Jun-16-22 Tal vs B Dudley, 1964 
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| AylerKupp: <Sally Simpson> I've not heard from AylerKupp for ages. I hope he is OK.> I just saw this today and since you expressed some concern I want to assure you that, yes, I'm OK. I just finally got fed up with all the trolls and I decided that I was no longer going to bother to |
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Apr-18-21 World Championship Candidates (2020/21)
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| AylerKupp: <<beatgiant> Please, to my forum for the further discussion. This is much too detailed and off topic for this page.> I'm sorry, but how does a discussion of the fairness of selecting a participant in the Candidates Tournament via average rating, a procedure which is ... |
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Apr-17-21 beatgiant chessforum
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| AylerKupp: <beatgiant> Well, FWIW, I defined what I mean by "fairness" above and, while not perfect, I think that it's at least reasonable. And while "fairness" means that, on the <average>, White and Black will <most likely> each win 50% of the time, for any given game or ... |
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Apr-14-21 G Loar vs B Men, 1992
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| AylerKupp: <<Affects153> Is Nigel Short User: An Englishman ? No, Nigel Short's user forum is: User: nigel short . You can find out by guessing (I did) what his user name might be (duh, "Nigel Short"). Then click on your user name in any of your posts and you will be sent to your ... |
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Apr-09-21 Kupchik vs Capablanca, 1926
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| AylerKupp: <nevetsjy> Sure, but aren't atrocious puns the best? |
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Apr-07-21 Reshevsky vs Fischer, 1961
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| AylerKupp: <<harrylime> In ten years time I will look back at my post just now and go silly all over it xxx> Why is it going to take you ten years? You should be able to look at it now and go silly all over it. |
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Apr-06-21 J Sherwin vs Fischer, 1957
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| AylerKupp: <<keypusher> Is there a firmly established boundary between classical and rapid?> Appendix A of FIDE's Laws of Chess effective since Jan-01-2018 ( https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.... ) defines the range of time controls for a Rapid game of chess: "A.1 A ‘Rapid ... |
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Apr-02-21 Robert James Fischer
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| AylerKupp: <Joshka> Here's another little known example of Evil Media and Hidden Agenda collaborations. Fischer did not make any demands that the format for his 1975 defense of the WCC title be changed! He was perfectly happy with the 24-game, draws counting format. After all, he won ... |
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Mar-29-21 Shamkovich vs Spassky, 1961
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| AylerKupp: <I like ya cut g> FWIW in the final position White mates in 19 moves with best play by both sides per the Lomonosov tablebases. It's also a win for White after 59.Kxe3, White mates in 23. |
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Mar-27-21 AylerKupp chessforum
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| AylerKupp: <Helios727> Sorry, but I don't know. What I typically do when I run analyses using Arena is to copy the analysis lines to a Word document once I either reach a reasonable depth or I exhaust my patience, usually the latter. Then, after I have captured the game in a Word ... |
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