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| May-11-06 | | whatthefat: <SHY16889>
PLEASe NEVEr POSt AGAIn |
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| May-12-06 | | CapablancaFan: <shy16889><HE IS NO GOOD> Did you post that just to get a reaction? Lol. |
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| May-17-06 | | notyetagm: In the book "The World's Greatest Chess Games" by Nunn, Burgess, and Emms, the famous "weak back rank" game E Z Adams vs Carlos Torre, 1920 is annotated by Burgess. After 20 ♕c4-c7!!, Burgess writes:
<As Nunn puts it, "It is especially attractive that the queen slides cheekily along the black rook's line of attack."> And after the final brilliant move 23 ♕c7xb7!!, Burgess writes: <John Nunn wrote that he was particularly impressed by this combination as a young player: "This combination had a profound effect on me. It suddenly seemed that chess was worth all the blunders and lost games, if only one could produce such a beautiful and profound combination."> Anyone know where Dr. Nunn made these comments about E Z Adams vs Carlos Torre, 1920? Thanks. |
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| Aug-20-06 | | NakoSonorense: Cool picture. I can do that with my eyes if I really, really want to. |
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| Sep-30-06 | | ahmadov: <It is hard to avoid the impression that Topalov’s team realised that it would be an uphill struggle to win two games from eight (and against a player who went 15 games without loss against Garry Kasparov!) and decided to launch a psychological attack.>
Excellently observed by John Nunn. Another piece of clever expression of the situation in Elista.
Obviously, every neutral GM believes that Kramnik is right in this dispute. |
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| Sep-30-06 | | Karpova: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
This article is really worth reading! |
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| Sep-30-06 | | Fluffy: That article is a masterpiece. Good job. |
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| Oct-08-06 | | Alekhinelover: <It is hard to avoid the impression that Topalov’s team realised that it would be an uphill struggle to win two games from eight (and against a player who went 15 games without loss against Garry Kasparov!)...> John Nunn simply doesn't know the strength of Topalov since Nunn has never beaten Kasparov. |
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| Nov-16-06 | | Thrajin: <pawntificator: The camera certainly caught him at an excellent moment. That facial expression was probably part of his psychological arsenal to perturb his opponents.> That's one of the funniest things I've ever read.
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| Dec-25-06 | | vonKrolock: from Chessbase X-mas Puzzle contest <“I saw an amazing mate at the club last night.” “Really? What was the position?”
“I can’t remember too much about it, as I was concentrating on my own game, but I do recall that there were only four pieces on the board, including the kings.” “Can’t you remember anything else at all?”
“Only that White’s mating move was playing his knight from c6 to d8.”> (if You 'catch' this, keep in secret ;-) and send opportunelly to http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/ind... |
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| Jan-01-07 | | dazone3: Alas! My ego is the better part of me, and I must post the solution I found to Nunn's Dec. 31st chessbase puzzle. 1.g4 h5
2.♗g2 hxg4
3.♗xb7! ♖xh2!
4.♘h3! ♗xb7
5.0-0! ♖h1# |
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| Jan-22-07 | | positionalgenius: Is this man playchess' <marathon man>? |
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Jan-22-07
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| Jan-22-07 | | positionalgenius: <jointhearmy>then who is Marathon man? |
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| Jan-22-07 | | technical draw: Nunn of the above..hahahahah!! |
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| Jan-22-07 | | Milo: 
click for larger view"mate" indeed |
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| Jan-22-07 | | Milo: The actual solution is (from the cb website): 
click for larger view1.Nd8#
But I like mine better. |
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| Feb-19-07 | | Confuse: funny quote today =)
I am constantly astonished at how often tournament organisers invite noted draw specialists to their event, and then throw up their hands in horror at the number of quick draws that ensue. |
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| Feb-19-07 | | gauer: If I were trying to solve such a problem, I might additionally require in a tournament that only a maximum of k non-integer points be used for calculating an n round tournament, per player, for awarding of prizes only (and score subsequent 1/2-integer points as zeroes). For actually calculating the rating performance, all the draws would still be used, at their original point value. An example would be: player A draws player B in round 3 after A has already gone 2 for 2 in getting previous half-point scores, of any type. B has a win and a loss. After round 3 of 5 total, A would still have 2 out of 3 for prize and cross-table pairing calculation for subsequent rounds, but be rated at 2.5 of 3, so far. B would receive a score of 2.5 for both the cross-table and rating calculation. If the max k value of the tournament was k=2 draws, B could afford to still receive another 1/2 point at full value. Not sure how the formula would work for 1/2-point byes, but at least it would get more swash-buckling chess happening, since tournament leaders would have to try to win to take a prize, but excess draws would not jam the FIDE rating calculations. |
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| Apr-25-07 | | vonKrolock: Turning 52 today, cheers! - Curious, that every English GM is called also 'Dennis' or 'David' |
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| Apr-25-07 | | Tomlinsky: <Curious, that every English GM is called also 'Dennis' or 'David'> It's funny you should mention that. I was wondering why all US GM's seem to have Russian sounding names? :) |
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| Jun-09-07 | | rgr459: This guy is my favorite grandmaster. He's got some stones. |
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| Sep-19-07 | | notyetagm: Dr. John Nunn has a new book coming out in January called "Grandmaster Secrets: Winning Quickly At Chess" (http://gambitbooks.com/books/GMSWin...).
It is an expanded update to his earlier "101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures", which was published in 1999 and ended with Ivanchuk's stupendous Black victory over Topalov from Linares 1999 (Topalov vs Ivanchuk, 1999). What brilliant miniatures, defined as a mate or resignation by move 25, do the cg.com readers think should be added? <That is, what are the most brilliant GM miniatures since Linares 1999?> My first guess is this stupendous Sutovsky win: Sutovsky vs Smirin, 2002. |
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| Sep-19-07 | | KingG: <notyetagm> What about Van Wely vs Acs, 2002 ? |
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| Sep-19-07 | | notyetagm: <KingG: <notyetagm> What about Van Wely vs Acs, 2002 ?> That's a good pick. I remember that game. Not often that you see a 2670-rated player lose in less than 20 moves, and with White(!) no less. |
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