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Apr-10-24 World Championship Candidates (Women) (2024)    BUNA: <Teyss: ... I wonder what's behind the scenes. Do the players just arrive and instinctively understand one doesn't want to shake hands and the other agrees?> I guess meanwhile everyone knows, that ukrainian players are NOT ALLOWED to shake hands with their russian counterparts. ...      Aug-10-23 Minasian vs O Nikolenko, 1991   BUNA: <I've no idea what he was thinking with 34...Qf7. When this move, played in a USSR Championship!, hit the newspaper the readers were stunned, the trains stopped running and questions were asked in the Politburo. One month after this game was played the USSR dissolved.> No more ...      Apr-14-23 Nepomniachtchi - Ding World Championship Match (2023)    BUNA: Anatoli Karpov missed a similarly simple tactic as reigning champion in game 11 of his second match against Kasparov: [DIAGRAM] 23. Qxd7 Rxd7 24. Re8+ Kh7 25. Bxe4+ g6 26. Rxd7 So what?      Jul-05-22 World Championship Candidates (2022)    BUNA: < Atterdag: <fabelhaft: ... Russian state media is already writing about Norwegians being <obnoxious> in relation to the possibility of Carlsen-Nepo II. > It would be highly surprising if they didn't let the world chess championship become a part of their intimidating ...      Mar-11-20 World Championship Candidates (2020/21)    BUNA: The Romanovs were executed on the 16th of July of 1918 on the orders of the regional Ural soviet (council) when a unit of about 8000 soldiers of the Czechoslovak Legion was on the verge of taking Yekaterinburg. The council issued a statement. Originally the soviet gouvernment had plans      Feb-07-20 Alexander Alekhine    BUNA: < OrangeTulip: My bet is that Alekhine’ death was orchestrated by Stalin because of his friendship with Nazi butchers as Frank. The Sovjest-Union has some track record with these kind of finishing business.> You could have at least read cg.com's bio of Alekhine: "In 1946 within      Jan-20-20 Ju - Goryachkina Women's World Championship Match (2020)    BUNA: <moronovich: If someone doesn´tknow how a positional blunder looks,then see Goryachkinas 24.b4 ??> Without b4 the engine might evaluate Goryachkina's position as "better", but white has simply no way to penetrate. If white doesn't play b4 she might as well agree to a draw. Of ...      Jan-13-20 Tata Steel Masters (2020)    BUNA: <Sokrates: Yes to the first, a big question mark to second. True, the Soviet Chess propaganda machine in pre-WW2 claimed they were almost a succession to the chess school of Chigorin.> "Chess propaganda machine". And still you probably think of yourself as an non-ideological ...      Dec-28-19 Alireza Firouzja    BUNA: <fisayo123: Good for him. That was the right decision. Nobody wants to be told who and who not to play.> The olympic teams of West Germany, the USA, France, the UK et al. didn't take part in the 1980 Olympiade in Moscow because they were told so by their governments. Some ...      Dec-19-19 Grand Prix Jerusalem (2019)    BUNA: Now Nepo doesn't even have to win the final to get the second GP spot for the Candidates. If he wins one more classical game (and still loses the final) he'll have as many GP points as MVL (16 points) but will have the better first tiebreak, as he won one of the Grand Prix events.      Nov-29-19 Vladimir Petrov     Nov-13-19 Grand Prix Hamburg (2019)     Nov-05-19 Magnus Carlsen     Oct-21-19 Isle of Man Grand Swiss (2019)     Oct-09-19 Smyslov - Botvinnik World Championship Rematch (1958)     Sep-29-19 World Cup (2019)     Sep-29-19 Yakov Rokhlin    Sep-17-19 Tarrasch vs Vogel, 1910    Sep-14-19 D Yuffa vs McShane, 2019     Aug-31-19 Geller vs Fischer, 1970     Aug-21-19 Russian Championship Superfinal (2019)     Aug-13-19 Botvinnik vs B Larsen, 1970     Jul-31-19 GCT Paris Rapid & Blitz (2019)     Jul-26-19 Botvinnik - Flohr (1933)    Jul-21-19 Efim Geller     Jul-17-19 Grischuk vs Vitiugov, 2019     Jul-13-19 Igors Rausis     Jul-05-19 GCT Croatia (2019)     Jun-26-19 Evgeny Zagoryansky     Jun-22-19 David Bronstein     Jun-15-19 FIDE Candidates (Women) (2019)     Jun-10-19 Kateryna Lagno     May-26-19 Karpov - 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