Nov-30-09 BNbank Blitz (2009) 
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blueofnoon: HeMateMe, I am in the country where Nakamura was born, and I definitely congratulate him for winning a blitz tournament in fine style, but that's it. At the moment Carlsen is the better player at any time control, despite his defeat. Please stop generalizing.
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| | Nov-26-09 Vassily Ivanchuk
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blueofnoon: If I am not mistaken, it's not Ivanchuk himself, but the journalist, who called Wesley "unknown". Vassily himself said he could <give him characteristics, but he sees no sense in it. He is not objective now.> which is very gentleman-like attitude, at least compared with ...
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| | Nov-21-09 Carlsen vs Kosteniuk, 2009
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blueofnoon: IMO most men chess players are not so bad, but the problem is they do not pay enough attention to their appearance. For example, Grischuk could be considered handsome even outside of chess community if he stopped arriving tournaments in t-shirt and jeans, and took care of his ...
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| | Nov-21-09 Magnus Carlsen
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blueofnoon: I believe the value of "world champion" has been significantly reduced since the last decade. Personally, I could not care less about when Carlsen will "officially" win the title, unless FIDE organizes the championship in consistent manner, which is quite unlikely for now. Much ...
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| | Nov-20-09 Hikaru Nakamura
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blueofnoon: Dear Nakamura fans, have you read his book on bullet? I did, and found that he freely admits online bullet is completely different game from OTB chess, and that is actually one of main attractions of bullet chess. You can play bullet without being too serious, and still sometimes
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| | Nov-17-09 World Blitz Championship (2009)
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blueofnoon: Has Nakamura himself ever claimed that he is the best blitz player in this world, regardless of online or OTB? If that's just fanboys' wish, I do not believe it worth discussing. Btw Nakamura's book on bullet may not as instructive as "My System", but still is a funny read. ...
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| | Nov-17-09 Vladimir Kramnik
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blueofnoon: Kamsky played Anand in India for FIDE candidate match in 1994. Of course in a perfect world every chess game is played on neutral venue, but this happens. I hope Anand will win as well, but would not call this match as unfair or injustice.
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| | Jun-03-09 Chinese Championship (2009)
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blueofnoon: Well it is FIDE which decided that a player should be present in time or he/she will be forfieted... The Chinese Chess Federation is just following this rule, so we really cannot blame them.
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| | Apr-21-09 Sergey Karjakin
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blueofnoon: Here is the link to Karjakin's interview as to his decision of changing nationality. http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/s...
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| | Mar-09-09 Jose Raul Capablanca
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blueofnoon: Correct. Capablanca was capable of handling almost any kind of position, and that gave him huge advantage against other top players IMO. People tend to categorize him as a strategist, and while it is true his positional understanding was indeed astonishing, his tactical ability ...
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