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May-13-09
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| talisman: How life imitates chess:
after demonstrating his organizational skills and fundraising abilities(the non-title no-match with shirov) kasparov loses to both losers...kramnik and putin. |
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May-13-09
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| amadeus: That's a nice meme...
<"Why Kasparov Quit Chess" - Two words:> Water Fluoridation
Dentistry School
Kawa Bunga! |
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May-13-09
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| alexmagnus: <the fifteen languages I am said to speak is a joke.> That was clear as the sky in the high summer, but the question is who invented this "joke"... Kasparov himself? |
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May-13-09
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| Absentee: <talisman: How life imitates chess:
after demonstrating his organizational skills and fundraising abilities(the non-title no-match with shirov) kasparov loses to both losers...kramnik and putin.> Looks to me like Putin's been on the winning side for a good while now. Politically, Kasparov is a clown...
you should've kept at chess, Garry. |
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| May-13-09 |
| Ziggurat: <off-topic> I guess a lot of people have a fairly relaxed definition of being "fluent" in a language. Come to think of it, it's maybe not so easy to pinpoint what it means. I speak five languages, but would only characterize myself as fluent in one of them, even though I was brought up in two languages. I used to be fluent in those two languages, but one of them has gradually deteriorated after I turned 20. I speak it, and understand it perfectly, but often find myself mentally searching for words. That, to me, means I'm not fluent in it anymore, though that could change in the future. |
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May-17-09
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| HeMateMe: Maybe someone should edit his bio here, seeing as how there is a quote (if it is accurate) that Kasparov himself dispels this notion of knowing 15 languages. I remember reading something unusual about language study. It was a short piece on Leopold and Loeb. They were the two University of Chicago students who decided to kidnap a child, to see if they could get away with it. They ending up killing their victim. They were both caught and given life imprisonment. One of them was killed in prison. The other made the study of languages his lifes work (he wasn't going anywhere) and mastered a reported 73 languages. In his late age, he was paroled and I think he teaches at University in Puerto Rico. A bright guy, just criminally insane. |
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May-19-09
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| HAPERSAUD: I have a question, is there a reason for why Garry started to play more king's pawn openings as white from 1998 onwards than queen's pawn or english? Was he tired of his opponents preparing novelties or something or did he just want to win more and decided e4 best by test? |
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May-29-09
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| SatelliteDan: <HAPERSAUD: I have a question, is there a reason for why Garry started to play more king's pawn openings as white from 1998 onwards than queen's pawn or english? Was he tired of his opponents preparing novelties or something or did he just want to win more and decided e4 best by test?>
Good question.
Chess life just put Kasparov on the cover. Is he a legend? I think so. |
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May-29-09
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| talisman: <HAPERSAUD> for his 1990 match with karpov, GK said that he thought e4 would cause karpov problems in the sense that it would not give him the type of game that suited his style best. |
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| May-29-09 |
| Jim Bartle: I read that after beating Karpov with 1. e4 in game 2, Kasparov stared straight into Karpov's eyes as he started with the same move in game 4. |
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Jun-01-09
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| HAPERSAUD: Oh I get it now :) It doesn't really matter what move he played as long as it caused problems for his oponnents. Thanks <Talisman> <Jim Bartle> It really is a shame he retired, I could use some inspiration for my repertoire right now lol |
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| Jun-08-09 |
| SBB: Tolkien was fluent in 12 languages, had a working knowledge of 7 more, and invented 14, 2 of which were almost completely functional. I don't see why 15 is an impossibility. |
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| Jun-08-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
I a M Sau Ron Livshits without D Body :( |
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| Jun-08-09 |
