Mar-01-19 AlphaZero (Computer) 
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disasterion: Thanks Sally. Good points, and it's a nice trap. There's nothing wrong with a bit of old school paranoia... |
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Feb-03-19 Rosenbaum vs D Fawcett, 1904
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disasterion: This seems a premature resignation. Perhaps Fawcett had a train to catch... There must be better continuations than in W T Dickinson vs W P MacBean, 1904 - after 14.e6 Re8 I don't see that white can get anywhere. |
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Feb-02-19 Magnus Carlsen 
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disasterion: <KnightVBishop> Perhaps it's not trolling, but it isn't factual either. Using <fabelhaft>'s helpful chessfocus.com link, you can compare the three: Carlsen: http://www.chessfocus.com/tournamen... Caruana: http://www.chessfocus.com/tournamen... Nakamura: ... |
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Jan-29-19 Vladimir Kramnik 
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disasterion: Kramnik's retirement confirmed by chessbase:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/vladi... |
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Jan-28-19 C Ali Marandi vs F Kaleoglu, 2011 
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disasterion: <ngd2> I don't think it's morse - there's no separation of letters so it could equally be M E T A Y, among many options. I've been down a lot of blind alleys with this - the 454/DED hint has led me all over the place but not, thus far, to the solution. (eg: there are 454 ... |
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Jan-26-19 Cenek Kottnauer 
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disasterion: Well spotted, <login>. It seems <bidmonfa>'s photo is of Max Euwe. |
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Jan-25-19 offramp chessforum 
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disasterion: Re clue 38, I second the proposal to give it to <posoo> and have done. |
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Jan-22-19 Carlsen vs Mamedyarov, 2019 
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disasterion: <Howard> If you change your pgn viewer from the default to, for example, pgn4web, you can see the rest of the game; though there are still a few glitches (eg white's 29th should be Nbc5). |
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Jan-03-19 Kibitzer's Café 
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disasterion: #17: Would never have got there without so much extra time to solve it in... After failing to get any of the other klus this time round, I still surprised no one beat me to it. |
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Nov-17-18 0 
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disasterion: <bobsterman3000 - No, he isn't you dingbat. You're simply LYING.> Sorry Bob, but yes he is. Here you go: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/att... |
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