Aug-05-19 A Coles vs J T Westbrock, 1951 
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| shivasuri4: Even after 14.Nxe6, Black could have hung on with 14...Qb6, defending d8. |
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Feb-24-19 Bowie vs Lasker, 1913
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| shivasuri4: More likely that the game score is incomplete. |
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Jan-18-19 Gerry McCarthy
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| shivasuri4: A fantastic member of the community, Domdaniel entertained us all with his quick wit. You will be missed, sir. |
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Dec-26-18 Kramnik vs Nisipeanu, 2018
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| shivasuri4: <DonChalce: why not 35...Kf5?> It's playable, but the position remains equal after 36. Rg7 Re7 37.Rh7. |
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Sep-25-18 Chess Olympiad (2018)
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| shivasuri4: <HeMateMe: ... Lots of GMs from India, China, eastern Europe would accept dual citizenship with Monaco and a fat yearly stipend to play chess.> India doesn't allow dual citizenship. |
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Aug-13-18 Magnus Carlsen
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| shivasuri4: <PhilFeeley: The only place close to the Soviet view of support for chess I know of is India, where players are employed by private companies to travel and play chess: a wonderful situation I wish existed elsewhere.> It's actually government-owned companies which hire chess |
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Jul-31-18 Averbakh vs Kotov, 1953
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| shivasuri4: <1stboard>, both 33...Nd7 and 33...Nh5 win for Black. 34. Rg5 is the expected reply for either move. <JohnBoy>, perhaps Kotov was attempting to merely reach the time control without having a three-fold repetition occur. |
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Jul-03-18 R Praggnanandhaa vs N Navalgund, 2018
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| shivasuri4: Nc5 was odd, but Black was already in a spot of bother. |
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Aug-07-17 Viswanathan Anand
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| shivasuri4: Correction to my earlier post: Potentially Caruana in the semis and Carlsen in the final. |
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May-27-17 Memorable Quotes chessforum
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| shivasuri4: <ColeTrane: Take a look at your own lousy ideas first, because "Toad in the Rd" "Eat Crow" "Bonanza" and "Fine for Overdue Book" are not exactly great and hysterical poetic compositions... They stink! And "Alice in Blunderland"!?! Get over yourself! Your ideas are just as bad ... |
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