Dec-06-06 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1990 
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| bobo7up: maybe you should observe that kasparov explicitly stated that this game was mere bluff all along. Hail Bobby! |
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Jul-14-06 Botvinnik vs Petrosian, 1963
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| bobo7up: By the way, Rookfile, what happened to your analysis of the Karpov-Kasparov 1990 game? |
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Jun-22-06 Bobby Fischer
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| bobo7up: Kasparov match record against human opponents:
84 cycle: Belyavsky, Korchnoi, Smyslov, Karpov (won the first 3; trailing Karpov 5-3 match cancelled)
85 Anderson, Huebner, Karpov, Timman (won all)
86 Miles, Karpov (won both)
87 Karpov (match drawn)
90 Karpov (won)
93 Short ... |
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Jun-19-06 Tigran Petrosian
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| bobo7up: To add to whatthefat's comments, calculating Fisher's performance rating for his match with Larsen by Sonas' formula gives the answer 2885 and not 2750 as Rookfile believes |
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Dec-07-05 Kasparov vs Anand, 1995
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| bobo7up: When Anand played 1...d5 Kasparov took his jacket off and started making faces! |
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Oct-28-05 Pentala Harikrishna
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| bobo7up: check this out:
http://us.rediff.com/sports/2005/oc... |
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Aug-30-05 Garry Kasparov
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| bobo7up: Rookfile wants to glorify Fischer at the cost of every other Tom, Dick or GARRY. One often quoted Fischer fact by such people is the stupendous rating of 2785 and how every other rating recorded higher than that is a consequence of rating inflation. So I was curious to see how much ... |
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Mar-17-05 Nigel Short
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| bobo7up: Do you have the rating list for january 1990? It would be interesting to study it because Kasparov had two massive tournament wins at Tilburg (+10-0=4) and Belgrade (+8-0=3) and it is I think here that he first scaled 2800. |
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Mar-14-05 John Nunn
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| bobo7up: For more on Ramanujan try the book "The man who knew infinity" by Robert Kanigel. |
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Feb-20-05 Viswanathan Anand
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| bobo7up: The number of oscars for kasparov would have been significantly higher (would have exceeded 15) had the oscar not been discontinued for a few years in between. can anyone recall which years was the oscar not awarded? |
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