Mar-29-13 World Championship Candidates (2013) 
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fearnotofman: ....and just as I type that, Kramnik plays ...Rac8? What?
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| | Sep-28-12 S Morris vs F Marchand, 1992
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fearnotofman: The easiest Friday ever. This feels closer to a Tuesday.
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| | Aug-25-12 Anand vs Radjabov, 2009
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fearnotofman: In addition to showing how powerful a Q+N can be it, it's an excellent example of a useless bishop in an open position. Anand just took away every potential target for the bishop when it was on e4, and even completely neutralized it when it was on the dangerous diagonal on b6. ...
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| | Aug-17-12 M Al-Modiahki vs A Kveinys, 2008
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fearnotofman: Black's final move is wrong. The game ended at 31...h5.
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| | Aug-17-12 Karjakin vs E Alekseev, 2007
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fearnotofman: Surprising to see how easy this is for a Friday. Even a patzer like me got this within a minute. Qf6 jumps out as an obvious move. Once you notice Black can defend with ...Qxe5, it then becomes clear that this must be blocked, and the way to do so seems easy enough to find. ...
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| | May-30-12 Anand vs Gelfand, 2012
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fearnotofman: <acirce: I see. So it's easier to draw with black than with white. Makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up!> That's... not what I said.
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| | May-30-12 Anand vs Gelfand, 2012
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fearnotofman: <MORPHYEUS: Where are all the bored whiners gone?> Where did the boring games go? I think there's a correlation between the two. This is good stuff! Although, it has to be repeated, this is only because Gelfand is making mistakes with the shorter time controls.
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| | May-30-12 Gelfand vs Anand, 2012
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fearnotofman: Exciting draw. A fighting draw. If those 10 draws in the classical games were as hard fought as this, nobody would've complained. Great game.
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| | May-26-12 M Esserman vs Van Wely, 2011
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fearnotofman: I feel like as long as Black is properly prepared, he'll have little problem with the Smith-Morra Gambit. <However the defence with Nc6-e6-d6-a6-b5-Ra7-Rd7 is very comfortable> I agree with this. I used to play it the way Van Wely played it in this game, but after running
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| | May-26-12 Marshall vs Rubinstein, 1908
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fearnotofman: Holy crap. Why isn't this game more well known?
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