May-24-05 Stein vs Smyslov, 1972 
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| AlaskanAmber: <Paul Lovric><soberknight> Franklin's version of the aphorism is this: "Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly." |
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May-19-05 Magnus Carlsen
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| AlaskanAmber: <Ted Zeppelin>: Chessmetrics doesn't have Fischer reaching the top ten until after Mar del Plata in 1960. He had only just cracked the top fifty by the end of 1957. |
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May-19-05 K Hamppe vs A Schwarz, 1873
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| AlaskanAmber: <Paul Lovric>: Clearly you have not seen the movie Spaceballs, which is the origin of this deliberately cheesy pun. |
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May-18-05 Raymond Keene
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| AlaskanAmber: <Ray Keene>: Sir, I am sure you have received numerous letters of gratitude from fans of Sammy Reshevsky after Garry Kasparov acknowledged your influence in his decision to include Reshevsky in MGP Part IV. It speaks much for Kasparov's wisdom that he let himself be ... |
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May-17-05 MTel Masters (2005)
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| AlaskanAmber: I also second the above post by <arielbekarov>. The day I presume to degrade the abilities or judgment of a player rated (at least) a thousand points higher than me, I hope somebody will come along and slap some sense into my feeble brain. This is why you will search in ... |
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May-11-05 Pawel Jaracz
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| AlaskanAmber: He's a 29-year-old Pole whose best performance to date was a tie for 3rd place in the Polish championship in 2000. Chessmetrics also credits him with a 2606 performance rating for a tournament at Swidnica in 1999, where he finished 2nd. |
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May-10-05 J MacDonald vs N Davies, 2004
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| AlaskanAmber: Thanks, tpstar. I need to do a better job of tuning out the white noise. For every dubious poster here, there are several mature, thoughtful, well-adjusted folks, and I (as well as my game) have benefitted from their wisdom. |
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Apr-28-05 Robert James Fischer
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| AlaskanAmber: As for some Americans professing not to care about the opinion of various other parts of the world, it is hard for me to fault that mindset when a creature like Fidel Castro gets a standing ovation at the U.N. (And I'm sure every other slimy Marxist tyrant of the past half ... |
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Apr-20-05 Portisch vs Petrosian, 1967
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| AlaskanAmber: Perhaps the word our friend sought was "unfathomable". But since my IQ is a bit lower than 155 - well, probably quite a bit - what do I know? If I'm not mistaken, Ms Kosteniuk turns 21 in three days. How many of today's super GMs were still hovering at or slightly below 2500 at |
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Apr-07-05 Chessgames - Beer
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| AlaskanAmber: Best beer in the States, by an amazing coincidence, happens to be my name. Black Butte Porter is a close second. And I am celebrating my very first post - with a bottle of good Moldovan brandy. |
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