Jul-01-25 USSR Absolute Championship (1941) 
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| Petrosianic: <FSR>: <A shameful episode. Botvinnik had only tied for 5th-6th in the USSR Championship (1940), two points between the joint winners Lilienthal and Bondarevsky. A humiliating result for him. Also very inconvenient, since Botvinnik wanted to challenge Alekhine to a ... |
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Jul-01-25 Botvinnik vs Euwe, 1948
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| Petrosianic: <perfidious>: <He is far from alone.> He was ahead of his time! He'd find a lot more takers now that Kramnik has gone mad. But the one day CK was here was about the time of the San Luis Tournament, so I assumed that had something to do with his motivation. It's hard ... |
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Jul-01-25 Christopher Yoo
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| Petrosianic: Yeah, they did kind of Slow-Boat-to-China it, but at least it did finally arrive. |
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Jun-27-25 Rashid Nezhmetdinov
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| Petrosianic: Nezhmetdinov was an IM, but the bio doesn't mention this. |
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Jun-25-25 Fischer vs Fine, 1963
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| Petrosianic: <Some call me Tim>: <To those who are amazed at Fine's patzerhood in this game: according to Fine (in his book on the 1972 Fischer-Spassky match) they played many games that day and Fine won most, calling Fischer at that point (World Champion qualifier twice by the age ... |
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Jun-20-25 Fred Reinfeld
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| Petrosianic: Anybody ever wonder what Fred Reinfeld's rating was? The only rating I've ever seen for him appeared on USCF's first ever rating list, a list which was unique in listing "Inactive" players. This list put Fred at #6 in the US. 2817 Reuben Fine
2770 Sammy Reshevsky
2610 ... |
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Jun-17-25 USSR Championship (1951)
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| Petrosianic: <ughaibu>the "absolute championship" doesn't appear to be a Soviet championship.> It wasn't. It was just a candidates tournament to determine once and for all which Soviet player had the right to challenge Alekhine, regardless of who the Soviet Champion might be when ... |
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Jun-11-25 Biographer Bistro
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| Petrosianic: The oldest chess program I could lay my hands on just by going through my files is one called Psion Chess, from 1985. I also have a zip file labeled Chessmaster 3000, but when I try to install it in Dosbox, it says to insert Disk 1 in Drive C, which can't be right. As I remember |
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Jun-05-25 D Gukesh vs Carlsen, 2025
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| Petrosianic: <stone free or die: I certainly agree they can be misused, and that using them wisely takes a measure of humility.> And that's the problem. In a public forum people don't use it as a learning tool, they use it to show off and pretend they spotted mistakes themselves, even ... |
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Jun-03-25 Robert J Fischer
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| Petrosianic: <Check It Out: This is not who you think it is.> It's exactly who I think it is. |
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