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chesssalamander
Member since May-24-10 · Last seen Jun-23-19

I'm just a patzer, but I absolutely love chess. Tal is my favorite player, and I really like Nezh also. Out of current, active players, Levon Aronian is my favorite. Morozevich is also great.
Some historical notes:
I think Bannerjee Mohishunder deserves more recognition as a profound opening theorist, since the first Gruenfeld, the first King's Indian, the first Fischer Defense, and the first Schleimann Defense are all his.

I believe a reasonable case can be made that the first World Champion-- in the sense of "World Champion" that really matters-- was Adolf Anderssen, that the Championship then went to Paul Morphy, back to Anderssen, and then to Steiniz, before Steiniz's match with Zukertort.

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chesssalamander has kibitzed 313 times to chessgames [more...]

Nov-25-18 Cochrane vs Somacarana, 1858

chesssalamander: First O'Kelly!

Sep-27-17 World Cup (2017)

chesssalamander: Congrats to Levon Aronian! Go Levon!

Aug-15-17 Aronian vs Kasparov, 2017

chesssalamander: Is that 2003 game in the database here?

Aug-04-17 Aronian vs Caruana, 2017

chesssalamander: Wow, they fought it out pretty far! 110 moves.

Feb-04-17 John Cochrane

chesssalamander: Why is there no mention of his games with Mohishunder?!? Many theoretical novelties there!

Dec-07-16 Cochrane vs Mohishunder, 1851

chesssalamander: The very first King's Indian! A it's a win for Black!

Sep-30-16 Cochrane vs Mohishunder, 1850

chesssalamander: I think this is the earliest Nimzovitch Defense, Scandinavian Variation on record! Yet another opening innovation by Mohishunder!

Apr-28-16 Aronian vs Carlsen, 2016

chesssalamander: Yes! Levon can still beat Magnus once in awhile! Go, Levon!

Mar-13-16 Topalov vs Aronian, 2016

chesssalamander: I don't understand why not 18.Bxe4?

Mar-09-16 Cochrane vs Saint-Amant, 1842

chesssalamander: First Robatsch! It isn't a Cochrane-Mohishunder game, but it IS a Cochrane game!

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