Feb-08-22 Geller vs Averbakh, 1954 
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| stridergene: Happy 100th Birthday Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh |
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Jan-01-22 B Socko vs Carlsen, 2021
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| stridergene: Monica Socko: "I was almost crying when he won. Even if I had 9/9 today, I would prefer to have zero in exchange for my husband beating the world champion!" |
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Dec-25-21 So vs Carlsen, 2021
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| stridergene: Nice win Wesley |
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Dec-19-21 R Antonio vs A Reprintsev, 2017
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| stridergene: One of the shortest actually played chess games between masters. |
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Dec-19-21 E Torre vs M Ly, 2016
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| stridergene: Andrei Volokitin of Ukraine, playing as a reserve player, won the individual gold medal overall, scoring 8.5 out of 9 with a rating performance of 2992. Baadur Jobava of Georgia on board one scored 8 out of 10 and a rating performance of 2926, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia on board |
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Dec-19-21 E Torre vs I Salgado Lopez, 2016
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| stridergene: This is probably the strongest player that Eugene defeated in this Olympiad. |
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Dec-19-21 E Torre vs Short, 1988
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| stridergene: Nigel has a huge plus score against Eugene. I am just happy that Torre got this one |
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Dec-19-21 Short vs E Torre, 2012
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| stridergene: Using Filipino term: "Kinabayo ni Torre ang Obispo ni Short". Nice handling of two knights against two bishops. |
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Dec-19-21 E Torre vs Timman, 1981
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| stridergene: The Great Eugene has a terrible losing record against the Dutch mould of Emmanuel Lasker. Both these players are born 1951 |
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Dec-14-21 Lajos Portisch
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| stridergene: My personal choice of GOAT of Hungarian Chess is Lajos Portisch. Imagine being a candidate through interzonal 8 times not including the interzonals in which he narrowly missed the last qualifying spot for the candidates. He was the top board for the Hungarian team that upset ... |
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