Nov-25-09 Magnus Carlsen 
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: <MrMelad> < the guy died on him in the middle of the game! Have you ever heard such a thing?> The first world correspondence chess champion, Cecil Purdy suffered such a fate, if you go to the pages of "Cecil John Seddon Purdy" the circumstances of his demise are
|
|
| | Nov-04-09 Robert James Fischer
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: (Riverbeast> <most of them always have an excuse for losing.> A chess friend of mine says his ambition is to beat a well man.
|
|
| | Sep-10-09 Petrosian vs H Ree, 1971
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: I thought this was much easier than yesterdays problem, which beat up on me and from a plethora of comments i was in good company.
|
|
| | Sep-05-09 Vladislav Tkachiev
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: <csmath:> <Basically FIDE should disqualify him from tournaments in the future. Then, once he finds himself in need of work to support his lifestyle, it could be a sobering moment. For now he is memorable for smoking, drinking, and talking nonsense only> Getting
|
|
| | Jun-26-09 Arianne Caoili
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: Arianne has won the 2009 women's Oceana Zonal championship with a score of 8/9 (7 wins and 2 draws).
Congrarulations Arianne, you are more than just a pretty face.
|
|
| | Jun-26-09 David Smerdon
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: David has won the 2009 Oceania Zonal Championship; a world championship cycle qualifier; with a score of 7.5 from 9 rounds, a full point clear of the field.
|
|
| | Jun-23-09 Zsuzsa Polgar
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: <AnalyzeThis> <Who Cares? Lasker himself said chess isn't that important> Well i can tell you that i care very much about chess; and if you don't care then why the hell do you spend so much time on this chess site. Over 1700 kibitzes in under 12 months; you've ...
|
|
| | Jun-11-09 Yifan Hou
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: <Manic> You are absolutely correct; these were the words of GM Ian Rogers but they expressed my views perfectly, except Ian put it more succinctly and better than I could have.
|
|
| | Mar-19-09 Peter Svidler
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: The interviews of Peter Svidler on chessbase.com today are brilliant; not only has he a chess talent I would kill for; but his command of the English language beats me and English is my native language. He talked of upsides and downsides; well the only upside for me is I ...
|
|
| | Jan-29-09 Hikaru Nakamura
| |
|
Ken MacGillivray: <Strongest Force: i think Nak lost a game last year did he not?> Your memory serves you well; Nakamura lost his fifth round game against Zhao Zong Yuan of Australia.
|
|
| | |
