Sep-30-09 Nanjing Women's FIDE Grand Prix (2009) 
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| volvak: <flhoosier: wonder why yifan hou isn't playing in this tournament?> check the www.fide.com website and there you will find the schedule. |
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May-17-09 Julian Hardinge
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| volvak: <when new labour disembowelled the house of lords a few years ago. > So what does it feel like working for someone who has supported "new labour"? |
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May-14-09 M-Tel Masters (2009)
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| volvak: He came joint last in Corus, he came joint first in Linares & came way down the table in Amber. This kind of fluctuation is perfectly normal for him. |
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May-14-09 Ivanchuk vs Shirov, 2009
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| volvak: 3.Bb5+ is such a chicken move. I love it when the Moscow Variation gets killed. Bravo Shirov. |
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May-08-09 Hikaru Nakamura
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| volvak: <Theo would regularly battle all day for stakes with a Chinese fellow we called "Doctor Wu" (I'm not sure if he was really a Doctor, or that was just his nickname)> oh yeah i remember "the doc". I wonder if Nakamura will end up like one of those bums. |
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May-02-09 Queen's Gambit Declined (D35)
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| volvak: sometimes I play ne2 to prepare for an eventual f3 and e4. this also allows for the dsb to slip back to f2 to support d4 |
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Mar-31-09 Luke McShane
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| volvak: <why didnt mcshane play in the olympiad?> luke is a coward
<Come back, McShane! Come back!> fat chance. he is a spineless twerp who couldn't handle the pressure of top-level chess. |
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Mar-31-09 Vladimir Kramnik
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| volvak: <And, in point of fact, he seems to be the most talked about player on this site. . . .> ...and all for the right reasons, amen.
Anyway he is not the most talked about, that would be the young neanderthal from Norway |
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Mar-28-09 Leko vs Kramnik, 2009
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| volvak: quote from Drawmnik
<....There was a point when I considered offering a draw, but...’> old habits die hard. |
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Mar-24-09 G Gasparov
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