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| ranchogrande: <YouRang> And if the contest really should reflect the effort and risk made by the players, one should use the bookmakers odds , IMO .As for e.g.
Anand - Leko the odds would go something like 3.9-1.4-7.8 , were shortly spoken its of much bigger value to hit a Leko than to hit e.g. a draw.As if money were at risk.
Would take a bigger job than the usual way , but would much more reflect , the risk , the effort and the gain instead of just , as many does,draw ,draw,1-0 , draw or something simular.Thx for your reflections upon this subject ! |
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| Nov-14-05 |
| Mameluk: <Bobak Zahmat> If that is the reason, I believe Ivanchuk or Bacrot wouldnīt be playing, too. Rating of Adams is decreasing, ye, I guess there is no risk he wonīt qualify, but he could earn some fine money there etc. Strange that just San Luis players avoided playing in Siberia( change of climate?):) I also mentioned 3! greencoloured names in the list, which I donīt understand at all:) |
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| Nov-15-05 |
| Bobak Zahmat: <Mameluk><If that is the reason, I believe Ivanchuk or Bacrot wouldnīt be playing, too> Maybe, I am honestly curious who will be qualified by their rating besides Leko, Polgar and Adams. I think that Ivanchuk, Bacrot, Aronian, Gelfand, Grischuk, Ponomariov will qualify by World Cup. Hopefully one or two players will surprise us. You could think of Karjakin, Radjabov and Wang Hao. |
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| Nov-16-05 |
| Bobak Zahmat: New saga Topalov vs Kramnik. Veselin Topalov is prepared to play any challenger rating ELO above 2700 if the challenger is willing to fulfill the specific FIDE rules. Read for more: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Nov-17-05 |
| Mameluk: Hmm, now I admit I really didnīt read the regulations well, and I did not see the most ridicoulous part of it. For Candidates matches played in September 2006, they use average rating from July 2004-January 2005!!!!!!!!! So such Aronian has no other chance but to qualify. Wasnīt this cake cooked in San Luis??? To make all the participants loayal to FIDE? I think a decent violent act:) on next FIDE meeting would be just fine. |
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| Nov-29-05 |
| SickedChess: you can download the full report from this tournament here
http://rapidshare.de/files/8329526/...
click in free and wait 20 seconds to download
the games are annotated by GM Shipov
enjoy!
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| Dec-04-05 |
| SickedChess: last call! |
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| Dec-06-05 |
| Bobak Zahmat: A full report is also at www.chesspro.ru |
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| Dec-30-05 |
| ChessVip: Shipovīs report of WCC 2005 was really nice!
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| Jan-05-06 |
| Udit Narayan: This was a great event and Topalov's games were gems! |
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| Feb-13-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: Can't wait for the next World Championship cycle to begin! |
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| Feb-13-06 |
| TylerD: "The next WC"... Is it decided how it is all going to go down?
In this form and shape once again - or in another format?
I ve seen references to "candidate matches" - is this really what is happening?
Grateful for answers! |
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| Feb-13-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: <TylerD> The Candidate Matches will take place at the end of this year. Four players from the Candidate Matches will qualify for the next World Championship. |
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| Oct-06-06 |
| samsal27: <The Candidate Matches will take place at the end of this year.> Not matches. It will be a tournament most likely to decide the four spots. |
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Oct-06-06
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| tpstar: Precedent:
1000 = Beer 2000 = Ale 3000 = Your Page
4000 = Favorite Player
5000 = Favorite Tournament
San Luis 2005 will go down as the AVRO of our times. Eight of the world's elite faced off in a double round robin for the FIDE World Championship. Stakes were high as the title was up for grabs, but also placing in the top four meant an automatic seed into the 2007 cycle. This event was an organizer's dream come true, featuring four exciting, compelling, competitive games every round with few short draws. One disappointment was the conspicuous absence of spectators at the playing site, possibly due to the longstanding disorder in the chess community, compounded by the relatively remote location, and surely affected by Kasparov's recent retirement. Yet the Internet interest was huge, giving a gigantic PR boost to a sport starving for positive press. The sheer success of this tournament format will likely be replicated for future WC cycles, thus starting a new tradition. Game highlights:
Topalov vs Anand, 2005 The Game from 2005 and from San Luis, a thrilling struggle between the eventual Champion and the Runner-Up. The most kibitzed GM game on cg.com with 105 pages of comments to date. Judit Polgar vs Kasimdzhanov, 2005 A wild sacrificial slugfest which finished #2 for 2005's favorites Game Collection: 2005's Greatest Chess Games . Unfortunately, this was Polgar's only win and she ended up in 8th place. Kasimdzhanov vs Anand, 2005 A fine fighting Sicilian with masterful play on the Kingside light squares. I believe this upset affected the overall course of the tournament more than any other game. Morozevich vs Topalov, 2005 The Rorschach Game. Anand vs Adams, 2005 Anand won a Chess Informant Best Game prize for this tremendous win, featuring a fine novelty (later analyzed to a likely draw). Topalov vs Kasimdzhanov, 2005 Exquisite endgame play and a symbolic passing of the torch from the 2004 Champion to the 2005 Champion. Svidler vs Topalov, 2005 Fine preparation by Topalov in an ultra-sharp line, besting the #3 finisher. |
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| Oct-06-06 |
| NakoSonorense: Congratulations on your 5000th post, tpstar! Great choice. |
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| Oct-07-06 |
| samsal27: <tpstar> Great post. Congrats! |
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| Sep-03-07 |
| ViciousMentality: Look at the logo of this tournament...
