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| Feb-01-09 |
| Jim Bartle: "It's only half a point ahead of last place, you know." That's one way to spin it. Another would be say he came in ahead of Adams, Ivanchuk and Morozevich. |
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| Feb-06-09 |
| tomfoolery: How tall is Van Wely, heightwise? |
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Feb-22-09
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| waustad: He is having a horrible tournament at the Aeroflot Festival. He has only 2 draws in 5 games, all against lower rated players. |
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| Feb-22-09 |
| volvak: He spent all of his good prep at Corus, now the real strength of Van Wely is on show. |
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| Feb-22-09 |
| dumbgai: How sad is it to see a Corus A participant getting a bye round at an open for being last in an odd-numbered field? |
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| Feb-22-09 |
| zoren: Is his live rating plummeting under 2600? |
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Feb-28-09
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| Billy Vaughan: I don't think he lost enough points for his 4.5/9 to fall below 2600. Remember, he gained a dozen or so points from his -1 score Corus A. |
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| Mar-11-09 |
| trenton: I saw on playchess recently, he's rated 2900+ there and he struggled to beat this 1700 player in 3min blitz |
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| Mar-11-09 |
| Granny O Doul: <tomfoolery: How tall is Van Wely, heightwise>
1.90 meters or just just under 6'3". |
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| Mar-13-09 |
| jon01: Loek in action: http://www.eurobudva2009.com/pic/13... |
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Mar-19-09
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| Billy Vaughan: Does he play soccer in the free days of every tournament? |
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| Apr-13-09 |
| chessarmenia: This may have been addressed before, but is his name pronounced Van Wely or Wan Vely? |
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Apr-14-09
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| Open Defence: I think its Fan Wely |
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Apr-26-09
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| notyetagm: FWIW: I did not see Van Wely's lovely blonde wife with Loek this year at Foxwoods, like I have the past several years. |
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May-19-09
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| laskersteinitz: Van Wely scored an impressive 7/9 at Foxwoods 2009, ending in sole 3rd place. Nicely done for a GM considered second-rate by some. |
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Jun-06-09
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| Peligroso Patzer: <laskersteinitz: Van Wely scored an impressive 7/9 at Foxwoods 2009, ending in sole 3rd place. Nicely done for a GM considered second-rate by some.> Although Van Wely has borne the brunt of a great deal of excessive criticism, essentially all of that criticism related to his unworthiness to be invited to elite super-GM events (which criticsm had considerable basis, even if the rhetoric sometimes went a little over the top). It is hard to believe anyone ever would have imagined Van Wely would be anything other than a serious competitor for high placement in an event like Foxwoods Open (2009). Van Wely is currently playing as the #1 seed in the U.S. National Open in Las Vegas. In the first two rounds, he has defeated an FM and an IM: http://www.vegaschessfestival.com/r... |
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Jul-08-09
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| waustad: He had an entertaining win over Antonio Fernandes at the Donostia festival today. |
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| Aug-28-09 |
| jon01: Here's a cool interview with Van Wely: http://www.chessedelic.com/2008/09/... |
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Aug-28-09
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| Billy Vaughan: Where's everybody calling him Loek Drawn Wely? =7 in the NH tournament, which is pretty good in my opinion. |
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| Aug-29-09 |
| chessplanet8: to NotYetaGM:
according to chessbase.com report on the NH tournament in Amsterdam 2009, loek van wely's girlfriend is lorena ( presumably lorena zepeda who played foxwoods 2009 like loek ) so he is most likely divorced from his wife.this is like NY post page six, chess edition :) |
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Oct-04-09
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| dakgootje: wow, he's very cold to radjabov in the interview jon01 linked. don't know to what extend he's wrong or right, but rather harsh in any case. |
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| Oct-16-09 |
| KamikazeAttack: Smeet, Tiviakov and that Wely again, I thought I had seen the back of him in super tournaments???? Corus is a joke. |
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Oct-20-09
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| Billy Vaughan: Here's my fantasy sequence where Loek van Wely becomes world champion: 1. FIDE changes the rules so the world challenger must play black during the whole match. 2. Radjabov becomes world champion.
3. FIDE then changes the rules again and requires the challenger to play white every match. 4. FIDE handpicks van Wely as challenger.
5. Van Wely defeats Radjabov in a dozen KIDs. |
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| Oct-25-09 |
| unsound: Meanwhile back in the real world, poor Van Wely lost rather spectacularly to FM Steven Zierk in Reno:
http://main.uschess.org/content/vie... |
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Oct-28-09
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| Billy Vaughan: The real world can be a sobering place.
That was a terrific game, at any rate, but does the chess world need to feign surprise every time van Wely loses to an FM? He's practically made it a habit. |
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