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Jan-11-07 | | sheaf: congratulations world for a wonderful game... without taking the credit away from anyone i would like to thank <karpova> , <rv>, <honza>, <rookfile> ... for their wonderful posts i have always enjoyed reading your posts... |
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Jan-11-07
 | | kwgurge: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL. It was a great experience. |
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Jan-11-07 | | Eyal: The fact that Arno resigned at this stage is a real compliment to the world team - it means he had no doubt whatsoever we would play the resulting rook ending accurately. |
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Jan-11-07 | | suenteus po 147: We did it! Is this The World's first victory? |
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Jan-11-07 | | izimbra: Congratulations everyone for a job well done! One key for the world was obviously not making any mistakes, while our opponent made a few. Let's not get too cocky for the next game. |
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Jan-11-07 | | Nightranger: < mig55 > OK. I'll have 3. 8-) |
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Jan-11-07 | | isemeria: <The World played with an impeccable positional style. In my opinion, the keys were: 18.d2!
19.b6!
28.h3!
29.h2!>
Also, in my opinion, we realized our advantage with the most effective way with 36. b4 and 41. Qb7+. (Easy to say now, of course) |
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Jan-11-07 | | calidoggg: Bring on Yuri Shulman |
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Jan-11-07 | | Eyal: <ughaibu: Where's Hydra?> Even more important: where are sharpnova and steppenwolf? |
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Jan-11-07 | | Nibiru: Congratulations everyone! |
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Jan-11-07 | | themadhair: The winning line that had been prepared with the help of several members of the world team is still online in my forum if any are interested. My friends - it has been an honour, an education and a privilage to have played chess with the past weeks. |
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Jan-11-07 | | Confuse: Congratulations guys. Fantastic analysis by some of the longer members here. Does this mean we can take on Hydra? ; ) |
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Jan-11-07 | | avidfan: Thanks to <Random Visitor, twinlark, Thorsson, Domdaniel, Honza Cervenka, Rookfile, Karpova et al.> for their tireless work in achieving this victory. |
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Jan-11-07 | | dalbertz: Thanks to all those who put in so much time and hard work. Congrats! |
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Jan-11-07 | | GeauxCool: ĆÕÑĜŖĄŦŪĻÄŤĬ-
;ŌŃŠ ŢÒ ĀĽŁ!! |
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Jan-11-07 | | Canuck16: CONGRATS World Team.
My attempt to squeeze a little more knowledge out of this game: Is he resigning because ?
41. ... Qxb7
42. axb7 Re8 (only way to stop queening)
43. Rb3 Rb8 (only way to prevent loss of rook after 44. Rxb5 anything 45. b8=Q). 44. Rxb5
And at this point his R is pinned to the defense of the pawn promotion and the kings can both get into the action equally, so it is just a matter of time until either our king gets over to help the pawn promote or else the rooks trade off and the pawn queens. Does this seem reasonable, or am I missing some move black has to stay active ? |
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Jan-11-07
 | | Domdaniel: Wow. No more plotting. Arno did the decent thing. You are a gentleman, Herr Nickel. Danke Schon. Well, everyone, it's been fun. I'll miss you guys, gals, humans, engines, and trolls. |
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Jan-11-07 | | twinlark: Congratulations, my friends, for a job well done. We've made chess history this day. |
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Jan-11-07
 | | Domdaniel: btw, I'd been keeping this secret in case I was tempted to abuse it, but I have a email address for Arno. Does anyone think I should use it to say thanks? |
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Jan-11-07 | | jepflast: Amazing!!!
Congratulations, World! |
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Jan-11-07
 | | WannaBe: People, go to Arno Nickel page and shake hands with our opponent. =) |
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Jan-11-07 | | gmgomes: I really would like to read Mr. Nickell´s comments about this game. Where did he fail. |
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Jan-11-07 | | dakgootje: Congratulations everyone! ;-)
Well done all =) |
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Jan-11-07 | | isemeria: <Canuck16> It's not quite as simple as you describe. There are several ways for Black to try to defend, but they all fail. Check the discussion at User: themadhair starting from Dec-21-06. There's a lot of stuff on this ending. |
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Jan-11-07 | | SOUTHERN HEN: Thanks Arno for being a true professional. If you had been playing me alone, I would have been completely overmatched. |
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