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| Apr-10-06 |
| Petrosian63: What are Sokolov's best tournament wins to achieve his best 2706 rating? |
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Apr-10-06
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| plang: He beat Kasparov at Corus in 1999 |
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| May-08-06 |
| PhilFeeley: You gotta love underdog wins. Sokolov must have fallen asleep at the end: [Event "Top 16"]
[Site "Asnières sur Seine FRA"]
[Date "2006.??.??"]
[Round "8.5"]
[White "Kurmann, Oliver"]
[Black "Sokolov, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2297"]
[BlackElo "2676"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[WhiteTeam "Mulhouse"]
[BlackTeam "Monaco"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. Bb3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. c3 h6 8. h3
Kh8 9. Be3 Bxe3 10. fxe3 Ne7 11. Nh4 c6 12. Nd2 d5 13. Qf3 Be6 14. d4 Qb6 15.
Qg3 exd4 16. exd5 Bxd5 17. exd4 Bxb3 18. Nxb3 Rae8 19. Rae1 Ned5 20. Nf5 Nh5
21. Qf3 Rxe1 22. Rxe1 Nhf6 23. Qg3 Rg8 24. c4 Nh5 25. Qf3 Qb4 26. Rf1 Ndf4 27.
g4 g6 28. Nxh6 Ng3 29. Nxg8 Kxg8 30. Rf2 Qe1+ 31. Kh2 Nfe2 1-0 |
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| Aug-26-06 |
| Petrosian63: Nice win by Sokolov at the Howard Staunton Memorial. After a few months of poor form. |
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| Oct-04-06 |
| Petrosian63: Wow! Sokolov know has a bio picture.
Good work Chessgames.com |
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| Oct-06-06 |
| argishti: i think chessgames team are just wonderful, but couldnt they pick a better pic than that? |
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Oct-06-06
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| WannaBe: <argishti> Take a better one and submit it. =) |
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Oct-23-06
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| ahmadov: Will this guy be able to avoid a loss by Mamed? He has only 14 minutes left to let people now. |
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Oct-27-06
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| ahmadov: What is going on with this man? He is not in good form at all. I hoped he would not let Topalov reach 2.5 :( |
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Oct-27-06
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| suenteus po 147: <ahmadov> Have you been following Sokolov's career for very long? He usually has really great tournament performances, or he usually ends up at the very bottom. |
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Oct-27-06
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| ahmadov: <suenteus po 147> I do not follow his tournaments, but I checked the games he played recently and found that with weaker players he drew and he almost always lost to players 2700+ (like Bacrot, Aronian and Ivanchuk etc.) recently. |
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| Oct-27-06 |
| Bufon: A shame for Sokolov to have played like a patzer so far in Essent, his home. |
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Oct-28-06
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| suenteus po 147: <Bufon> Shame? Patzer? Those words don't make any sense in regards to Sokolov's performance at Essent. |
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| Oct-28-06 |
| sitzkrieg: I'd not call Essent his home.. |
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Oct-28-06
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| suenteus po 147: <sitzkrieg> Of course you're right, it's not his home, but part of his nation that he plays for. Like Van Wely at Corus or Vallejo Pons at Linares or Naiditsch at Dortmund, some players are there for their country and usually don't do very well, but they play the very best they can against the world's elite. And some of them do a fine job. Naiditsch has actually won Dortmund one year. Van Wely and Vallejo Pons, while finishing in the lower rank often score at least one or two great wins against the likes of Kramnik or Adams or Svidler. In a way, they have a better time of it. No one expects them to do well, and when they do the praise is heaped upon them. |
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| Oct-28-06 |
| Bufon: <suentespo147> so, do you consider 5 loses and one draw what??? A miserable performance... |
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Oct-28-06
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| suenteus po 147: <Bufon> It depends on your point of view, I guess. To me, Topalov had a much more miserable performance than Sokolov did. After all, Sokolov is the lowest rated guy there. How well do you expect him to do? Topalov, on the other hand, is the highest rated player there! Yet he came in third, with three losses and a draw to the lowest rated player. That's pretty miserable. |
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Oct-28-06
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| chancho: <suenteus po 147> Exactly right. |
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| Oct-28-06 |
| sitzkrieg: Probably clear enough, but Essent and Corus are companies that sponsor chess tournaments in Hoogeveen and Wijk aan zee, respectiveley. |
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| Jan-08-07 |
| Dr.Lecter: I can't believe that Sokolov placed last in two consecutive Corus tournaments. What is it between him and Corus? |
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| Jun-13-07 |
| Stonehenge: Happy birthday, sretan vam rodjendan! |
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| Jul-06-07 |
| arunjangity: gadzeeks what a horrible picture. he looks like he's saying f.u. to the whole world. |
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| Aug-06-07 |
| pawnofdoom: His mouth's not even open. Looks more like he's sleeping. Chessgames should replace that pic |
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Oct-06-07
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| whiteshark: Compare:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_S...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_S...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_S...
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Oct-06-07
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| Red October: it seems suicidal playing the Nimzo Indian Defence against him |
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