Jun-09-06 Kibitzer's Café 
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| Backward Development: So, I've returned to chessgames.com, for the near future anyways. I just finished high school and am going to start training for the Denker tournament in August. I qualified by winning the scholastic championship in my state. wish me luck in my studies, i'm pretty ... |
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Oct-24-05 Tigran Petrosian
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| Backward Development: <Pizza>
"Some consider that when I play I am excessively cautious, but it seems to me that the question may be a different one. I try to avoid chance. Those who rely on chance should play cards or roulette. Chess is something quite different." – Tigran ... |
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Oct-23-05 Sicilian (B27)
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| Backward Development: Although I'm not a big fan of Anderssen's, this one leaves a fine impression. W:U. Andersson
B:Se. Ivanov
E:Swedish Team Championship, 2000
R:1-0
1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 dc 5.Qa4+ Nbd7 6.Bg2 a6 7.Nc3 Rb8 8.Qxc4 b5 9.Qd3 Bb7 10.0-0 c5 11.dc Bxc5 12.Bf4 Rc8 ... |
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Oct-21-05 Vladimir Kramnik
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| Backward Development: Perhaps the original Russian article has been posted here already, but cb.com has posted an english summary of Topalov's interview with 64. It would indicate that Kramnik is in a different class altogether than Topalov and not worthy to challenge him for the FIDE title. |
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Oct-11-05 Anatoly Karpov
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| Backward Development: In my Game Collection: Game Collection: How Karpov Wins: The Early Years , I finished analyzing the first game. If several people here would look at it and give me some feedback on it and show me any errors or suggest more positional discussion/tactical variations etc, ... |
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Oct-11-05 Karpov vs Nedelin, 1961
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| Backward Development: Notes from my analysis:
8.h3!?<an unusual move order that prevents 8...Bg4 but allows 8...Na5!? with an unclear position> 13...Nb7!?<Another unusual move order. More common is 13...c4 with ...Nb7 to follow.> 14.Nf1<returns to main lines, but the advance |
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Sep-24-05 Petrov Defense (C42)
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| Backward Development: Today's Opening of the Day is a controversial opening, one that is often accused of being a purely practical weapon with which to secure draws. While this is quite probable at the highest level, I believe it offers a dynamic alternative to 2...Nc6 and is as good an ... |
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Sep-20-05 City of Moscow
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| Backward Development: YET ANOTHER MOSCOW MOMENT.
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Garry, Vishy, Veselin, Nigel, Peter, Alexei, Vladimir, Alexander, Alexandra, and Judit. Scene One:
<All but Garry are present watching a new episode of Dave Chappelle.> Alexei:Oh my God, hahaha! I love this Tyrone Biggums ... |
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Sep-16-05 FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005)
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| Backward Development: <The truth of the matter seems to me, that our last three classical champions (before Kramnik) have spoiled our expectation of what a World Champion and the highest level of tournament competition should be.>That's an interesting idea. <I'm surprised people ... |
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Aug-29-05 Karpov vs V Pronin, 1968
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| Backward Development: Wouldn't this transpose to an Old Benoni? The standard move order would be 1.d4 c5 2.d5 e6 3.e4 etc... |
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