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| Dec-22-05 |
| EmperorAtahualpa: Thank you <tamar>. I am still a pretty mediocre player myself, and first need to get more familiar with basic openings. I think this should be just the right book for me! |
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Dec-22-05
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| whiskeyrebel: I thought it was a very personal book like the works of Tal and Bronstein for instance. He's very different from either of them though. An outspoken pragmatist shall we say? You'll either love or hate him (personally, I wound up loving the *&#@ out of him)...the book is loaded with content to help players like us improve either way. |
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| Dec-22-05 |
| EmperorAtahualpa: <whiskyrebel> Thank you for your views. I should definitely ask Santa for this book. :) |
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Dec-23-05
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| WannaBe: Wonderful guy, very friendly when I had the chance to meet him. Very good choice for player of the day. *Where's the photo* =) ?? |
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| Dec-23-05 |
| EmperorAtahualpa: Yes <WannaBe> Why don't you submit your photo to <chessgames.com>? |
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Dec-23-05
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| WannaBe: <EmperorAtahualpa> I offered 2 methods to <chessgames.com> one was to directly save them from my web-site. The other was for me to e-mail it to them. The only reply I got so far was thanks for the offer. =) |
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| Jan-12-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Alex Yermolinsky YERMOLINSKY, Alex
http://www.bidmonfa.com/yermolinsky...
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Jan-31-06
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| midknightblue: Yermo's book is supposed to be excellent. On the down side, all the games he plays as white are based on d4, i am still trying to learn the open games better. In follow up to the reference to Yernmo's feelings about classical, sound openings, he has made a few enemies with posts at Chessninja.com where some Hikaru fans were debating 2.Qh5 and had taken offense to yermo's blunt comment that the move is "crap." Anyway, it probably is crap, although I am not really strong enough to say - I will leave that to the grandmasters to debate. |
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Mar-10-06
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| BishopBerkeley: GM Yermo and GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz lock horns over the FischerRandom table. (The game annotation is Yermo's: "Playing FischerRandom is like taking a journey back to some pre-historic times. No theory to help one out is available. How to open the game? In my opinion, two issues must be addressed: the development of the bishops and obtaining adequate control of the center. White should also remember his obligation to be the aggressor...."): http://www.chessclub.org/FischerRan...
All rather fun!
(:  Bishop Berkeley :)
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| Mar-20-06 |
| TaricHall: We should have a bio for the Yermonator... How do we put one up? |
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Mar-21-06
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| WannaBe: <TaricHall> You write it! =) Bios here are written by members. |
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| Jun-26-06 |
| PhilFeeley: Yermolinksy quote from Chessville (don't know where he said/wrote it): "Generally speaking, most chess players are boring, self-centered, money-oriented, poorly educated overgrown adolescents I couldn't care less about. With some exceptions, that includes the Linares crowd and all of the world's top twenty." Yikes! Don't be shy about expressing your opinion! Maybe this is another reason why he hasn't played much internationally. |
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Jun-26-06
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| keypusher: If chessplayers were <money-oriented>, wouldn't they do something more lucrative, like picking lettuce or busking? |
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Jun-26-06
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| Sneaky: Poker takes one tenth the brains and makes 1000 times the money. |
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| Aug-29-06 |
| DoxaVita: Does anyone have his book: The Road To Chess Improvement, in .pdf that is willing to share with me? :-) |
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Aug-29-06
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| tamar: <Doxavita> Buy it. Yermo needs the money! |
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| Aug-29-06 |
| DoxaVita: IŽll buy it anyways, but i find that having it in the computer is much easier and confortable for me :-) , helps with analysis too |
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| Oct-11-06 |
| Chess Carnival: Here's a good picture of Yermo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:... |
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Apr-11-07
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| whiskeyrebel: Happy B-day Yermo. Here is a true free spirit and iconoclast of modern chess. Just when you think you have all the answers, Yermolinsky changes the questions. |
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Apr-11-07
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| gambitfan: PLOD We 11/04/2007
Player of the Day |
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| Apr-11-07 |
| Dr.Lecter: Happy birthday, yermonator! |
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| May-24-07 |
| IMDONE4: Its unfortunate that Yermo has not had any success in tournaments recently; can you contribute that to his age or the obvious rust of his play? I dont believe he studies chess theory much at home anymore. |
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Sep-20-07
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| keypusher: <I have heard good things about Yermolinsky's book "The Road to Chess Improvement". Did anyone read it? Would you recommend me to buy it? Thanks!>
It's a wonderful book, even if you don't play his openings (I don't). Quite apart from instructional value, it's just a joy to read. |
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Sep-20-07
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| plang: It is an excellent book. Yermolinsky is a very good writer. He is an adherent of Tals (and Keres) writing style in that he mixes analysis with explanatory prose. |
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Apr-11-08
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| brankat: Fifty years young today!
Happy Birthday Alex! |
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