May-20-04 Computer 
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| Lastdance: Thank you to the kibitzers that responded to my question. I was not satisfied with the implication that Kasparov and Kramnik somehow "took it easy" on their silicon opponents in exchange for money so I did a little research and here is what I found: 1) From an interview with John ... |
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May-18-04 Alexander Morozevich
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| Lastdance: <rl900> Wow, that's harsh! To answer your question about Morozevich's "retirement", he defined his retirement as cutting back the number of hours spent in training so that (in his mind), he was "retired" from professional chess. After he made his announcement of his ... |
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May-04-04 Judit Polgar
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| Lastdance: She was in Hawaii (presumably on vacation) for awhile and gave a simultaneous exhibition there. |
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May-04-04 Ruslan Ponomariov
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| Lastdance: <Tigran Petrosian> You should read the interview posted by matein8 above. |
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Apr-29-04 Garry Kasparov
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| Lastdance: <FIDE KO> The list of players who qualified but did not sign their agreements are: 1. Anand, Viswanathan (IND)
2. Svidler, Peter (RUS)
3. Kramnik, Vladimir (RUS)
4. Leko, Peter (HUN)
5. Bareev, Evgeny (RUS)
6. Shirov, Aleksey (ESP)
7. Gelfand, Boris (ISR)
8. ... |
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Apr-19-04 Zhong Zhang
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| Lastdance: <<PinkPanther> There won't be a Chinese world champion in my lifetime, I'll promise you that.> There have been two Chinese world champions already, Xie Jun and Zhu Chen already. In fact, Zhu Chen has beaten Ruslan Ponomariov (one of your favorite players) in rapid play |
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Apr-16-04 Arkadij Naiditsch
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| Lastdance: Yes, he is the German hope and will play at Dortmund (I can sense PinkPanther's blood pressure rising). He is also under a cloud of suspicion from playing in the ACP tournament at playchess: http://www.chessbase.com/events/acp... |
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Apr-16-04 Alexandra Kosteniuk
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| Lastdance: <Lawrence and hongisto24> Thanks for your responses. I looked at a website that had ICC's rules for the tournament and it stated that the tournament directors could disqualify anyone upon suspicion of wrongdoing and this could not be appealed: ... |
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Mar-01-04 Kibitzer's Café
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| Lastdance: Megatherium=extinct sloth (rop?) |
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Feb-24-04 Linares (2004)
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| Lastdance: <Fischer Random Chess is the solution> I was listening to Larry Christiansen on chess.fm last Sunday and he said his opinion was that FRC did not have much of a future. The last FRC championship match between Svidler and Leko failed to generate much interest and Christiansen |
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