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Sep-19-05
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| tamar: <Kangaroo> Yes it started 1 e4 c5 2 Qh5
I haven't seen the full game, and all Playchess has now is a fragment, but it is worth studying until the full one appears. [Event "Lausanne YoungMaster"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2005.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Nakamura, H."]
[Black "Volokitin, A."]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B20"]
[Annotator "Lausanne"]
[PlyCount "20"]
[EventDate "2005.??.??"]
1. e4 c5 2. Qh5 Nf6 3. Qh4 Nc6 4. Be2 e5 5. d3 Be7 6. Qg3 d5 7. Nd2 O-O 8. c3
b5 9. Nh3 d4 10. c4 Ne8 *
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Sep-19-05
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| tamar: [Event "Lausanne YoungMasters"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2005.09.19"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Nakamura, H."]
[Black "Volokitin, A."]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2671"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "2005.??.??"]
1. e4 c5 2. Qh5 Nf6 3. Qh4 Nc6 4. Be2 e5 5. d3 Be7 6. Qg3 d5 7. Nd2 O-O 8. c3
b5 9. Nh3 d4 10. c4 Ne8 11. cxb5 Bh4 12. Qf3 Nb4 13. Bd1 f5 14. a3 Nd6 15. axb4
fxe4 16. Qh5 Bxh3 17. g3 Qf6 18. Bb3+ Kh8 19. f3 exf3 20. Kf2 Bg5 21. Nxf3 g6
22. Bxg5 Qf5 23. Qxh3 Qxf3+ 0-1
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| Sep-19-05 |
| Kangaroo: To <Tamar>: Thanks a lot - or Spasibo, if you speak Russian. Yours gratefully, Kangaroo |
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Sep-19-05
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| notyetagm: Maybe this rout will put 2 h5 to rest.
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| Sep-19-05 |
| samikd: What was Nakamura thinking ? That he was playing 5 minute blitz at a club tournament ? |
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Sep-20-05
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| notyetagm: This Volokitin is one strong tactical monster. |
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| Sep-21-05 |
| chesswonders: <chessgames.com>This guy deserves a photograph of himself on this page |
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Mar-30-06
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| percyblakeney: Volokitin has slowly been losing rating points on the five last lists, with 2660 in April he's after Karjakin for the first time. |
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Apr-28-06
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| tamar: Volokitin got a big win today, beating Russian Champion Rublevsky with Black. Black to move and win  click for larger view37...Qd3 (37...Rxf3 is drawish) 38 Kg2 Qxf1+
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Apr-28-06
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| iron maiden: Volokitin is the first player confirmed for this year's Biel GM tournament. http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/ |
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| May-19-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Andrei Volokitin VOLOKITIN, Andrei
http://www.bidmonfa.com/volokitin_a...
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| Oct-10-06 |
| DutchDunce: Hmm, I always thought his name was "Volotikin." Anyways, he got mated today by Zhong Zhang: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qa5 7. Bd2 Qa4 8. h4 Nc6 9. h5 Nge7 10. h6 gxh6 11. Nf3 cxd4 12. cxd4 Nxd4 13. Bd3 Bd7 14. Bb4 Ndc6 15. Rh4 Ng6 16. Bxg6 hxg6 17. Bd2 Qa6 18. Bg5 Rc8 19. Bf6 Rg8 20. Rxh6 Na5 21. Ng5 Qc4 22. Qd2 Bb5 23. Rh7 Qf1# 0-1 |
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| Oct-14-06 |
| DutchDunce: Sorry, it's Pengxiang Zhang. |
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| Nov-14-06 |
| Holmstrom: "I like to attack, to sacrifice material" -Volokitin |
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Mar-25-07
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| notyetagm: Volokitin just won a Chess Informant Best Novelty prize for 14 f3-g5!! in A Volokitin vs Barsov, 2006. |
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Apr-09-07
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| notyetagm: The details on Volokitin's forthcoming puzzle book from GAMBIT, from http://www.gambitbooks.com/books/pe...: <PERFECT YOUR CHESS (Andrei Volokitin & Vladimir Grabinsky)
160 pages (248 mm by 172 mm).
£15.99/$28.95/€24,95
Forthcoming.
June 2007
Andrei Volokitin is one of a rare breed of players: he achieved a ranking in the world's top 20 while still a teenager, playing dynamic and often brilliant chess. Although we cannot all aspire to emulate his achievements, there is much that we can learn from his training methods, his games and his general approach to chess. These topics are the subject of this book, written in collaboration with his trainer. The core material of the book is 375 positions where the reader is given a task or asked a question. These tasks resemble those that players regularly face over the board, and are especially useful from a training viewpoint. Sometimes we are told we need to find a combination, but often the task is simply to decide on a move. It is for us to determine whether to play quietly or stake everything on a sacrificial attack! The examples are all from recent years, and so even the most zealous reader of chess literature will have seen few of them previously. Many of the positions are from Volokitin's own games, so we get the 'inside story' on some truly spectacular chess. We are also presented with fine examples from Grabinsky's training files, carefully collected and graded over the years for their instructive merit. The commentaries and detailed solutions explain the key issues in each position, and also convey the authors' philosophy of chess and their love for the game. > |
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| Apr-12-07 |
| Timex: Volotkin is very strong, but has more downs than ups these days. |
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| Feb-18-08 |
| Phoenix: I have "Perfect Your Chess", and can testify that it is a very good book. There are plenty of exercises that are hard for me to solve (I have a 2240 FIDE), but I like challenges. |
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| Apr-25-08 |
| sitzkrieg: Is volokitin not playing in the European Ch. today? I don't see his game broadcasted on playchess. |
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Apr-25-08
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| dx9293: <Phoenix> Yes, PERFECT YOUR CHESS is an excellent book!! I am thinking of asking Grabinsky to train me... |
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| Jun-09-08 |
| wolfmaster: Volokitin has been invited to another supertournament, Aerosvit (2008), and so far is sharing second with 1.5/2, having defeated Onischuk. Congrats to him, and let's hope he has a good tourney! |
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Jun-10-08
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| WBP: Interesting photograph of Volokitin.
It appears as though the tournament he's playing in is being held in a bar somehwere, as the sign behind him sems to be advertising Littleneck Clams (presumably on the half shell--good barfood) for $14.50. Hope all the players ate and drank well. Either way, here's a day early happy Birthday, Andrei. |
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Jun-10-08
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| WBP: Actually, it's probably not a tournament after all. The flag kind of suggests it, but I think the flowers would not really be appropriate beside a chessboard--distracting, perhaps. |
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| Jun-10-08 |
| sitzkrieg: Did he lose on his birthday?! |
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| Jun-19-08 |
| sitzkrieg: To go along with the rating mania, what will be the rating of Volo after his performance at Foros? |
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