| Defiler: <SBB: Tolkien was fluent in 12 languages, had a working knowledge of 7 more, and invented 14, 2 of which were almost completely functional. I don't see why 15 is an impossibility.> It certainly isn't but apart from the fact that he already stated that he speaks just two; Kasparov played or studied chess 50 hours per week for more than two thirds of his life. Who has time to learn 13 more languages with this kind of scedule? ;p |
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| Jun-09-09 |
| SBB: It certainly is clear that Kaspy only speaks two, I was just trying to dispel the thought that 15 was impossible. A quote of which I can not find, so I guess I imagined it. I really shouldn't study in the middle of the night. |
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| Jun-09-09 |
| kurtrichards: Granting that Mr. Kasparov knows 15 languages (I wonder what languages are those) fluently but those are not enough to beat Mr.Putin. |
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| Jun-11-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
The six degrees of separation:
http://www.ibeatgarry.com/ |
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| Jun-22-09 |
| drnooo: I know common sense is always at a premium here, but yikes. All any of you have to do is listen to Kasparov speak in English. He's very fumbling, a lot of haad and hand tossing, uhh, like,uhh, like a lot of uhhs,pauses, mmm, ya know, hardly fluent. As for fluent a la Fisher, why in hell did he have Evans do the liner notes for his own big album if he had been so comfortable with his English. Speaking with a decent vocabulary, easily, is fluent, seems...making room for a physical stutter, nervous malfunction. Any occasion Fisher spoke, at least recorded, was never, repeat never one of verbal fireworks,... if anything one of a rather diminished vocabulary that hardly poured forth trippingly on the tongue. Now maybe he never read much, dunno, so it could be that a monstrous vocabulary eluded him going down that road. Actually it seems that, and this is a little off topic, Seirawan has a great writing style. For a model at least of a chessplayers verbal fluency.
Now as for fluent chess, well Fisher is right up there with the best. Easy, no hesitation, all the right words in the right places, fast and graceful as Fred Astaire. To mix about three metaphors, but what the hell, that's where Fisher WAS fluent. Not English. |
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| Jun-22-09 |
| drnooo: Make that Fischer the chessplayer and Fisher the linguist. |
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| Jun-22-09 |
| drnooo: And while we're at it, even though Topolovs opinions about chess are to be taken with a boxcar load of salt, how about this. Kasparov is in a class by himself, right. Krammnik way behind. Lets see 120 encounters, Krammnik one win behind. Huh? Oh yeah, not including a so called championship match that, I forget who won, pretty sure it was not Kasparov. mmm, maybe not just sour grapes but spoiled and turning to really bitter wine there, Topa. Not counting the matches that Krammnik held his own at least as well as Kasparov against a computer. Which you notice so far nobody else has even had the nerve to try. The simple fact is that for all intents and purposes Krammnik and Kasparov are equal against each other no mater how you twist and squirm to prove otherwise. |
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| Jun-22-09 |
| tud: Let's not forget Kramnik had a great training from Kasparov when he was still a young man. He was his second during the match with Anand. His results against Kasparov improved considerably after that. And, no, they are not equal to each other, a match after 2000 would have been won by Kasparov, no doubt about that. Kasaprov's eyes were after other players, he simply ignored Kramnik. See what happens after 2000, Kramnik gets the right position behind Kasparov. |
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Jun-22-09
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| MaxxLange: Kramnik and Kasparov aren't judged only by their results against each other. Kramnik, who is clearly a "super grandmaster" if anyone is, never dominated the top tournaments for a decade like both Karpov and Kasparov did with the title. As such, I think he is clearly a rank behind them as a player. |
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Jun-23-09
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| HeMateMe: Kasparov dominated both match play and tournament play far longer than Kramnik has. A comparison of great players is more than just a head to head comparison; its also a look at how they fared against common opponents. Part of Kramnik's inconsisteny could be attributed to lack of motivation on his part. Some people just don't need these victories as much as others. But the record is there to examine. Kasparov stands alone, unique among chess players. |
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Jun-28-09
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| Knight13: I support that Kasparov is a better player compared to Kramnik. |
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| Jul-02-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
Garry Kasparov: Lessons Given by Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian http://www.armeniadiaspora.com/js04... |
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