Nov-24-21 Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Match (2021) 
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| Chess for life: Nepo will have White in the first game. Do we know what the colors will be in subsequent games? What's the pattern if it's not simple alternating from one game to the next? In past championships halfway through they switched the pattern so that there would be equal numbers of |
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Nov-21-21 European Team Championship (2021)
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| Chess for life: This has the details: https://www.euroteamchess2021.eu/wp... First tie-break is: "By the sum of Sonneborn–Berger points, which is calculated as follows: match points of each
match, excluding the opponent who scored the lowest number of match points, multiplied by the ... |
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Sep-13-21 A Sandrin vs W Shipman, 1946
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| Chess for life: What time does the puzzle get posted? It used to be midnight USA eastern time. |
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Aug-21-21 Hikaru Nakamura
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| Chess for life: <Eggman: Anyone know why Nakamura isn't playing in the world cup?> Was wondering the same thing myself. He is also not playing in the Sinquefield Cup, even though he played in (and dominated) the GCT Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz (2021) . Perhaps he has decided to focus on ... |
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Oct-20-19 Isle of Man Grand Swiss (2019)
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| Chess for life: Matlakov is really that confident in Carlsen's ability to win a queen vs rook ending? Would have liked to see that technique. |
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Sep-16-19 C Coppola vs B Macias Murillo, 2009
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| Chess for life: There's 10 minutes of my life I'll never see again...Pfff. |
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Aug-29-19 Sinquefield Cup (2019)
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| Chess for life: Chessgames not broadcasting the playoff? |
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Aug-27-19 Karpov vs Salov, 1993
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| Chess for life: All of Black's pieces are useless, there are no threats and no defenses, making this puzzle relatively easy in my opinion. |
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Aug-25-19 Carlsen vs Ding Liren, 2019
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| Chess for life: The winner of this game will win this game. |
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Apr-22-19 Carlsen vs Anand, 2019
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| Chess for life: This might turn into a debate over whether fortresses exist. |
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