May-29-05 Capablanca vs A Nimzowitsch, 1927 
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whithergoes: Regarding the 1927 New York Tournament, according to Nathan Divinsky, "The Encyclopedia of Chess," p. 143: "Capablanca was an easy victor. With 3 rounds to go he was already assured of 1st prize. He declared that he would draw his last 3 games (against Alekhine, Vidmar, and ... |
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Mar-10-05 Linares (2005) 
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whithergoes: <Bent Bexley: Leko!!!!!!!!!! Perfect karma!!!!!!!!!> While Leko was undefeated in Wijk aan Zee and Linares, he also played extremely well, not even having a lost position in any games of the aforesaid tournaments (with the exception of the infamous encounter at Linares ... |
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Mar-10-05 Topalov vs Kasparov, 2005 
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whithergoes: <acirce> Without a computer, white wins with Kg4 because he always has Kf4 in hand to return to a symmetrical position in relation to Black's King, who would then retreat and allow White to penetrate and win. |
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Mar-08-05 George Mackenzie 
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whithergoes: <Knight13> You should see how he totally whipped the sorry behinds of the participants of the Second American Chess Congress. The actual tournament book, available in an Olms Edition, is quite a fun and easy read [and includes the Tournament Books for the Third and Fourth ... |
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Mar-08-05 V Frias Pablaza vs Quinteros, 1986
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whithergoes: Black's last move, if we assume that this game was played at classical time controls, is a pretty funny time control error. |
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Mar-08-05 J C Benjamin vs Chandler, 1977
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whithergoes: Wow, Joel Benjamin leaves his Queen completely en prise on move 32, not that it matters. I suspect that this might not have been a game played at classical time controls. |
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Mar-07-05 Adams vs Kasparov, 2005 
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whithergoes: Maybe it's just me, but every time I see Michael Adams, whether on film (while it still existed on the FIDE WCC2004), and especially in pictures, he looks like he's either ready to sleep, yawning, or having a mouth convulsion that forces him to wear not a grimace but a very ... |
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Mar-06-05 Kasimdzhanov vs Anand, 2005 
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whithergoes: <atyrau> I have to respectfully agree. Kasimdzhanov is a very strong player. It's just that people entrenched in the 2700+ club (Kasimdhanov was briefly in the top dozen with a FIDE rating of 2704 in 2001 before slipping a bit) are better than the 2600+ club. |
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Mar-06-05 Leko vs Topalov, 2005 
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whithergoes: I really think we're all too quick to poke fun at masters for swift draws even in lively positions. First of all, all of us chess mortals have to understand just that--we're all chess mortals and couldn't live more than a few seconds in playing a game against the 2700+ players. ... |
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Mar-05-05 Kasparov vs F Vallejo Pons, 2005 
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whithergoes: I do not mean to pull the carpet from underneath Kasparov, but suppose tail-lender Vallejo was replaced with Kramnik (completely unlikely of course given the need for a Spanish player at Linares). Would Kasparov be simply at +2 now? It's a good and probably correct guess. |
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Mar-03-05 Kasparov vs Leko, 2005 
Mar-01-05 Tal vs Benko, 1959 
Feb-28-05 Ignatius Leong 
Feb-23-05 P Ware vs J Grundy, 1880 
Feb-23-05 Howard Staunton 
Feb-21-05 J Degraeve vs R Pogorelov, 1992 
Feb-21-05 Reti vs Alekhine, 1924 
Feb-21-05 Rene Letelier Martner 
Feb-21-05 Abraham Kupchik 
Feb-19-05 Artashes Minasian 
Feb-19-05 Anand vs Kasparov, 1995 
Jan-07-05 Bobby Fischer 
Oct-12-04 Leko vs Kramnik, 2004 
May-16-04 A Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1913 
May-01-04 Oldrich Duras 
May-01-04 Dufresne vs G Neumann, 1863 
Apr-28-04 Botvinnik vs Smyslov, 1966 
Apr-28-04 P Romanovsky vs Botvinnik, 1945 
Apr-28-04 Pilnik vs Stahlberg, 1946 
Apr-28-04 Simagin vs Spassky, 1955 
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