User Profile: Karpova

Karpova
Member since Sep-24-04

I want to thank the User who presented me with another year of premium membership!
My Bio was too long and therefore deleted. All is lost now.
Akiva Rubinstein, Jose Raul Capablanca, Vladimir Kramnik, Anatoly Karpov and Judit Polgar.
Thanks to User: technical draw for one year of premium membership (2008.03.30 to 2009.03.30)! It was a nice experience.
For my article <Research about Rubinstein’s mental stability prior to the First World War> have a look at Akiba Rubinstein
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Interesting quote:
<Eric Schiller: <Hehateme>Sorry, I forgot about the ridiculous"plagiarism" charge. Winter got his knickers in a bunch because in my combination and tactics books I never said where the game combination was first published! Nor has anyone else, ever! It is indicative of his "scholarahip".
That's why I have a Ph.D. and he doesn't and never will.> Source: Eric Schiller
Remarkable quotes:
On De Legal vs Saint Brie, 1750 ahmadov: whiteshark: <<ahmadov>: the black side ?? LOL>
doremi: <Hey, what is going on in Ivan vs Mamed? How did Sokolov get 1 hour at move 26?> Sokolov hired Danailov at move 25
azaris: 
RookFile: <Wow, something scary just happenned. Karpova and I independently had exactly the same thought.> Thank you, <RookFile>
Carlsen vs Leko, 2007
In respond to <Ulhumbrus>' post: euripides: <<After 11 Qxd4 White has a Q on d4.> There's no arguing with that.>
Russian Superfinals (2007)
DCP23: <But it turned out there was an even faster way of exploiting the weakness of the light squares, as Korbut demonstrated with 31..Qh6! and 32..Qxh2+!. /Am I starting to sound a bit like <notyetagm> yet? ;) /> malthrope: <<DCP23 <as Korbut demonstrated with 31..Qh6! [MOVING BACKWARDS WITH THE HEAVY QUEEN [SEE THREAT]> and 32..Qxh2+! <DEMOLISHING THE K-SIDE WITH A HEAVY BLOW!> /Am I starting to sound a bit like <notyetagm> yet?> Yeah <DCP23> you are but just a little bit! :^)>
Chessgames Challenge: The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 Artar1: <Hugin: I want you to download the last Toga engine and test it out on your comp against Fritz 10.> Thank you for your kind offer.
Applying for a free premium membership at <cg.com> OhioChessFan: <Dear Chessgames, I am a small boy in ummmmm, Ethiopia. I have pretended to be from this place called "Ohio", because I hear that the people in America have food to eat and also many pictures of Jessica Simpson to look at for free on magazine covers. Please make a starving boy happy and send him a free America Chessgames Premium Membership. And also some free Jessica Simpson pictures.>
On S Erenburg vs D Fridman, 2005 (Pun: "Pawn Shop") Rocafella: <It's happened. CG.com has finally resorted to incorporating sexual innuendo into puns for GOTD. One thing to say to this disgusting act. Great stuff, keep up the good work! =D> unsound: <<Rocafella> I think I should save you possible future embarrassment and point out that there is a vast difference between a "pawn shop" and a "porn shop.">
iamverywellatchess: 
On Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (before it got submitted) offramp: <Seems like a reasonable game, though it may not quite make the standard. Submit it and see what they say.>
Capablanca vs Milner-Barry, 1935
Jesuitic Calvinist: <For those who know something about cricket, I read recently that former England captain Graham Gooch, who played his first test match in 1975, was the first player with a moustache to play for England since 1946.>
After game 2 Deep Fritz vs Kramnik 2006 (Kramnik's one move checkmate) and repeated spamming from a Topalov-Fanatic: square dance: 
Dr. Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles Bellin
Jesuitic Calvinist: 
jamthegenius: 
Mamedyarov vs Topalov, 2006
Bufon: <<acirce35..Rxc8 36.Rxc8 Rxd6! 37.exd6 Qd2 forcing a perpetual was a fairly easy draw> This is the kind of recomendations one would expect from a Kramnik fan, finding the draw lines, thanks to God, Topalov is no Drawmnik. He gave us a nice defeat by the hands of a young prodigy instead of a draw by repetition.>
notsodeepthought: <WMD: <LIFE Master AJ>, would you consider the email from Ray Keene to be the highlight of your chess career?> 
euripides: <Does the Romanian federation issue Lifemaster titles ?>
After Kramnik blundering in game 2 against Deep Fritz 2006: Eyal: <<technical draw: There is no happier group in the world today than the Kramnik bashers. Danilov is getting drunk tonight! (just like every night).> So maybe tonight he is staying sober.>
LIFE Master AJ: <A.) You are nothing more than a loud-mouthed, rude little fish ... a punk with a bad attitude. B.) You are igmored, (again).>
On Essent 2006, Round 2
AdrianP: <<Danailov Press Release> As can be seen from the Essent tournament, Kramnik has no right to call himself the world chess champion. After all, his contender for the title is being roundly trounced by players not even in the top 10. We, that is Topalov and I, refuse to recognise the recent match in Elista, meaning that Topalov remains the true world chess champion. Keep those loo doors closed.>
Vasily Smyslov acirce: <If there is an argument between two philosophers, but nobody is watching it, do they really spam the Smyslov page?> (After a discussion mainly between <danielpi> and <Plato>)
samvega: <ughaibu: I'm also a one finger typist, however I feel the Chessgames members are worth the effort of occasionally employing a second finger, dont you? <Our gratitude for the effort you put into capitalizing woud be that much greater if you'd ever actually written something worth reading.>>
Claudia Noemi Amura ConLaMismaMano: <First Latin American woman to become a a male IM.> ketchuplover: <gender reassignment?>
LIFE Master AJ: <Just to answer one person's question, the owner of this website has stated - repeatedly - that he is not interested in my annotations or reproducing all of my games.>
larsker: <No list would be complete without an honorary mention of Goldsby's collected works with a special regard to his Sounding off webpage.>
Steppenwolf: <17. Be5, f6. 18 Ng5, f5. And now what?> you vs yourself: <<steppenwolf>17.Be5 f6 18.Ng5 f5 19.Nh6#>

