Jan-01-07 Short vs Kasparov, 1993 
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| Father Merrin 1: This was part of a series of blitz games the organizers forced the 2 contestnats to play after the official match had ended. kasparov crushed Short very easily in almost all the games. The organizers had to forced kasparov to play the black side of a very inferior Kings ... |
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Dec-31-06 Reshevsky vs Botvinnik, 1938
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| Father Merrin 1: The simple 34.Bxc6 would have won easily. They really must have have been short of time to miss it. |
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Dec-24-06 Kasparov vs Short, 1993
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| Father Merrin 1: The simple fact is Short was a weak challenger - possibly the weakest ever - and didn't deserve the shot at the title in the first place. He was just an average GM level player who happened to get to the final match when other superGMs hit poor form and age caught up with ... |
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Dec-22-06 The World vs A Nickel, 2006
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| Father Merrin 1: This game is not betw The World and Nickel. It's more The World+Various Computer Programs vs Nickel+His Computer Program. Actually it's just betw computer programs. |
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Dec-14-06 Oksana Vozovic
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| Father Merrin 1: I am beginning to suspect that <Stanleys> is <Emperor Atahualpa>. They share a very similar and worrying fixation for women players. |
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Nov-29-06 Seirawan vs Kasparov, 1986
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| Father Merrin 1: kasparov wanted to win because it was a USA-USSR matchup during the Olympiad and the other boards were all drawish. He just overpressed for the win and lost. Seirawan was lucky. |
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Nov-12-06 Mamedyarov vs Gelfand, 2006
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| Father Merrin 1: Maywedrawoff (?) is reaying himself to take over the DrawKing title from Leko and Kramnik... |
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Oct-29-06 Paul Morphy
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| Father Merrin 1: If Morphy was alive in our time he'd be playing exactly like Fischer. He'd probably look the same too. |
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Oct-24-06 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972
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| Father Merrin 1: I recall Kasparov made a similar blunder against Karpov in Game 7 of their 1990 involving a ...Qa5 and Nd5. |
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Oct-23-06 Essent Tournament (2006)
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| Father Merrin 1: <Gouki> <wow, already 2 losses for Topalov in this Essent Tournament!
i guess that match loss to Kramnik must have really affected his confidence> Guess Topalov will have to get used to the growing idea that whoever played and lost to King Kramnik was never the ... |
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