Aug-17-08 Rybka vs Ehlvest, 2007 
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| Ludamad: Playing for a draw given pawn odds, bleh. Ehlvest really must have thought it hopeless to try and win against Rybka. What simply happened here is that Rybka gave itself a negative evaluation due to the pawn odds, and evaluated draw as 0, so it happily took it. If Rybka was told to ... |
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Aug-06-08 F Lee vs A Nimzowitsch, 1907
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| Ludamad: akapovsky: Do you have good reference to a thorough criticism of the book? Basic google searches fail me. |
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Aug-06-08 Botvinnik vs P Sharov, 1929
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| Ludamad: I didn't even notice the possible attack on the distant rook. |
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Aug-05-08 Raymond Keene
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| Ludamad: Ray - it says your 140 books are 'mostly' about chess. What other topics do you like to write about? |
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May-08-06 Queen's Pawn Game (D00)
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| Ludamad: I had a rather strange win in this ECO code. My opponent thought for awhile, missed the obvious defence, decided that he could get away with only the exchange down, and missed an obvious checkmate. [White "AdamD"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3
f5 ... |
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Apr-15-06 Z Kavcic vs M Guid, 2003
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| Ludamad: It seems like White played Nc3 instead of Na3 - makes a lot more sense! |
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Apr-13-06 Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960
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| Ludamad: <LIFE Master AJ>
Can you provide a link? I had trouble finding it. |
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Mar-29-06 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (D59)
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| Ludamad: I meant by percent |
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Mar-17-06 Fischer vs Hort, 1970
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| Ludamad: <a minor earthquake was caused by jaws dropping all over Russia.>
We can only imagine our fate if he played 1. f3. |
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Mar-13-06 A W Whitbread vs Keene, 1962
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| Ludamad: A nice approach against the birds opening.
"U.K. Schools Champion<sihp>"?? |
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