LIFE Master AJ: <Did your mother drop you on your head? (ON PURPOSE?!???!??) You need to stop STALKING people, OBEY the rules of this site, and get a life!!! You also need to stop smoking crack, and maybe go to a rehab center ... get your life together.>

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Karpova has kibitzed 7693 times to chessgames [more...]

 Nov-17-09 Vladimir Kramnik

Karpova: Interview with Kramnik by Mikhail Shpenkov: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Some interesting quotes: <Vassily plays such a wide variety of stuff that it doesn’t really make much sense to prepare a specific opening against him.> <But here is a paradox: all three

 Nov-15-09 E Inarkiev vs Morozevich, 2003

Karpova: He played the French for the last time in 2008. This year he tried the Caro-Kann, Sicilan (Najdorf) and also responded with 1...e5 (and the Pirc once in a Blindfold game): http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

 Nov-15-09 Peter Leko

Karpova: For sure, two bad tournaments in a row for Leko now - Pearl Spring Chess Tournament (2009) - and his last classical win was back in August (2009.08.16): I Cheparinov vs Leko, 2009 His performances at the 5th FIDE Grand Prix in Jermuk (4th place, 7.5/13, perf. 2769), Dortmund (2nd ...

 Nov-11-09 Kramnik vs Ponomariov, 2009

Karpova: <A Karpov Fan: amazing play by Big Vlad so far, does he meet Anand again in this tournament?> No, everyone plays each other just once

 Nov-10-09 TheAlchemist chessforum

Karpova: <TheAlchemist: <Karpova> Your quotes are back! Can I copy them to the Memorable Quotes forum?> For sure, if you want. <Caissanist> showed me where to find an older version of my complete profile so the sources are not there yet.

