Feb-01-04 Jan Timman 
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| bilikidder: <Grischuk and secrethuman> I remember that people all over ICC were talking about that. Secrethuman reached 3610 and then the ICC authorities reset his rating to 2000 in Blitz. Grischuk's best rating in Blitz was 3605. He's now at 3445, the same rating he was after his last |
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Feb-01-04 Bruce Pandolfini
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| bilikidder: Pandolfini, along with Shelby Lyman, gained fame as a commentator on the 1972 WCH match. He is a US national master, who is a prolific writer of beginning to intermediate instructional books on chess. |
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Jan-31-04 Yoshiharu Habu
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| bilikidder: I think that ughaibu mentioned in one of his posts that he worked for some ridiculously wealthy lady in Japan. He's mentioned what level dan player he was in shogi but I've forgotten (not that I understand the ranking system of shogi). It's been mentioned that Benjamin Lau would ... |
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Jan-29-04 T Barendse vs Carlsen, 2004
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| bilikidder: <photographic memory> Here's another link to a thread discussing whether or not the "Elizabeth" case (about a woman who supposedly demonstrated an eidetic memory) was a hoax: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb... It would be interesting for people to research the ... |
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Jan-28-04 Taimanov vs Matulovic, 1970
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| bilikidder: <Resignation Trap> Thanks for your reply. I remember coming across a website where Victor Posner was quoted as saying Taimanov was stripped of the "Grandmaster" title. I guess the Soviet authorities were not happy with both the loss to Fischer and his reading of ... |
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Jan-28-04 J Polgar vs Macieja, 2002
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| bilikidder: <sleepkid> Lol, I did notice your humorous posts on the previous day's puzzle and so I thought you would enjoy seeing the Moonlitknight's post. Sorry unclewalter ;-) |
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Jan-26-04 Kibitzer's Café
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| bilikidder: Benzol, here you go, pal. http://www.freechess.org/
It's one of the sites here: ChessGames.com Help |
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Jan-26-04 Bobby Fischer
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| bilikidder: Hmmm, it seems everything has been said about Fischer already, and when he's brought up, the insults start flying. It was an interesting idea to make this page the culture page, but the insults started flying again (e.g. the discussion about the Beatles). The Fischer forum seems ... |
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Jan-25-04 Harry Pillsbury
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| bilikidder: Lol, then by all means please continue to post here. There must be quite a lot of amusing anecdotes to relate. |
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Jan-23-04 King's Gambit Accepted (C33)
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| bilikidder: Lol, I think you need to scroll up and see who "KGB" is. |
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