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Oct-13-12 YouRang chessforum    gilbav: Round 10: Vallejo - Caruana 1/2 Aronian - Carlsen 1/2 Anand - Karjakin 1/2      Oct-03-12 Mamedyarov vs Leko, 2012    gilbav: The switch? can't be done.      Sep-26-12 Vallejo-Pons vs Carlsen, 2012    gilbav: <Eyal> 34...Kf6 may be a mistake in that variation. 34...Kd5 35.Nxd8 h4 is probably a better winning try for Black. So then is the pretty 33.Rd8 actually the best move? An interesting alternative for White is 33.Rd5+ Ke6 34.Rxg5 Kf6 35.Rxb5 axb4 36.a4!      Sep-10-12 Ding Liren vs Onischuk, 2012    gilbav: And I think the variation mentioned by <beckerqueiroz> makes a lot of sense. And while it is true that 55...fxg5 56.Rd6+ Kf5 57.Rd5+ Kg6 58.hxg5 h4 59.f4 h3 leads to a draw (as Monokroussos said), I know it's a draw only because the engine tells me so, not because everything is      Jul-19-12 Adams vs Carlsen, 2010    gilbav: I suggested the pun (and was really impressed with myself, I tell you).      Jul-13-12 G Wall vs R Granat, 2006    gilbav: I love this pun.      Jun-01-11 Hartston vs Uhlmann, 1972    gilbav: However, the story does make the pun "Grandmaster flash" inevitable. See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8...      Apr-07-11 J M Bellon Lopez vs J Penrose, 1974   gilbav: Could the result here be incorrect? In the final position Black seems to be doing great. And indeed, according to OlimpBase http://www.olimpbase.org/1974/1974e... , Black won.      Apr-29-10 Fischer vs Petrosian, 1971    gilbav: <Riverbeast> The Opening Tree Mode on chessok.com ( http://chessok.com/?page_id=352 ) gives this Matijasevic - Baric game, and two other games: Bailloux - Tarjan (1972), and Trammell - Ivanov (1996).      Mar-26-10 Magnus Carlsen    gilbav: <slomarko>,<podjevsky>,<Bobwhoosta>,<Rolfo>,<Magn- usch>: For the purpose of seeing how one guy did against the top/bottom players, I think it's misleading to look at the overall table - because the overall ordering of the other players already contains ...

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