Sep-28-18 Nikolay Noritsyn 
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| gauer: Nice job so far with 4/4 after 5 rounds. The possibility arises in the 6th round that he meets his 1st GM from the host country’s team at this Olympiad - good luck in the 2nd half to team Canada. |
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Sep-27-18 Jorge Cori
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| gauer: Should such a board pairing materialize in Russia vs Peru, there are perhaps a number of America Continental region fans that may wonder how well this player may fare versus the past world champion. Good luck (to both, of course - a fan of both great players as well as players arising |
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Mar-26-18 Biographer Bistro
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| gauer: At this time, and previously (having read his privacy policy), such: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... competing site asks for a postal address, which <I> have chosen to not supply him via that method (maybe he has facebook account or some other private form of ... |
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Dec-29-17 Phiona Mutesi
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| gauer: Looks like she made the team for Wahingon's Northwest University on 2nd board at the 2017 Pan-American Intercollegiate Championship (this year it takes place at Columbus, Ohio, with a number of Canadian players playing not only for Canadian but also USA schools, along with some ... |
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Dec-29-17 The Caissars chessforum
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| gauer: Not sure if Wei Yi vs L Bruzon Batista, 2015 ever caught a Caissar prize, but https://m.facebook.com/chessgamescom recently announced their best of 2017 of their latest posted there. Looks like it's time to review the 2017 candidates again, and see if AlphaZero or a recent Karjakin ... |
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Dec-10-17 D Freeman vs Laufer, 1993
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| gauer: Happy sweet sixteen, chessgames! |
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Dec-07-17 AlphaZero (Computer)
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| gauer: Not sure that your <laptop> would have expansion slot cards like: https://chessprogramming.wikispaces... (FPGA card slots, maybe like those used in Hydra, etc - are these more commonplace / inexpensive on the market now, a decade later). Would google's array benefit much from ... |
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Dec-07-17 Stockfish (Computer)
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| gauer: Although I'm not sure if the quote referenced at Ostrich (Computer) is an <exact one>, it might make for an interesting <Quote of the day> - (attributed to Monroe (Monty) Newborn) if it also helps spurn discussion here. Wonder if we're in the awe stage now, after Deep Blue |
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Sep-27-17 chessgames.com chessforum
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| gauer: http://www.chess-results.com/Partie... also has the other 6 2017 WYCC <Cadets'> sections (U-12, U-10, U-8 + women's groups, but only up to round 9 of 11 there - played a month ago at Pocos de Caldas, Brazil). I don't see anything in one of the 6 pgn files (of U-8 group, say) to ... |
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Sep-24-17 Olga Viewer chessforum
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| gauer: Although I hadn't used <mobile> mode much in the past month, it's looking great today for gid and tid pages. Especially I liked where the photo appears for pid persons, but did turn off the <show avatars, graphics> at Preferences Page which helps for bandwidth. Do hi-res ... |
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