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| Oct-29-10 | | bonniekathosh: Chess960 derived its name from the 960 possible starting positions it has. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | The End: All games today will end up drawn. |
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Oct-29-10
 | | Eyal: There are two different aspects of the game that keep getting confused here - one is the question of whether the game is computer-assisted ("centaur") or not, the other is that of the time controls. "Advanced" chess is centaur chess played in one sitting; that's obviously not the same as what's happening in a game like The World vs. Pogo, where each side has a day or several days to make a move. This aspect of longer time controls is what's usually referred to as "correspondence", even though the term does sound a bit archaic nowadays. And in The World vs. Pogo there's also the aspect of it being a consultation game, played by a large group. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | bonniekathosh: My understanding of correspondence is using a medium of communication. In the case of chess, we use the internet. I dont think it has anything to do with time controls. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | siamesedream: What a blunder!
Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen for defending Nanjing championship title with 1 round to go. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | Magnusch: Rc3???
Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen for defending Nanjing championship title with 1 round to go. (Thanks siamesedream ;) |
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| Oct-29-10 | | siamesedream: Last round will start tomorrow at 10:00 AM local time <4 and a half hours earlier than previous rounds>: Wang - Topalov
Carlsen - Gashimov
Anand -Bacrot. |
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Oct-29-10
| | Eyal: <My understanding of correspondence is using a medium of communication. In the case of chess, we use the internet. I dont think it has anything to do with time controls.> According to this understanding of the term, a bullet game on the internet should be called correspondence - I don't think many people would agree to that. It’s true, though, that originally "correspondence" was directly related to the aspect of communicational medium – hence my earlier comment that the term does sound a bit archaic in this age of the internet. |
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Oct-29-10
 | | Octavia: Carlsen - Topalov 1-0 & the other games drawn. seems he's back on form! |
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Oct-29-10
 | | SetNoEscapeOn: The press conference just ended, Norway has agreed to return Nanjing to the Chinese in 2097. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | jussu: Topalov has Carlsenitis. A very bad case. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | jmi: <jussu: Topalov has Carlsenitis. A very bad case.> He still hasn't gotten over his Ananditis either. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | jussu: Well Topalov plays chess against Anand, while against Carlsen he seems to wait for the first opportunity to blunder. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | Kazzak: Poor Topalov suffers from a perfect confluence of bad Karma.
First of all, he's had to recognize that his delusions are grandeur - losing to Anand in a repeat of their last WCC-game must have been crushing. And then his trick of pulling apparent tactical innovations has been revealed for what it is: intense computer prep. It worked for a while, but it doesn't work anymore, because his opponents know that there's a draw "built into" the apparent innovation. So they look for it, find it, and that frustrates Topalov, who thought they'd fall into the trap, the way they used to.
He needs to fire Cheparinov, whose one-trick-pony this is. And then Topalov sees that Danailov is off to greener pastures, leaving his protegé behind. It's a tough world. |
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Oct-29-10
 | | chancho: What resilience Young Magnus has.
He dropped 11 points at Bilbao and he follows it up with this outstanding result.
Way to go kid!
As for Topalov, well, he's a good player, but his dominant days are well nigh over it seems. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | arnaud1959: Very recently (April 2008) Topalov's rating was suddenly down to 2767. There's nothing unusual with what happened in olympics and in Nanjing. He may play a lot better for WC matches to come. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | frogbert: <He dropped 11 points at Bilbao> nope, 9,2 points. and 15,3 points in the olympiad. so far +11,5 here. |
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Oct-29-10
 | | Richard Taylor: Bacrot did well. |
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Oct-29-10
 | | acirce: <Very recently (April 2008) Topalov's rating was suddenly down to 2767. There's nothing unusual with what happened in olympics and in Nanjing.> Yes, there is.
There was nothing "sudden" about his 2767 rating in April 2008. Check out his history. http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... His only dramatic drop before that was from 2813 to 2783 in January 2007 because of the World Championship match and Essent. And losing to Kramnik (who at the time only had a 2743 rating because of a string of bad results not representative of his strength since his comeback) is nothing remarkable, while his bad result in Essent may have been much due to being exhausted after the match. |
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Oct-29-10
| | Richard Taylor: These tournaments are getting a bit boring with all the same players year after year. I just looked and it seems Topalov made a blunder...
"Humanum est errare." |
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| Oct-29-10 | | frogbert: btw, topalov dropped below grischuk after today's loss. 5th is grischuk's highest rank on the live list so far. he's never been higher than 6th in the official lists either, but that won't change for november regardless of the last round results here, as nanjing <should not> be rated for november - but you never know what fide will do. they included bazna kings when they "shouldn't", so they might do the same now. otherwise <aronian> will be the next world number one with 2804, ahead of anand with 2804, due to the tie-break of most played games. i guess there'll be some angry armenians if nanjing gets rated on the november list... carlsen's opponents in nanjing are current (live) world number 2, 6, 10, 16 and 19 in the world. together with number 1, it's not a weak tournament by any standards. all players are 2728+ atm |
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Oct-29-10
 | | moronovich: About Topalov: I dont know, but he recently got married and that is known to(in general) cost something on the board. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | frogbert: for some reason shanghai doesn't appear in fide's lists of events to be rated for november. why is that? it finished long ago, well before bilbao, for instance. is it some ploy by someone to make aronian world number 1? it doesn't make sense not to rate shanghai. if shanghai is rated, anand will be world number one (again) on the november list. unless nanjing is rated, of course. |
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Oct-29-10
 | | rogge: <unless nanjing is rated> It will be, wait and see. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | frogbert: you've unlocked the secret of how fide works, rogge? :o) |
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