User Profile: KingG

KingG
Member since Sep-04-04

Favorite Players: Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Tal, Anatoli Karpov, Boris Spassky.
http://video.google.com.au/videopla... (great 2 hours 45 min video on the Kasparov vs Karpov match in 1990, with thanks to seeminor for bringing it to attention)
http://video.google.com.au/videopla... (hour long documentary on Kasparov filmed in 2000 around the time of Wijk Aan Zee)
http://chess.about.com/gi/dynamic/o... (fairly long interview with Kasparov, where he talks about many different topics)
http://www.chess.co.uk/gkvisit2005_... (a 50 min long lecture by Kasparov on Fischer)
https://webcast.chessclub.com/blog/... (ICC tribute to Fischer)
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/o... (press conference with Boris Spassky at the 2008 Olympiad)
I like playing both 1.d4 and 1.e4 as White, although I'm probably more of a 1.d4 player at the moment. Some of my favourite openings from the White side are the 6.Bg5 variation of the Najdorf, the Ruy Lopez, the Botvinnik Semi-Slav and the King's Indian Taimanov variation. As Black I enjoy playing the Sicilian Najdorf, the QGD Semi-Slav, and most recently the King's Indian.
GAMES COLLECTIONS:
Game Collection: Paul Morphy's Best Games
Game Collection: Jose Raul Capablanca's Best Games
Game Collection: Alexander Alekhine's Best Games
Game Collection: Mikhail Botvinnik's Best Games
Game Collection: Mikhail Tal's Best Games
Game Collection: Boris Spassky's Best Games
Game Collection: Robert Fischer's Best Games
Game Collection: Anatoly Karpov's Best Games
Game Collection: Garry Kasparov's Best Games
Game Collection: Akiba Rubinstein's Best Games
Game Collection: Rashid Nezhmetdinov's Best Games
Game Collection: Ray Keene's Best Games
Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures
Game Collection: King's Gambit Accepted
Game Collection: King's Gambit Declined
Game Collection: The Taimanov 9.Ne1 variation of the KID
Game Collection: King's Indian
Game Collection: Semi-Slav 5.Bg5
Game Collection: Semi-Slav
Game Collection: Sicilian Najdorf 6.Bg5
Game Collection: Sicilian Najdorf
Game Collection: Alekhine Defence, Modern Variation
<Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.> - Ben Franklin
<Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people an always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.... All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.> - Herman Goering
<The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has the remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.> - George Orwell
<There is a God. And he is not Bulgarian!> - Nigel Short
<The hardest game to win is a won game.> - Emanuel Lasker
<Life is too short for chess.> - Byron
<When Victor replied to 1.e4 with 1...d6, I would have immediately severed my connections with this self-destroyer. A man of artistic temperament overestimated his strength and thought that he could place his bishop on g7 against Karpov! There are very few madmen who risk employing Pirc or King's Indian against Karpov.> - Alexsander A Shashin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLD...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKkA...
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Winner of the 2008 Caissar Award for Best Games Collection.

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   KingG has kibitzed 4167 times to chessgames [more...]

   Nov-18-09 N Sulava vs S Brunello, 2006

KingG: 16.Qb1 looks better, freeing the c2 square for the Bishop.

   Nov-12-09 Oll vs R Liiva, 1998

KingG: White could have played 16.Bxc4, with the idea 16...bxc4 17.Qa4+.

   Nov-04-09 M Gurevich vs T Luther, 2005

KingG: Did Black really play 3...a6? What's wrong with 4.dxe6?

   Oct-09-09 KingG chessforum

KingG: <The Rocket> I don't have a FIDE rating. Why do you ask?

   Sep-29-09 Tal vs Fischer, 1959

KingG: <Black is often happy to trade off his bishop on g7 because his pawn on e5 makes it an ineffective piece.> I think this is a bit too simplistic. The bishop on g7 isn't so ineffective once the diagonal opens up, and even if it doesn't, it can often be a valuable defensive piece.

   Aug-29-09 Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938

KingG: <Strategically, Capablanca is winning.> Capablanca may not be losing, but he is certainly not winning. White can force a draw in many ways. For example 25...Rf8 26.fxg6 fxg6 27.Re6 Kg7 28.Nf5+ gxf5 29.Qxf5 Nxd4! 30.Qg5+ Kh8 31.Qh4+. I'm pretty sure that Capablanca did in fact ...

   Aug-29-09 Krogius vs A Kuznetsov, 1962

KingG: This should be Game of the Day at some point, although someone else will have to come up with the pun.

   Aug-29-09 Shirov vs Radjabov, 2009

KingG: Well, having now looked at 21...Rxa7 22.Nxa7 Bd7 with a computer, it seems that it fails to the move 23.Nc6!, even if it does give a very strong attack against anything else. For example 23.Nc6 bxc6 24.dxc6 Bc8 25.c7!(the promotion threat will blunt a lot of Black's attacking ...

