Apr-30-24 Keymer vs W Ju, 2024 
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| Refused: My guess is, that Keymer completely missed 29...Ng5 was a move. And it unfortunately not only covers h7, but it also attacks the Queen on e4. |
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Apr-29-24 Kenneth Rogoff
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| Refused: Oh Moscow Morty, if I need your opinion I'll ask Magarita Simonyan. It's always better to go the source material directly and cut out the middle man. |
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Apr-28-24 World Championship Candidates (2024)
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| Refused: < nok: The great Pono owns these records!
Pity the Pono-Kasparov match didn't materialize, I think w/ his solid Berlins he could have stumped Gary.> I don't think so. Kramnik managed to bring Kasparov down with his solid openings, but Kramnik was a much better player than ... |
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Apr-27-24 V Vepkhvishvili vs Sikovsky, 1992
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| Refused: Just wanted to express my appreciation of that pun. Most puns here are not great, but that one is excellent. Kudos to whoever came up with it. |
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Apr-26-24 Caruana vs Nepomniachtchi, 2024
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| Refused: Nakamura's prowess in quicker games was quite frankly irrelevant for Gukesh. Any scenario involving tie breaks with Nakamura on shortened time controls, didn't include Gukesh. Yes, Caruana, is not quite as good with shorter time as he is in classical chess (which doesn't mean he is ... |
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Apr-25-24 M de Wild Propitius vs G Knecht, 2011
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| Refused: 84.Rh2!! makes perfect sense when you think about it. I doubt Doc Knecht saw this resource for white. Anyway, the point is, you really want to avoid Kxg3 after 84...Ra2+ and 84.Rh2 is the only move that accomplishes that. Anyway, after 84...Rxg3+ (what else?) 85.Kf1 (Kh1 feels wrong |
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Apr-14-24 Bologan vs J Ye, 2000
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| Refused: The idea is not that difficult to see.
30.Rxf6 gxf6 31.Bd4!! is the point. after that the attack/positions plays out by itself. |
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Apr-11-24 Nakamura vs Nepomniachtchi, 2024
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| Refused: Curious, Thought Nepo had hired Gusti as his second. Usually when you bring him, it means you will play 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 as black (with the Marshall as the center piece of your black repertoire). So him still sticking with the Petroff was/is kinda surprising to me. |
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Apr-11-24 J Kleiman vs Robson, 2006
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| Refused: 42...Qxa7+! 43.Qxa7 Rxa7+ 44.Rxa7 g3 45.Kb2 g3 46.Ra1 f4 47.Rg1 f3 -+ was the position you had to foresee. Fairly straight forward and not that difficult imo |
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Apr-10-24 D Gukesh vs Nakamura, 2024
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| Refused: I think 16...a5 was necessary.
if black had't put pressure on the white queen side right away, Gukesh might have gone on to increase his presence there with a4, Ba3 b5 etc. |
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