May-18-13 Norway Chess Tournament (2013) 
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bty: <pbercker> well, if Naka wins and Karjakin loses then Naka goes to blitz tiebreak too...
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| | Jul-25-12 Biel Chess Festival (2012)
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bty: <SamAtoms1980> no such system can really work. To be more precise, for each system X-1-0, where X>2 (and all systems proportional to this) there is a possibility that player with lower +score (i.e. number of wins minus number of losses) will end up ahead of player with higher ...
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| | Jul-09-12 World Blitz Championship (2012)
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bty: After round 3 of blitz Carlsen has +0-3=4 in his last 7 games (rapid nad blitz), I wouldn't think something like that is possible.
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| | Jul-26-11 Biel Chess Festival (2011)
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bty: <polarmis> whychess.org looks fine, good job, but I have one suggestion - there should be one big shiny button saying "Broadcasts" or "Live games" or something like that on the main page. As it is now one has to wait until the big banner(or whatever one calls it) rolls to "live ...
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| | Jun-23-11 Sergey Karjakin
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bty: His recent results in classical chess are indeed impressive.
2010:
Corus (+2-1=10)
shared first at Poikovsky (+4-1=6)
shared first at Tal Memorial (+2=7)
shared first at Russian Championship Superfinal (+4-1=6) team events:
Russian Team Champinship (+4-0=3)
Olympiad (+6-0=3)
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| | Nov-14-10 Tal Memorial (2010)
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bty: <zluria> the position is far from that simple... black can't really take the rook on f1, look at the position after that - black has no attack, weak pawns and bishop acting like a pawn on d6, white has bishop pair, powerfull grip on light squares and good attacking potential whith
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| | Sep-22-10 Chess Olympiad (2010)
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bty: guys, Azerbaijan - Vietnam may be the first major upset, first two boards look about equal, while on 3rd and 4th boards players from Vietnam stand very well... of course azeri players are strong and experienced, so they could pull this off, but my money is on Vietnam now.
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| | Sep-08-10 Shanghai Masters (2010)
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bty: tiebrake discussion - see last paragraph at http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/s...
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| | Apr-20-10 Anand-Topalov World Chess Championship (2010)
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bty: “Going through Austria and Hungary went smoothly,” Schmitt says. “However, after that the team encountered some problems with visas. And the roads in Romania are very bad, I can tell you.” The World Champion’s team had arranged a bus to make the long trip, for which the theoretical 18.5
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| | Dec-08-09 London Chess Classic (2009)
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bty: <madlydeeply> <can't out tactic Kramnik? eh? No?> of course you can, the guy missed mate in one, he is weak:)
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