   Aug-28-09 Jonkman vs E Denayer, 1993

KingG: White had a great way to obtain the advantage: 21.Kxe2! Bxd4 22.cxd4 Qxd4 23.Re1!(23.Qxc7 Bxf5 is too dangerous) Qxc4+ 24.Kf3+!(24.Kf2+ Ne4+) Be6 25.Rxe6+ Qxe6 26.fxe6 Nh5+ 27.Qxf8+ Kxf8 28.Bg5 It's maybe understandable for ...

   Aug-28-09 Kasparov vs NN, 1998

KingG: Black missed a relatively easy forced mate after 18...Bxf2+ 19.Nxf2 Qg3+. It's a shame, because 16...Nxd4 was a nice shot.

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Jul-03-09		KingG: < Especially with meetings such as this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZPu... > LOL.

Jul-08-09		JointheArmy: CroCop/Dos Santos UFC 103. Terrible matchup for CroCop. Unlike Cain Velasquez, Dos Santos is the real deal and won't drop to his knees everytime he trades with a good striker.

Jul-10-09		KingG: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/200... I'm shocked more people don't die during this ridiculous festival. Having a crowd of people running with bulls doesn't exactly sound like a good idea. Anyway, I always support the bulls in these kind of instances. The only shame is that it wasn't a bullfighter that got killed. This bullfighting stuff is really sick, and I'm surprised the EU haven't outlawed this yet. I mean, if this doesn't qualify as cruelty to animals, what does? One of the things that gets me the most about this 'sport' is how unfairly weighted it is against the bull. The rules should be: one man and one bull in the ring(not this 7 against one rubbish), fight to the death, and if the bull wins it gets to retire in peace. Currently I think that apart from exceptional circumstances, they either kill the animal, or make it fight again. Some bullfights worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceg3... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0V2... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W6O... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saAK... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXxd... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEA_... Not a bullfight, but still funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=431u...

Jul-14-09		crawfb5: I'm glad you liked the Kasparov simul game collection. I found your collection very useful as a starting point. There's no particular need to delete that section in yours unless you really want to shorten it, as you have a much wider-ranging collection of Kasparov games. I have submitted the games from the Lima, Peru simul to CG, so they should be available as links in the near future. Kasparov wrote a series of articles on these simuls for Chess Life. At one point I had all those old magazines, but over the course of several moves I purged them to the point where I apparently only have one of the articles now. If I find a source for the others, I may be able to add to the introductory material.

Jul-15-09		KingG: <Kasparov wrote a series of articles on these simuls for Chess Life. At one point I had all those old magazines, but over the course of several moves I purged them to the point where I apparently only have one of the articles now. If I find a source for the others, I may be able to add to the introductory material.> That would be great. It's a shame Chess Life don't put all their old copies up online.

Jul-15-09		crawfb5: The <very> old issues, up to about 1975, are available on DVD, so they may come out at some point in the future. The Kasparov articles were in the mid-1990s. I don't think I have a local library with issues from that era, but I will keep looking.

Jul-29-09		square dance: http://www.fannation.com/message_bo...

Jul-30-09		Akavall: <KingG> Nice bullfights collection. I recently visited Spain, obviously you hear quite a lot about bull fighting once you're there, so I wanted to see a fight where bull wins, which apparently is very rare. Thanks! <Anyway, I always support the bulls in these kind of instances.> Same here, of course.

Aug-03-09		square dance: ::sigh:: http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/fe...

Sep-20-09		JointheArmy: Vitor is back.

Oct-08-09		The Rocket: whats your rating king G?

Oct-09-09		KingG: <The Rocket> I don't have a FIDE rating. Why do you ask?

Oct-25-09		JointheArmy: Worst decision ever. Worse than Hamil/Bisping and maybe by twofold. Shogun completely dominated that fight, I had it 50-45 even.

Oct-25-09		square dance: i just watched the disputed first three rounds of the brazilian feed on youtube and i must say im really surprised that the general consensus seems to be that rua got robbed. those first three rounds are close, but on first glance i thought machida had a legit argument to receive a 10 in each of them. the first round was competitive, but i thought that machida landing some muay-thai knees on a couple of occasions stood out more than anything shogun did. i thought the second round was pretty much even. rua finishes the round in a controlling position, so it gives you the impression that he had the last laugh in the round. did he win it though? i thought that it was a good candidate for a 10-10 round. if i had to choose a winner i'd lean towards rua precisely for getting that last laugh, so to speak. again, i thought the third round was competitive, but i feel like machida's flurry at the end was more impressive than anything that had happened in the first three rounds. while rua caught machida with the best strike in that exchange, since it didnt wobble machida or put him down, it doesnt count for as much as the ~5 clean strikes machida landed just before that. tbh, i think thats an easy round to score for machida. when you have a fight with not a lot of action, when a guy lands a number of scoring strikes in an exchange like that you can almost always put that round in the bank for him. especially when it happens near the end of the round. again, im really surprised by the outrage over this decision. not only the outrage, but the fact that basically everyone scored this fight for rua. assuming the last two rounds went to rua 10-9 as everyone seems to suggest, i have the fight a draw. however, i reserve my final judgement until im able to watch the fight in HD. ;-)

Oct-25-09		square dance: this thread contains the link i mentioned in my last post and some interesting comments. http://boards.espn.go.com/boards/mb...