 Nov-09-09 Karpova chessforum

Karpova: <technical draw: I tried that once but then I felt bad afterwards. I guess I still think of chess as a gentleman's and ladies' game.> I don't do that also. But I don't play correspondence chess because I lack the patience and it would be hard for me to stop thinking about the ...

 Nov-08-09 Julio Ernesto Granda-Zuniga

Karpova: <jaime gallegos: Julio Granda deserves a better bio in chessgames.com> Feel free to provide the biographers with information on GM Granda-Zuniga (with sources, for sure) to expand his biography.

 Nov-08-09 Tal Memorial (2009)

Karpova: <Magnus Carlsen, it was revealed, is suffering from a throat infection and has played his last three games with A fever. The Norwegian is now on antibiotics.> Source: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Get well soon, Magnus!

 Nov-08-09 Caissanist chessforum

Karpova: No, nobody mentioned this to me before. Thank you very much! I'll have a look at it!

 Nov-08-09 Kramnik vs Svidler, 2009

Karpova: Winning advantage after 36.R3xd6 according to Rybka 3 http://chessok.com/broadcast/?key=t...

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Baby Sloths

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Mar-15-09		blacksburg: baby sloths...so cute....yet so ugly...both at the same time... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqio...

Mar-15-09		Karpova: Yes, that video is nice. But I like <Baby Sloths Gone Wild!!!!!!!> even more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffNv... Btw, bringing up the issue of plagiarism, etc. on <chessgames.com> is not a good idea.

Mar-15-09		acirce: Nice post on the Schiller page.

Mar-15-09		Karpova: Thanks, <acirce>! Following the incident I alluded to was not a very pleasing experience but all the more instructive.

Aug-08-09		whiteshark: Hello <Karpova> A net-find: http://books.google.de/books?id=iRk... On page 49 (scroll down a bit) Tarrasch is quoted (by Kotov (I'm not sure about his reputation as historican): <Rubinstein spielt nicht nach den Regeln. Nimzowitsch spielt nicht nach den Regeln.> I know Nimzowitsch and Dr. T. agree like cats and dogs, but Rubinstein? Do you know something (more) about it?

Aug-08-09		Karpova: <whiteshark> I don't know much about the relation between Rubinstein and Dr. Tarrasch. According to Dr. Lasker, Dr. Tarrasch claimed that one of the reasons for his failure in their WC match was that neither Schlechter nor Rubinstein had shown up for a training match. See Siegbert Tarrasch In Chapter 3, §11 of "Modern Ideas in Chess", Richard Reti writes: <The aspiring young masters of that day began to fashion themselves upon Steinitz's games in preference to those of any others; and thus arose the Steinitz school. It could not be said to be an imitation of the Steinitz method but rather a combining of the Steinitz technique (not Steinitz's scheme of the game) with the otherwise usual method of playing, whose tendency was the quick development of pieces. The latter Steinitz had neglected. The founder of this new style, the man to give the lead in it, and indeed the most prominent representative of that epoch, is Doctor Siegbert Tarrasch. Furthermore Tarrasch developed another branch of Steinitz's investigations, namely, the correct treatment of the opponent's cramped positions, which was not merely a small or less important branch.> Akiba Rubinstein is not discussed in Chapter 3 ("The Steinitz School") but in Chapter 4. From §23: <Rubinstein came into publicity with the men of storm and stress. But he was not one of them. Judging by his style of play he may be accounted an Epigonus. He had adopted the style of his period, that is to say the scientific chess style, and he brought it to the highest stage of artistic perfection. [...] He developed the pieces in close positions not so that they should be immediately effective and have open lines, as was formerly done, but so that they should become ultimately effective in the event of a possible break through, which should take place with the dissolution of the close position.> According to Capablanca, Rubinstein <is a great admirer of Morphy, whose games he probably knows by heart.> - Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... - so he may have rather bee Morphy's disciple than Steinitz's or Tarrasch's. But I don't know that much about Tarrasch.

