Jun-22-16 Pillsbury vs G Exner, 1902 
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| mdamien: I was looking for an Exner game related to an idea in the French and came across this win over Pillsbury. Such a strong player to know so little about! It is worth commenting, though, that this was board 11 of 21 in a blindfold exhibition by Pillsbury. ... |
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Oct-29-08 Anand - Kramnik World Championship Match (2008)
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| mdamien: Congratulations to Anand on winning the chess crown. There can be no argument now that the rightful chess lineage is Kasparov -> Kramnik -> Anand. Let's now try to forget about the unfortunate FIDE titles. :-) |
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Jan-19-07 Lasker - Capablanca World Championship Match (1921)
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| mdamien: Interesting that Alekhine writes in a New York Times article in 1929 that Lasker "preferred to renounce his title at a point in the match when ten games were yet to be played rather than risk his health in hospitable albeit treacherous Havana." (Winter, ... |
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Nov-28-06 Kramnik - Deep Fritz (2006)
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| mdamien: <PeerGynt: Guys, you are digging too much why this happened and how this happened. When Topa blundered we accepted it easily. Yes, he blundered, it sucks but the life goes on. This is how he usually plays. When you push too hard it backfires. Now you are so embarased by Kramnik's |
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Oct-17-06 Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2006)
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| mdamien: <Wild Bill: Yes, the 2700 rule is a bad as many think. It completely destroys the purpose of FIDE. About a hundred years ago, Leo Nardus, a wealthy Dutchman, purchased a world championship match on behalf of his friend, David Janowsky, by paying Dr. Lasker 7000 francs (a lot of ... |
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Oct-10-06 Kramnik vs Topalov, 2006
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| mdamien: <cotdt: Aha I've always suspected that Black wins with best play.> It's confirmed! In the starting position, White is in zugzwang. |
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Oct-10-06 Topalov vs Kramnik, 2006
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| mdamien: <keypusher: <55 times a game> Hey, a new troll!> They've probably been recruiting under the bridges.
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Oct-09-06 Kramnik vs Topalov, 2006
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| mdamien: <keypusher: <dionyseus> <Both statements say the same thing, just worded differently.> In fairness, the two statements are much closer to meaning the same thing if "black" (in "black could have drawn ... ") refers to the generalized black (as commonly used in chess ... |
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Oct-07-06 Topalov vs Kramnik, 2006
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| mdamien: It says 4-5* -- the asterisk indicates that the score of 5 is arguable. |
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Oct-03-06 Topalov vs Kramnik, 2006
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| mdamien: <ennar: Topalov's in a very tough position right now though. If he loses, people will say he lost even though he "cheated". If he barely wins, people will say it was only because he "cheated". The only way hes in the clear is if he wins by a very large margin. Serves him ... |
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