Apr-04-13 World Championship Candidates (2013) 
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s4life: <Petrosianic:
Actually, a playoff is a much better solution than the original. What on earth makes you think it isn't?> It maybe a better solution, under some circumstances. If three people ended up tied at the top a play off wouldn't be adecuate... what on earth makes you ...
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| | Sep-08-12 Chess Olympiad (2012)
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s4life: <nummerzwei: Anyway, its a rather interesting topic, so I'd like to focus on one related issue. As is well-known, whereas chess grandmasters exist about everywhere, professional go players are limited to a handful of East Asian countries. > I think go's situation nowadays is ...
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| | Sep-05-12 Chess Olympiad (Women) (2012)
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s4life: kosintseva vs lahno in first board or RUS vs UKR or how to avoid winning with white for 80 moves. What an anti-climatic ending! but it made for good drama...
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| | Jul-17-12 World Blitz Championship (2012)
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s4life: This discussion is so ridiculous it's funny.. never knew So fans were as nuts as they appear to be.. BTW, I am pretty sure if So had won any of the Corus tournaments he was invited to, he would have had an opportunity to become a gold fish, and not just stay a barracuda.. heh. I ...
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| | Feb-14-12 Magnus Carlsen
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s4life: <alexmagnus> Are you saying it's impossible to create a 'good' cost function for shogi? I am not too familiar with the game, but I seriously doubt it. Computers sucking at it probably has do more with lack of depth rather than a representation problem, i.e., one could argue ...
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| | Feb-03-12 Tradewise Gibraltar (2012)
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s4life: <frogbert:
hm... what about when the difference in performance 91 points instead of only 41 points then? i guess s4life must have considered it <very> unfair that naka got the 1st prize back in 2008.> I don't remember the tiebreaks with Ponomariov but I remember the ...
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| | Feb-01-12 Shirov vs Yifan Hou, 2012
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s4life: <galdur> Haha, I've been had.. Your wisdom is commendable however. I don't have a boob thing, but I must confess sometimes it's rather hard to ignore such things OTB... castration seems rather unfashionable though, unless performing as a sopranista is your second option - if ...
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| | Jan-31-12 Yifan Hou vs Judit Polgar, 2012
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s4life: <Whitehat1963: But I agree with you, <s4life>, she probably is underrated at the moment. According to Chessbase, her performance rating is currently 2823!> It's actually 2859. She's probably underrated is an understatement. She's been practicing really hard with the best ...
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| | Jan-18-12 Hikaru Nakamura
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s4life: <jombar> you are a sad , sad person.
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| | Jan-10-12 Reggio Emilia (2011)
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s4life: <MORPHYEUS: <Faster chess means poorer chess>. Disagree.
Blitz skills are real skills.
Standard chess have too many draws.>
err.. amigo, they might be real skills but the chess quality is poorer in blitz.. it seems you have a serious problem of cognitive dissonance.
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