it looks like the white queen is cheating!!! |
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| Mar-31-08 |
| Cactus: Some of the pictures of this this tourney are pretty funny. If you look in the stands, there's just one of the players friends and maybe a camera man. :P |
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| Jun-27-09 |
| MarvinTsai: 1. Topalov wins almost all the games in the first round.
2. The only one player Topalov drew 2 games with is Anand.
3. In chessgames database Topalov has nearly even score with most of the participants, except Anand. It looks like a perfect journey for Topalov, he really did his best. |
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Jun-27-09
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| percyblakeney: <MarvinTsai> If rapid games are removed Topalov even has a plus score against Anand. Regarding San Luis, a few years back it was often claimed that Topalov's successes in 2005 were caused by inferior cheating controls. For example Bareev said that he knew that Topalov had been cheating systematically for years, and others implied the same thing. But over the last year and a half Topalov has been performing better than he did in 2005. If he was cheating back then he should somehow be cheating even better now in spite of all the improved controls. His Elo performance has been close to 2850 for well over a year, comparable to Kasparov at his peak in that respect. It is impossible to prove that someone (regardless if it is Topalov or Kurnosov or anyone else) has not been cheating at this or that occasion in the past. But if someone relies on systematical cheating to improve, it must be very hard to improve even more when cheating is made impossible. |
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| Jun-27-09 |
| MarvinTsai: First of all I would like to say cheating is still possible. Just recently computers become stronger than human and we are still learning how to cheat and how to detect. Cheating is like magic, after you know the trick, it's nothing, but before that, you are just stunned by the performance. I think sooner or later matches will be held in a electromagnetic-isolated room and the broadcast will be delay for 1 or 2 moves. To me it's like using high speed camera to judge a tennis game. Secondly, yeah, I guess it's quite difficult to analyze games statistically to find the implication. If I want to cheat all the way to the top, I will do 3 things: 1. Find or even research a communication device that is so..... magic(like you see in a movie) 2. Find a reliable computer that whacks nearly every GM on ICC(but no one ever notice that) 3. Randomly use them. Only need a dice to do that. The point is, NEVER try to cheat for a specific move or a specific game or even a specific tournament. But you can see that the problem for the cheater is: it's much more efficient and convenient to cheat at some significant moves and games. So, if someone cheat, the only chance for the chess detective is look at the killer moves. Of course the cheater knows that too, but if someone is greedy and succeeds once, he will only get greedier. However, I don't know if anyone cheat. All I can say is: this is a perfect performance from Topalov. If you want, you may find many subtle "hints" like he loves bishops, he inclines to attack, he is a fine example of Sofia rule, he plays classical game control better than rapid and blitz, he has been able to get even stronger in his early thirties since he got GM norm at 17... but none of above is decisive. In 2009, between Anand's win and Topalov's next great success, everyone can believe what he wants to believe. |
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| Aug-10-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 2009 Topalov-Anand, who wins? |
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| Aug-10-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: <WhiteRook48> No one, because they aren't playing until 2010! Do try to keep up! |
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| HeMateMe: Just realized, looking over the old list of champions, how they got there, that Topalov never actually won a match to be champion. He won a sort of Candidates tournament, kind of like when Alekhine died and they held a tournament in 1948 to crown a new chess champion. This might be Topalov's last chance, the match coming up with Anand. Magnus Carlsen seems to be gaining steam. |
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