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ModernPhilidor

@modernphilidor

2200+ USCF
2200+ FIDE
Software Engineer and Chess Coach
Hobbies: poker, fantasy sports, NBA, NFL, Succession fan

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calendar_today03-10-2017 07:04:22

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A cool clip from my yesterday's NBL cage match against Kameron Tolliver (12.5-8.5). James Canty's commentary is awesome. Objectively, none of these sacrifices work and Black is completely winning but hey many of Tal's sacs didn't work at all either :) clips.twitch.tv/VainAuspicious…

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"Computers cannot play chess at all, and they will never be able to, at least not for the next two thousand years or so, for that would take a technology that is still far beyond the horizon ... ." GM Johannes Donner, 1981

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"Surviving the Halloween Gambit" by John Chernoff. Quite fascinating stuff. Going to try this thing with White in some bullet games, White is just pressing all over the place with pawns, not easy to defend this on short time control. chessable.com/surviving-the-…

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My company placed 2nd out of 44 in the largest chess corporate league! Individually, I scored 13/18, ranking 3rd out of 558 players! Beat a 2646 GM, 2390 NM, and drew a 2467 IM. Mostly mediocre play, but saved bad positions. Check out the details: bit.ly/42S57qd

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This post is completely unsolicited, and it consists of my own thoughts. I was going to post it anyway, but… twishort.com/hPtoc