Aug-06-22 | | fabelhaft: Has struggled a bit on first board in the Olympiad. |
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Aug-06-22 | | Rip2632: Shave off the moustache and change her luck. It works for ballplayers. |
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Aug-06-22 | | ndg2: If Magnus is the Mozart of chess, she must be Florence Foster Jenkins ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flore...) |
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Aug-07-22 | | areknames: <Rip2632> This player is probably too busy constantly trimming her moustache to focus on her games, which explains the poor outcomes. Good grief. |
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Aug-09-22 | | Nosnibor: I feel sorry for this lady. Thrown in at the deep end but not able to fathom her way through the very basics. If she was the first board how on earth did the second board fare? |
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Oct-24-22 | | Ninas Husband: She should go see Seychelles by the seashore! |
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Aug-03-24
 | | GrahamClayton: Maybe she is a federation official, or a friend/relative of one of those, who really wanted to go for a two weeks holiday in Chennai, but there were no more official spots in the delegation available. So they gave her a player spot and said that she gets the holiday, just needs to turn up for 15 minutes in the playing hall and throw a game. |
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Sep-13-24
 | | Sally Simpson: The lass was a librarian for 42 years and was thanked along with others for her services by the President of the Seychelles. https://www.nation.sc/articles/1383... She also works behinds the scenes organising chess events: "Special mention goes out to Marie-Ange Moustache of Belonie School who was the key person behind the event, both in terms of logistics and administration." https://www.nation.sc/articles/1559... Good luck to her. |
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Sep-13-24 | | fabelhaft: <The lass was a librarian for 42 years> I wonder if the library had many chess books. |
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Sep-18-24 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: As her nice games from the last 2 olympiads show, Marie-Ange Moustache from the lovely Seychelles islands is without doubt the best female chess player today and the only legitimate inheritor of Vishy Anand (Chennai) and Judith Polgar (Budapest). Especially her deep opening preparation (only comparible to the Mariana Trench) is from another world. |
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Sep-18-24
 | | OhioChessFan: Keep a stiff upper lip, Marie. |
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Nov-16-24
 | | GrahamClayton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQQ... |
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Mar-25-25 | | James J. Henderson: Does FIDE have any rules about deliberately throwing games? |
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Mar-25-25
 | | FSR: This latter-day Vera Menchik played for Seychelles in not one, but two, Women's Olympiads? |
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Mar-25-25
 | | perfidious: <FSR>, you're just jealous: they are odds-on to medal in next year's Olympiad. |
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May-14-25 | | GumboGambit: All kidding aside, Seychelles employed a bit of Game Theory in their 2024 Olympiad Board allocation. Their top player Rachelle Hoareau played Board 4, and notched four wins. The flip side is Marie Ange took the hit as the sacrificial lamb on Board 1. This would in part explain her apparent lack of effort in some games. |
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May-14-25 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: There are rumors, that the 14th undisputed chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the GOAT (Greatest Player of All Times) Hans Moke Niemann invited her to their training camp, because both admire her deep opening preparation. |
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May-14-25 | | FM David H. Levin: <<ndg2>: If Magnus is the Mozart of chess, she must be Florence Foster Jenkins> Thanks for the link on the hilarious career of Ms. Jenkins. |
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