1) Marc Santo Roman (26 games) and Marc Santo-Roman (86 games)

2) Tu Hoang Thong (74 games) and Hoang Thong Tu (22 games)

3) Hoang Thanh Trang (148 games) and Hoang Thang Trang (148 games) and Thanh Trang Hoang (3 games)

4) Henry Urday (22 games) and Henry Urday Caceres (20 games) plus Henry Urday Caveres (1 game)

5) Levente Vajda (116 games) and L Vajda (66 games) and Le Vajda (9 games)

6) Alexander Zlochevskij (34 games) and Alexander Zlochevsky (5 games)

<Plato> and <Rook File> hated each other's guts.

<Ziggurat> offered his forum for them to play a Chess grudge match against each other.

1. Neither party accused the other of cheating.

2. After the match, <Plato> and <Rookfile> had grown to respect and like each other.

You can do it easily so long as at least one player has a premium membership and opens a forum.

You just play Correspondence- set up the rules/time control- and then Keep track of the moves and positions with a FEN diagram in the forum Profile.

its not just the kibitzing.. if one tries to analyse the game its sometimes helpful not to see the succeeding moves as they interfere with the analysis process

<tpstar> Quite true.

<Phony> Thanks.

<Alexander Alekhine buffs> Some time ago we provided a pronunciation for some of the more difficult names, and our pronunciation of Alekhine was spelled out thusly:

Al-YEKH-een

We wrote it this way because that's how we have heard it said by grandmasters and other knowledgeable people. Then one day we received an email which went to great lengths to convince us that the correct pronunciation is

Al-YOKH-een

Because the author of this email was so passionate about the subject, we accepted it on faith and changed the biography. However, in the course of our research we came across several sources such as

Grandmasters of Chess by Harold C. Schonberg: <It infuriated him when his name was pronounced Al-OKCH-in. That was a Jewish pronunciation; the correct pronunciation was Al-YEKCH-in.> http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

And "Grandmasters I Have Known" by Hans Kmoch: <Alekhine used to get angry if his name was pronounced Al-YOH-khin, the way Russians sometimes pronounced it. The correct Russian pronunciation, he said, was Al-YEH-khin, explaining that the name was derived from that of a tree (‘alyesha’) that grew abundantly near one of his family’s estates. ‘Al-YOH-khin’, he claimed, was a Yiddish distortion of his name, like Trotsky for Troitsky...> http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kmoch...

With this in mind, we have changed his pronunciation again, to

Al-YEKH-in

Round 1 on Sunday, with Aronian, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Mamedyarov, Nakamura, Grischuk, Karjakin, Shirov, Gelfand etc

Part of a previous post of mine from August 22nd 2008 on this very forum:

<I hope the following extract from the forward of 'Tal's 100 Best Games' by Bernard Cafferty may shed a little light on this issue.

"In Capablanca's book 'My Chess Career' the name Alekhine ( a French version ) is written Aljechin ( a German version ) which gives the English speaking reader a better idea of its correct pronunciation. The English version would be Alyekhin, but here again decades of tradition are too strong to be ignored. There is, moreover, the complication that the champion himself pronounced the stressed middle syllable as 'ye' whereas nearly all Russians pronounce it as 'yo' ( a sort of Smythe/Smith distinction! )".

On the Topalov vs Carlsen, 2009 gamepage, when you click 'find similar games' the important game Shirov vs Carlsen, 2009 doesn't appear.

Just curious as to why?

No doubt because the games have a different move order

Topalov-Carlsen: 13.0-0 0-0 14.c4 f5
Shirov-Carlsen: 13.c4 f5 14.0-0 0-0

If instead you play through the variation in the Opening Explorer you are guaranteed to find all games, including transpositions. (In fact, the Opening Explorer will even find games which contain the same position with the colors reversed! That phenomenon, however, is quite rare.)