Aug-16-25 Chennai Grand Masters (2025)
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| greed and death: Keymer clinched with a round to spare and then won his final round game anyways where many players would've simply played for an easy draw. He's had an impressive run across several tournaments since mid-2024 or so. |
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Aug-15-25 Nino Batsiashvili
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| greed and death: She scored a perfect 7/7 at the Spanish Team Championship that ended yesterday. |
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Jun-26-25 R Praggnanandhaa vs A Erigaisi, 2025 
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| greed and death: A piece of advice that has rarely steered me wrong is "don't give up a fianchettoed king's bishop unless its for the opponent's same-color bishop". Erigaisi opts to ignore this with 15... Bxc3 and while it may not have been a decisive mistake in and of itself, by the final ... |
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Jun-10-25 Sovtorgsluzhashchie Championship (1928)
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| greed and death: "Sovtorgsluzhashchie" (Совторгслужащие) are members of a trade union for workers in the trade/retail/sales industry, coming from mashing together the phrase "sovietskiy torgovyy sluzhashchiy"(советский торговый служащий) |
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Jun-07-25 Norway Chess (2025)
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| greed and death: <Check It Out> I too hope that the trend of just rapid and blitz tournaments subsides at the top level. Sometimes I think it is a pity that the modern elites do not seem to have the same attitude as Botvinnik <"Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a ... |
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May-13-25 Vachier-Lagrave vs Abdusattorov, 2025
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| greed and death: Embarrassing |
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Apr-13-25 Reykjavik Open (2025)
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| greed and death: <dehanne: Where's Hans?> Perhaps Tristan Niermann has a surname similar enough to Niemann that his games will suffice. |
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Mar-04-25 Aeroflot Open (2025)
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| greed and death: There are some good games in this tournament so far. S Drygalov vs Rapport, 2025 is one of them, very elegant finish by Riczi |
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Nov-26-24 Ding - Gukesh World Championship Match (2024)
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| greed and death: The "Ding Liren" vs "Liren Ding" debate obscures the fact that the challenger likewise suffers(?) from the same affliction. Dommaraju is a patronymic, the player should be referred to as Gukesh. Of course the chess world should be at least somewhat familiar with patronymics ... |
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Oct-24-24 United States Championship (2024)
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| greed and death: Aronian and Niemann will almost certainly qualify to the World Cup via rating even if they don't via a tournament placing. In 2023 Wang Hao was the final rating qualifier with an Elo of 2709, which both Aronian and Niemann are currently above. |
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