Jul-29-21 Shankland vs Karjakin, 2021 
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| yiotta: He-could-go-all-the-way, as they say in football (not soccer). |
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Jul-18-21 I Cheparinov vs R Svane, 2021
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| yiotta: Follow Chess shows the additional moves 55...Rxd2 56.h8=Q Rd6+ 57.Kg5 Rd5+ 58.f5 Rd8 59.Qxd8 1-0 Both flags must have been hanging. |
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Jul-17-21 World Cup (2021)
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| yiotta: <offramp: There are 8 byes in a bi.> ...and they're all competing in women's weightlifting |
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Jul-16-21 Atousa Pourkashiyan
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| yiotta: The Mar-13-06 post has a link with a really good photo of Atousa Pourkashiyan. It would be nice if it was posted on her bio. |
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Apr-07-21 S G Lebedev vs Korchnoi, 1955
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| yiotta: White has no defence for the threat Qg4 mate! |
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Jan-28-21 Kenneth Rogoff
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| yiotta: <George Wallace>Well said. Hannah Arendt wrote:"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." The nonsense that has been written, the ... |
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Jan-28-21 A Pourkashiyan vs F Al-Jelda, 2010
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| yiotta: I thought this was Carlsen, with all the finessing. She's a dangerous player. Boom! |
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Dec-31-20 Airthings Masters (2020/21)
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| yiotta: Well. at least I didn't lose a bundle of chessbucks on Carlsen. |
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Dec-16-20 Borin Topic
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| yiotta: <perfidious: Who are the ten greatest players ever?>
oh, I like that one... |
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Dec-10-20 Chiburdanidze vs Dvoirys, 1980
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| yiotta: Dvoirys was a Sicilian specialist and theoretician who was known to hit his head when he lost. I'm a little surprised he survived this beautiful beatdown. |
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