Aug-16-09		Karpova: There are several kinds of "interesting" behaviour you encounter on internet chess sites. In general, players who are losing behave like this (what a surprise!): 1. Disconnection The situation is as follows: You play against someone who turns out to be rather weak and soon you have a clear advanatage - probably already winning. Still, it takes some time for your opponent to get it. But as soon as he realized how bad it looks for him (e. g. when he found out that he blundered away his queen several moves ago) he just wants to end the game. Of course, resigning is not an option so he tries to abort the game or adjourn and offers draws all the time hoping for you to press "accept" instead of "decline" (quite a clever manoeuvre from your opponent). For sure, if he is quick-witted he may ask for a take-back after his twentieth horrible blunder if the option exists (I really dislike take back options and never request one) and after you made your reply (the reason is simply that the blunder was no mouse slip so he realizes it only afterwards). But you don't want to give away a winning game (why should you?) and you play on so the last resort is disconnection. This guy is a frequent visitor of internet chess sites. Actually, I'm always stunned if someone resigns (or at least plays on till checkmate). All you can do against him is playing longer games against people you know only. There is even a worse variation that lets the time run out! Pretty bad if you play untimed games (never do that, or if you really want to only against someone you know personally and who you can visit at home to "solve the matter" if he does that to you). 2. "You are so weak" The game begins and you hope for a good and interesting fight but your opponent doesn't put up any resistance. You could phone someone, watch TV, listen to music, play solitaire and eat a meal all at the same time while playing and still needn't fear to not win the game. Once the boring game is over your opponent apparently wakes up and now he tells you that you were so weak! For sure, this is rather surprising considering his dismal showing and your smooth and convincing win. But still he starts acting as if he won twenty games in a row against you. I guess he tries to compensate his non-existant talent for chess by "winning" the crosstalk afterwards. That's benath notice, no question, so simply ignore him and play against someone else. 3. "You sad figure need the points so badly?" Another day and another opponent. You are happy to play chess again but sadly you meet no resistance and soon the game is resignable. But your opponent turns out to be a cross between type 1 and 2. He doesn't resign but wants to abort the game. Why should you do that if you can checkmate him after his next move? So now he starts to tell you what sad figure you are. Certainly, your whole self-esteem depends on the rating points you gather by beating him. You are definitely beneath him (so he probably doesn't resign in a hopeless position or at least plays on because you are so beneath him and he has to tell you first). This goes on until he runs out of time. In the end, he still lost the game but he can be proud of himself - after all, he is not so dependent of the rating points but a real sportsman. He just didn't resign or made a move to open your eyes and help you to become a better human-being. So you may have won a mere game of chess but he is the moral victor, never forget that! 4. Swear like a trucker This guy is really angry. Once he recognizes one of his blunders as such (about every tenth blunder) he resorts to sewaring and most of the time in a foreign language to avoid the admins punishing him and probably also hoping to distract you by making you google all the things he writes. This guy is easy to ignore. 5. "Marry me!" Why playing chess on a chess site if you can chat also? And why use the chat rooms there to chat if you can make your opponent's ears bleed during a game? So once the game starts he tries to ask all the relevant questions (a/s/l), etc. sometimes like a game where he guesses facts about your life and you have to tell him if he is wrong or right (oh, that's so wily, isn't it?). Simply ignore him (if you neither ignore him nor play along he may tell you that internet chess sites are not the right place for you).

Nov-08-09		Caissanist: The Internet wayback machine appears to have stopped archiving personal chessgames pages, but they still have a copy of your bio from late 2008: http://web.archive.org/web/20080822.... My apologies if someone already mentioned this.

Nov-08-09		Open Defence: < Karpova: There are several kinds of "interesting" behaviour you encounter on internet chess sites. In general, players who are losing behave like this (what a surprise!): > you forgot the "You only won coz you use engines" type of opponent...

