May-06-23 Dommaraju Gukesh 
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| L13: We live in the 2020s. We have hundreds of pics of Gukesh looking 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, etc. over the years. He looks pretty mature for his age, but there's absolutely no reason to think it's wrong. |
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May-03-23 Nepomniachtchi - Ding World Championship Match (2023)
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| L13: That's also a classic boomer reply. "It's not racist to turn Chinese names into nonsense that sounds vaguely insulting! That's just wordplay! The fact I do it to Chinese names exclusively is unrelated, and in fact you're the real racist for making me feel bad about laughing at racist ... |
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May-01-23 Ding Liren
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| L13: Someone should update Ding's bio! It's really jarring that there's a whole paragraph dedicated to his participation in earlier world championship cycles and it doesn't mention the one he actually won. |
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Sep-16-22 75th Russian Championship (2022)
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| L13: <They have collectively already tested these lines in group analysis as the "Soviet chess machine" and concluded which are draws, and so forth. This is the kind of thing Fischer protested, and why he flew solo against the whole lot of them. You find this strange? There is nothing new |
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Jul-21-22 World Championship Candidates (2022)
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| L13: It seems to me that, although Carlsen has some grievances with the world championship format, he's mostly just tired of the grind. Regardless of the format, there's no way to be the world champion without putting effort into it and he's lost the motivation to do it. How serious the ... |
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Nov-24-18 Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018)
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| L13: <FIDE and Super-GM tournament organizers really do need to consider some version of giving players an extra 30 minutes at certain critical positions a couple of times each event, to encourage the creation of brilliancies over-the-board.> Why would they do that when they want to ... |
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Sep-04-17 World Cup (2017)
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| L13: Why would anyone blame Carlsen for taking part in this tournament if it's allowed? If you don't think he should be able to participate, take it up with FIDE. |
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Mar-13-15 Bundesliga (2014/15)
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| L13: Thank you for the link, <whiteshark>! I don't have a problem finding the games elsewhere, though; I'm just wondering why Chessgames seems to be neglecting such a strong championship. In any event, there's a new round tomorrow. |
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Mar-11-15 Magnus Carlsen
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| L13: <Magnus has become world champion in the most questionable of circumstances. First, he was seeded into the challengers tourney without lifting a finger (i.e. without qualifying via the zonal, interzonal and matchplay as others before him did) by virtue of a flawed barometer of ... |
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Mar-01-15 Garry Kasparov
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| L13: <Absentee>, please stop embarrassing yourself. <alexmagnus> is describing Putin's rhetoric perfectly. |
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