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Feb-12-13 Viswanathan Anand    selfmate: <VaselineTopLove> Interesting analysis. On the monetary side, championship match money is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for a chess player. Nothing else even comes close. Even if Anand managed to come in first at a supertournament (something he's been having great      Jan-27-13 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2013    selfmate: Just realized my comment above is a little off. Should read <WHILE I tend to agree with you...>      Jan-27-13 Hikaru Nakamura    selfmate: <maelith> Nakamura has a tough row to hoe when it comes to Carlsen. I've always advocated that he should forget about trying to play solidly and instead do his best to complicate - as that will at least give him a practical shot. but in their most recent game he took things a      Dec-05-12 Magnus Carlsen    selfmate: <Jim Bartle: I thought about doing something similar when Salov said Kasparov won only because of his openings. But back then I thought the evaluations in the Informants would be a good standard for judging the positions.> It seems like a sound approach. It appears thought ...      Sep-30-12 Garry Kasparov    selfmate: "Wired" magazine article about whether a a software bug won the match for Deep Blue. http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/...      Aug-04-12 Walter Browne    selfmate: <ketchuplover> In the description of the book NIC quotes Browne saying <...‘By competing you are a winner, no matter the result’ is his motto...>. From the anecdotes I've heard regarding his temper when losing this must be the Stepford Walter Browne ;-)      Jul-29-12 Bologan vs Carlsen, 2012    selfmate: So how does Chessbase calculate the PR for for that perfect (losing) score? Something like average rating of opponents minus 800?      Jul-03-12 Short vs I Krush, 2012   selfmate: Taking Nigel's tongue-in-cheek response seriously... Everything is a trade off, right? If white really wants to try and punish black's non-developing c5 then the principled move is the game opening d4. But, of course, this make a slight strategical concession in that it trades a ...      Jun-26-12 Anand - Gelfand World Championship Match (2012)    selfmate: <HeHateMe> hahahaha      Jun-18-12 Tal Memorial (2012)    selfmate: <FSR> Ok, I'll have a look.

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