Mar-12-06 Larsen vs Mecking, 1969 
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| Al Notation: What a game...player of the day outplayed one of the best modern hypermodern GMs at his own game! Notable was 13...Nxb4, playing his own game more than responding to Larsen. Mecking makes his forced exchanges more threatening to Larsen (24...Qxd4 and 29...Rxd4). In 36...Rxg4 we ... |
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Mar-12-06 Saemisch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1923
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| Al Notation: One of the best games of all time. Nimzovitch's defense slipped in like poison, and paralyzed Samisch! A great example of maintaining the tension rather than breaking it. |
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Mar-12-06 Aronian vs F Vallejo Pons, 2006
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| Al Notation: How about "walled-in Pons"? |
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Mar-11-06 Leko vs Aronian, 2006
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| Al Notation: Well, I learned something from the comments on this site. That people here are as crass as AOL chat room users. And that is CRASS. |
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Mar-11-06 F Vallejo Pons vs Topalov, 2006
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| Al Notation: Greco is right. Black is dead. |
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Mar-10-06 Morelia-Linares (2006)
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| Al Notation: I say Topalov wins all the cookies. And then, all of the sudden everyone will be a Topalov fan...a week after saying all those nasty things about him, at the end of Morelia. |
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Mar-09-06 Topalov vs Leko, 2006
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| Al Notation: OKay, I think we will see the Sozin Attack of the Sicilian Defense. Both Topalov and Leko are going to try to get away from the predictable (QID, Najdorf) so as not to be too easy to figure out. Look for the Sozin, and look for a Topalov win in 50 moves. |
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Mar-07-06 Peter Leko
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| Al Notation: Leko may see his first Petrov Defense in the tournament from Bacrot tomorrow. |
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Mar-07-06 Topalov vs Ivanchuk, 2006
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| Al Notation: Ivanchuk is hard to predict...even the Greco counter-gambit is not improbablr for him to play. But I think it will be a Sicilian Richter-Rauser, with Topalov winning on time pressure in a difficult position in 40 moves. |
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Mar-04-06 Radjabov vs Leko, 2006
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| Al Notation: Draw!! It's over. |
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