Oct-13-14 L Dominguez Perez vs Caruana, 2014 
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| colosseo: <Shams: Can someone tell me what Black's strategic compensation is for playing ...e6 and ...g6, then trading off his DSB and castling kingside?> Center control and a slight lead in development (those tempoes/ii HMM and luzhin refer to), it looks like, which allows him to get ... |
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Oct-12-14 Nakamura vs Kasimdzhanov, 2014
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| colosseo: <SirRuthless: Bad choice to play the Spanish but good choice to avoid the endgame. I think the following surprised Rustam.
4.d3 avoids the endgame
11.h3 keeps pressure from whites King side and probably sidesteppsn alot of theory > Actually 5.Bxc6 dxc6 6.h3 is quite ... |
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Oct-10-14 Fabiano Caruana
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| colosseo: <lupara>
I owe you an apology.
The reason I did not respond to your entire post is that I did not see it. Someone else copied a single paragraph from that post and put it in his own post. That is what I saw and responded to. Of course I should have copied his entire post, ... |
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Oct-07-14 0
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| colosseo: <Jim Bartle: I'd be curious to see how those statistics correlate with poverty/wealth as well as race.> I can't speak to England, but in America...<the race/crime correlation so substantially exceeds the poverty/crime relationship that much of the latter may simply be a ... |
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Sep-28-14 Horwitz vs Staunton, 1846
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| colosseo: Nonsense. By modern standards McDonnell, Labourdonnais, Staunton, and Horwitz were all weak. It had nothing to do with Staunton's heart. And who are these stronger 1840s opponents Staunton should have played? Kieseritzsky? Would have been nice to see -- K beat Horwitz in a series ... |
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Sep-27-14 Caruana vs Karjakin, 2014
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| colosseo: Black doesn't play 12....e5 because of 13.dxe5 Nxe5 14.Nxe5 Bxg2 15.Nxf7!. White's 46th and 50th moves were magnificent. Bravo! |
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Sep-17-14 Eduard Scotland
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| colosseo: I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds. I think withal
There would be hands uplifted in my right;
And here from gracious England have I offer
Of goodly thousands. But, for all this,
When I shall ... |
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Sep-03-14 Magnus Carlsen
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| colosseo: < devere: <colosseo: Italian trains, unlike American trains, run on time. They also run faster, cleaner, and cheaper than American trains.>
Glad to read that your Italian trains are doing so well. It's time now to work on your justice system. Not that ours is perfect in ... |
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