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| euripides: <airce> You are charitably correcting Karpov's English:-) He does seem to say 'agreed for three draws', which is not idiomatic and is therefore hard to interpret. 'Agreed to three draws' would be more idiomatic, though you usually 'agree to' something that someone else does, not to something that you do yourself. A more idiomatic statement would be either 'they agreed three draws' - which would clearly not suggest a deal - or 'they agreed to play three draws', which would suggest one. I think most English people would simply say 'they did a deal' if that's what they meant. |
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Sep-04-06
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| acirce: I honestly think it sounds like he says <to>, but I'm not sure. I agree the way he speaks about this may mean he is suggesting there was a deal. If that is what he thinks you'd think there must be a less ambiguous statement from him somewhere though. Not that it would prove anything, of course. |
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| Jan-17-07 |
| Dr.Lecter: <EmperorAthahualpa> How do you post biography for a player anyways? I thought chessgames.com was the one writing the biographies? |
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| Jul-27-07 |
| geraldo8187: onischuk's play this year in european tournaments has been very impressive |
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| Aug-02-07 |
| cotdt: onischuk's games are amazing, whether he wins or loses. more often he wins :) i really like his creative tactical chess, and he's getting great results recently so they should invite him to big tournaments more often. like corus and mtel. |
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| Aug-02-07 |
| Kleve: Onischuk had a great performance at Biel!!! Congrats are due. |
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| Aug-02-07 |
| arunjangity: very nice. plus a nice result at aerosvit, i bet he will gain many elo points. |
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| Aug-04-07 |
| Petrosian63: How many ELO points actually? |
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Aug-04-07
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| groupoid: could it be that Onischuk makes it past 2700? |
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| Aug-04-07 |
| arunjangity: the calculation is tricky since aerosvit is based on march ratings. but i think he will get 9 pts there, plus 14 from biel according to <sapfy>. total of 23. so that would make him 2673. |
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Aug-05-07
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| groupoid: But can he reach 2700 later? |
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| Aug-05-07 |
| cotdt: <groupoid: But can he reach 2700 later?> if he keeps getting invited to big tournaments, then his rating will climb. otherwise, playing at opens lowers his rating. |
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Aug-19-07
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| dx9293: <groupoid, cotdt> I don't think of Onischuk as a 2700 player, but if he does keep getting invited to these kinds of tourneys and stays away from playing in the US, I guess he could make it. Is he another Bologan-type? |
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Aug-20-07
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| chesstoplay: Alex had a 2754 USCF Rating after the 30TH World Open in Philadelphia,PA USA that ended 2002-07-07. What really strikes me about his play is... absolutely nothing ever seems to bother him. He is clearly a 2700+ player and still on the rise.
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Aug-20-07
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| dx9293: <chesstoplay> Being 2754 USCF certainly does not necessarily equate to 2700 Elo. USCF ratings don't mean much at this level. In fact, I judge the strength of players 2400 and up by their Elo ratings and pay no attention to their USCF ratings. I don't think Onischuk will quite make 2700 (he will be 32 already next week), but he very well might. Again, he has to stay away from the opens and prepare hard for the round robins that he gets invited to. |
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Nov-27-07
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| dx9293: I'm impressed. I know Nikolic blundered, but it seems Onischuk will make Round 3 (of course Game 2 is tomorrow still). Maybe he will make 2700 Elo. He has been playing 2700 this year and with as hard as he obviously prepares, I guess he WILL make it. With a rating of 2703, Wang Yue is currently #22 in the World. Is Alexander Onischuk one of the 25 best players in the world? Right now at least, I think he is. |
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| Nov-27-07 |
| pawnofdoom: <dx9293> Onischuk might be good, but he's getting older. There are all these youngsters that are passing him. Wang Yue and Bu are only about 20 years old. Wang Hao, also one of the chinese young people is improving rapidly. Sergey Karjakin has earned enough rating points to get into the 2700s (as long as he doesn't spoil it now). It will be pretty hard for Onischuk to get into the top 25. |
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Nov-27-07
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| dx9293: <pawnofdoom> Well, he's 36th-38th now. It's not impossible. Hell, Alex Yermolinsky reached 20th in the World in 1997 (and his Elo rating was 2660!!! Just goes to show you inflation in 10 years) and he wasn't playing quite as strong as Onischuk is now. I'm not saying Onischuk will STAY 2700, but I think he can at least hit the number. Guys like Kasimdzhanov, Khalifman, Bologan, and Krasenkow(!) were able to hit it briefly. |
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| Nov-27-07 |
| Jim Bartle: I think there are a lot of guys at Onischuk's general level who are probably hoping to get maybe to the final eight, and who knows, one of them might ride a hot streak farther. |
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Nov-27-07
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| dx9293: <Jim Bartle> In the World Cup you mean? Yeah I think you're right. But to do that, someone is going to have to be unbeatable with the White pieces. Not only that, they will have to steamroll people with White. That's how Khalifman did it in '99. |
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| Nov-29-07 |
| Jim Bartle: Onischuk plays Shirov in the third round, I believe. Though Shirov is clearly the favorite (and my favorite player), he looks ripe for an upset. Shirov has been fortunate so far, and is a high-risk type player, so over a couple of games Onischuk might come out on top. |
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Nov-29-07
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| dx9293: Agreed. Shirov is not the right kind of player for this event, though he did make the final in 2000, so I guess he can do it. Shirov was one of the four best players in the world at the end of the 1990s, but he has never seemed to recover from the World Chess Council fiasco and his family problems. Very reminiscent to me of Ponomariov—he has regressed since 2002. |
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Nov-29-07
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| dx9293: Onischuk, for his part, just keeps rolling along and steadily increases his rating. |
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| Dec-01-07 |
| Jim Bartle: Foul! That was a different JB in the post three spots above, not me. |
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Dec-12-07
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| dx9293: I guess my comment above about Shirov not being the right kind of player for the World Cup was right on :-) Oops. |
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