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| Jun-25-06 |
| Topzilla: FIDE champions seem to follow the same pattern, they appear almost from nowhere to win FIDE WC, and then started going down, and playing miserable, Khalifman, Ponomarion and Kasa, all 3 suck right now. Is like if they would have pre-arranged to win FIDE, cause after they won it, they go down, down. Topalov is the exception.
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| Sep-29-06 |
| Bufon: What has happened to Khalifman, probably the weakest champion of history?? |
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| Sep-29-06 |
| ChessVip: <What has happened to Khalifman, probably the weakest champion of history??> please left the Khalifa drink in peace! |
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| Oct-10-06 |
| Petrosian63: Akopian would have been a more respectable FIDE WCC than Khalifman. |
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| Oct-10-06 |
| Tomlinsky: < Topzilla: FIDE champions seem to follow the same pattern, they appear almost from nowhere to win FIDE WC, and then started going down, and playing miserable, Khalifman, Ponomarion and Kasa, all 3 suck right now. Is like if they would have pre-arranged to win FIDE, cause after they won it, they go down, down. Topalov is the exception.>
Ahem. *cough* |
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Oct-10-06
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| cotdt: <Is like if they would have pre-arranged to win FIDE, cause after they won it, they go down, down. Topalov is the exception. >
Oh really? Looks like he's going down on Thursday when Kramnik beets him! |
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Oct-16-06
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| Benzol: What has this guy been doing recently? |
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Oct-16-06
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| refutor: <what has this guy been doing recently?> winning tournaments in russia,
http://www.uschess.org/news/newslet... writing books on kramnik's, anand's and karpov's openings http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_g... |
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| Feb-19-07 |
| PinkPanther: Khalifman is an idiot. There was recently a recent chessbase report that talked about him at Aeroflot which mentioned something about him having 13 or 14 draws in a row going back to the last year or two and he said "that's the only result for me here"...that's what happens when you offer people draws in under 20 moves all the time, you @#$%ing idiot. |
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| Feb-19-07 |
| you vs yourself: <that's what happens when you offer people draws in under 20 moves all the time, you @#$%ing idiot> lol. I'd call him smart, if he's really earning money by playing short draws. The organizers who invite him are @#$%ing idiots. |
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| Feb-19-07 |
| PinkPanther: They don't invite him. It's an open tournament. And you're not gonna win an open swiss by drawing game after game. |
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| Feb-19-07 |
| russep: he really does need to win a bit more |
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Feb-20-07
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| Eric Schiller: It would be interesting to see him at Gibraltar, where draws in first time control are forbidden without consent ofd organizers. Most of his recent final positions would not be acceptable, and he'd have to play on. |
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May-26-07
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| Karpova: From an interview with Kramnik (2000)
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kramn...
<VK: Sasha Khalifman, who assisted me before my 1994 match
with Kamsky, had a funny story to tell me, which seems apropos
here
Sometime in 1988-89, when Khalifman was performing his
military service, but was already quite a strong player, just under
GM strength, he was invited to the training camp of Gata Kamsky,
who was already showing great promise. On the second day, after
breakfast, while his son was still sleeping, Rustam Kamsky (whose
name is also well-known in chess circles) came and sat down with
Sasha. He said, "We like to play the Catalan Opening; but we keep
running into the Gruenfeld Defense. You, as a top openings
specialist, will show us, please, how we can turn this Defense into
a Catalan." Shrugging his shoulders in disbelief, Khalifman
attempted to explain to the senior Kamsky - an amateur-strength
player himself - that these are, in fact, two different openings; and
that no matter how hard you try, you can't get anything closer than
the variation of the Gruenfeld with the white king's bishop
fianchettoed...
Rustam's response was a cynical stare (Aha, so you don't want to
give up your little secret?), and the announcement, that evening,
that Sasha was no longer on the team.> |
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| Sep-02-07 |
| hoffe: khalifman at present, with his endless draws, reminds of old swede ulf andersson...
khalifman is becoming the most boring player of all, in that he practically never tries to win! i think a former world champ should raise his bars from this coward style... |
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Sep-02-07
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| Maroczy: <hoffe> Why even invite this guy to tournaments? |
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| Sep-02-07 |
| slomarko: to make a draw. |
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| Nov-02-07 |
| pawnofdoom: Get well soon Khalifman. He is sick with something right now so he can't participate in the Liga de Campiones tournament and Nisipeanu had to replace him at the last minute. I can't wait for Khalifman to get back into chess after he recovers |
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Nov-27-07
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| dx9293: It's sad to see Khalifman knocked out of the World Cup in the first round. A very strong player who never gets his due, I am reminded of his stunning win in the 1999 FIDE KO World Championship. "I do not claim to be the best chess player of the world, I claim that
I won the world championship, the only world championship at the moment. I have the title of FIDE world champion...looks like Mr. Kasparov has some informal but great title as the world's best chess player." -from Khalifman's press conference after winning (transcripted by FM Joel Salman of Chess Scotland) |
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Nov-27-07
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| Red October: yes, one can learn a lot by analyzing his games, very good technician especially these http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Nov-27-07
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| Red October: Lputian vs Khalifman, 1990 is an example of the technique he is known for |
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Nov-27-07
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| suenteus po 147: Considering that Khalifman recently underwent surgery (which kept him out of Liga de Campeones), I'm not surprised he wasn't able to move past the first round. He'll be back, though :) |
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| Nov-27-07 |
| TIMER: <suenteus po 1147> I mentoned in the world cup page, that even the FIDE site didn't mention him in the headline despite him being their champion! Instead they mentioned Short going out, despite (I) him never being champion, and (II)as challenger he broke away from FIDE. See http://www.fide.com/default.asp?cur... I know most of us would rate Short higher- but you wouldn't expect a FIDE site to. Also Khalifman was more recent and in this World Cup format so could even be more surprising if we didn't know his health issues. |
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Nov-27-07
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| suenteus po 147: <TIMER> I've given up trying to figure out why FIDE does any of the things that they do. |
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Aug-21-08
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| Karpova: An interview with Khalifman:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
His first trainer was Vassily Byvshev. His first chess book was “Journey to the chess kingdom” by Averbakh and Beilin. He also gives insight into the training at the Pioneer Palace: Khalifman: <Well, it’s not so easy to remember the exact format of chess training in the Pioneer Palace. Most of the time, we analysed games, and these included games played by strong players as well as our own games. Lots of emphases were given to the middlegame and endgame stages of the game. Normally, we had two training sessions per week of three hours each. But of course, I worked a lot on chess at home as well, probably something like three hours or slightly more per day on average. All physical training took place during summer camps.> |
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