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Jan-01-22
 | | offramp: World Blitz (2021) (kibitz #18) One of the last and and best comments of 2021. A stirring comment was about the FIDE World Blitz (2021). User: tessathedog wasn't talking about the dogLOLfight among the top johnnies. I believe he saw live commentary from Petar Leko and Jon Gustaffson, and when he saw the live video at chess24 he said, <tessathedog: I was curious after seeing video footage on chess24 of Petrosian’s final round game (drawn) in the world blitz. The game had ended. The camera had been focused on something else, but picked up Petrosian’s reaction at the end of the game. He looked…broken. He sat at the board with his two hands covering his eyes, head bowed, for at least 30 seconds, prompting Jan Gustaffson to ask “what’s happened to Tigran…is he crying?”. A reference was made to the large prizes on offer. I think we all assumed he had lost. Playing over the game just now (a great struggle) Petrosian doesn’t seem to blunder or anything…indeed, he seems to do well to save a complex ending a pawn down. So I guess his reaction was just a mixture of relief, exhaustion, and a reflection of the enormous pressure and tension of the game and day. It seemed a very human moment.> He wrote about a crucial moment.
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In this modern age I am able to give you a link, so you can see the actual moment:
https://youtu.be/TQBikqTgblA at 5:25:35.
The game, T L Petrosian vs G Quparadze, 2021. Dramatic and sad - but every tournaments have winners and losers. You have to see it. |
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Jan-01-22
| | offramp: I want to correct that T L Petrosian vs G Quparadze, 2021 was won by Black. Cg.com had the result wrong, for some reason. The comments about the emotions are identical. |
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| Feb-01-22 | | Z truth 000000001: <stevemcd87: bug fix... failing> stevemcd87 chessforum (kibitz #988) |
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| Feb-04-22 | | Z free or die: <<Sally Simpson> ... Miss Scarlett has let [the pun] through because she hates us.> P H Williams vs W D Wight, 1919 (kibitz #33) Couldn't suppress my chuckle at this one. |
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| Feb-09-22 | | Z free or die: <keypusher: < saffuna: It took me about five attempts to get all the way through "Don't Look Up."> Well, no one will ever call you a quitter. I guess you always ate all your vegetables too?> Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #293896) |
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Feb-11-22
 | | FSR: Memorable (in the negative sense) quotes from <Justin796>: <Smyslov in his prime is definitely woman's candidate master strength at least.> Gligoric vs Smyslov, 1959. <Morphy had weak competition! He reminds me of Fischer in the sense of being vastly overrated...> N Marache vs Morphy, 1857. |
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Feb-15-22
 | | Troller: On Turkey changing its official name to "Türkiye": <Sally Simpson: They (the Türks) are always messing about with their names. I've still not used to calling Constantinople Istanbul.> At least he didn't write "Byzantium".
Biographer Bistro |
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| Feb-16-22 | | Z truth 000000001: <You have nothing to fear but my library.> User: sneaky pete Aint dat Z-truth! |
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| Apr-15-22 | | Z free or die: <Apr-15-22 Hans Renette:
<MissScarlett: I'm betting that Renette copied Harding, too.> -- Why should I?>Blackburne vs Bird, 1892 (kibitz #13)
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| Apr-16-22 | | Z free or die: <MissScarlett: For the benefit of <luftforlife>, I don't run this site, I just act as if I do.> chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #24956) An oldie, but goodie. |
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Apr-25-22
| | FSR: Hikaru Nakamura, commenting on the final game of the Le Quang Liem-Carlsen match (won by Le Quang): <As everybody knows, this is a very famous opening where Black has the structure c5-d6 versus e4 and d5. We call it the Ben-Oni. . . . It's considered very dubious at the grandmaster level. Even the name itself says a lot about the opening. Ben-Oni - I believe it's in Yiddish - means "son of sorrow." So it's a very sad opening, and there's a reason that it's called that. Because obviously when you play it you're sad, you're in pain, and you expect to lose the game of chess.> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKq... |
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| Jul-15-22 | | stone free or die: <MissScarlett: Isn’t George Wallace vs the World entertainment enough?> chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #38723) Droll as always... |
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| Jul-16-22 | | Messiah: <Messiah>: literally anything he writes. |
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| Aug-01-22 | | Shangri La: The best thing for being sad is learn to play chess. |
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| Aug-01-22 | | stone free or die:
<Missy> having her Walter White moment: <<Aug-01-22 MissScarlett:> I am the consensus.> Biographer Bistro (kibitz #25014) |
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Oct-07-22
| | offramp: Grischuk vs S Guliev, 1993 From the very highly-regarded User: FSR. It's from a few years ago but it's a good one! <As best I can tell, 3...Nxe4 is literally the most underrated opening variation in all of chess [Russian Game: Damiano Variation. Kholmov Gambit (C42)].
