Jun-26-18 Nakamura vs So, 2018
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| MindBoggle: It's an old trap:
https://www.365chess.com/view_game.... |
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Feb-22-18 Karpov vs Y Hou, 2018 
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| MindBoggle: 8.h3, allowing b5, is a normal line.
- and a line very much in Karpovs style, in my opinion. |
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Sep-27-17 Carlsen vs Granda Zuniga, 2017
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| MindBoggle: Of course white is much better, but resignation seems rather premature.
On the other hand...
Let's say Granda finds some way to hang on. What will happen?
Well - Magnus' stamina is legendary, and he is going to grind and grind and grind until the cows come home.
I guess Granda ... |
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Mar-13-16 Anna Rudolf
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| MindBoggle: As far as I know, one of the requirements to become an IM (apart from the norms) is to achieve an elo of at least 2400. According to wiki, Anna's peak rating is 2393. If that is true, then how did she become an IM? |
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Oct-15-12 Carlsen vs McShane, 2012
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| MindBoggle: @geiger: Because black wants his king on g7 and the rook on h8, and the fastest way to achieve that setup is to just walk the king to g7.
But why put the rook on h8, you ask?
With the pawn structure the way it is, white's natural break is h3, g4 and f5. Since black's king's ... |
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Oct-09-12 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2012
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| MindBoggle: @Maelith.
Carlsen knows just as much, if not more, about openings as the other top players. True, he is using a strange system in this game, but that's not because he doesn't know the normal systems. It's because Caruana also knows the normal systems. In short: He wants to ... |
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Sep-01-12 C Christensen vs R Andersen, 2001
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| MindBoggle: Very beautiful, but it doesn't work... |
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Aug-07-12 I Cheparinov vs H Danielsen, 2012
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| MindBoggle: I assume the point must be that 26...cd is met by 27.Rxe6,Qxe6 28.Rf6,Qe8/c8[Qe7/d7 29.e6!] 29.Rd6,Kg7[or 30.Rd8 decides] 30.Bf6+,Kh7 31.Bxh8,Qxh8 32.Qe7 winning the bishop or the king. |
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Jul-24-12 Alexander Morozevich
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| MindBoggle: Moro is like a car with only two gears: Forwards and Backwards. Genius or Failure. Death or Glory. There is nothing in between. I like it. |
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Aug-04-11 Biel Chess Festival (2011)
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| MindBoggle: A legend is, properly speaking, a story. When applied to a person, it is 'a person that people tell stories about'. Usually such persons are dead, and this is why we sometimes use the oxymoron 'a living legend'. This is applied in rare cases (like Fischer after he disappeared ... |
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Apr-06-11 M Bab vs F Duz-Khotimirsky, 1911
Feb-02-11 Short vs Ivanchuk, 2011
Jan-31-11 T Roussel-Roozmon vs Nakamura, 2006
Jan-30-11 Hikaru Nakamura
Jan-29-11 I Nyzhnyk vs B Bok, 2011
Jan-27-11 A Sherzer vs P Acs, 1998
Jan-20-11 A Kolev vs J Polgar, 1993
Dec-09-09 McShane vs Short, 2009
Nov-28-09 BNbank Blitz (2009)
Nov-25-09 L Fried vs Schlechter, 1894
Nov-23-09 R Koemetter vs G Welling, 1995
Nov-21-09 M Pavlovic vs G Cabrilo, 1991
Nov-21-09 V Okhotnik vs V Berezhnoi, 1981
Nov-20-09 H Perez Garcia vs R Ziatdinov, 1994
Nov-15-09 P Peelen vs Fedorowicz, 1990
Nov-12-09 Van Essen vs C Woskoff, 1931
Oct-30-09 H Munoz Sotomayor vs H Salazar Jacob, 1990
Oct-23-09 Aronian vs A Istratescu, 2009
Oct-19-09 Magnus Carlsen
Oct-15-09 M B Jorgensen vs C Christensen, 2001
Oct-07-09 Carlsen vs Y Wang, 2009
Dec-19-07 Dunbar vs Chawkin, 1925
Dec-16-07 G M Todorovic vs Z Kozul, 1988
Dec-16-07 T Rienaecker vs M Junge, 2004
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