Nov-20-09 Ivanchuk vs Kosteniuk, 2009
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offramp: After 30...d6
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the difference in co-ordination between the two sides was VERY noticeable.
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| | Nov-20-09 Gelfand vs L Dominguez, 2009
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offramp: A very poor advert for the Bb5 Closed Sicilian. Black gets an initiative in the opening that simply would not give up. He took control of the d-file on move 19 and kept it right to the end. Black exchanged some pieces to make white's castled position look shaky, but with 33.Nf1 and ...
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| | Nov-18-09 World Blitz Championship (2009) 
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offramp: A picture of Magnus on an elephant http://tinyurl.com/yhat9ca
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| | Nov-17-09 Vladimir Saigin
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offramp: Born in 1917. Middle name Sergeevitch.
Unusual in that he is represented by 18 games over 18 years!
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| | Nov-17-09 Vladimir Simagin
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offramp: He was an idealist.
Hence the phrase, "Simagin, all the people living life in peace..."
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| | Nov-17-09 Tal vs V Saigin, 1954
Nov-17-09 Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1887
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offramp: White attacked on the queenside, black on the kingside. By an imaginative combination white crashed through with his pawns. But he thought the game was won, and lost his way; at some point he should have removed his king from the spell of the
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| | Nov-17-09 Tal vs S Mohr, 1990
Nov-14-09 J Ragan vs Benko, 1974
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offramp: A standard Stoke-Adams Attack.
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| | Nov-14-09 YouRang chessforum
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offramp: Thank you for holding this contest, YouRang!
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