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| Feb-15-13 | | Strongest Force: Watching Kamsky play is always a great pleasure. All he needs to do is spread his troops over the board and let them march towards the familiar endgame advantage. |
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Feb-15-13
 | | HeMateMe: The section that Kamsky won was G30? |
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| Feb-15-13 | | Eyal: So the 8 players who qualified from the 2nd, knockout stage are Kamsky, Korobov, Le, Eljanov, Mamedov, Sjugirov, Dmitry Frolyanov & Aleksandr Shimanov. They'll be joined tomorrow for the final stage by Grischuk, Svidler, Andreikin, Karjakin, Nepomniachtchi, Wang Hao, Mamedyarov & Karpov. |
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| Feb-15-13 | | PhilFeeley: I don't like rapid or blitz tournaments. They are unwatchable, and too many errors occur for the games to be interesting. It's no wonder <CG.com> doesn't want us to upload any games from these events if they don't have them. The sponsors' comments about the classical format being "boring, miserable and useless", is just mindless drivel. No true fan would ever say that. |
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| Feb-16-13 | | FadeThePublic: Rapid and Blitz is fun, why not have more? It takes less time and there can be more tournaments, of course the chess isnt as great but its still skill and technique. More chess is better. |
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| Feb-16-13 | | BUNA: < PhilFeeley: I don't like rapid or blitz tournaments. They are unwatchable, and too many errors occur for the games to be interesting.> I guess after this game even Grischuk would have agreed with you. Nepomniachtchi - Grischuk
1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. h3 Bxf3 5. Qxf3 Nf6 6. d4 e6 7. Bd3 dxe4 8. Nxe4 Qxd4 9. c3 Qd8 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Rd1 Qc8 12. Qg3 Nxe4 13. Bxe4 Nf6 14. Bf3 g6 15. Bg5 Be7 16. Qe5 and black resigned. 
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| Feb-16-13 | | Strongest Force: Kamsky is in the final 8 now. Some of the biggest elite-dawgs are there. It will be dawg eat dawg...just like NYC. :) |
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| Feb-16-13 | | Strongest Force: Svidler is s monster player who doesn't take prisoners. He is 1:0 against Nepo at start of semis. |
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| Feb-16-13 | | Strongest Force: Make that: quarter-finals. I hope its Pete and Gata in final. |
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| Feb-16-13 | | Strongest Force: Kamsky goes to final 4 with another smooth-as-silk performance! |
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Feb-16-13
 | | chessgames.com: We're starting to get the Aeroflot Rapid Finals (2013) games in now; sorry for the delay. |
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| Feb-16-13 | | Refused: To edit my previous Comment.
Chessgames. You should disable the standings for the Raipd Finals though, since that is a knock out format. |
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| Feb-17-13 | | Refused: And Final between Grischuk and Karjakin goes into the tie breaks. |
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| Feb-17-13 | | Refused: Congratulations to GM Karjakin for winning the Armageddon Game in the Final against GM Grischuk. |
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| Feb-17-13 | | whiteshark: as former world champion < Alexander Khalifman > mused: < Do the sponsors really understand the difference between 1.5 hours game and 20 minutes game <?>>> Enjoy the backgrounds... http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.de/2... |
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| Feb-17-13 | | Refused: OFC it's not the Aero Flot we all enjoyed as the strongest open tournament. And I want the old one back. Yet, the change was somehow to expected after the Moscow Open came into being. It was chess political decission to replace a traditional international open tournament with a Russian one. On a seperate note.
Whiteshark or anybody else. Do you happen to know, how the qualifier for Dortmund works now. With the old Aero Flot, the winner fought his way into Dortmund, but I don't think that is working with the Rapid Tournament. At least I hope not. Though, two of the favorites made it to the final. |
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| Feb-17-13 | | Eyal: <the change was somehow to expected after the Moscow Open came into being.> Well, the Moscow Open takes place since 2005... In the last 8 years there didn't seem to be a problem in holding both classical open tournaments (always in very close termporal proximity). Aeroflot always used to be the somewhat stronger and more international of the two. |
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| Feb-17-13 | | Refused: <Eyal: <the change was somehow to expected after the Moscow Open came into being.> Well, the Moscow Open takes place since 2005... In the last 8 years there didn't seem to be a problem in holding both classical open tournaments (always in very close termporal proximity). Aeroflot always used to be the somewhat stronger and more international of the two.> True, but they added up size, with the festival and bigger prize fund. But like I said, imho that change is wanted chess politics wise. |
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| Feb-17-13 | | whiteshark: <Refused> I haven't heard anything on the (new) qualifier yet. 41st Sparkassen Chess-Meeting will be helt from 25.7. bis 4.8. 2013, so they'll release the info hopefully in due time. |
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Feb-18-13
| | HeMateMe: everytime I see those butt-ugly sponsor patches on Karjarkan's shirts, I think of that movie <The Hunger Games>. He kind of looks like he could be one of the contestants, and one of the audience sponsors sort of put a brand on him, his horse in the big race. |
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Feb-19-13
| | HeMateMe: The aeroflot website mentions this is the "90th anniversary of Aeroflot." Hmm...So Aeroflot was a passenger airline as early as 1923? This seems a bit early. There couldn't have been a whole lot of room in the second seat of a wooden Spad. However, I'm sure most flights were delayed or late and the food was lousy or non-existant, thus beginning a great tradition in the airline business. |
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Feb-19-13
 | | keypusher: <HeMateMe> If only the internet could be harnessed as a reference tool, allowing us rapid access to historical data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot |
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Feb-19-13
| | HeMateMe: <k> You don't feel that most of their planes were shot down in dog fights on the eastern front? Maybe the Bolshevik peace treaty of 1917 saved the airline. |
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| Mar-01-13 | | sami sherriff: kamsky is a Genuis!!!!! |
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Mar-06-20
 | | Tabanus: http://portablegamenotation.com/, ChessBase and 365Chess also have 143 games. If more games are available, please add them here ;) |
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