Dec-03-23 Kenneth Rogoff 
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| HeMateMe: They don't have to be rich wazir. You can get a job at Ford and make $80k/yr on the assembly line. You can get a two year tech degree and make $120k/yr at Boeing. Any kid from any background can do that much. It just takes motivation. Bill Gates put it very well. He said "you have ... |
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Dec-03-23 M A Tabatabaei vs McShane, 2023
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| HeMateMe: Black chose a good time to resign. |
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Dec-03-23 London Chess Classic (2023)
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| HeMateMe: The game's afoot!
I'm old enough to remember having to read about these events in Chess Life a month or so after they were played. They would show perhaps three games, lightly annotated. Maybe a game or two might show up in Robert Byrne's chess column in the NYTs or the Andy ... |
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Dec-03-23 Niemann vs R Zelcic, 2023
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| HeMateMe: Underpromote at 39! White to win. |
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Dec-03-23 I Sokolov vs A Brkic, 2023
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| HeMateMe: White's pawns were confused. |
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Dec-03-23 Tournament of Peace (2023)
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| HeMateMe: Did this event have players from Bosnia or Yugoslavia? Montenegro? |
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Dec-03-23 Magnus Carlsen
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| HeMateMe: Who is Marion tinsley? |
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Dec-03-23 Kibitzer's Café
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| HeMateMe: Fabrizio was responsible for killing young Michael Corleone's bride in Sicily. He planted a bomb in her car. Years later, the same guy immigrated to America and owned a Restaurant in upstate NY, in Buffalo < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNE... > |
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Dec-03-23 Jeremy Lim
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| HeMateMe: Fascinating article in SI this month (yes, my favorite weekly magazine has become a monthly) about the NFL. this story discusses the ARMY of specialists on the the NFL sideline: Nutritionist, Secondary coach, equipment manager, <Sleep> manager [honest!] , Microsoft tablets ... |
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Dec-01-23 Carlsen vs Beliavsky, 2006
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Kibitzing
