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| MaxxLange: The Fritz 10 DVD has a little excerpt from his ChessBase DVD on tactical thinking. It looked pretty good - the excerpt was analysis of a game he won against Korchnoi, basically, with focus on the sharp parts of the middle game, how he found tactical ideas, calculated with them, and tried to make them work later if they did not work at once. Anyone seen the whole DVD? Thoughts? I've thought about buying it, but those things are so expensive. |
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Apr-08-09
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| acirce: <Ingmar Bergman sucked!> I'm not into film much, but I would think that pompous jerk is probably more than a bit overrated, yes. |
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Apr-08-09
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| acirce: <MaxxLange> No idea about that one. I have his DVD on the King's Indian. I like Kasim and the way he presents things, but players stronger than me think it is a bit too basic... |
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Apr-08-09
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| dx9293: <Dredge Rivers> Who says Kasimdzhanov was supposed to be "the next big thing" after winning the World Championship in 2004? Many people have this thing that a World Champion is supposed to be a great, great player. No, a World Champion is a player who wins a World Championship, even if it is their only notable achievement. |
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| Apr-10-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: <acirce>
Ingmar Bergman is a <pompous jerk>?! Whoa! They may kick you out of Sweeden for saying that! Or at least, not let you eat any meatballs and pickled herring! :) |
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Apr-10-09
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| Open Defence: <acirce: Because he isn't good enough> well he does not meet the cut off based on the present criteria but I do think he at least deserves wild card entry into some of the elite tournaments and I think he may surprise a few of the big names |
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Apr-10-09
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| chancho: What is this guy up to these days?
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Apr-10-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: <chancho> Probably solving mysteries with Scooby and the gang! |
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Apr-10-09
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| chancho: I noticed he played in the Rector Cup, but why isn't he getting the big invites? It's still early in the year I know, so we'll see. |
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| Apr-10-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: <chanco> You know, Shaggy has his own page! :) |
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| Apr-10-09 |
| fromoort: He's still busy analyzing 14...Bb7 to death. |
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Apr-10-09
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| whiteshark: We may know it when Anand will have defeated Topalov. |
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Apr-11-09
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| acirce: <Open Defence> I agree he deserves at least the occasional invitation, I was just giving an answer based on how it actually works. He is far from the only one, of course. Anyway, at least he does have the opportunity to prove himself in the Grand Prix tournaments. First chance in Elista, 50% - not great, not bad. Next chance in Nalchik coming up soon - I hope he does well. |
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Apr-11-09
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| Open Defence: he might have figured that he could make more money analysing for Anand than counting on the stray invite to Linares, Corus or Dortmund |
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Apr-11-09
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| chancho: I know rating and rank matter, but Rustam, Pono, and Khalifman should get some consideration when it comes to the elite invites. They each won a world title.
In Golf you have guys like Nicholas, Floyd, and Palmer (way past their prime) who played with the likes of Woods, Mickelson, and Garcia. They played in the Senior tour yes, but also played in the Master's tournament and othe PGA events. I remember when Bologan won Dortmund with players like Kramnik and Anand in the event.
Those sort of upsets make for good entertaiment imo. |
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| Apr-13-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: <chancho> Why? Vassily Smyslov has a better claim to have been World Champion than Khalifman or Kasimdzanov and you don't see HIM invited to elite tournaments! |
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Apr-14-09
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| chancho: <Dredge Rivers> I see your point. But Smyslov is 88 years of age. The other two are not that over the hill. |
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| Apr-17-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: <chancho> Dude, you didn't mention age in your post of April 11; so I assumed you thought it was irrelevant. |
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May-04-09
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| stoy: Smylov was the seventh recognized world champion after he defeated Botvinnik in 1957. I understand that these days he is blind or nearly blind. Please speak accurately & kindly of the seventh world champion. |
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May-25-09
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| dx9293: <Dredge Rivers> I don't see why Khalifman or Kasimdzhanov don't have a good claim to being World Champion. They didn't ask Kasparov and Short to cause the schism in the chess world in 1993. |
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| May-25-09 |
| Udit Narayan: <dx9293> Sure, they may legally have the right to have been called world champions. But most people wouldn't favor either Khalifman or Kasimdzhanov in a 12+ games match against the likes of Kasparov, Anand, or Kramnik. They may have been FIDE champions, but they were never the people's champions. |
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May-25-09
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| dx9293: <Udit Narayan> We don't know how Khalifman or Kasimdzhanov would fare in a match against the players you mentioned: Kasparov? No chance...of getting Garry to a chessboard unless it was under the auspices his new organization-of-the-month (let's see: there was the PCA, the WCC, BGN...any others I'm forgetting about?). Anand? He did win in 2000, and was not given fair conditions in 1997-98 versus Karpov, but Anand was not a slam dunk to win the Championships either. Kramnik? He never tested his mettle in the Championships as far as I remember, correct me if I'm wrong. I love Kramnik, but he was busy being Kasparov's hand-picked challenger. Personally, I think of the FIDE Champions as being more of the "People's Champions" than Kasparov (after 1993) and Kramnik! Khalifman (1999), Anand (2000), Ponomariov (2002), and Kasimdzhanov (2004) had to beat out roughly 100 "common folk" to become the Champion, not just sit on their high ranking and play whoever they wanted. |
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Jun-27-09
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| percyblakeney: On the question if Kasim deserves more invitations to top events or not, it's not as if he has missed out totally. In his Corus A starts he has failed to reach the top ten, -3 being his best score. He was last in Linares 2005, and is playing in the Grand Prix series, where his latest result was last place in Nalchik. He also played San Luis 2005 and was given a spot in the Candidates 2007. In this year's Corus B he shared second with Short behind Caruana. On the next rating list Kasim will be just over 2670 and not in the top 50, and there are many higher rated players with very few invitations. Malakhov has been around 2675-2700 seven years in a row (and higher than that lately), usually ahead of Kasim, but has never played the top tournaments the latter has been invited to. Considering how hard it is to get these invitations Kasimdzhanov will probably need to start showing better results to once again be included in events like Linares and Corus. |
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Aug-31-09
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| dx9293: Congratulations to Rustam for returning to the 2700 Club for the first time since October 2001! I hope he can stay there for awhile. |
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| Aug-31-09 |
| nigelsnoru: Nicely done Kasim. I believe he was the dead-bottom seed in Jermuk, yet managed to share third place, and gained the most rating points of any of the players. Impressive. |
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