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You called it Ken! - and what a win! and now Bator gets to play the Shak!Comment
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A good day for Canadians - Shawn and Nikolay also won.Comment
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hello .. what tourney are you following and how to watch it ,,, thanksComment
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hello ..... got it thanks !Comment
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Uhh ..... so for those of us, like me, who aren't as adept as Raymond at tracking things down on the net, what tournament are you talking about?"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De QuinceyComment
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Thank you, Victor.Originally posted by Victor Plotkin View Post"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De QuinceyComment
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Great to see Casablanca and Morocco hosting this important, strong event, and Canadians both doing well, and having a strong role in organizing it!!!!
I'll permit myself a little historical interlude joke on the city's name. Casablanca is both the title of a 1942 movie (one of the greatest of all time, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, with a chess scene, no less!), AND the location of a 1943 meeting during World War II, involving President Roosevelt of the USA and Prime Minister Churchill of the United Kingdom. The Allies had successfully landed nearby to Casablanca, only a few months before this meeting. In the Spanish language, 'Casablanca' means, literally, 'White House'. The Germans had intercepted the Allied message fixing the location of this leaders' meeting ('Casablanca'), and believed it meant 'The White House', in Washington!!!Comment
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