May-01-19 AlphaZero vs Stockfish, 2018 
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| colinb8: <PawnSac> That comment has just been replied to by <Mayankk> and me: the 50 move rule is (i) no captures *and* (ii) no pawn moves; in the game you commented on there were two pawn moves exactly on the 50 move limit. Also, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty... I ... |
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May-01-19 Stockfish vs AlphaZero, 2018
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| colinb8: <PawnSac> (Written just before - but posted just after! - <Mayankk> commented.) I thought the 50 move rule was (i) no captures *and* (ii) no pawn moves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty...
Here - as <Mayankk> observed - there are two pawn moves exactly on ... |
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Nov-16-18 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018
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| colinb8: <Richard Taylor> From Tom Stoppard's 2015 play "The Hard Problem": Challenging the arrogant Amal (Parth Thakerar) who says computers play chess undistinguishably from humans she [the main character who is a psychologist] asks “Can you make a computer that minds losing?“ ... |
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Nov-16-18 A Dole vs Van Hai Nguyen, 2008
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| colinb8: Doesn't this transpose fairly quickly into a Sicilian Defence Accelerated Dragon? |
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Feb-17-18 Susan Polgar
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| colinb8: <HeMateMe> Its address is 44 Baker Street, and it's a chess & bridge shop! http://shop.chess.co.uk/Visit-Shop-... |
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Feb-07-18 Hou - Karpov Match (2018)
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| colinb8: <Petrosianic: Ratings don't tell the whole story. I'd rather play a 2200 player who's never been any higher than that than a 2200 player who's a former 2400 player. You never know when he might start playing at 2400 level again.> Quite right! |
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Jun-28-17 Emanuel Lasker
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| colinb8: <john barleycorn>
We know that Lasker was a good (I'm not claiming world-class) mathematician - part of the biography above seems to an almost verbatim copy of some of the text from this mathematics (not chess) website: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/...
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Mar-19-17 E Tate vs A Chibukhchian, 2013
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| colinb8: <Abdel Irada: If you want to see this idea properly dramatized, read Virgil's description of the Achaean irruption into Priam's sanctum in the _Aeneid_.
"And the lamentations of the women beat against the golden stars" will give you an idea of the flavor.> I'm very impressed: ... |
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Feb-26-17 Yifan Hou
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| colinb8: <zanzibar> Korean surnames are also usually single syllable. For easy sorting of names the "Surname, Given name(s)" format seems a good choice, and it's also (I hope) unambiguous for names that consist of a family name and a given name. Choosing a player at semi-random: ... |
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Aug-15-15 V Raicevic vs Suba, 1974
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| colinb8: <GrahamClayton>Suba mentions that this is the only game where he played 3...e4.<GrahamClayton> To be precise, and using Suba's own words in the "extended and updated" 2010 edition of "Dynamic Chess Strategy" published by New In Chess:
[This was] the first (and last but ... |
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