Apr-09-13 World Championship Candidates (2013) 
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kkdogg: Not that you care, but after reading the interviews from the GMs (Shipov, Kasparov, etc.), I now find myself in Petrosianic's camp. For the most part, the GMs said that having a tiebreak was bad, having this tiebreak was particularly bad, and that Kramnik played the better chess. The
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| | Dec-08-12 London Chess Classic (2012)
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kkdogg: Hmm, I'm no GM (or IM, or FM, or expert), but I don't see how white wins. Black can hold a draw either by not exchanging queens, or by swapping three of the black pawns for the two doubled white pawns. I don't see a plan to make progress.
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| | Oct-21-12 Keres vs Fischer, 1959
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kkdogg: Richard Taylor,
I was hoping to gain some insight into why you so hate Fischer. I can guess-- you really like Karpov, you really hate America-- but I was unsuccessful. I did manage to expose your evaluation of Fischer as utterly irrational. I'll recap:
+ You said Fischer was ...
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| | Oct-11-12 Bilbao Masters (2012)
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kkdogg: I absolutely agree with Drik. He stated that "Karpov was absolutely exceptional". So any posts showing that Karpov was, indeed, exceptional do not counter Drik's argument. The fact that we could have seen a Korchnoi-Smylsov Candidates final in 1984, but we did not see one in the ...
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| | Jun-06-12 Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship (2012)
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kkdogg: I'm tired of hearing how defending one's World Championship in a match is the ultimate and rarest of accomplishments. Since the automatic rematch Botnivik era, five of the seven WCs successfully defended their titles and one never bothered to try. By my math, since Petrosian earned ...
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| | Apr-19-12 Robert James Fischer
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kkdogg: Petrosianic, I love your posts and hate to see you get mired down in absurd arguments with imbeciles. Take the high road. Sensible people know what the score is.
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| | Dec-11-11 London Chess Classic (2011)
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kkdogg: Bejinathan,
If it's one thing Kramnik can do, it's draw :). I'm kidding, he's playing well, the top players seem to usually draw against one another, Kramnik will have white and will be playing for a draw, and Aronian has no reason to press for a win. But anything can happen.
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| | Nov-30-11 Magnus Carlsen
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kkdogg: Bereaucrat wrote:
"This theory that Carlsen is better at winning tournaments than at winning matches is just clueless speculation based on no evidence at all." It is speculation, but it is also based on data.
"Both matches and tournament are made up of individual games, and if you ...
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| | Oct-20-11 15th Unive (Crown Group) (2011)
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kkdogg: visayan, agreed. A tournament for the candidates is not a priori unreasonable. My argument was: As this format, statistically, gives Carlsen the best chance of winning (and the bigger the tournament, the better), it is not unreasonable to wonder if his preference for this is due to ...
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| | Sep-02-11 J Wheeler vs A J Goldsby, 2001
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kkdogg: I read this page from beginning to end. The page started with an interesting battle between 2200+ players-- a daring sacrifice that led to an all-out attack, followed by an unusual material imbalance. Several posters commented on how much they enjoyed the game, with several comments ...
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