Apr-01-13 World Championship Candidates (2013) 
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| llauro: From a pure statistics view, it seems Kramnik still has some real chances to win the tournament. Let's look at the personal head-to-head statistics shown on Chessbase: http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId... http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId... The two pairings for tomorrow show the |
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Apr-08-12 Short vs Kasparov, 1987
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| llauro: Here you can watch the full TV broadcasting of this game, with live commentaries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjc... |
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Jul-04-10 Vladimir Kramnik
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| llauro: <The Rocket: <"yeah, but Kramnik got a moral right for a match after losing(!) to Shirov. whatever">This is the same argument as in Alekhine-Capablanca rematch debate..>
Hum, not totally the same. As far as I remember, Alekhine avoided Capablanca's challenge, and he was ... |
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Jun-22-10 Y Wang vs Nisipeanu, 2010
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| llauro: Well, bad times for Wang. He is going to drop many ranking positions in the next FIDE list :( In this game it seemed the draw was the most expected result just after trading the Queens, but somehow after move 35 or so, or Wang started to make some very small inaccuracies or Nisi ... |
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Jun-21-10 King's Tournament (2010)
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| llauro: <Kinghunt: Rybka's given line leads straight into a rook ending that looks won, and is confirmed won by tablebases.>Yes, after trading the Rooks on g7 and taking the black a-pawn [DIAGRAM] the position is mate in 44 moves, according to http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=... |
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Apr-25-10 Anand - Topalov World Championship Match (2010)
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| llauro: <Akavall: <Nigel Short: 15.Qa3 was an awful move. The fact that he eventually won doesn't change a thing.> That's why Nigel Short is not a World Champion :).> Well, I agree Nigel Short. He has just said the move was awful. In fact, none liked (nor understood) it when it ... |
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Dec-11-08 Michael Adams
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| llauro: <ketchuplover: Does chess have to be played for money?> Not mandatorily, but if you want professional chess, with the best players working hard to win, yes, then chess have to be played for money. |
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Jun-21-08 Carlsen vs Shirov, 2008
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| llauro: <Knight to f6: <newton296:only anand and kramnik appear able to stop carlson from becoming champ>
One must remember that Carlsen is fifth in the world, not third.> Well, right now he is second if we count all the tournaments finished. Another point is that both Anand, ... |
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Jun-15-08 Magnus Carlsen
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| llauro: Well, if Kasparov really quited playing chess due he was getting bored, I think now it's time for him to prepare the come back, and try to agree a match Kasparov-Carlsen for 2009 or 2010. That match would get much more attention than Kramnik-Anand, Kramnik-Topalov or any other on the |
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Jun-15-08 Aerosvit (2008)
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| llauro: ... and 0-1 :) nice <joke> from chessok he, he |
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