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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 12:19 PM
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Vishy Anand retains world chess crown
Hey, this is big news.

Your self-appointed DU chess editor and his impressive staff have the story in the sports forum.
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 12:59 PM
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1. Topalov blew this game big time.
Was following this on chessbomb site. Looked like a draw and then Topa made a major league blunder on move 32.
I'm an amateur at chess and even I wouldn't play that boner.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 01:22 PM
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2. The move was pretty bad
I was following on ChessGames, where Nigel Short had an interesting observation:

One or two people have been calling 32.fxe4 a blunder, but the whole point is that Topalov doesn't seem to have sensed what was coming either then or on the previous moves. Without calculation it ought to have been clear that the king was not safe on h3, but in this era of computers no one cares about general principles any more...
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:49 PM
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3. Shouldn't this be in the Sports Forum?? ...
Nevermind, Chess is not a sport.

:D

J/K
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:48 PM
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4. LOL
On the unenlightened say that. I'll bet most of them think the DH is good for baseball.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 05:47 PM
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5. That would be the other Frisco Fan in the Sports Forum!!
BTW, I loved your rant about the DH, "quiche-eaters"!!

I wish I could have recced that post!
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 06:30 PM
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6. 2 million euros prize fund is not bad for 'a game'.
:hi:
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