Apr-29-12 V Gashimov vs Nakamura, 2012 
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kelsoh: They need to rate wins slightly higher than draws at tournaments to reduce the incentive for ridiculous draws to occur. Other sports do it! |
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Apr-18-12 Carlsen vs Adams, 2006 
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kelsoh: Carlsen's move to nab the rook starting at 19. bd8 was quite the nice tactical find! Would make a great addition to a tactical trainer. |
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Apr-18-12 Hikaru Nakamura 
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kelsoh: While Carlsen is clearly playing better than Nakamura at this point, both players are young (early 20's) and have a long potential career in chess ahead of them. It's a bit early to definitively predict their career trajectories at this point. |
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Aug-03-11 Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990 
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kelsoh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQmZ... About half way through you can find commentary on this game. The use of the Scotch game against Karpov by Kasparov was brilliant! |
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Jul-30-11 Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 
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kelsoh: 20. Rd1 seems to be a mistake.
Put this one on deep analysis and Rybka insists that white should play 20. Qd3 instead, with black forced to respond with 20...F5 The opportunity for a quick mate goes away, but play from there will still lead to Morphy being up in material into the ... |
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Jul-30-11 J Zezulkin vs Bologan, 2005 
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kelsoh: I think Bologan was on tilt in this game, losing control of development and recklessly making poor pawn pushes. I've had this happen to me before in tournaments after a bad beat. What's interesting about this game is how high level these players are, yet Blacks moves here make no ... |
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