity I have also forgotten" layed unused for years, go to the original article on chesscafe archives) <Up to here ...
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| | Nov-06-09 Koltanowski vs C Hansen, 1960
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aragorn69: <pretty good for a negative-eleven-year-old.> Must be part of the great Winter-Hansen anti-Koltanowski-Keene-Schiller crusade Eric Schiller denounced! LOL
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| | Nov-06-09 Kramnik vs Anand, 2009
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aragorn69: Well, well. 20.dxc6!? We could have some fun!
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| | Nov-06-09 R Ekstroem vs J Gallagher, 2004
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aragorn69: <WHite prepaired with the book "c3 Sicilian" of Joe Gallagher.A bit unethichal considering that it was a gift from black> LOL
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