Oct-25-09		square dance: one last tidbit and then off to bed. <UFC president Dana White said he believed Rua won the fight and added, "there will be an immediate rematch."> http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp...

Oct-25-09		JointheArmy: <square dance><however, i reserve my final judgement until im able to watch the fight in HD. > You definitely need to watch it in HD. Here are some statistics from the fight. <Total strikes landed Rua 82, Machida 42 HiPer strikes Rua 80, Machida 38 LoPer strikes Rua 2, Machida 4 Head Rua 17, Machida 14 Body Rua 16, Machida 24 Legs Rua 49 (!), Machida 4> http://fightmetric.com/fights/Machi...

Oct-25-09		JointheArmy: Here's a sample of what it looked like in high quality. http://www.abjecthubris.com/images/... http://www.abjecthubris.com/images/...

Oct-25-09		square dance: im not really sure what a couple of HD images are supposed to prove. do you have any of machida's flurry near the end of round 3? and if so, would that prove? or how about the muay-thai knee strikes that i think won him round 1? as far as the fight statistics, im a little surprised by those. i believe that machida <clearly> landed the cleaner, more effective strikes over the first 3 rounds, although neither fighter put on a great offensive display. my impression was that rua barely connected on anything clean in the first three rounds. chasing your opponent around the ring and missing strikes is the exact definition INeffective aggressiveness. one fighters ineffective aggressiveness is the other fighters ring/octogan control. i wouldnt have a problem with rua getting the decision from last night as the first two rounds were close while machida won round 3 with shogun winning rounds 4 and 5. anybody making this out to be a monumental robbery doesnt understand how to score a fight. period.

Oct-25-09		JointheArmy: Still have yet to find a reputable MMA source that gives the fight to Machida. Not looking good <square dance>. Sherdog -- 50-45 Rua, 48-47 Rua, 48-47 Rua http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/uf... ProMMA.info -- 50-45 Rua http://promma.info/index.php/2009/1... MMA Mania -- 50-45 Rua http://mmamania.com/2009/08/25/ufc-... MMA Junkie -- 49-46 Rua http://mmajunkie.com/news/16602/ufc... USA today -- 49-46 Rua, 48-47 Rua http://content.usatoday.com/communi... Yahoo -- 48-47 Rua http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/ca... Bloody Elbow -- 48-47 Rua http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/10/... MMA Fanhouse -- 48-47 Rua http://mma.fanhouse.com/2009/10/25/... MMA Torch -- 48-47 Rua http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/pub... Five Ounces of Pain -- Rua (no score given) http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2009/10... Fightlinker -- Rua (no score given) http://www.fightlinker.com/machida-... Even ESPN had Shogun wins on their front page since they thought there was no way Machida won a decision. http://fansided.com/wp-content/uplo...

Oct-25-09		JointheArmy: <im not really sure what a couple of HD images are supposed to prove..> Never said they were, just thought you'd like a sample of what the fight looked like in better quality. Didn't find Machida's knees, but found some more of Shogun's. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y8... http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y8... http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y8...

Oct-25-09		JointheArmy: More concise posting of the stats. This time round by round. <Shogun landed 82 strikes out of 149. Lyoto landed 42 strikes out of 116. Shogun had 55% accuracy Lyoto had 36% accuracy Shogun landed 17 shots to the head (12 power shots). Lyoto landed 14 shots to the head (8 power shots). Lyoto landed 24 shots to the body Shogun landed 16 shots to the body Shogun landed 49 leg kicks. Lyoto landed 4 leg kicks. Shogun landed 48 strikes from distance. Lyoto landed 26 strikes from distance. Shogun landed 34 strikes from the clinch. Lyoto landed 16 strikes from the clinch. Strikes landed per round; Round 1 Total strikes: Shogun: 19 Machida: 11 Round 2: Shogun: 21 Machida: 7 Round 3: Shogun: 19 Machida: 15 Round 4: Shogun:10 Machida: 3 Round 5: Shogun: 13 Machida: 6> http://fightmetric.com/fights/Machi...

Oct-25-09		square dance: <Still have yet to find a reputable MMA source that gives the fight to Machida. Not looking good <square dance>.> not looking good for what?

Nov-08-09		square dance: at least fedor didnt let us down.

Nov-08-09		JointheArmy: <square dance> Yet somehow the internet is saying Brett Rogers exposed Fedor by getting brutally KO'd. http://i34.tinypic.com/168yjr4.gif

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