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Magnus Carlsen on The Simpsons

Magnus Carlsen on The Simpsons

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Here is the link

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Link is created by using tags like so, but with brackets instead of parenthesis:
(youtube Hey look, Magnus Carlsen was on the Simpsons!)EZiPeqXKC3Y(/youtube)

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I like Danish subtitles.

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Thanks big dog, I forgot you could do that on the forum.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
Here is the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiPeqXKC3Y
So did he win?🙂

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I do not want to spoil it for you, you will have to see the whole show.

I caught a glimpse of demo board set up in Mo's I am going to see
if they used a real game.

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😵

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Part of the board is obscured by spectators. This is what I could make out:

MC says 'take the knight' in the position below



Subsequently, the board looks like this:


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Originally posted by greenpawn34
Here is the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiPeqXKC3Y
Mr. Carlsen is a fantastic player. He deserves better in America than The Simpsons, sadly America thinks one need not be smart if one can blow up the world. America needs more chess players and fewer "patriots" 😞

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Originally posted by mchill
Mr. Carlsen is a fantastic player. He deserves better in America than The Simpsons, sadly America thinks one need not be smart if one can blow up the world. America needs more chess players and fewer "patriots" 😞
Such sweeping generalizations belong in the appropriately-named general forum, not here.

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Originally posted by Paul Leggett
Such sweeping generalizations belong in the appropriately-named general forum, not here.
Just keeping it real, Paul. Just keeping it real.

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Originally posted by mchill
Mr. Carlsen is a fantastic player. He deserves better in America than The Simpsons, sadly America thinks one need not be smart if one can blow up the world. America needs more chess players and fewer "patriots" 😞
You shouldn't bag on the Simpsons -- they are modern day prophets. They predicted Donald Trump becoming prez.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
I do not want to spoil it for you, you will have to see the whole show.

I caught a glimpse of demo board set up in Mo's I am going to see
if they used a real game.
Hi GP,
Seems to be Botvinnik-Tartakover, Nottingham 1936.

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Thanks Tommovich I had forgotten all about that.

This link from the Australian Chess Newsletter confirms the game.

http://us12.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9dbd09164491bd3b5116f2b71&id=e4d43cdee6

and here is better clip of the game from The Simpsons

http://us12.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9dbd09164491bd3b5116f2b71&id=e4d43cdee6

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I keep forgetting I can make it a workable link.

this is a better and longer clip of the chess sequence.
but I cannot get the link to work. It's a facebook thing.

https://www.facebook.com/britishchessmagazine/videos/vb.247357068618238/1410978742256059/?type=2&theater