Apr-16-13 Sergei Prokofiev
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Xenon Oxide: Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten? They both wrote some good stuff after 1945.
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| | Apr-05-13 Magnus Carlsen 
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Xenon Oxide: I'll go out on a limb and predict a decisive result in Carlsen-Anand in the tournament.
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| | Apr-05-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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Xenon Oxide: <Point taken, but can you imagine any of the greats, Capablanca, Karpov etc leaving themselves less than 10 seconds for the last few moves.> Karpov frequently did.
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| | Apr-05-13 Carlsen vs Svidler, 2013
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Xenon Oxide: <morfishine> Well those principles are so self-evident, you don't need to know anything about chess to know them.
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| | Apr-04-13 Corus Chess Tournament (2005)
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Xenon Oxide: Back in the days Leko was considered ridiculously strong. We could see here he was very willing to play sharp and had a lot more confidence in his play. How the times have changed...
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| | Apr-02-13 Peter Leko
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Xenon Oxide: <perfidious> You're probably right. He hasn't been that active recently. I wonder if he's still working on his chess?
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| | Apr-02-13 Kramnik-Leko World Championship Match (2004)
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Xenon Oxide: Remarkable to remember how Leko was considered one of the strongest and most promising talents. He was phenomenally strong back then. Pity he's never been the same since this match. Seems like he peaked rather early.
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| | Apr-02-13 Vladimir Kramnik
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Xenon Oxide: Kramnik still has a chance in 2015. He won't be THAT old -- at 39 Karpov was still the undisputed world #2.
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| | Mar-31-13 Chessgames Bookie chessforum
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Xenon Oxide: Depending on the standings situation after this round ends, can we have a betting for the final round on "WHO WILL WIN THE TOURNAMENT", with the options being Carlsen or Kramnik (Aronian too if he still has mathematical chance).
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| | Mar-25-13 Boris Gelfand
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Xenon Oxide: Great win Gelfand. Back at even, showing that he can hang with the top guns.
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