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Dec-12-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    marcwordsmith: I was rooting for Gukesh in the match but I feel deflated and sad at the way this has ended. Big respect to both players though. And congratulations to Gukesh, who has shown a great deal of heart. And what a classy person to thank his opponent in that respectful and thorough ...      Dec-09-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    marcwordsmith: very artful game ... Ding built up his advantage so gradually ... no major blunders like Gukesh I don't think      Dec-08-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024    marcwordsmith: actually, my spidey sense says Ding has this under control      Dec-04-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    marcwordsmith: I like Gukesh quite a lot. I like how he presents himself and how graceful he is, and he seems mature beyond his years. I was very impressed when, during the Candidates' tournament, after losing a game in time pressure to Firouzja -- one that he'd actually been winning -- he ...      Dec-03-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024    marcwordsmith: Well, at this rate, it looks like this will be a rapid game very soon, and then I guess all bets are off. As it is, the evaluation bar is swinging dramatically with every move.      Sep-06-22 Sinquefield Cup (2022)    marcwordsmith: By the way, does anyone know, is it true that Niemann was kicked off chess.com for cheating online or is that just an unsubstantiated rumor? If it's true, I'd love to be directed to the evidence. As for his interviews, I find his supercilious self-satisfied smile and his ...      Dec-05-21 Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi, 2021    marcwordsmith: umm ... this may seem like a simplistic and silly question but ... here goes. Does Nepo maybe have ideas of castling queenside and going for an all-out primitive kingside attack?      Jun-16-18 Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994    marcwordsmith: oops. :-)      Mar-14-18 Kramnik vs Caruana, 2018    marcwordsmith: thanks <Marmot PFL>, thanks <Mateo>, thanks everyone who has answered or will answer my patzer-like inquiry! :-) Those one-move combinations really throw me.      Jul-24-17 Vachier-Lagrave vs Y Wang, 2006   marcwordsmith: absent his last blunderful move, was Wang Yue on the ropes?

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