Jul-06-13 Topalov vs Leko, 2013 
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| Timeline: Position from move 16 and on looks pretty dangerous with white having a lot of pressure along open d and e file. Leko managed to tame the position very well while giving up the pawn back. |
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Mar-29-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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| Timeline: This conspiracy theory is just sad.
If you look back to 2007, Anand managed to win vs. former Soviet field + Leko back in 2007 World Chess Championship Tournament. I suppose one might even be able to accuse Leko into being part of conspiracy because Hungary was part of ... |
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Apr-23-12 Aronian vs Kramnik, 2012
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| Timeline: Even though I don't find Berlin too exciting myself, I remember Aronian mentioning Berlin is his attempt to fight for a win in some tournament. |
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Feb-11-10 Bacrot vs L Lenic, 2010
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| Timeline: famous Alekhine's Gun along the d-file. |
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Jan-23-10 Karjakin vs Grischuk, 2008
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| Timeline: Upon analyzing this game, I realized 28... Nfe3! is crushing even though Rhxh7 looks sufficient to win. Had it not been a blitz game I'm sure Grischuk would have seen it. |
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Nov-29-09 Naiditsch vs Svidler, 2009
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| Timeline: I'm guessing you meant Rh4 |
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Nov-16-09 World Blitz Championship (2009)
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| Timeline: Just because he (Nakamura) crushes a lot of people on ICC doesn't mean that he would easily place in top 3 against the world's elite. |
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Nov-11-09 Mamedyarov vs Aronian, 2008
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| Timeline: it's not incorrect black is threatening back rank mate so white has to give back his queen. I really like 20...Qxd6 which is a clever defensive resource. |
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Oct-28-09 Y Yu vs S Zhigalko, 2009
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| Timeline: It's not a sac when you get 2 bishops for a rook. In fact, I'll take that deal any day. |
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Oct-27-09 Bacrot vs Aronian, 2009
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| Timeline: 28... Qf8 29. Qxe6 just gives away another piece (knight) and solves nothing. |
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