Sep-09-12 Chess Olympiad (2012) 
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laserlight: <HeMateMe: When do the games start?> 1100 h in Istanbul, which is about one hour from now, from what I see: http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
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| | Jun-11-12 Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship (2012)
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laserlight: <Petrosianic: And besides, he has no claim to the title that he could build a match around, anyway.> True, that thankfully is an advantage that Kasparov had that he doesn't have should he truly have nefarious breakaway dreams (though I recall Carlsen wanted a tournament, ...
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| | May-11-10 Anand-Topalov World Chess Championship (2010)
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laserlight: <Philidor: Topalov said that Anand is the greatest talent in chess history. What's your comment on that?> He had nothing to lose by flattering his opponent. Losing to the "greatest talent in chess history" is far better than losing to a patzer, and if he had won...
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| | Feb-09-10 Yifan Hou
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laserlight: <HeMateMe: a country with 1.3 billion should have some more GMs, and some with higher ratings.> Ah, maybe Yifan, Wang Yue and Wang Hao are just talentless patzers. The really talented Chinese players exclusively play xiangqi, but if they switched, any of them could easily ...
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| | Dec-27-09 Russian Championship Superfinal (Women) (2009)
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laserlight: Unfortunately, it seems like Tatiana Kosintseva is the only grandmaster playing in this tournament, so if Galliamova is to get a GM norm here, it has to be via one of the event related rules for norms.
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| | Oct-10-09 Pearl Spring Chess Tournament (2009)
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laserlight: <The Rocket: btw in terms of grandmaster norms do you have to reach 2500 on the new list? or is it good enough to have reached it provisional and then lose it lets say just a week later in another tournament?> <SetNoEscapeOn: And no, I don't think FIDE uses the live ...
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| | Mar-18-09 FIDE Women's Grand Prix (2009)
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laserlight: Fascinating, we have a three way tie for first with one round to go :)
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| | Mar-13-09 10th European Individual Championship (2009)
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laserlight: <jon01: Damn it! Kurnosov lost today.> His computer is under repair :D
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| | Mar-03-09 Linares (2009)
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laserlight: <princeali123456: Who won today?> Grischuk.
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| | Mar-01-09 Aeroflot Open (2009)
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laserlight: <laskersteinitz: FIDE uses increments; time-delay is an American invention.> I had the impression that the time delay control was attributed to Bronstein.
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