Mar-28-13 Ivanchuk vs Gelfand, 2013 
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kevinatcausa: I guess that's one way to stay out of time trouble!
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| | Mar-17-13 Ivanchuk vs Aronian, 2013
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kevinatcausa: <Karposian:> On the other hand, a large part of the reason he was able to claw back in the first place may have been that Aronian was playing for time trouble instead of for the objectively better position.
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| | Jan-12-13 Kibitzer's Café
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kevinatcausa: <Caissanist> Even with Java disabled I can still view games using the pgn4web viewer (there's a "missing plugin" message at the top of my screen, but I can still move through the game without any problems).
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| | Jan-06-13 Hastings Chess Congress (2012)
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kevinatcausa: There are a bunch of requirements (see http://www.fide.com/component/handb... for a full list), but what it essentially boils down to here is that you need a 2600 performance rating. While Hawkins and Gao are both at 6.5/9, Hawkins faced much lower rated opposition (in part ...
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| | Jan-04-13 A G Hagen vs T H Stonehouse, 2012
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kevinatcausa: No, no, Tom! It's the HastINGS tournament, not the HastY!
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| | Dec-20-12 SportAccord World Mind Games (Men's Rapid) (2012)
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kevinatcausa: One possible overall ranking (rescaling each event to be out of the same number of points and taking averages): Nakamura: 74.4%
Aronian: 58.1%
Morozevich: 54.6%
Karjakin: 54.0%
Grischuk: 52.2%
Fressinet: 51.0%
Mamedyarov: 51.0%
Radjabov: 50.3%
Leko: 50.2%
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| | Dec-17-12 A Zatonskih vs Kosteniuk, 2012
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kevinatcausa: Between this game and E Tomilova vs Kosteniuk, 2011 , Kosteniuk seems to be out to singlehandedly reverse the statistics on this opening (the position after 10. Nxg2 has appeared in 327 games, 85.6% of which ended up in draws).
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| | Dec-16-12 Karjakin vs Anand, 2006
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kevinatcausa: Fun fact about this game: Every single one of the first 39 moves (through 20. axb3) is the most common move given in the Opening Explorer from the position at its point in the game. This probably continues a few more moves, but that's as far as the Opening Explorer goes.
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| | Dec-15-12 Dan Terrible
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kevinatcausa: This guy needs to take lessons from Andrew Good (the good Good, not to be confused with the +0 -2 =2 Daniel Good )
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| | Dec-10-12 C F Johansson vs M Hernback, 1997
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kevinatcausa: This game actually has an exact clone in the database from 4 years later: J Bandres Carballo vs D Bustos Serrano, 2001 .
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