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| Jan-27-06 | | SnoopDogg: <Pervakov: Are you ready to run for FIDE President? Karpov: It has been suggested, but I have not yet made a final decision...Discussions are still ongoing. I think everybody connected with chess understands that if we allow chess to continue for another four years in its presented terrible state, it will simply disappear from the face of the earth. Tournaments are shrinking in size, and disappearing altogether from the calendar – this is a huge problem. Linares and Dortmund have significantly reduced the number of participants. Just consider, in the world’s five biggest tournaments (that is, the two above, plus Wijk aan Zee, the Poikovsky tournament that bears my name, and Sofia), there are a total of just 41 places! This only leaves open tournaments, which I, for example, would never play in. I am firmly convinced that, for a world class player, playing in open tournaments is a big mistake, because such tournaments destroy one’s style. Pervakov: You presumably already have your own programme? Karpov: What can one say? The problems are clear, and the diappearance of tournaments is one of them. And this itself is connected with another – the lack of a single world champion, a leader of the chess world, a name with which sponsors can identify. There need to be changes, and serious ones. We need to restore the respect and image of top-flight chess. How can one talk of professional chess organisation, when even the players themselves, let alone others, cannot say who the world champion is? Ok, now they have invented this combined system, but one thing is absolutely clear – the knockout system is totally wrong. You have 128 players sitting down – non-chess publications cannot even publish all the results, or report them on TV or radio. So there is no reporting at all outside of specialist chess publications. We know all this from the experience of Tilburg – one of the main reasons for the disappearance of this tournament, which ran for 15 years, was the knockout system... Pervakov: I noticed that in Tallinn, you were talking with Bessel Kok, who has already announced his candidature [for FIDE President]. Did you discuss these questions with him? Karpov: Yes. Of course, he recognises the problems, because he was involved with the founding of the GMA and he is very familiar with professional chess life. In the past, he organised some of the very best tournaments ever in Brussels, events which made chess part of the cultural and sporting lige of Belgium. Pervakov: And did he suggest joining forces?
Karpov: Of course, the idea has occurred to him. People who wish to bring about change should work together. At the end of the day, the post of FIDE President sounds great, but what does it actually give one? It gives one the opportunity to restore some order, to bring ideas to fruition. Some people may think it brings personal benefit, bit not to me, and not really to Bessel either – he is a successful businessman. It is just a case of a person who, from love of chess and care about chess players, wishes to do his best to improve the situation. In that respect, I agree with him totally and I support him.> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Jan-28-06
 | | Ron: Thanks Snoopdog, perhaps this can be a basis for discussion.
Karpov says this:
Karpov: It has been suggested, but I have not yet made a final decision...Discussions are still ongoing. I think everybody connected with chess understands that if we allow chess to continue for another four years in its presented terrible state, it will simply disappear from the face of the earth. Tournaments are shrinking in size, and disappearing altogether from the calendar – this is a huge problem. Linares and Dortmund have significantly reduced the number of participants. Just consider, in the world’s five biggest tournaments (that is, the two above, plus Wijk aan Zee, the Poikovsky tournament that bears my name, and Sofia), there are a total of just 41 places! This only leaves open tournaments, which I, for example, would never play in. I am firmly convinced that, for a world class player, playing in open tournaments is a big mistake, because such tournaments destroy one’s style. Ron: I think saying that if chess continues in its current state it will "disappear from the face of the earth" is a big overstatement. I'm not an expert on the history of chess tournaments, but it did not seem to me that the number of participants in major tournaments have signifcantly decreased. Take one the tournaments Karpov mentions, Linares. I think that there were about the same number of participants in Linares as in the year when Karpov won that tournament back in the 1990s. Now if someone wishes to dispute my impression, I am game. But I do agree with the general aim of Karpov in this interview, the betterment of chess. |
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Jan-28-06
 | | tamar: I agree with Karpov's statement that the tournament calendar has become very sparse. Corus and Linares give a false impression at the beginning of each year that the chess scene is healthy, but for this month and February there is a feast, then a famine the rest of the year. |
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| Jan-31-06 | | offramp: For Spanish speakers, a not-very-funny parody of Karpov:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d... |
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| Feb-06-06 | | fred lennox: Karpov's games shows more growth, development and versitility than his adversary's would make you think. He combined Steinitz monumental strength with Tarrasch mobility and clarity with uncanny skill. As Henry Moore did to scuptural form, no one explored chess strategies with such monumental simplicity as Karpov. Comparing Karpov/Kasporav to Moore/Picasso isn't bad. Except cold stats shows Kasporav having the edge as a competitor and their last match Karpov was past his prime. |
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| Feb-07-06 | | schnarre: <fred lennox> True enough! |
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| Feb-11-06 | | Paul123: I marvel at how long Karpov was on top. Almost thirty years! And when you look at the championship's with Kasparov....Three games.... Count them 1, 2, 3. Only Three games seperated them.... Personnally, I think Karpov left a better legacy behind than Kasparov. Kasparov's action set proffessional chess back years. Its good he retired I won't miss him, but I'll miss Karpov. |
