Dec-09-05 Nigel Short 
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| maoam: Because then we'd be dead, right? |
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Nov-27-05 Kibitzer's Café
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| maoam: Again, what's the point of memorising pi? Aside from being able to say "I have memorised N digits of pi" for some suitably large N. |
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Nov-21-05 E Diemer vs Portz, 1948
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| maoam: <...and proving the Riemann-Zeta function> It's the Riemann Hypothesis that needs proving (or disproving if, like me, you think it's false). The Riemann Zeta function cannot be proved, it's not a theorem of any sort, it is just defined. |
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Nov-11-05 Bobby Fischer
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| maoam: <Sleepkid: did you ever get round to biffing him in the hooter?> The miniturisation technique was horribly flawed, Sleepkid started to return to his normal size before he could land a punch inside Fischer's nostrils. |
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Nov-10-05 Kasparov vs Short, 1993
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| maoam: Short didn't invent 10...Qa5, it had been played before: Spassky vs Fischer, 1992 It's typical of Short not to acknowledge his coach, Lubomir Kavalek, who describes the preparation of this line in http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt... |
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Nov-09-05 Martin Fette
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| maoam: He and his brother, Boba, always had trouble playing the White side. |
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Aug-03-05 Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999
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| maoam: <Sharpnova is on my ignore list, I can only gather that you wish to be there as well.> It's not high on my list of things I could give a toss about, actually. It's slightly below wondering how many fruit labels (the ones they put on apples and the like) I can fit on the back of ... |
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Aug-03-05 Alex Yam
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| maoam: Sorry, I shouldn't spread vicious rumours. |
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Jul-21-05 Hikaru Nakamura
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| maoam: <acirce>
Thanks for posting that, that's the best punishment for not resigning in a clearly lost position I've ever seen! |
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Jul-21-05 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1986
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| maoam: The most recent issue of Informant at ChessCafe.com, "Highlights from the Anthology of Chess Combinations" (archived at http://chesscafe.com/text/informant... ), describes a beautiful queen sacrifice that could've arisen in the game. The diagram given indicates it must occur in the ... |
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