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| Sep-18-09 |
| kackhander: <There ought to be some new talent pushing through by this time, but where is it?> working in the city? |
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| Sep-18-09 |
| jamesmaskell: David Howell, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane are the upcoming talents. Howell is the new British Champion and I recall Gawain Jones won three tournaments in a row earlier this year. McShane did well in the Staunton memorial in his comeback tournament. There is talent. |
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Sep-18-09
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| pawn to QB4: Yes. There's also Stephen Gordon, Stewart Haslinger - both terrific young GMs - and a few years down the track howsabout Brandon Clarke or Felix Ynojosa? The latter is 13 and has a rating of 224 in our system: I recall playing Nigel Short when he was only a little younger than that, and he was 205, 208 or 213, I forget exactly. Essentially, if you're saying it's significant that Adams and Short have been on top for 15 years, you're saying that you'd expect the country to have produced more people around 2720 in that time. That's rather a big ask: I don't know if we ever did that regularly. |
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Sep-18-09
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| HeMateMe: Just wondering, how young was Mick when he played in his first British Championship? Someone mentioned on Nigel Short's page that Nige was just 12 in his first national championship. That seems hard to believe, is it true? Fischer was 14 (and he actually won) in his first US championship. Outside of Short being age 12, has anyone, say, age 14 or 15 been asked to compete in the Brit National Championship? |
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| Sep-20-09 |
| Cibator: Yep - Jonathan Mestel competed in 1972, aged 15. Scored 6.5/11. |
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| Sep-25-09 |
| jamesmaskell: Lets not forget here that chess isnt treated like a sport in the UK in the same way as it is in other countries. A lot of former Soviet countries have chess as a bona fide sport as part of the curriculum. In Britain its not treated in a similar way as football, rugby, or athletics. Its still effectively just a board game with no serious physical aspect to it to allow it to be treated as a sport. Of course any chessplayer who's played a long stamina draining game will argue different, but those who make the calls in the UK sport-wise arent likely to change their minds very quickly. |
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Sep-29-09
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| whatthefat: Matthew Sadler was another great talent who quit the game. |
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Sep-29-09
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| HeMateMe: <Lets not forget here that chess isnt treated like a sport in the UK in the same way as it is in other countries.> I don't think it's a sport, although many professionals like to think so. The physical element just isn't there. Nor is chess an art, because there are too many fundamental rules and principles that must be followed to play successfully. What Van Gogh did and what Fischer did have not much relation. Chess, for most of us, is a game, a board game, with varying skill levels which increase the intensity on hand and make the margins of victory slimmer. Chess at the professional level is an intellectual exercise contested by people with unusual spatial thinking ability. Chess for most others in entertainment, in lieu of watching 'American Idol'. |
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Sep-29-09
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| whatthefat: Well, sport is nothing but a form of entertainment as well, so in that sense I think chess fits the definition. Of course, in the end it just comes down to semantics. |
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Nov-17-09
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| pulsar: Happy birthday, GM Michael Adams! |
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| Nov-17-09 |
| sonia91: Happy birthday! |
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| Dec-02-09 |
| KamikazeAttack: Are the days of Adams as a SGM over?
He hasn't shown any improvement or progress for a few years now, in fact he is declining. |
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Dec-02-09
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| Shams: if you define SGM as 2700+, the answer is yes. I think if you define it otherwise the answer is also yes... In his heyday, there weren't very many players you wanted to be black against less than Adams. When Kasparov gives you a flattering nickname for your chess style, you know you've arrived. |
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| Dec-02-09 |
| returnoftheking: I guess they thought the same about Short a couple of years ago. Just wait.. |
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Dec-02-09
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| SetNoEscapeOn: I think anybody that's ever been #3 in the world is a SGM. He also has one of the best records of any player against Kramnik. |
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| Dec-08-09 |
| Whitehat1963: Hard for me to believe Adams has beaten Kramnik in four of their last five decisive games at classical time controls. Impressive. Who else can make that claim? |
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| Dec-14-09 |
| thewolf: Tough day for Adams could of won but played really well. Generally has had a solid tournament and seems to be getting some of his old form back. |
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| Jan-17-10 |
| thewolf: Great win by Adams today at 4NCL he was black against Bacrot which should push him nearer the 2700 mark. |
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Feb-03-10
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| SetNoEscapeOn: <Whitehat1963: Hard for me to believe Adams has beaten Kramnik in four of their last five decisive games at classical time controls. Impressive. Who else can make that claim?> At this moment, Anand can. But it is of course a very rare situation. |
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| Feb-04-10 |
| Schwartz: Winner of Gibraltar 2010! Any thoughts on Vallejo's choice of the French Defence against him? |
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Feb-04-10
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| HeMateMe: Maybe with Adams v. Kramnik, its a counter puncher vs a counterpuncher? The one who isn't used to taking the initiative can sometimes lose? |
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| Feb-04-10 |
| thewolf: Adams played really well in the final.Great to see him winning tournaments again. |
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Feb-04-10
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| swordfish: Congratulations to Adams for his victory at Gibraltar. |
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| Feb-04-10 |
| jasso: When looking the game with computer I got a feeling that Vallejo was quite nervous during the first game. All in all Adams played very good chess in both games. |
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| Feb-05-10 |
| Everett: <Schwartz> I don't think the French was an ideal choice, but Vallejo probably did some homework in the Tarrasch line, and felt that he would get his kind of game. |
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