Sep-15-14 | | PhilFeeley: It's not like Kamsky to miss such an elementary tactic. Is he having a bad year? |
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Sep-15-14 | | paavoh: I saw a comment on 2700chess that is could have been a game by someone else. Any truth in that? |
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Sep-15-14 | | SirRuthless: I wouldn't doubt this is Gata. He has been beyond out of form of late. |
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Sep-16-14 | | Monoceros: Commenter Thomas at Dennis Monokroussos's blog also suggests that there was a transmission error: '"Kamsky" had already been worse before the blunder, but I am 99% sure it wasn't Kamsky. The result of Ladya - Werder Bremen was 0.5-5.5 (more upsets) according to the live transmission, but 5.5-0.5 according to the official results. What probably happened: board 1 in the live transmission was actually board 6, board 2 was board 5 and so on. Additional circumstantial evidence: I know FM Olaf Steffens and I know he plays 1.b4 - he played board 4, in the live transmission it was played on board 3.' |
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Sep-20-14
 | | HeMateMe: Maybe he has lost interest in chess? |
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Sep-22-14 | | whiteshark: <Monoceros> Olaf Stefens confirms the <live transmission error story> in his blog: "Werder Bremen, die offizielle Vertretung der norddeutschen Tiefebene, startete mit einem satten 5,5 - 0,5 gegen das russische Team von Ladya Kasan in den Wettbewerb, und surprise!, IM Gerlef Meins, das erste Werder-Brett, besiegte den Super-Großmeister Gata Kamsky! Wir waren selber sehr beeindruckt von unserem schönen Erfolg, doch schade, schade, am Abend schon erfuhren wir, dass alles nur ein Übertragungsfehler im Netz gewesen war, alle Partien und Bretter bei uns falsch zugeordnet wurden in unserer ersten Runde, und wir tatsächlich hoch mit 0,5 - 5,5 untergegangen waren. Bedauerlich, doch wir versuchten, damit zu leben. Als Werderaner und Fußballfreunde gehen wir durch die Erfahrungen der letzten Jahre ja bereits professionell mit Niederlagen um, auch mit hohen!" http://www.schach-welt.de/BLOG/blog... |
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Oct-25-24
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See the post by Monoceros above and the Google translation of whiteshark's post: "Werder Bremen, the official representative of the North German Plain, started the competition with a whopping 5.5 - 0.5 against Ladya Kazan's Russian team, and surprise!, IM Gerlef Meins, the first Werder board, defeated the Super -Grandmaster Gata Kamsky We were very impressed by our great success, but what a pity, that evening we found out that it was all just a transmission error in the network, that all the games and boards were assigned incorrectly in our first round, and we actually went down by 0.5 - 5.5. " It looks like this one needs sorting out. |
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