Nov-30-09 Wesley So 
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laskersteinitz: How tall is Wesley So? He looks quite tall in this picture: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2009/... (taken from http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... ).
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| | Nov-29-09 Maxime Vachier Lagrave
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laskersteinitz: Forgot to say: go Maxime!!
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| | Nov-29-09 World Cup (2009)
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laskersteinitz: <amadeus: <No one has ever accused FIDE of being reasonable, intelligent>
Yes, but it's not only stupid: it's cruel. You don't do that to a human being.> Yes, I agree.
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| | Nov-27-09 chessgames.com chessforum
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laskersteinitz: I searched for "So" on the home page, but nothing came up (I searched in the EZ search and the other bar near "Player is...").
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| | Nov-26-09 Judit Polgar
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laskersteinitz: Hi Judit,
Well done at the World Cup! You can beat Gelfand, I know you can! Good luck! Best wishes,
laskersteinitz
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| | Nov-26-09 BNbank Blitz (2009)
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laskersteinitz: Time control: 3 minutes per player, with a 2-second increment per move.
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| | Nov-24-09 M Vachier Lagrave vs Yu Shaoteng, 2009
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laskersteinitz: Yes Philidor. It's the classic position a defender wants to reach in a rook and pawn vs. rook ending, which is drawn.
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| | Nov-21-09 S Volkov vs F Amonatov, 2009
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laskersteinitz: Only 2 rating points separate the 64th and 65th seed paired here.
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| | Nov-21-09 J Friedel vs Wang Hao, 2009
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laskersteinitz: What's with the lunging of the bishops to the fifth rank?
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| | Nov-20-09 I Hatem
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laskersteinitz: <Clocks that don't add time at a time control but instead wait to reach zero before adding the requisite time.> Although I did just realize that this obviates the need for a move counter...
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