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| Oct-31-10 | | turbo231: <rifraf: There is a case to be made that the best players in the world in blitz, rapid, and classical time controls are Nakamura, Ivanchuck, and Carlsen, respectively. Wouldn't that be odd?> I hear that Carlsen wants revenge on that blitz match that he lost to Naka. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | percyblakeney: <There is a case to be made that the best players in the world in blitz, rapid, and classical time controls are Nakamura, Ivanchuck, and Carlsen, respectively. Wouldn't that be odd?> Carlsen can't be far from being first in all disciplines already as a teenager. He shared first in Amber rapid (and Amber overall) with Ivanchuk, won in Kristiansund after beating Anand in the final, and won the latest World blitz championship with a big margin. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | jrlepage: <rifraf: There is a case to be made that the best players in the world in blitz, rapid, and classical time controls are Nakamura, Ivanchuck, and Carlsen, respectively. Wouldn't that be odd?> Not at all. Altough, just for the fun of it, I would qualify your statement a bit. Blitz with Nakamura and Carlsen, Rapid with Anand and Ivanchuk and Classical with... well, how about Anand, Carlsen and Kramnik? I don't think there's a clear first in any format yet. Maybe Nakamura in 1-min bullet... |
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| Oct-31-10 | | rifraf: <percyblakeney: Carlsen can't be far from being first in all disciplines already as a teenager.> I don't disagree. I just find it surprising that the best player in each time control might in fact be different. I've heard people talk about fast vs. deep computation, and that makes some sense, but maybe each player has his/her own 'optimal computation depth' :) |
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| Oct-31-10 | | nigelsnoru: <lack of> I'll assume this was an error. Note to Mr. Nakamura: If you don't like it, then change YOUR behavior, and we'll change ours. |
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Oct-31-10
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| Oct-31-10 | | Davolni: Good games by Naka, but I guess not good enough to pass over Chucky!!! congrats to both of them for 1st and 2nd places.
I wonder why Aronian has been kind of quiet lately in Rapid tournaments.
He seemed to be pretty good at Rapid chess!
Not enough invitations or too much concentration on classical perhaps. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | turbo231: Wait a minute Naka had a better record going into the finals. Why did chucky get white first? That's a big advantage. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | Blunderdome: <Why did chucky get white first? That's a big advantage.> Well, no, it isn't. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | rifraf: <turbo231: Wait a minute Naka had a better record going into the finals. Why did chucky get white first? That's a big advantage.> No idea. Here is the google translation of what seems to be the relevant portion of the webpage (http://www.capechecs.com/trophee_cc...) <Knockout stages
Pour chaque phase un tirage au sort de la couleur se fera dés que possible pour le 1° match, puis alternance des couleurs pour les matches suivants. For each phase a lot of color will be as soon as possible for the 1st game, then alternating colors for the following matches.> Hmm... that doesn't seem quite right. Does anyone speak french? |
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| Oct-31-10 | | percyblakeney: How did Nakamura have a better record going into the final if Ivanchuk scored 4-0 in quarter and semi? |
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| Oct-31-10 | | turbo231: <percyblakeney: How did Nakamura have a better record going into the final if Ivanchuk scored 4-0 in quarter and semi?> Excellent point. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | bartonlaos: <That's a big advantage> Nakamura implied that the advantage to the lesser player is to play with black first. If he can hold the draw the second game is easier with white. Click on the video titled: "Quarter Finals, Nakamura beats Hammer..." see his interview about 4:30. http://blip.tv/play/hcp1jbN_me0I |
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| Oct-31-10 | | siamesedream: Naka: <I blundered and Ivanchuk deserved to win. However, the spectators openly rooted against me and some booed. Disappointing.> http://twitter.com/GMHikaru |
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| Oct-31-10 | | Kazzak: Well, they drew for white at each stage of the finals. That's why in the first Naka-Hammer game they had different colors from what had been announced in advance - which confused people following the games until it was corrected. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | turbo231: <siamesedream: Naka: I blundered> Lately Naka has been saying that a little too much. I hope he works it out. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | BobCrisp: <Naka: <I blundered and Ivanchuk deserved to win. However, the spectators openly rooted against me and some booed. Disappointing.>> Racists. Leave them to their Freedom Fries. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | jrlepage: <rifraf: Knockout stages
Pour chaque phase un tirage au sort de la couleur se fera dés que possible pour le 1° match, puis alternance des couleurs pour les matches suivants.For each phase a lot of color will be as soon as possible for the 1st game, then alternating colors for the following matches.> Hmm... that doesn't seem quite right. Does anyone speak french?> I do speak French. And the translation is about right. Although a more accurate translation would read: <For each stage a random draw will determine sides for each player as soon as possible for the first game. Players will then alternate sides for the following games.> |
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| Oct-31-10 | | jrlepage: <BobCrisp: <Naka: <I blundered and Ivanchuk deserved to win. However, the spectators openly rooted against me and some booed. Disappointing.>>
Racists. Leave them to their Freedom Fries.> How about an appointment with your family doctor to check your medicine? |
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Oct-31-10
 | | Appaz: <the spectators openly rooted against me and some booed. Disappointing.> They where probably just joking, you know, a little trash-talk. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | BobCrisp: It's well known that the French have an aversion to fat, opinionated, badly dressed Americans. As fat, opinionated, badly dressed Frenchmen are not exactly in short-supply, I think it's just anti-Americanism, in general. And that's racism. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | JuliusCaesar: I had no idea Americans were a race. You learn something new every day. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | jrlepage: Thanks <BobCrisp> for insisting. That's what I thought. |
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Oct-31-10
 | | alexmagnus: Well, if he keeps tweets in his usual manner he should not be wondering some people openly root against him... LOL |
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| Oct-31-10 | | BobCrisp: Racism is a catch-all term for every form of discrimination. Disliking a flavour of yoghurt differs only from lynching a black man by matter of degree. |
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