Jul-06-13 FIDE Grand Prix Beijing (2013) 
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| Frankovich: Perhaps one possibility for the recent increase of Black wins is the trend of White avoiding theory (a lot if which is leads to equality) by playing more offbeat lines. This is just idle speculation. I haven't looked over all the recent Super-GM Black wins with it in mind. But it |
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Jun-13-13 Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2013
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| Frankovich: A shallow deep thought: the top two finishers in the blitz tournament lost today. |
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Apr-30-13 Topalov vs Karjakin, 2013
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| Frankovich: In Kajarkin's defense, he probably didn't have enough time on the clock to see if he should resign. Impressive tournament for Topalov. |
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Apr-26-13 Ponomariov vs Nakamura, 2013
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| Frankovich: Sore losers are fairly common, but this is a rare example of a sore draw-er. |
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Apr-01-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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| Frankovich: I find it funny that some say Carlsen choked and was lucky that Kramnik overpressed. They both overpressed. They had to. Great tournament. |
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Jan-26-13 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2013
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| Frankovich: Why is Nakamura a coward? In this game I would say he was brave but foolhardy. |
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Jul-20-12 Karjakin vs Caruana, 2012
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| Frankovich: In other news: Leko has 8 minutes plus increments to make 18 moves vs. Kramnik. |
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Jul-24-11 Nakamura vs Kramnik, 2011
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| Frankovich: official site says 40.Rh2 instead of f2 |
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Jun-20-11 Nakamura vs Radjabov, 2011
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| Frankovich: I'm no endgame expert but I don't see how White can make progress. |
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May-16-11 World Championship Candidates (2011)
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| Frankovich: <Karban> I'm going to guess that the last time was Bogolubov in his rematch with Alekhine. |
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