Oct-31-13 S Williams vs The World, 2013 
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| Pawnage: If the perfect is the enemy of the good, and evil is also the enemy of good, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then I suppose I am morally obligated to support evil. 14...a5 to keep it in the running. Happy Halloween! |
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Jun-21-13 Tal Memorial (2013)
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| Pawnage: kingscrusher: Modus pwnens, modus trollens. |
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May-13-13 Chigorin vs Davydow, 1874
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| Pawnage: Spent a minute on this thinking it was Sunday. Once I noticed it was Monday I found Na6+ in half a second. |
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Apr-06-13 Tukmakov vs E Magerramov, 1983
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| Pawnage: <chrisowen> seems to have entered his Finnegans Wake era. |
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Mar-26-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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| Pawnage: I'm surprised I've never heard the hypothesis (whether reasonable or not) that Carlsen is hoarding theoretical novelties in standard openings, to be used when needed at later important times in what is likely to be a long chess career. |
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Dec-09-10 M Dziuba vs V Onischuk, 2008
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| Pawnage: <Phony Benoni> No, Bxg2 is clearer here, too. ;) |
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Nov-28-10 The World vs N Pogonina, 2010
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| Pawnage: I looked at Stockfish's code earlier today. It's pathetic as a piece of narrow artificial intelligence; some kludges hacked together. If someone has a high IQ and some decent machine learning knowledge et cetera they could probably write the best chess engine in the world within the |
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Jun-19-10 King's Tournament (2010)
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| Pawnage: Just a quick analysis. Considerations in favor of modern masters being more innately (genetically or developmentally but not influenced by chess culture) talented: Flynn effect (which might have large effects on the far tails of the distribution where one would find the top chess ... |
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Feb-02-10 Magnus Carlsen
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| Pawnage: Tangentially related to Carlsen discussion: is there any real support for a GM-Rybka match, odds or no? |
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Jan-27-10 Corus Group A (2010)
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| Pawnage: Hm, it looks like Corus this year will have an exciting sprint at the end. |
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