Aug-20-20 M Kovacs vs Savon, 1965
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| Knightcarver: According to Olimpbase, White was Laszlo Kovacs. |
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Jul-12-20 S Hmadi vs Adianto, 1986
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| Knightcarver: At olimpbase.org, neither of these players participated in the Dubai Olympiad. |
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May-02-20 Magnus Carlsen Invitational (2020) 
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| Knightcarver: <dehanne> I would prefer Trent and Gustafsson were gone. Svidler is a good commentator, but many of these other guys are simply clowns. |
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Apr-03-20 Efimov vs Bronstein, 1941
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| Knightcarver: According to Bronstein's book, "200 Open Games," this was played in a simultaneous, and the name of the opponent unknown. |
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Feb-05-20 Schuster vs C Carls, 1914
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| Knightcarver: Based on vital statistics in Gaige's "Chess Biobibliography," it was most likely Karsten Schuster, but not the same Karsten Schuster playing today. I have seen this game credited to "Theo Schuster," but he was only 2 years old at that time. |
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Jan-21-20 Firouzja vs Carlsen, 2020
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| Knightcarver: 14 d5 is the new move, 14 b4 the usual move, but no game references after 2010 according to the chess365 database. |
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Dec-31-19 Denker vs D MacMurray, 1932
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| Knightcarver: This game is also in Denker's book, "If You Must Play Chess," with the 1932 date. |
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Aug-28-19 Ding Liren vs Mamedyarov, 2019
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| Knightcarver: Tie breaks are Thursday, although in the 2018 Sinquefield the players chose to split the top prizes equally. |
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Aug-25-19 Richard Taylor chessforum
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| Knightcarver: Richard, I am sorry, you don't know how to properly nest parentheses, so many of your comments make no sense. Please check your syntax so the rest of us may appreciate your intelligent comments. Like you I am an older player and my brain is getting slower, but I am sincere in ... |
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Aug-24-19 Ding Liren vs Anand, 2019
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| Knightcarver: The players are following two games played by Boris Gelfand in 1997, both of his opponents played 11 . . . Qe7 and both were drawn. |
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