Nov-03-09 Vladimir Kramnik 
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Petrosianic: <The difference between Anand and Kramnik is paper thin. Who is stronger depends on which year or snap shot u wanna examine.> Well, it's a lead pipe cinch that the snapshot that history will most want to examine is the one taken at the time of their world championship ...
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| | Nov-02-09 Kenneth Rogoff
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Petrosianic: <I really, really disagree there. I'll bet you'll find very few Tea Partiers who have voted Democratic with any consistency in the past.> I haven't been to any parties myself, but the elderly are against this proposal almost 2-1, and I've seen a lot of them in footage of ...
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| | Oct-30-09 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972
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Petrosianic: Gligoric's implication was that Spassky was lying (though I don't think he'd have used that strong a word) because the move was just too good to have come up with at the board. I don't buy that argument, because it's really NOT that objectively good. Considering how long he took
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| | Oct-30-09 Ruy Lopez de Segura
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Petrosianic: <ruylopez900> <Ruy Lopez analyzed the opening (aka the Spanish) an gave it a positive grade. Do you really think it would be named after him if he had scorned it and laughed at it?> Yeah, it just might. That's pretty much how Damiano's name got onto Damiano's ...
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| | Oct-30-09 Irina Krush
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Petrosianic: She may be, but that cliche sure isn't. Are you saying she's like something you take thousands of times a day without paying it the slightest notice?
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| | Oct-29-09 Petrosian vs Fischer, 1970
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Petrosianic: True, although Spassky's loss to Larsen was an UGLY turkey. (shudder) I won't even link to it, it would give you nightmares. And one day after that brilliant 17 move win that gets reprinted so often.
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| | Oct-29-09 Botvinnik vs Alekhine, 1938
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Petrosianic: You know the conditions are bad when they have a form like that. It's true, though, the travelling road show format was a handicap to the older players. It was the world's only Vaudeville Tournament.
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| | Oct-29-09 Robert James Fischer
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Petrosianic: <I've been here five years and I would say the percentage of imbeciles has remained about the same -- shockingly high, yet low for the internet.> Reminds me of an old Get Smart joke, where a guy says of Control "I expected to find heartlessness here, but not sheer idiocy!"
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| | Oct-23-09 Shirov vs S Sulskis, 2009
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Petrosianic: <38..Qe6 is met by 39.Qe5
38..Qd7 is met by 39.Ne5>
And 38...Re2 prevents 39. Ne5, but then 39. Qd8+ and 40. c8/q.
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| | Oct-23-09 Fischer vs Larsen, 1971
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Petrosianic: <Speaking of Fischer's exchange sacrifices, I can't recall so many of them.> There aren't that many, and as you say, most of the ones there are lead to an immediate and direct advantage (as in this game). Petrosian specialized in the long-term positional sacrifice. One of ...
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