Jun-09-04 FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004) 
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| matein8: <square dance> Ok fine, I'll accept your argument that Kramnik was never WC. That's my last on the subject. |
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Jun-09-04 Kibitzer's Café
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| matein8: <drukenknight> I have it on CD and my opinion is that it's excellent. |
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Jun-09-04 Polgar vs L B Hansen, 1989
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| matein8: I believe 33.Qh7+ also works. |
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Jun-09-04 K Hamppe vs Steinitz, 1859
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| matein8: <jrsoohoo> This site ( http://www.geocities.com/aiccf/aug0... ) says: "Chess Miniature is commonly accepted as a game that is won in 25 moves or less. Soltis uses the standard of 20 moves or less. Chernev says that 24 moves is the limit. But this is not a universally accepted ... |
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May-15-04 Magnus Carlsen
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| matein8: <awfulhangover> Thanks for posting the link. I don't understand Norwegian but I enjoyed the clips, nonetheless. The quality of the news video is very impressive. |
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May-08-04 Ruslan Ponomariov
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| matein8: I agree with DrStrangelove; Ponomariov would not have all the problems he has now if he had simply played Kasparov last year. I also like the idea of a supertournament to decide the WC. It would be much better than the farce that is going on now. |
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Apr-30-04 Gipslis vs V Dinstuhl, 1996
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| matein8: If I was helpful to anyone, I'm glad. These puzzles are here to be enjoyed by people of varying levels of skills and I think it's stupid for anyone to set up benchmarks on them. |
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Apr-30-04 Garry Kasparov
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| matein8: <Phoenix> My guess is that it's all part of Libya trying to clean up its international image. FIDE is not very organized; it offered the bid for the tourney only a few months ago. But at least now the tourney will not have to be held in two countries. But man, that Qadaffi is ... |
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Apr-25-04 Schlechter vs J Mieses, 1909
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| matein8: Ahh, I noticed a typo in my first line, it should be 25. QxN, not QxR. <euripides> I'm not sure that your Q-sac works. In your line above: 26...Rxd1 27. QxRd1. |
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Apr-22-04 Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999
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| matein8: <Benjamin> This game was played at Wijk aan Zee 1999, not Linares. |
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