Jan-24-13 Magnus Carlsen 
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| docofthree: Carlsen has gotten as far as he can playing tournaments . he has to prove he can win matches since they are significantly different. to be world champion is all thats left for him ,but i still have no idea about his match strenght. |
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Jan-24-13 Chessgames - Sports
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| docofthree: <riverbeast> totally disagree the top players are picked to play, the bench warmers often land because their good teammates , glue guys and practice players. I have played against NBA and near NBA players and can tell you some of us regular guys and street players would ... |
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Jun-11-12 Hans-Joachim Federer
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| docofthree: jim bartle; i for one am relived nadal won, nothing against djokovic but his wins now have bordered on errie. match point down to fed at us open and at french vs tsonga , djokovic didn't just seem calm and confident, its as if he knew he could'n t lose . as it a deal with a ... |
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Feb-29-12 S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912
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| docofthree: ok missed that , now even more convinced black was clearly winning.thanks |
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Jan-11-12 Harry Pillsbury
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| docofthree: agree with rook file, pillsbury would have had a good chance to win against lasker. lasker being a master of psychology sensed danger and avoided it. It's a thin line between ducking opponents and self presevation. |
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May-25-11 0
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| docofthree: <ohiochessfan> black people are diverse politically but if its a choice between obama and mccain/palin 97% will vote obama. it's not about race or political ideology its just common sense. a conservative could gain large black support if he or she dropped the current ... |
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Feb-24-11 Garry Kasparov
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| docofthree: greatest is to subjective, does it mean played the greatest games or matches, won the most? held the title longest?, beat the best competition.has the greatest fanbase? my list 1) morphy (closest to in vinciable in any era) 2)fischer a lone wolf chess genius who toppled the ... |
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Oct-20-10 Vladimir Kramnik
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| docofthree: the list 1 kasporov dominance and longevity and consistency 2)morphy 3)capablanca if he beats alekhine there is no debate 4)fisher reign to short to rank higher 5) lasker came up big often 6) karpov overrated because he had 4 runs at kasporov and couldn't win 7)anand 8)tal health |
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Feb-25-09 Bobby Fischer
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| docofthree: Fischer deserves more credit for ending the cold war. his singular victory did more than reagan who everyone thinks singlehandly took down the wall brick by brick. |
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Feb-25-09 Chessgames - Odd Lie
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| docofthree: not after last night. the republicans are still looking for the next face of the party. its not sarah pallin and its not bobby jindal who sounded like a wind up version of kermit the frog.they know they need someone new and unattached to the bush debacle years.the republican ... |
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