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| Dec-22-08 | | Karpova: RandomVisitor: <Arrgh. I was hit by a power failure last night and early this morning. A few of my machines went down before I was able to put the machines in sleep mode. I am trying to bring the machines back up and I will report on which analysis lines need to be restarted. I regret that I was not fully prepared for this, but should have expected it. Stay tuned.> kutztown46: <<RV>: I think I just saw on the news that the Energy Dept. has determined that the nation's increase in power consumption has been traced to some guy running six ultra-powerful computers to play chess. The report went on to say that because of national security concerns, officials were doing what they can to "cut the juice" to this guy.> Sources:
The World vs G Timmerman, 2007
The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 |
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| Dec-29-08 | | Karpova: Karpov-Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978) keypusher: <<chessgames.com> The score of the 1974 candidates match final was +3-2=19, not +4-3=17 as stated above.> keypusher: <it has been fixed.> percyblakeney: <<it has been fixed> That's what Fischer said.> |
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Dec-31-08
 | | chancho: Kramnik vs Anand, 2008 <Colonel Mortimer: The Indian Cobra has struck again, and the neurotoxins are taking effect. Even with three doses of e4 serum it is too little too late. The Kramnik team's 'snake oil' preparation has had its trousers pulled down, revealing Kramnik's 'Meran' as an 'also ran'.> |
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Jan-01-09
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chessgames.com chessforum, on January 1 2009 <TheAlchemist>: <Cg.com> Happy New Year to everyone! <User: Everyone >: Happy New Year <TheAlchemist>! |
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Jan-02-09
 | | Open Defence: < Ixthus: Magnus (I don't care if I'm pronouncing it wrong!) or whatever his name is totally sucks. Beliavsky kicked his butt. He should be the one going to Amber. His score is equal and he went up against tougher competition. The only tournament Magnus should be invited to is for toddlers that can't keep the pieces out of their mouths. Beli (can I call him that?) Qg4ed the hell out of your Kh1, Magnus! I've watched the video. Is he really playing with his opponent’s captured piece while he's waiting for the next move? I've watched Kindergartners do that but 15 year olds? Come on. He gets up like he's gotta go potty a hundred times. That OJ just goes straight through him. How's he supposed to do that blind-folded? He beat nun (with three ns??) and someone called the urinal wall - big deal! Moronzevich plays Bg7 and loses and everyone now thinks Magnus is brilliant. Whatever. You play Bg7 against me and I'll win every time (unless you're black and fianchettoing or something) Here's my queen on g7. Come and get it. Wham-o! you lose to my favorite trap!
We have Norwegians here in Minnesota, USA. They eat lutefisk and hotdish on a stick. Very few of them play chess. That's what Magnus should be doing. Take up hockey and ski on our hills. The hooded sweatshirts are very practical for our weather too. Always dress in layers. Very smart - almost brilliant. I think we need to improve the rating system so that we can calculate one's official FIDE rating after every move and display it as the games are being played near real time. This will help all the people out there that are constantly hounding, "OMG! Is Magnus now rated over some arbitrary number x such that x mod 100 = 0?" Instead, we'll get "Wow! after 29.Bg7 Magnus is now rated 2700.083! Can we reopen the child prodigy discussion?" Another suggestion would be to change the base of the rating to one’s liking. Decimal 2697 doesn't look that good but octal 5211 is 11 over 5200. See? Now Magnus totally rocks again! Well, however you feel about Magnus we all know that some cyborg, mutant hermit 15 year old is out there waiting for the right moment to emerge on to the chess scene and destroy all that is left of our Magnus hopes and dreams. It's sad to think that thirty years from now we will only find one paragraph mentioning Magnus in Kasparov's My Great Successors VII. At least we'll have this forum and the wayback machine.> Magnus Carlsen < Domdaniel: Exclusive Extract from Kasparov's 'My So-Called Successors Vol XXIII':
"At this time ratings became so inflated that teenage boys reached 2700. Now, of course, club players are all over 3000, but then it was a shock. One teen brat - Magnus something - even beat some GMs, but I could see he wasn't champion material. Unlike me, he didn't have prematurely grey hair and a glowering look of genius. He just looked like a kid. Yes, standards dropped after my first retirement, which is why I ..." tbc.> |
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| Jan-02-09 | | amadeus: "The Elo system sucks. It doesn't even include a reasonable, mathematical model for the human brain." <Ixthus> |
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Jan-05-09
| | Open Defence: From the Kramnik Page:
< acirce: I bet he is just using Drawia as an excuse for skipping Linares to avoid getting slaughtered by Anand and Carlsen. > |
