Oct-23-05 Moshe Czerniak 
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Darklight: <A tremendously dogged player> He certainly started his international career against strong opponents: Alekhine, Capablanca, Keres, Najdorf.... |
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Sep-24-05 Anatoly Karpov 
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Darklight: According to chessbase, he's willing to challenge Fischer. |
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Jul-23-05 Alexander McDonnell 
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Darklight: Is his last name "MacDonnell" or "McDonnell?" If I'm not mistaken, one spelling is Irish and the other is Scottish. |
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Jul-14-05 Fischer vs W Harris, 1958 
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Darklight: His name is backwards here. Walter Harris was one of the first African American chess masters. |
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Jul-05-05 Allies 
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Darklight: <Can someone explain in clear terms what does the player named "Allies" represent?>
a team of players |
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Jul-03-05 Lasker vs Capablanca, 1921 
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Darklight: < Does anyone have his best endgame, with annotation?> I can't say which one is the best, but here are some that I know of on this site: J S Morrison vs Capablanca, 1922
Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924
Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1927 . "Refutor" has compiled this ... |
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Jul-02-05 Kramnik - Leko Classical World Championship Match (2004) 
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Darklight: <Because they simply didn't have them.> That is my point. Since the subject of computer analysis was hot at the time of my previous post, I just thought that I would share my feeling that I admired players of the pre-computer days more than today's because they had to do all |
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Jul-02-05 Alexander Alekhine 
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Darklight: <iBanesto> Right now, Rustam Kasimdzhanov is the FIDE World Champion, and Vladimir Kramnik is the "Classical" World Champion. Garry Kasparov , one of the greatest players of all time, is ranked number one in the world and has been for about 20 years, but he lost the title of |
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Jun-29-05 Mac Hack VI vs Fischer, 1977 
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Darklight: Fischer did play a 3-game match against this computer in 1977 and won all three games. |
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Jun-18-05 Hydra vs A Nickel, 2004 
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Darklight: <chessgames.com> You may want to consider arranging Hydra's games by version---according to their website, http://www.hydrachess.com/ , there are four versions of the Hydra computer: Hydra Orthus, Hydra Chimera, Hydra Scylla (which Michael Adams is scheduled to play against ... |
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