Nov-08-09		Karpova: <Open Defence: you forgot the "You only won coz you use engines" type of opponent...> I would count him to the usual trash talker though this kind of claim is very annoying, for sure. After all, he is questioning not only your achievements but also your character (while showcasing his own). Actually, I already consider someone to be a "nice" opponent already if he doesn't say a single word and resigns once it becomes hopeless or fights until the end, at least (actually, I don't see the point in prolonging the game like some people do who simply drop all their pieces, etc. and let you checkmate them. It's both a waste of your and his own time. If you really need to play on in a completely lost position, put up some resistance.)

Nov-08-09		Open Defence: I have some people curse at me for playing on in theoretically drawn endings.. but unless their end game technique is perfect (which at my level it isnt by a long shot) its no different from playing on in an equal position and then capitalizing on a mistake while trying to avoid making a mistake yourself.. aaah the internet.. you meet all kinds :)

Nov-08-09		Karpova: <Open Defence> I wonder if Black cursed during this game: Kramnik vs Aronian, 2008

Nov-08-09		Open Defence: I know some kibitzers who would have hehehehe

Nov-08-09		technical draw: I am playing a 1300p player at QA. I should have known better not to accept his challenge but I kinda felt sorry for the guy (or gal). So I play him and am up a rook a bishop and 3 pawns waiting to queen and still he doesn't resign. So as soon as I mate him he goes on my ignore list. Total waste of time.

Nov-08-09		technical draw: I just found out that my opponent is 15 years old so I'll cut him some slack. Maybe he doesn't even know about resigning.

Nov-09-09		gus inn: When I play unrated I usually resign when my opponent continues in a hopeless position.

Nov-09-09		technical draw: <gus inn> < When I play unrated I usually resign when my opponent continues in a hopeless position.> I tried that once but then I felt bad afterwards. I guess I still think of chess as a gentleman's and ladies' game.

Nov-09-09		TheAlchemist: <technical draw> I feel the same way, but the behaviour you described is certainly far from gentlemanlike. I find it a bit irritating, especially if the game needlessly progresses for a few more months. I avoid doing it myself, but what can you really do if it's within the (written) rules.

Nov-09-09		Karpova: <technical draw: I tried that once but then I felt bad afterwards. I guess I still think of chess as a gentleman's and ladies' game.> I don't do that also. But I don't play correspondence chess because I lack the patience and it would be hard for me to stop thinking about the game in progress. On the internet I just play blitz and unsporting behaviour bothers me there already enough. I don't want to imagine how it would be in a correspondence game...

Nov-10-09		crawfb5: I haven't experienced any trash talk in CC to date. I do occasionally get the opponent who resigns by letting his time expire. I'm finishing a tournament which had one such player and this person has lost positions in both games against another common opponent and even took vacation time to string it out longer! A little digging reveals this player resigned only one game out of their last 10 losses. Certainly someone for the "won't play" list for me...

Nov-10-09		TheAlchemist: At QA I have once received an angry message after claiming the game on time (while forgetting to send a reminder), but I have managed to clear it out (it was the first and only time to date I did that). It was one of the last games of the tournament and I felt waiting could needlessly prolong it, especially since I was completely winning in the game.

Nov-10-09		TheAlchemist: <Karpova> Your quotes are back! Can I copy them to the Memorable Quotes forum?

Nov-10-09		crawfb5: <TheAlchemist> You are under no obligation to send a reminder. You can if you want, but it is your opponent's responsibility to keep track of his own time. I had one QA tournament held up for over a month because one player timed out and his opponent never claimed the win. I think the system finally forfeited both.

Nov-10-09		technical draw: OK no more Mr. nice guy. Now my non-resigning opponent is playing the time out game. So now, beginner or not, he goes to my ignore list. And like at GameKnot I'm not playing anyone with less than 50 games completed and within 50 points of my rating, so there.

Nov-10-09		technical draw: Not only will I put him on ignore I'll send him this picture: http://www.funnydog.net/images/funn...

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