May-30-09 Rubinstein vs Capablanca, 1922 
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| Gambyt: The most interesting comment is that after white's first move; I found it very helpful in understanding the game. |
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May-12-09 Vladimir Kramnik
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| Gambyt: Shams, re my "argument": My last paragraph was not argument, it was pure invective. If it was part of an argument it would be an ad hominem fallacy, but it wasn't, because there was no "communism is bad because they are all swines", rather, simply, "They are all swines". The ... |
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Apr-22-09 Karjakin vs Kamsky, 2009
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| Gambyt: Me too...Kamsky spent like 40 minutes on move 4 of a Ruy Lopez in the Topa match. What was he thinking about? Calculating variations? I couldn't understand it. |
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Apr-20-09 Bobby Fischer
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| Gambyt: I would only be interested if the movie stopped in 1972. There is precedent, I think the Muhammed Ali movie stopped just after his win over Foreman in the 70's, neatly bypassing all his later fight dodging with people like Norton. I am not interested in seeing a movie containing ... |
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Apr-02-09 Kibitzer's Café
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| Gambyt: Actually I cannot remember ever seeing a movie about a woman mad with desire over chessplayers. What did I miss? And did it star Scarlett Johanssen? |
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Apr-02-09 A Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson, 1927
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| Gambyt: WS, thats a very racist thing to say.
There are three kinds of people I hate:
1. Racists.
2. People who cannot understand irony.
3. People who are ignorant of culturally based humor (like a movie tie-in) |
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Apr-01-09 Magnus Carlsen
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| Gambyt: In other words: "My favorite is not at the top of the rating list, so it must be broken." |
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Apr-01-09 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972
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| Gambyt: 2 seconds...because it says :02
And if you look at the bottom, Spassky's final time was 2:28. So Spassky blitzed out the whole game in under 3 minutes! |
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