Jul-17-23 Oystein Sande
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egilarne: Happy 80th birthday, Øystein!
Øystein Sande was a founder of my chess club, Volda Sjakklubb in 1972. He is mostly known as a correpondance master, Norwegian Champion, and participator in Word Championship Final. Over the board he was second in a Norwegian Championship, and ... |
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Mar-20-23 Magnus Carlsen 
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egilarne: I was one of two arbiters for these "miniputt" groups in both tournaments. I can't remember anything about this Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen from the first tournament. I noticed however that this Magnus Carlsen won the miniputt group in 2000... |
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Jul-17-20 K Pedersen vs G F Kane, 1972 
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egilarne: <jith1207>;<offramp>: Carlsen vs A Diamant, 2003 I sent in several correction slips in the years following this "game of the day Aug 10th 2006". As my original post that day states: "According to my norwegian "Wonderboy" this is actually sicilian, an accelrated dragon: ... |
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Dec-26-18 Bronstein vs K Astrup, 1994
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egilarne: This game is from The open norwegian championship at Gausdal april 1994. I is commented in Norsk Sjakkblad No. 3 1994 page 29-30. |
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Nov-26-16 Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship Match (2016) 
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egilarne: FIDE Laws of chess:
11.5 It is forbidden to distract or annoy the opponent in any manner whatsoever. This includes unreasonable claims, unreasonable offers of a draw or the introduction of a source of noise into the playing area. 11.6 Infraction of any part of Articles 11.1 – ... |
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Nov-29-15 Biographer Bistro 
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egilarne: A far better picture of Simen Agdestein is available at Wikipedia Commmons. |
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Nov-21-15 Aryan Tari 
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egilarne: Congrats to Aryan Tari as Grandmaster!
He secured the Grandmaster title at the European Team Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland today! 5,5 points in the first 8 rounds is enough: He just needs to show up tomorrow and play one move, he may lose this last round. According to FIDE ... |
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May-07-15 Simen Agdestein 
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egilarne: <Fusilli>: Thank you, I'm happy to see that you think the photo I took of Simen Agdestein in the Norwegian championship in Bergen 2009 was nice! Chessgames.com may of course use it :) |
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Mar-24-15 J O H Taylor vs NN, 1874 
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egilarne: As <Once> explains, Torp is a common scandinavian name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torp . In Norway we have an airport with this name, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandef... and several people with Torp as their surname, among others the prime minister 1951-1955 Oscar Torp: |
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Mar-02-15 Magnus Carlsen 
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egilarne: frogbert, I look forward to this! |
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