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| Feb-06-08 |
| hitman84: "The Great Bu's up" but, in the end it was "Hick-aru Nakamura" |
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| Feb-25-08 |
| playerXchess: Bu will play in Antwerp, Belgium in August.
http://schaakfabriek.be/2008/02/15/... http://www.inventichess.com/
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| Apr-03-08 |
| sitzkrieg: won of Zvigiantsev (how do you spell it!) with black in the Russian Team ch, not bad. I predict a topscorer.. |
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| Apr-05-08 |
| socnegoti: Bu's third game was equally fantastic - without a doubt the best game of the 4th round. He was just gunning for white's king from the get go. Sacrificing pawn and then exchange. Brilliantly tense. unfortunately the official site didnt broadcast the clock times - which would have made it more tense for spectating. |
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| Apr-06-08 |
| sitzkrieg: That was the game against Karjakin i pressume. |
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| Apr-09-08 |
| socnegoti: Today, Bu is up against the mighty Shirov. Can't wait. :) |
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| Apr-13-08 |
| memento mori: Russian Team Championship
April fide rating: 2708
Points gained: +9
New rating: 2717
Performance rating: 2771 (+63) |
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| Apr-14-08 |
| Orlin Burov: I tend to like this player.
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| Apr-14-08 |
| playerXchess: Nice interview with Bu by Javier Moreno Carnero http://www.mtelmasters.com/en/inter... Also Mtel masters is the first Grand Slam tournament to have a Chinese language version. News here: http://www.mtelmasters.com/en/news&... |
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| May-05-08 |
| silvermoon: Bu Xiangzhi will compete next at the M-Tel Masters tournament in May 7th to 18th 2008. It takes place in the Central Military Club in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The event is a 10 round double round robin with a 5 hour time control. In case of a draw at the top there will be a tie break for determining the winner. Like in the previous three editions of M-Tel Masters the rule for the draws introduced in Sofia will be valid. According to it the players do not have the right to agree a draw. This can be decided only by the chef arbiter of the tournament. Official site: http://www.mtelmasters.com/
Average rating: 2737
Category: 20
Contestants, ratings
1/ Veselin Topalov, 2767
2/ Levon Aronian, 2763
3/ Teimour Radjabov, 2751
4/ Vassily Ivanchuk, 2740
5/ Bu Xiangzhi, 2708
6/ Ivan Cheparinov, 2695 |
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| May-06-08 |
| playerXchess: MTEL will be Bu's strongest tourney he's been in. |
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| May-08-08 |
| chess61: I don’t mean to be picky, but the above bio is confusing. Given that Bu was born on 10 December 1985, it states that he won the World U-14 Championship in 2000?? Then, it says "That same year he became the youngest-ever International Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, 13 days".
Bu won the World U-14 Championship in 1998. In 1999, he became the youngest ever International Grandmaster at the age 13 years, 10 months, 13 days.
Forgive me if this has been pointed out before.
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May-12-08
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| Marmot PFL: I don't think they measure years the same way in China as we do. For instance they name their months after animals instead of pagan gods and have a different New Year. In any case it must be hard for Xiangzhi to keep his mind on chess with the terrible earthquakes that are decimating his country. |
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May-13-08
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| arkansaw: Er, you mean years, not months. Now that they have corrected the bio, it seems reasonable. |
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May-13-08
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| Knight13: <Now that they have corrected the bio, it seems reasonable.> <Xiangzhi, who is currently ranked 63rd on the FIDE world ranking list> Uhhh.. Yeah, they DID correct his bio. I didn't know there were over 60 players with 2700+ rating. Thought it was around 24 or so. |
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May-13-08
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| Marmot PFL: <I didn't know there were over 60 players with 2700+ rating. Thought it was around 24 or so.> A couple years ago there probably were. Rating inflation is rampant. |
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May-13-08
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| Marmot PFL: http://members.shaw.ca/redwards1/ |
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May-13-08
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| percyblakeney: According to the "rectified" ratings in the link above Kramnik was a stronger player in 1993 than in 2007, and the Kasparov that won Linares 2005 is weaker than the 1984 version. Probably slightly debatable rectifications. On the latest FIDE list there were 24 players rated above 2700, on the live rating list it is 28 at the moment, so it is definitely increasing. |
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May-13-08
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| percyblakeney: Actually, the rectified list ends in 2006, so Kramnik's rectified rating was 2611 when he won the individual gold in the Olympiad 2006, but 2650 for July 1993. Kasparov's rectified rating for Linares 2005 is 2690, the same as he had in January 1983. |
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May-16-08
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| Knight13: Like Kasparov playing below his usual strengh in 1997 against that non-human thing? |
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| May-16-08 |
| lentil: "Bu Xiangchi" is very near a delicious pun! In Mandarin, bu means "not" and Chinese chess is "xiangqi" ... |
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| May-16-08 |
| dumbgai: I don't like the rating rectification because it assumes that the average rating of the top players should remain constant. But why should it? There is such thing as objective playing strength in chess, and I'm quite certain that the top players in the world gradually improve their quality of play over time. For example, I'm pretty sure the #20 ranked player today would crush the #20 ranked player from Fischer's days. Additionally, with the increasing popularity of chess there are more highly talented players out there. |
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May-16-08
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| Knight13: <I'm pretty sure the #20 ranked player today would crush the #20 ranked player from Fischer's days.> We have this thing called "Chess Computers" and "More Knowledge" that helps us play a lot better chess than those people back then. |
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| May-16-08 |
| dumbgai: <Knight13> Yes, that's true - more advanced books and computers definitely help today's players. However, why shouldn't this improved quality of play be reflected in the ratings? Ratings are an estimation of a player's playing level; whether the player uses computers to prepare is not important in the context of ratings. A 2700 today might not necessarily be more talented than a 2600 from thirty years ago, but thanks to computers and improved theory the 2700 would win and thus deserves the higher rating. |
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| May-16-08 |
| wallytherhino: <A couple years ago there probably were. Rating inflation is rampant.> Rating inflation favors the active players. Players like Gata Kamsky gets a bad knock for having a low rating but, when he plays he can compete with people of higher rating. I have seen this time and time again; A player takes a two or three year brake from playing tournaments and they still have the talent even though they are rated lower. Am I just saying the same thing many different ways? |
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