Jan-14-14 L Dominguez Perez vs Van Wely, 2014 
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| TheOddFella: IIRC, Charlie Storey suggested Nf6 as the best 6th move for black otherwise "he will find himself in a lost position". Not sure if his mind has changed since. I'd tend to agree with Storey over Van Wely, though I'm not a strong player.. |
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Dec-05-04 Hikaru Nakamura
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| TheOddFella: Give McShane a break! He's in full time education and only plays chess part time right now, as far as I know. |
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Aug-16-04 Spassky vs Karpov, 1982
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| TheOddFella: This tournament was "made for TV". I have an old video of some of it (I wasn't born when it was played!) where the players comment pretty extensively on the games where the analysis by the players is superimposed to appear as if it was said during the game - very interesting! ... |
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Aug-11-04 Nigel Short
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| TheOddFella: Short's reasoning for accepting the draws: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Jul-23-04 Luke McShane
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| TheOddFella: Surely Luke should be the rusty one - after all, he is "only" playing in a category 18 event in his summer holidays. Besides, he had better positions against Morozevich and Pelletier but lost them both in time trouble, in fact it seems that his flag fell against Pelletier on ... |
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Jul-18-04 Bobby Fischer
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| TheOddFella: <iron maiden> I didn't say anything about anti-semitism. I do say, however, that denying that the Holocaust occurred is as offensive to the families of people who died as commending 9/11 is to the families of those who died in that. |
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Jul-15-04 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto (B34)
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| TheOddFella: Is "Winning with the Sicilian Defense" by Jeremy Silman to be recommended as a repertoire book based around the accelerated dragon? |
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Jul-15-04 Rustam Kasimdzhanov
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| TheOddFella: <acirce> exactly my point. Some people think comments like that are funny not offensive. |
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Jul-13-04 FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)
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| TheOddFella: <ruylopez900> I suppose I took reunification in the spirit I thought it was meant to be taken. In other words, reunification would mean that the final winner is respected and regarded by everyone as the best player in the world. I'm sure there are many people out there who |
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Jul-12-04 Kasimdzhanov vs Adams, 2004
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| TheOddFella: <Justinhorton> yes sorry they moved too quickly for me. Adams' win was 42. ... Qe4!! 43. Qxh7+ Kf8!!!! and if 44. Qh6+ Ke8 and there are no more checks (that's what I meant about the queen and bishop placements). Plug that into Fritz and I'm sure it will start giving black |
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