Apr-14-04 Petrov Defense (C42) 
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| electricknight: "What big counter-punch?"
The one coming to White if he dare plays this unsound gambit Black
should immediatly punish white for playing this with a devestating
response just like a Boxer who takes care of buisness when the
guy he's fighting doesnt come to the table with ... |
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Apr-05-04 King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense (C36)
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| electricknight: If you do the research you shouldn't
have any problems killing off the
Kings Gambit just study the theory
it's all there. |
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Apr-05-04 Nick de Firmian
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| electricknight: De Firmian was an IM in 1979 he was a Grandmaster in 1985....United States Champion 1987,1998,1995. |
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Apr-02-04 Alexandre Lesiege
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| electricknight: Charbonneau will be the next Gm :)
How do Players do it with the
expenses and all I mean hotel fees
travel fare the expenses of making
ends meet to survive? and still
have the energy to concentrate on
Chess? Do all these top Players
have sponsors or deep ... |
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Mar-30-04 Pascal Charbonneau
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| electricknight: Do you guys remember a Master
named Hamilton from Ontario? He had
a reputation as a real scrapper. It's
been so long since I've followed CFC
news no clue who is the top dog
anymore. |
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Mar-29-04 Alexandra Kosteniuk
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| electricknight: "C'mon you guys, of course she's hot! She's the Anna Kournikova of chess! And I don't think it's a bad thing to put some sex appeal into chess" So what? her looks are totally irrelivant the only thing that
matters is to respect her for her skills and playing abuility as a ... |
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Mar-28-04 Seirawan vs A Bisguier, 1975
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| electricknight: Everett:
It's Robert Byrne I have a book of his called ny times great chess victories and defeats he included this game on page 191.
Someone said Yasser Seirawan was 15 when he played this game
Byrnes book says he was actually 14. |
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Mar-27-04 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1913
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| electricknight: "Fischer would not have survived the match against Karpov and definitely not Kasparov. There is no way to know for certain what the outcome would be of a match between a younger Fischer circa 1966-70 fully prepared with todays theory would perform against say a Younger ... |
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Mar-27-04 David Janowski
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| electricknight: "His contemporaries often exploited this weakness."
EM Lasker remarked that he thought Janowski was a just positional Player gone wrong he crushed him in a match with a score of 8-3 in 1910. This
guy was extremely stubborn he
would press so hard in the wrong
direction ... |
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Mar-27-04 Vera Menchik
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| electricknight: Do people know if, and how long, Menchik was Womens WC? She won the Womens World Championship
when she was 21 years old in July 1927
in London perfect score 5.0 and
remained undefeated champion until she was killed during a bombing raid
June 26th 1944.
You asked who ... |
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