Many opening books treat it as basically a forced win for White. Few players know anything about it, and expect an easy win when it is played against them. Such players are often rudely awakened, as in this game.> He knows his stuff: <<the most underrated opening variation in all of chess...>> |
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| Oct-10-22 | | stone free or die: Somebody's a Pacino fan!
<nok: <Without an eval there would very long moments of silence...>Say hello to my little Svidler>
U.S. Championship (2022) (kibitz #84) |
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| Oct-12-22 | | stone free or die: <Zappa XP: Absolutely Dlugsional!> Hans Niemann (kibitz #469) A sharp neologism born of the recent controversies (both on and off <CG>!). |
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| Oct-14-22 | | stone free or die: . <<jerseybob> So it's death by a thousand innuendos, the lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.> Hans Niemann (kibitz #475) <jerseybob> recycling a bit of Mark Twain, or should that be Jonathan Swift?! https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/.... |
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Nov-08-22
 | | OhioChessFan: <AlicesKnight> referencing a pun based on the Antikythera Mechanism, discovered in a shipwreck and often claimed to be the world's first computer: <I doubt this "ancient Greek computer" (as it was headlined after initial analysis) contained any stock fish when recovered ...> D Citra vs R Vaishali, 2016 |
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| Jan-10-23 | | stone free or die: <<parisattack> We have evolved to survive not to perceive reality.> technical draw chessforum (kibitz #11236) |
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Feb-14-23
 | | perfidious: Lovely stuff from Biographer's Bistro, courtesy of <jnpope>: <Information without authentication is just defecation.> |
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Feb-26-23
| | offramp: Anyone like me who is interested in the <Cambridge Spy Ring> (of Communists) would like the quote by the smashing geezer User: Sally Simpson at Cambridge International Open (2023) (kibitz #11). The quote ends with a cliff-hanger:
<So that was that till Alan Mac found another J. Cairncross who played in the Scottish Championship....read on....> and that is followed by a link. Also mentioned was the blameless James Cairncross. How can Sally Simpson be ALWAYS interesting! |
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Mar-06-23
 | | Check It Out: 4/28/08, before the Kramnik-Anand match: <positionalgenius: Its a good thing that this was not played in the modern age... can you imagine kramnik and anand going for a 24 move draw in the final game of their upcoming Bonn match?> Botvinnik vs Smyslov, 1954 (kibitz #18) 11/4/08, after the Kramnik-Anand match: <whatthefat: <positionalgenius>
Wow, how did you do that?!>
Botvinnik vs Smyslov, 1954 (kibitz #19) <Shams: apparently his genius is more than positional.> Botvinnik vs Smyslov, 1954 (kibitz #20) |
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Mar-07-23
| | offramp: Some very dry humor, from User: stone free or die. He offers <some other examples from across the net> of alternative TITLES of the upcoming match.
<Nepomniachtchi - Ding World Championship Match (2023) (kibitz #114)>.
It is definitely worth having a look at the different 5 or 6 alternatives. |
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