Jan-26-25 Short vs Kasparov, 1986
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| The Rocket: <At one point in my life I had a plus score against Gary Kasparov. It did not last long>
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Jan-22-25 Adam Celander
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| The Rocket: Adam C - Deep Fritz 10.1 8 CPU 2025-01-20
120'/40 HP Inc.
255MB, Fritz11.ctg, LAPTOP-BND3KU10 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.e3 Bb4 6.Bd3 Ne4 7.Qc2 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 f5 9.0–0 0–0 10.Nd2 Nxd2 11.Bxd2 Qh4 12.f3 d6 13.e4 fxe4 14.fxe4 Nd7 15.Rae1 Rae8 16.Be3 Nf6 17.Bf2 Qg5 ... |
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Jan-20-25 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1960 
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| The Rocket: Incredibly, Botvinnik lost his winning advantage after 30.. gxh4?? What usually happens when strong players make obviously weak moves is that they calculate the wrong principal line, that justify their doubled edged move. In other words overthinking.... Botvinnik had a very nice ... |
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Jan-14-25 Paul Morphy
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| The Rocket: <So 209 remaining games> the math doesnt add upp to me. Chessgames have been in error before, especially time controls for head to head stats. It claims Shirov has beaten Karpov in classical chess. He has not. |
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Jan-13-25 Anatoly Karpov
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| The Rocket: Karpov had a big influence on me learning the game, but the truth is that his level of play vs Korchnoi was far below that of Fischer. Have a look at Karpovs black openings and how they match up to Fisher. It¨s a dream opponent. Kasparov wouldnt beat 70s Fischer either, nor has ... |
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Jan-09-25 Bobby Fischer
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| The Rocket: <Who's going to pay to see you play a match if they don't think you can win it?> There was never much controversy. First of all, Capa was not much of a sportsman. He never had a huge competitive drive and the supposed rematch feud was not what historians made it out to be. ... |
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Jan-08-25 1st American Chess Congress, New York (1857)
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| The Rocket: Any live stream? |
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Aug-04-24 Hikaru Nakamura
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| The Rocket: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 14 to 1, with 28 draws.
Including rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 112 to 58, with 142 draws.
Only rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 98 to 57, with 114 draws. |
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Jun-01-24 12th Norway Chess (2024)
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| The Rocket: You can always count on Alireza to lose an endgame, no matter how dry. He can just play Rb7 and carlsen has NOthing.
Maybe he wanted to play for a win. |
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Apr-20-24 World Championship Candidates (2024)
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| The Rocket: "Nakamura will become world champion when we all retire" /Kramnik
Maybe he was on to something |
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