May-18-13 Luke McShane 
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| Intrepid Spiff: Luke, I am your father. |
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May-13-13 Norway Chess (2013)
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| Intrepid Spiff: 33. ...Nf4! and suddenly Carlsen seems to have the upper hand. |
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Mar-09-12 Wesley So
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| Intrepid Spiff: Hi people, I can't find chairman's live rating on www.2700chess.com , is there a problem with the site? Greetings and god bless GM Wesley! |
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Mar-05-12 Keene vs R Calvo Minguez, 1968
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| Intrepid Spiff: <RookFile: Hey, I understand. In a king and pawn vs. King situation, you would promote the winning pawn to a rook instead of a queen. After all, it's a clear win for white, and strong players do not play on a rook down.> Strong players would resign before the promotion ... |
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Jul-04-11 M Mulyar vs Van Wely, 2011
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| Intrepid Spiff: How does a 2400 IM let his queen be trapped like that? |
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May-16-11 R Primavera vs Jansa, 1976
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| Intrepid Spiff: <dzechiel: ...and black goes up a piece and a pawn. Very cute.> Black goes up *two* pieces and a pawn! |
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Feb-04-11 Gibraltar Masters (2011)
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| Intrepid Spiff: <Maatalkko: (...) and first prize on the beautiful island of Gibraltar!> *Island* of Gibraltar? |
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Jan-25-11 Magnus Carlsen
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| Intrepid Spiff: <fixingguru:
2010 London 1. (or 1.-3. some say) >
Not 1-3: just 1. Scoring system was 3-1-0, which, of course, had an impact on each player playing style. It simply does not make sense to mention an hypothetical classification based on a scoring system that would ... |
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Dec-29-10 V Nenarokov vs P Romanovsky, 1927
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| Intrepid Spiff: This would be a great Tuesday puzzle,
48. Black to move? |
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Nov-29-10 Taubenhaus vs D Baird, 1889
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| Intrepid Spiff: 22. ...? would be a nice Tuesday (?) puzzle. |
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