<I think that all this nationalistic spirit is sometimes a little unnecessary...>

I will partially agree with you on that too... MAY BE some of it is unnecessary.

But meanwhile being proud of Aronian, or World Champion Petrosian or othe strong GM's and their achievements should not be a reason for some type of arguements. Nothing wrong with that. Hey, Norwegians are proud of their Magnus Carlsen,,,, Indians are proud with Vishy and Sasikiran and others.... what's wrong with it? It's like being a fan of Lakers and Phoenix... I name my favorite and you name your favorite. Fine with me...

Armenia being such a small country and having such HUGE achievements in chess is allowing a lot of armenians, including myself, to be a little proud of something, that we all like, called "chess".

<Softpaw> I know exactly what you are talking about. I was trying to make the point of some other kibitzers that have posted before me.

First as you called it "unnecessary patriotic banter". Second you can call it just being proud of their fellow players from their own nation.

One thing that you and a lot of other people here do not realize is that, the psychology of people from a smaller nations is a lot different than to other bigger nations.

There is nothing wrong with being proud of the achievements of someoene from your own nation. But being incapable of accepting criticism and creating anti Armenian conspiracy theories every time someone suggests a position inconsistent with yours is a completely different thing.

I seldom post but you have drawn me out - I have to agree with <petrovalovski> that the propaganda is pissing alot of people off. There are people from all over the world who visit this site for casual enjoyment. The vitriol and aggression behind your comments aren't necessary. You made your position known to all a long time ago and feel compelled to repeat it ad nauseum.

I appreciate many of the Armenian players for how they play and how they behave - it is irrelevant to me where they come from. It is also irrelevant to most.

So I say to you - enjoy the site, stop worrying about criticism of "your" players (many others get far more - look at Bobby Fischer) and let others enjoy it to.

This is the last from me on this topic as I don't have the free time to spend further debating the obvious.

I could not imagine that some of them can be so stuipid and relate my comment to patriotism or nationalism.

Guys, if you follow all the interviews of levon you can simply discover youself that he is a very humble and nice guy, that's it. he always overeestimates his opponents, never claims his grat achivemens to his great performance and always think he his lucky, etc

It is absurd that you try to provoke some stupid fight here. never try to misinterpret my commnets.

I don't think your statement is right. Have you seen Levon Aronian's suits in recent events?

Which one them was a very bad taste???

White suits? black striped suits?? I don't think so... I think he even dresses up a lot classier than a lot of other super GM's.