Nov-20-09 Anand vs Carlsen, 2009 
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pawn to QB4: I expect that Carlsen, Kramnik and Topalov have a lot more respect for Anand than you do. Like you, I would predict Carlsen to become the dominant player of his era, but that's been an easy prediction for some years now. I also expect Anand and the other "fading ancients" to ...
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| | Nov-19-09 Carlsen vs Kosteniuk, 2009
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pawn to QB4: I've consulted my wife on this topic. She informs me that there are a lot of ugly guys in chess. Exceptions: Kramnik "handsome"; Anand "hey, he looks all right"; and Mickey Adams - a picture of him from some years back elicited the response "phwoarr! you never told me he looked ...
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| | Nov-19-09 Keith Arkell
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pawn to QB4: Thanks very much; sorry it's taken me so long to look back here. To the guy at my club who thought I'd had a drink too many when I mentioned this endgame...err, yeah you were right about the drink, but here is the game in all its glory: Arkell vs A Kosten, 2002 . I had forgotten
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| | Nov-18-09 meloncio chessforum
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pawn to QB4: I agree, I was very sorry to see that...and I've got quite a few Irish mates, so I had been looking forward to taking the mickey. As for Thierry Henry, sad what he did to the Irish, sadder to see the stain on the great reputation he had over here. By the way, meloncio, think it ...
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| | Nov-17-09 James Mason
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pawn to QB4: Good evening to you too Sir. The attempt has been made. I've tried to link to a web page of the Irish Chess Union. Didn't work I'm afraid. But a google "James Mason Patrick Dwyer" will reveal the results of research into baptismal records, Kilkenny, 1849.
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| | Nov-15-09 Kramnik vs Ponomariov, 2009
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pawn to QB4: Ulhumbrus/nummerzwei - wow, thanks a lot for your replies to my query. A real insight for me into the depth of thought of the players.
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| | Nov-14-09 Kenneth Rogoff
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pawn to QB4: hi kp / chessmoron. I think those are impressive statements of the opposing viewpoints. kp, I'd urge you to consider some British experience. In the 70s we had obvious cases of terrorism and people who'd obviously done it...we ended up tarnishing our standards of justice and the
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| | Nov-13-09 Kramnik vs Leko, 2009
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pawn to QB4: as a footnote to the Alekhine story: I've heard the British chess federation had decided to host his match with Botvinnik, but got cold feet because of the anti-Semitic articles and met to debate it. Tartakower, who had lost his parents in an anti-Semitic pogrom, and a ...
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| | Nov-13-09 Robert James Fischer
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pawn to QB4: Hi TheFocus, ray keene, and if they see this, parisattack and of course Mr DeLucia...so between you you've preserved and now publicised to the chess world some games by Fischer previously unknown to us. The group of you should be applauded to the rafters rather than subjected to
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| | Nov-13-09 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927
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pawn to QB4: must confess I wouldn't want to play Alekhine from there with a local league match at stake. But after 50.a5 I don't see how he'll get that c pawn home ahead of the a pawn; e.g. 51...Qf5 51 Qxf5 and they'll queen together; failing which I'll march the a pawn up the board 'til he
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