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Dec-11-21 Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Match (2021)    Tal1949: It depends if his competitors keep turning up in this sort of form. I lost count the number of times Carlsen sat at the board by himself for 10-20 minutes after he made a move. What was Nepo doing?      Jan-27-20 Tata Steel Masters (2020)    Tal1949: Lowest draw rate- the sixteen year old! How long until he becomes a draw clone like the rest of them? lol      Jan-25-20 Firouzja vs V Kovalev, 2020   Tal1949: Firouzja did not have to work hard for this win. After 20.Nxb5 what is the black queen doing? Nothing! Strange that a modern GM can ruin a Spanish opening so badly. He even refused to play Ne5 many times and tried the cheap Queen check at the end. White controls the center for the ...      Jan-25-20 Ju - Goryachkina Women's World Championship Match (2020)    Tal1949: I am still surprised that Ju defended her title. She was outplayed in Shanghai in the first half and looked to be playing scrambling, defensive chess. Her openings and middle game were very lackluster for a world champ. The turning point was when Gorya missed the strong continuation      Oct-15-19 Isle of Man Grand Swiss (2019)    Tal1949: This is like old school chess-excitement on every board. Better than those closed prearranged tournaments!      May-02-19 GRENKE Chess Classic (2019)    Tal1949: World number 10 is 114 elo behind Carlsen. World's best female is 213 elo behind Carlsen. Magnus is in a league of his own!      Apr-09-19 Gashimov Memorial (2019)    Tal1949: Carlsen is 4-0 here and not one game over 60 moves. The boy is in such top form that it does not matter who his opponent is. Good luck trying to dethrone the true World Champ.      Nov-28-18 Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018)    Tal1949: Carlsen has just proved that he is the better rapid chess player, but little else. My suggestion for the next WC is to play a 16 game match with 8 standard chess games and 8 Chess 960 games, alternating the format after every 2 games. By playing them at classical time control we ...      Oct-05-18 Batumi Olympiad (2018)    Tal1949: The Vietnam open team finished 7th yet did not play any top 10 seed after round 4. Surely we cannot take this tournament seriously.      Aug-23-18 Sinquefield Cup (2018)    Tal1949: I am sure it has been a massive effort to get this puppy running again. Thank you so much!      Jun-24-18 Steinitz vs Blackburne, 1869     Jun-02-18 Norway Chess (2018)     May-14-18 Gashimov Memorial (2018)     May-11-18 T Bowdler vs H Conway, 1788     May-05-18 Tan - Ju Women's World Championship Match (2018)     Apr-22-18 Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851     Apr-19-18 Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883     Apr-13-18 GRENKE Chess Classic (2018)     Mar-27-18 World Championship Candidates (2018)     Mar-02-18 Nodirbek Abdusattorov     Jan-29-18 Tata Steel Masters (2018)     Dec-11-17 AlphaZero vs Stockfish, 2017     Dec-11-17 Stockfish vs AlphaZero, 2017     Dec-02-17 London Chess Classic (2017)     Nov-13-17 Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona da Cutri     Nov-13-17 Ruy Lopez de Segura     Aug-02-17 Sinquefield Cup (2017)     Jun-17-17 Norway Chess (2017)     May-20-17 FIDE Grand Prix Moscow (2017)     Apr-18-17 GRENKE Chess Classic (2017)     Apr-10-17 United States Championship (2017)     Dec-03-16 Staunton - Saint-Amant (1843)     Dec-01-16 Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship Match (2016)     Nov-21-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-14-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-06-16 D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956     Nov-06-16 Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968     Aug-28-16 Keres vs Tal, 1959     Aug-28-16 Tal vs Gligoric, 1959     Aug-28-16 Smyslov vs Tal, 1959     Jul-30-16 McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834     Jul-30-16 Biel (Svidler - MVL) (2016)     Apr-21-16 Norway Chess (2016)     Mar-29-16 World Championship Candidates (2016)     Mar-13-16 Giri vs Karjakin, 2016     Jan-19-16 Y Hou vs Navara, 2016     Jan-16-16 So vs Giri, 2016     Sep-26-15 Carlsen vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2015     May-02-15 Anand vs Carlsen, 2015     Feb-28-15 Capablanca vs Kostic, 1919     Jan-23-15 Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857    Jan-22-15 T Lichtenhein vs Morphy, 1857     Jan-06-15 Tata Steel Masters (2015)     Dec-19-14 London Chess Classic (2014)     Dec-05-14 Steinitz vs von Bardeleben, 1895     Nov-24-14 Carlsen - Anand World Championship Match (2014)     Nov-15-14 Capablanca vs J Corzo, 1901     Nov-15-14 Carlsen vs Anand, 2014     Nov-11-14 Anand vs Carlsen, 2014     Nov-08-14 Anand vs Carlsen, 2014     Oct-24-14 Bird vs Morphy, 1858     Sep-04-14 Sinquefield Cup (2014)     Aug-13-14 Tromso Olympiad (2014)     Jul-06-14 Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858     May-17-14 Tal vs I Zilber, 1949     Apr-04-14 Chigorin vs Steinitz, 1889     Apr-04-14 Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1889     Apr-04-14 Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1889     Apr-04-14 Chigorin vs Steinitz, 1889     Mar-31-14 World Championship Candidates (2014)     Mar-31-14 Chigorin vs Steinitz, 1889     Mar-31-14 Steinitz - Zukertort (1872)

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