Feb-14-22 Averbakh vs Y Neishtadt, 1938
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norami: Game played 84 years ago and both players are still alive! |
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Dec-10-21 Magnus Carlsen 
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norami: Magnus needs to defend his title twice more to break the record held by Lasker and Kasparov. However he is in the same situation as Karpov was after winning the 1981 WC match. About the same age - Karpov was 30, Magnus just turned 31 - but in both cases there was, or is, an 18 year ... |
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Nov-26-21 E Grinberg vs A Zlatin, 2019
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norami: They played this opening line in game one of the WC match. |
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Nov-20-21 Alireza Firouzja 
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norami: Up until now, the five greatest 18 year old players have been, in chronological order, Fischer, Kasparov, Kramnik, Ponomariov and Carlson. Firouzja has joined them. Of the first five, two continued to improve and became champion for a long time, two stagnated for awhile but ... |
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Oct-22-20 Moises Garcia Nevarez
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norami: How come whenever I lose a game in 13 moves, I don’t become the highest rated player ever? |
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Sep-12-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020) 
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norami: Black is ahead 13 wins to 6 with 11 draws. |
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Aug-29-20 Wolfgang Uhlmann 
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norami: <Benzol> Averbakh rather than Schmid. |
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Aug-18-20 Grischuk vs Aronian, 2020
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norami: Even simple looking endgames can be tricky, even for top players. Black throws away the win on move 89, White returns the favor on move 92. |
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Jul-22-20 Legends of Chess (2020) 
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norami: Topalov should also be playing. |
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Jul-12-20 K Morrissey vs V Odhavji, 2004
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norami: If a knight on the rim is grim, how about both knights? |
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