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May-04-17
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In the US at least, citizenship is not required for participation in the national championship. Are you sure it is for the Netherlands? |
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May-04-17
| | beatgiant: <nok>
Giri's father is Nepali, so he may have had a claim to that nationality as a child. But I understand Nepal does not permit dual citizenship for adults. |
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May-04-17
| | beatgiant: I checked out anishgiri.nl, where it describes him as <a Russian citizen with Nepalese origin> who <has been representing the Netherlands in chess arena>. We should move any further discussion of the question to the Anish Giri page. |
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| May-04-17 | | SometimesGood: <beatgiant: <Fischer had only one citizenship> If I'm not mistaken, he had dual Icelandic and U.S. citizenship in the last years of his life.> Wow, that's definitely not true! It was in Fischer's nature, to fight against injustice. This fight led him to renounce US citizenship. A real fighter and warrior for justice! RIF man! Rest in fight! |
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May-05-17
| | beatgiant: <SometimesGood>
Fischer did write a letter attempting to renounce his U.S. citizenship. For this to have legal effect, the U.S. would have to recognize it, which would require an in-person interview with a U.S. official who would have to make a determination that the renunciation was voluntary and intentional. Are you saying you believe that did happen? |
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| May-05-17 | | Appaz: Mamedyarov has been on fire lately. First his convincing win in Gasimov and now three straight in this competition, giving him 2792.7 and a 7th place on the live rating list. Decent opponents (live rating now): Riazantsev (2659), Vitiugov (2731) and Najer (2682). Mamedyarov is well known to be one of the deadliest super GMs against players below the absolute top, so the key to his recent success in the rankings must be a better score against his contemporaries in Gasimov. |
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| May-05-17 | | sonia91: Vladimir Fedoseev, winner of the Aeroflot Open (2017), finally crosses 2700 in the live ratings after beating Igor Kovalenko. After 4 rounds out of 7, team Siberia (Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Giri, Nepomniachtchi, Grischuk, Andreikin, Korobov, Khismatullin) is leading with a full score of 8/8. Defending champion Mednyi Vsadnyk of St. Petersburg (Svidler, Vitiugov, Matlakov, Rodshtein, Fedoseev, Khairullin, Goganov) is fourth with 4/8. |
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| May-05-17 | | savagerules: In Round 4, Anatoly Karpov made an appearance, playing white against Peter Svidler. It was an exchange Grunfeld and ended in a draw after 50 moves or so. Not bad for the old champ. |
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| May-06-17 | | JimNorCal: Spoiler alert.
When it gets published here be sure to check out round 4, Grischuk vs Grachev.
Move 34 is pleasing and startling. |
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| May-06-17 | | botvinnik64: JimNorCal:
I believe all the games (so far) are on Chess24.com
Move 34 was sweet - thanks for the head's up! |
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| May-06-17 | | JimNorCal: Yes, chess24 is where I saw it too. I like their tournament coverage, of course. I enjoy CG especially for chess history. Some of our commenters are quite excellent, as well. |
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| May-06-17 | | Pedro Fernandez: << JimNorCal>: Yes, chess24 is where I saw it too. I like their tournament coverage, of course.
I enjoy CG especially for chess history. Some of our commenters are quite excellent, as well.> And we have a good Team too, <Jim>! |
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| May-07-17 | | Pedro Fernandez: Quite interesting the game Artemiev-Romanov (round 4), where after 1.d4 the white don't play 'c4' nor the black 'd5'. Let's see: 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 c5 4.e3 h6 5.Bh4 b6 <(a kind of hybrid of Queen's Indian, I think)> 6.Nbd2!? <(well, c-pawn still has not been moved)> 6...Bb7 7.Bd3 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.c3!? <(not bad, giving to d3-bishop more possibilities)>, and now 9...d6, clearly a computer move, and in my opinion the whole approach of this opening is pure computer. Why not 9... d5?
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After of 10.Ne5 Nc6 11.Ndf3 Na5!
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with a solid game for black. |
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| May-07-17 | | Nerwal: <1.d4 the white don't play 'c4' nor the black 'd5'. (...) and now 9...d6, clearly a computer move, and in my opinion the whole approach of this opening is pure computer> It's just a standard setup in the Torre Attack (Saemisch vs P F Johner, 1926 being an early example). |
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| May-07-17 | | nok: I guess 11.f4 would be more typical. |
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| May-07-17 | | JimNorCal: <PedroF> "And we have a good Team too," Team as in HaplessGM vs TeamCG? Yes, some of those GM vs World match ups sponsored by CG have been incredible. |
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| May-07-17 | | Pedro Fernandez: Thanks <Nerwal>, I didn't know about that game. Certainly I suspected that the Artemiev-Romanov already had been played. Nevertheless I think computers have reviewed such kind of games. I mean, I doubt Alekhine or Fischer, say, would have played 9...d6. Just my opinion. |
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| May-07-17 | | Pedro Fernandez: <<nok>: I guess 11.f4 would be more typical.> Yeah <Nok>, your move is interesting. Maybe Artemiev was expecting the exchange of knights on 'e5'. But, 11...Nxe5 12.fxe5 is not bad for white. Greetings.
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| May-07-17 | | Pedro Fernandez: Hey <Nerwal>, viewing the Saemisch-Johner, '...d6' is perfectly justifiable since the white knight is not on e5-square. Of course, I know what you meant: it is the same opening. |
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| May-07-17 | | Nerwal: <Nevertheless I think computers have reviewed such kind of games. I mean, I doubt Alekhine or Fischer, say, would have played 9...d6. Just my opinion.> Janowski vs Alekhine, 1914 (other sources have the move order as 6. ♘bd2 c5 7. c3 ♗e7 8. ♗d3 d6 9. 0-0 0-0 reaching the exact position) |
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| May-07-17 | | ambongtumbong: GM Kramnik did not play on round 5? |
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May-07-17
 | | MissScarlett: You can't form a proper question? |
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| May-07-17 | | ambongtumbong: yeah I cannot.. |
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| May-07-17 | | botvinnik64: Hey Guys:
Just received my latest copy of New In Chess.
They have an article on "most accurate" moves played at top level. Not surprisingly, Kramnik's name keeps coming up. Anyone see? |
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| May-07-17 | | Howard: Yes, I noticed that. I also noticed that Spassky's performance at the 1988 Olympiad was listed as one of the "most accurate", too. Seems rather surprising given his age at the time. |
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