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| Jan-08-09 | | Tomlinsky: Anyone searching for insight into how FIDE gets to be administered the way it has been over the past few decades need look no further than todays Quote Of The Day... "I was taken from my apartment in Moscow to this spaceship. We went to some star. After that I said "Please bring me back" because the next day I had to go to Kalmykia and then to Ukraine, and they said "No problem, Kirsan, you have time." --- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
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| Jan-08-09 | | Ziggurat: From <SwitchingQuylthulg>'s forum: <slomarko>: <one day i decided its time i add more opening to my already very wide repertoire and then by big misfortune i saw <SwitchingQuylthug>'s profile and read about the 1...b6 move. i gave it a try and i have to say this: the move is a total disaster and even Rybka can't repair your ruined position after 1...b6. at one moment i was even thinking to intentionaly blunder into a mate in one (ala Kramnik) to save me the embarassement of having to play that ugly position! <SwitchingQuylthug> i want my money back!> <SwitchingQuylthulg>: <Sorry <slomarko>, but if the Product has been used by incompetent players, no guarantees apply anymore.> |
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| Jan-18-09 | | Eyal: <hms123: I just ran "grateful of" through Fritz 10 and found the following: (20-ply, deep position analysis) 1. (0.26): grateful for
2. = (0.25): grateful to
3. = (0.21): grateful of
4. = (0.21): grateful in
5. = (0.13): grateful under
This is the final word....umm...number on the matter.> |
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| Jan-19-09 | | arsen387: from Paul Keres page
<WannaBe: Today is Paul's birthday? Who Keres?> |
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Jan-22-09
| | chancho: From the Robert James Fischer page: <ughaibu>:
<Q)> <Trice, is it a fungal infection?> <A)> <we dont know> <Q)> <is it a viral infection?> <A)> <we dont know> <Q)> <is it serious?> <A)> <????> <Q)> <I mean, something like, you know, Trice, like, init?> <A)> <I dare say> <Q)> <What can we do?> <A)> <Piss on our pants and wrap 'em round our heads> <Q)> <But we're already infected by Trice, must we acknowledge him as the bee's knees?> <A)> <I'm too drunk to answer that> <Trice)> <I told you ughaibu was a drunk.> <And when the hell will Chessgames sort out the system that we dont have to make these silly spaces between lines over a certain length like this???> |
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| Jan-26-09 | | WhiteRook48: on the Cochrane vs A Dechapelles, 1821 game, where Cochrane gets odds of pawn and move and loses on move 27 with a great king hunt:
<iamverywellatchess>: The first page cannot exist! The players must begin on the second row! I know this by practicing for many years!
<Jim Bartle>: (sound of verywell rushing to consult Wikipedia) |
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Jan-27-09
| | TheAlchemist: <DanielBryant, Jan-12-06 , Larsen vs E Nievergelt, 1954 >: Robert Schinkmann got this one faster than I did. |
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| Jan-30-09 | | Jafar219: rogge:
<hovik2003: I still think either Aronian(40%) or Movsesian(30%) or Carlsen(40%) will win Corus.>I agree 110%
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| Jan-31-09 | | Jafar219: <<zzzzzzzzzzzz:> I don't believe that Alekhine choked to death at all... he was killed by aliens who hated chess!> |
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| Feb-01-09 | | WhiteRook48: Spassky vs Rodgaisky, 1948,
<What did Spassky say after this game?>
"Bring on that 5 year old American!!" |
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| Feb-02-09 | | Jafar219: <<<22 January,2002 year>> Doctor Who: Great site, guys!> > |
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| Feb-05-09 | | Jafar219: Quote of the Day
Many people don't understand the role of a second. Their most important function is to bring their player milk and cheese sandwiches. --- Larsen
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| Feb-17-09 | | WhiteRook48: from S Fillion vs H Masse, 2001
<amtr>: I studied the position and it was checkmate. |
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| Feb-18-09 | | WhiteRook48: see what <Demetrius Nixon> posted on A W Franke vs Flechsig, 1877, his first post is also worth reading, I think |
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Feb-19-09
 | | Stonehenge: On Kamsky-Topalov:
Fiberking: <Nigel Short: Looks like I am winning the predict-a-move competition today> You are good! Have you ever considered taking up chess professionally? |
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| Feb-19-09 | | WhiteRook48: <Fiberking> does not seem to have a good impression of Short lately. Short already has taken up chess professionally. |
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| Feb-19-09 | | WhiteRook48: on Santa Claus
<eightbyeight: Dear Santa, I am holding Mrs Claus and 5 elves hostage in my house. If you want to see them again give me one of the memberships.
Your blackmailer,
eightbyeight> |
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| Feb-21-09 | | Karpova: On the fourth game from the Topalov-Kamsky Match (2009) after Kamsky reached a winning endgame: Open Defence: <ashalpha: The fat lady is starting her warm ups...> not yet I thought I'd have a few more drinks first |
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