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May-08-10
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| acirce: Rooting for him 100% in Astrakhan! |
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| May-08-10 |
| HeMateMe: Leko seems to have been eclipsed by the others. Where is Astrakhan? |
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| May-09-10 |
| Granny O Doul: Astrakhan is on the Caspian. It is where those furry hats come from. |
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| May-09-10 |
| HeMateMe: Then why don't they call it 'Furryhatville'? Why does everything have to be so complicated? Oops, I was slipping into a Jay Leno rant... I love those hats. Aren't they called 'Sabels', named after the Siberian animals they are taken from? |
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May-09-10
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| Bdellovibrio: Rooting for Leko, but not as much as the other Peter... |
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May-10-10
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| acirce: Very easy draw with Black against Wang - that's a good start. Perhaps in that sense he got the best start of them all except for Gashimov. Well, tomorrow is a good time to start winning. |
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May-12-10
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| acirce: Round 2: A win is a win, I guess.. |
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| May-12-10 |
| Don Cossacks: Seems Leko is highly motivated in Astrakhan. |
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May-12-10
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| acirce: Fought hard in vain to win today, but since all the other games were also drawn he's still in shared lead.. |
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May-12-10
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| amadeus: Leko needs to win this tournament* (alone). And even then there are no guarantees that he is going to qualify. Radjabov must finish 4th or worse (shared 3th-5h also works) Yue Wang must finish shared 2th-3th or worse.
(*) as long as he makes 124+ points, other combinations are possible (eg: in a shared win with Gelfand or Mamedyarov), but very unlikely. |
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| May-15-10 |
| Granny O Doul: I just happened to come across this from Bertrand Russell: "Astrakhan seemed to me more like Hell than anything I had ever imagined"--apparently the sewage system was not all it might have been in the immediate post-Revolution years. Perhaps it's better now. |
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| May-23-10 |
| The Rocket: leko is in really in bad shape.. he has only been able to win 1 or 2 games(!) since he lost to carlsen in china... Even in this tournament he won on time in a drawn position!. What on earth has happened to the guy. How can one tournament which he was the leader in(then lost to gelfand in the last round) destroy everything!?. |
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| May-31-10 |
| Mr. Bojangles: Maybe Leko is past it.
I can't see him getting regular top tournament invitations after this year. |
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May-31-10
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| acirce: There's always next time :) He'll show us all in Dortmund... |
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| Jun-04-10 |
| Kain3: <What on earth has happened to the guy. How can one tournament which he was the leader in(then lost to gelfand in the last round) destroy everything!?.> I don't think it has anything to do with that tournament, Leko has been like this for years now, 2005 was the last time he was truly great. Since then he usually finishes tournaments with a +1/-1 score, in the middle of the pack. He's well above the 2600 level (easily crushed Gurevich and Bareev when he had to qualify a few years ago), but amongst the top players he's just average. I beleive he needs some time off, a change in his style, maybe a change of trainer would be a good idea too. Spassky worked with completely different kind of trainers and it helphed him a lot, I beleive it would help Leko too. I still beleive he has enormous talent, more than many of his fellow 2700 GM's. |
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| Jun-04-10 |
| CruyffTurn: <Kain3> I agree, sometimes Lékó seems to have enormous strength, but then at other times... he doesn't! Perhaps he needs to go back to training with Adorján? His technical skills are perhaps second only to Kramnik, I always liked this one: Leko vs F Caruana, 2008 |
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| Jun-05-10 |
| The Rocket: "I don't think it has anything to do with that tournament, Leko has been like this for years now, 2005 was the last time he was truly great." Thats not true... he played brilliant in the olympiad and in this tournament as well up until the last round...
4th FIDE Grand Prix (2009)
The exact same later happened with the jermuk grandprix later... perfect play until the final round were he loses to Gelfand and that seemed to be were it destroyed lekos confidence because since then he has won about 3 games!.... this is not a coincidence.....
FIDE Jermuk Grand Prix (2009)/Peter Leko |
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| Jun-06-10 |
| CruyffTurn: I tend to think Lékó lost a little of his mojo after the match against Kramnik 2004. |
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| Jun-24-10 |
| jrichman38: Sadly so. But I think he can get his mojo back if he tries to play more aggressively. |
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| Jul-25-10 |
| fromoort: He did show us all in Dortmund. |
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| Aug-25-10 |
| Scarecrow: Starting today, Leko will play his usual 8-game rapid match in the Hungarian city of Miskolc, this time against Boris Gelfand. Information and live coverage available at http://www.lekogelfand.hu/eng/ At the opening ceremony yesterday, Leko told the press that after this year's Olympiad, he may take a break from competitional chess (he doesn't know what his next tourmanet will be). |
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Aug-25-10
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| Bobby Fiske: Great news. It's a beautiful arangement. These rapid games are allways entertaining. Games starts 1700 and 1830 local time. Kudos to Leko and the organizers!
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Leko's statement means there will be no tournament next year.
The Dutch organizers of "Veterans vs. Rising Stars" also said this year was the last one.
It's a pitty to see them go away. "Sometimes you don't apreciate things before you lose them..." |
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Aug-25-10
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| Caissanist: If he's going to take a break from organized chess, how is he going to make a living? |
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| Aug-27-10 |
| Scarecrow: After four rounds, the match score is even in Leko vs Gelfand, both players won one game with white. |
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Aug-30-10
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| percyblakeney: At least Leko won a game against Gelfand, it had been a while since that happened in these matches. It was 0-2 and six draws against both Anand and Carlsen, before that he scored one win against both Kramnik and Karpov. |
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