Sep-27-17 Chessgames Bookie chessforum 
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: <Sneaky>So you're the reason Ding was actually favored. I thought that was a little odd. Well, easy money for me! |
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Sep-09-17 World Cup (2017)
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: <...if Kobalyov is going to play for Canada in the next Olympiad, he's going to have to return to Georgia next year.> You're assuming Canada shows up. Absent an apology, they may well stay home. |
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Feb-27-17 E Horn vs K Cedikova, 2007
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: <Took about two seconds to see that one.> This was very easy, even for a Monday. Still, I spent more than two seconds just to see whose move it was. |
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Feb-27-17 Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2017)
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: <Could it be that the best players learnt how to play in this format or that in this case the goal was much more motivating because the winner will be the champion whereas in the last two edition it faced the almost impossible task of a rematch with Hou Yfan> The ... |
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Nov-19-16 FIDE Women's Grand Prix Khanty-Mansiysk (2016)
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: No draw offers are allowed before move 30 but draw <claims> can be made. |
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Nov-09-16 Korchnoi vs P Bakker, 1976
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: It would be nice to think that getting three in a row to start this week means I'm getting better. Alas, I'm pretty sure that's not true. This was just a very easy Wednesday. |
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Jul-24-16 Magnus Carlsen
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: <the good 5% of inspiration and 95% of transpiration (?) rule applies. maybe in today's engine driven world it is 2%/98%.> Are plants writing engines now? The usual quote is about inspiration versus perspiration. |
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Jun-29-16 J Pyrowicz vs A Latocha, 2009
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: A good week. I don't even remember if I ever had the first three days right before. I had 26 ..Nxh3 27 Kh1 Rxd4 as the main variation. |
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May-11-16 Jon R Stephenson vs A McIntosh, 1983
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: Nice to see an easy one. I fought with it awhile until I found the mate. |
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Apr-06-16 Y Hou vs M Sebag, 2010
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| HowDoesTheHorsieMove: Pun? What pun? I see no pun here. |
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