Nov-05-09 Christian Poulsen
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Poulsen: His nickname was "Ploven" - the plow.
As it was generally the case with top-level danish players in the "pre-Larsen-era", he had virtually no international achievements. All were happy amateurs - and almost never participated in international events - apart from the olympics. Here
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| | Nov-05-09 Ruslan Ponomariov 
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Poulsen: If Pono wins the Tal Memorial 2009 it will be biggest sensation in the chess world this year!! He is clearly one of the candidates for winning the last spot. But maybe not by a large margin - I predict a huge draw percentage.
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| | Oct-28-09 S Hamann vs Timman, 1970
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Poulsen: Wow, Timman takes a poisoned pawn - and get squashed. 21.-,Qxe7 loses to 22.Qd4 Hamann was in this period considered the strongest danish player - after Larsen.
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| | Oct-22-09 Robert James Fischer
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Poulsen: <Riverbeast><Morphy was the undisputed world champion of his day, and was universally proclaimed as such.> I am really sorry, but that statement is simply not true. Even though Morphy was the strongest player in the world for a short while - the first world champion was ...
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| | Oct-20-09 Nimzowitsch vs H Duhm, 1926
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Poulsen: ... by the way "Duhm" sounds in danish almost like "dum", which means "stupid". In any case Hans was not as clever as Aron in this one ...
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| | Oct-12-09 Magnus Carlsen
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Poulsen: <alexmagnus> Jeff Sonas is not mad. The detraction of 29 points is a result of ratinginflation - a well documented flaw of any ratingssystem. It can be calculated pretty precise. I strongly recommend, that you read about his system on chessmetrics.com.
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| | Oct-09-09 Pinkerley
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Poulsen: Yes, he very much resembles many of Paul Morphy 's opponents.
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| | Oct-05-09 Alekhine vs B Nielson, 1941
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Poulsen: Chessgames.com - this game was won by Bjorn Nielsen
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| | Oct-05-09 Bjorn Nielsen
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Poulsen: <Phony Benoni><Nielsen may be playing Black in that photo> No, it's Bjørn Nielsen playing white, allright. Bjørn Nielsen could at some point not use his legs due to a bleeding disorder - an illness that later caused his early death. His first name translates into "bear" ...
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| | Sep-17-09 Morphy vs A Bousserolles, 1859
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Poulsen: <syracrophy><A pure Morphy style attack against the king!> Indeed, a typical Morphy-game against a typical talentless "might-as-well-be-NN" opponent. A complete and utter waist of time. Why on earth this man became immortalized I will never understand. He proved nothing.
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