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Feb-11-06
 | | diagonal: Obviously the FIDE - separation, provoqued by Kasparov with the splitting world chess championship (1993 versus Short) and the following FIDE "parallel organistions", etc. was bad, terribly bad for chess. Nevertheless, I miss Kasparov as a player and I miss his chess-energy! Karpov is an apparatschik, personally I doubt whether he will be the right person for this job. PS: the failure of Yasser Seirawan's plans for the unification of the world chess championship title (Prague Agreement) and other such efforts, is/was another story and NOT (only) Kasparov's guilt. |
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| Feb-14-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: I play like Karpov! |
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| Feb-15-06 | | schnarre: Karpov was an early inspiration for me when I was first learning how to play chess. I still read his book on beating the Gruenfeld. |
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| Feb-16-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: Before Karpov everyone smoked when they where playing! |
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| Feb-16-06 | | Jim Bartle: Shirov says when he was 11 he left his sessions with Tal absolutely covered with tobacco smoke (at least ten cigarettes per hour). |
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| Feb-16-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: I heard that Fischer smoked on Spasskys face.And attacked a paparazzi! |
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| Feb-17-06 | | John Abraham: I didn't know that Fischer smoked. |
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| Feb-17-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: I do like Karpov and my new chess teacher Jan Ullen also likes him! |
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| Feb-24-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Apparently Karpov no longer considers running for FIDE president! <Meanwhile, former world champion Anatoly Karpov appears finally to have abandoned plans to run for the FIDE Presidency himself. The exact reason is not known, but one factor may have been the Russian Chess Federation’s decision to back Illyumzhinov. Without even the backing of his own national federation, is seems unlikely that Karpov could mount a serious challenge, whilst some sources also suggest that FIDE rules do not permit more than one candidate from the same federation.> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Feb-24-06
| | diagonal: thanx - breaking news, if confirmed. Will Karpov try to keep his fingers in touch with chess politics or does he focus himself in future on private business? Time will tell... |
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| Feb-24-06 | | s4life: <malakaboy: the rich only exist when a population is ignorant the dumber the masses the more some people amass> The rich exist because they are needed, most people depend on their smarts to feed their families. The richness of a country is measured by the amount of rich people it has, that's the ultimate factor of a country's wealth. All these comments about ruling class and elite are obviously true, but they are ultimately irrelevant. |
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Feb-25-06
 | | Benzol: Karpov's quote of the day is interesting. I wonder why he feels that playing in open tournaments would be detrimental to his style? |
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Feb-25-06
 | | Sneaky: You can't take a "win with white, draw with black" approach in large opens. |
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| Feb-25-06 | | 17.Bxg7: <Karpov's quote: I am firmly convinced that, for a world class player, playing in open tournaments is a big mistake, because such tournaments destroy one's style.> Karpov is right: In Opens you cannot arrive late and argue with the organizers asking for a postponement, so is detrimental to his style. |
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| Feb-28-06 | | Jim Bartle: I just read a Karpov quote in Yudovich's book on Kasparov that illustrates why I, and probably many people, don't really like him. No matter how many advantages he is given, how favorable his situation (Korchnoi's family, for example), he manages to twist the facts to make it look as if the odds are really against him, that he's the one getting the short end of the stick. In the following quote from 1986 he's trying to justify the rematch rule for a defeated champion (translated from Spanish): "After defeating, one after another, all the candidates, the WC challenger arrives at the match with the World Champion magnificently trained. Meanwhile the champion, despite his own preparation, is denied this brilliant practice, and therefore is not as well prepared for the match as the challenger." Give
me
a
break.
It's a DISADVANTAGE to rest and prepare while one player has to fight tooth and nail through several matches (this refers to the 80s system) to win the right to play the well-rested champion??? |
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Feb-28-06
 | | Eric Schiller: <JimBartle> Not to mention the fact that the champion can see what the challenger has prepared in the openings. Karpov certainly benefitted from seeing Kasparov use the Tarrasch to carve the way to the title match, and Karpov (against whom the Tarrasch wasn't the best choice anyway) slaughtered him, forcing him to abandon the opening. |
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| Feb-28-06 | | Jim Bartle: I hadn't thought of that.
Did something similar happen in Kasparov-Short, where K decided to play the anti-Marshall and avoided Short's main prep as black? |
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| Mar-06-06 | | vesivialvy93: I would like to ask if someone have the latest Kasparov's "my great predecessors" tome 5 about Karpov this time and the biggest of this collection ...i am curious to know his opinion about how lucky he was when he wins game 24 to keep his title against Karpov when Karpov needed only a easy draw to drop Kasparov as a challenger for 1990 !!! |
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