Jan-30-12 Magnus Carlsen 
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| Phil Holden: <Alive?? Chess is more than alive.Chess is growing. You talk like chess is struggling to survive> Our local club now has 13 teams in our 2 local district leagues. The problem is finding more of our existing members to develop additional competitions and fresh ideas to ... |
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Oct-31-11 Kibitzer's Café
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| Phil Holden: <Player B must have promoted a pawn to white bishop making it impossible to mate.> My fault. I should have explained that there were other pieces still on the board. The issue was that a bishop had been placed on an incorrect square during the blitz phase of the game. |
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Oct-31-11 A Dadian vs Brjecky, 1902
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| Phil Holden: Sevenseaman <How does one upload a PGN?>
Which chess programme are you using? |
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Jul-16-11 D Gurevich vs Kuperman, 1978
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| Phil Holden: Is this the same Cooperman? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwd9... |
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Jun-05-11 Shirov vs Anand, 2011
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| Phil Holden: < AndrewMD: I'm not good chess player.>
I believe Black has so many options to just win material |
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Jul-06-08 Ivanchuk vs Kramnik, 2008
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| Phil Holden: Chucky is playing like Carlsen. Grinding away at drawish looking positions. |
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Jul-01-08 Dortmund Sparkassen (2008)
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| Phil Holden: <<fromoort: I wouldn't put it past Kramnik to lose a few games on purpose just to throw Anand off. >> Kasparov played the Evans gambit a few times before his WC match with Anand. Aledgedly this cost Anand significant lost time in his preparation for the big match. ... |
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Jun-19-08 Ivanchuk vs Eljanov, 2008
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| Phil Holden: How far back could white have planned this? |
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Jun-17-08 Vladimir Kramnik
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| Phil Holden: <kackhander: i think a lot of the hate for kramnik comes down to the fact that for the amateur player his games can be difficult to appreciate, there's no wham-bam sacrificing or crazy complications.>
Yet Carlsen is grinding away similar drawn types of positions as kramnik |
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Jun-04-08 The World vs G Timmerman, 2007
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| Phil Holden: A few players and very good contributors have fallen by the wayside particularly when they convinced themselves a draw was the only likely result. I hope they return to enjoy the fruits and rewards of their earlier endeavours. |
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Kibitzing
