A very good read about chess

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• VB, 21 November 2008, 0.32: pete wrote: According to chessgames.com Anand and Topalov played 7 classical games since 2005 and the score is 4:3 in favor of Topa. Anand won more games but...
• guitarspider, 20 November 2008, 23.50: chessgames.com says: Viswanathan Anand beat Veselin Topalov 23 to 14, with 46 draws (Games from 1993 to 2008). That’s what I meant with plus...
• renzo, 20 November 2008, 23.32: Wat betreft schrijven over bekenden: het leuke aan de schaakwereld is juist dat er stevig kritiek wordt gegeven ook onder bekenden Wat me minder bevalt...
• VB, 20 November 2008, 23.32: I would like to see Anand - Topalov match too.
• hektor, 20 November 2008, 23.16: pete you was write. my last answer was ro guitarspider. in classical chess anand and topalov played more than 40 games and the scores was equal (or 1...
• hektor, 20 November 2008, 23.07: it’s not correct! anand is not plus score against topalov in clasic chess games. to the beginning of 2006 they was = (from 34 games: +8 -8 =18)...
• Jagdish Dube., 20 November 2008, 22.16: Very good video. Impressive too. Thanx.
• pete, 20 November 2008, 21.22: According to chessgames.com Anand and Topalov played 7 classical games since 2005 and the score is 4:3 in favor of Topa. Anand won more games but...
• Christos (Greece), 20 November 2008, 20.01: Great video, thank you. I think Sargissian is about to win a masterpiece today.
• guitarspider, 20 November 2008, 20.01: A match is different than normal games and I don’t believe in Topalov as a match player. Hadn’t Danailov used tricks Topalov...

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