Oct-06-20 Norway Chess (2020) 
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| SometimesGood: <JustAnotherMaster: You want masks wait for Halloween...or go sponsor your own tournament...never seen someone who whines so much......> I think Alireza and Fabi are with you, at least judging by their post-game interviews. I guess young people are tired of zooming. |
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Sep-14-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)
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| SometimesGood: <Doktorn: Super fun event! I hope we will see more of chess960 in the future. I love it when the players has to start thinking and evaluating the position from move one.> It is interesting that the best in normal chess are the best in 960. |
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Aug-20-20 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals (2020)
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| SometimesGood: well said! |
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Jun-03-20 Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge (2020)
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| SometimesGood: Good show by Naka as well. I am sure he is not entirely unhappy beating Magnus for the first time. I even started to think that he could be a potential runner up for the world championship, should he gather a team around him. Fighting Magnus and Dubov with their teams should ... |
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Jan-14-20 Tata Steel Masters (2020)
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| SometimesGood: <Clemens Scheitz: ... when it comes to the threat of Siberia...> Siberia isn't a bad place; I am from there. You are all welcome:) one day, one day... |
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Jan-09-20 Ju - Goryachkina Women's World Championship Match (2020)
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| SometimesGood: There were some intricacies, to the otherwise lost position, which were new to me. Sasha tried to trick Ju and it could work. But in the final position white queens with check and I guess this is the main point. Maybe whites win anyway but Nigel showed some tricks. Thanks, ... |
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Dec-10-19 London Chess Classic GCT Finals (2019)
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| SometimesGood: I do agree with you de jure, but de facto I think ethnicity and race matter:). Tal and Botvinnik were Jews, and Jews are originally from the Middle East. I like your attitude towards integration, I myself is totally for integration, but again, in this world race and ethnicity ... |
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Nov-07-19 Grand Prix Hamburg (2019)
Oct-22-19 Isle of Man Grand Swiss (2019)
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| SometimesGood: <fabelhaft: Could still be a Candidates without Russian participants, with Caruana, Radjabov, Giri, Ding Liren and Wang Hao plus two Grand Prix players (still possible that it will be MVL and Mamedyarov) and then a wild card. But that one may well be Russian.> the only ... |
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Apr-06-19 Gashimov Memorial (2019)
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| SometimesGood: Watching Navara and Giri analyzing the game in Russian, I realized that these two reflect the broken dreams of the Soviet ideology. In 70s this could be a model image; a brother from Czechoslovakia discussing the game with a son of a Nepali communist living in St. ... |
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