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Jul-10-09
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| Albertan: GM Michael Adams is in my home town of Edmonton,Alberta,Canada for the 2009 Canadian Open Chess Tournament which can be followed live on Monroi (link:http://monroi.com/2009-canadian-ope...) starting this Saturday. What a thrill for me on Thursday night to have GM Adams, GM Shirov, GM Ganguly of India and GM Xue Zhao of China all watching my game in a club tournament!! I will never forget last night!! I hope all of you get to experience what I experienced last night sometime in your chess careers!! |
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| Jul-11-09 |
| returnoftheking: You better won that game..;) |
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Jul-14-09
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| Albertan: kingofthehill, sorry to let you down, but I lost the game LOL Oh well I got revenge yesterday, as I played the same player again at the Canadian Open and even though he has a rating 319 points higher than me, I drew with him in an amazing game in which both of us only had 2 minutes and 11 seconds left on our clocks! I do not see how GM's can play game after game with this new time control the FIDE President forced on them!! Losing half an hour has only made chess games full of blunders,even at the highest levels! |
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Jul-14-09
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| Albertan: Michael Adams gave up a draw to Edmonton FIDE Master Vladimir Pechenkin on Tuesday night at the Canadian Open Chess Championship in Edmonton, Alberta That must have been quite a thrill for Vladimir as Adams is the 35th highest-rated player in the World! You can play through the game move for move here:
http://monroi.com/watch/?tnm_id=1289 |
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| Jul-29-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
The Kingpin Questionnaire
http://www.chesscenter.com/kingpin/... |
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| Aug-20-09 |
| pugofcrydee: Adams is the British number 1 no longer... |
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| Aug-21-09 |
| sandhurstwolf: I don`t know if their is any connection but ever since Adams has got married his form has gone south. Or perhaps his tendency of losing important games in winning positions has finally ground down his enthusiasm for the game. I just hope the new tournament in London at the end of the year will rekindle his A-game. |
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| Aug-30-09 |
| Everett: Is there a website for the ranking of British players? |
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| Aug-30-09 |
| returnoftheking: http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtm... But this is of course not updated with each game. |
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Aug-30-09
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| HeMateMe: <sandhurstwolf>
About two years ago adams played a well publicized match against a world class computer program, I think he was quite well paid for this, win or lose. It may be just a coincidence, but since that point I think his tournament activity has slowed, and his results have been inconsistent. could some financial security dull ones competitive fire? |
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| Sep-01-09 |
| Everett: The Hydra match was 4 years ago..,
Kibitzers smarter than me maintain that Mickey was on a slow downhill ever since 2002, and especially after his loss to Kasimdzhanov in the FIDE championships in 2004 |
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| Sep-01-09 |
| pugofcrydee: But Short is older then Adams! Any reason why Michael has gone downhill since then, whilst Short is going on strong still? Is it playing style? Or maybe Short is just a better player... And i thought Adams only got paid $10,000 for his draw against Hydra, so i don't think that will give him long term financial security |
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Sep-01-09
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| pawn to QB4: I wouldn't have thought there was anything unusual in Mickey's slight decline in rating: getting a bit older, recently married (often bad for the rating as many club players can tell you), a few bad results. I'd actually expect a guy with his style - I've always had judgment of positions as his main superpower - to last a long time - qv Smyslov. That Short has overtaken him is down to some terrific recent performances rather than Mickey going under. |
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| Sep-01-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: Why hasn't he written another Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy book? Oh, wait. That's DOUGLAS Adams!
Never mind. :) |
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| Sep-03-09 |
| sandhurstwolf: pawn to QB4:- you make some great points which i tend to agree with but to go downhill as dramatically as Adams in the last couple of years has to be more significant than a few bad results to me it is a psychological problem.A lack of self-confidence, lack of motivation call it whatever its all abit sad to see him slip rapidly down the rankings. |
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| Sep-18-09 |
| Cibator: Let's face it, he'll soon be forty, and only truly exceptional players maintain world-class form beyond that age. And although Mickey has borne the standard for Britain in fine style for a lengthy period, he is not in that particular league. On a larger topic: it says much for the state of chess in the UK that it's had the same top two now for about 15 years. Keene toppled Penrose c1970, Miles surpassed Keene c1975, then came Short around 1985 followed by Adams from about 1993 (I should stress that these dates are approximate only). Since when .... There ought to be some new talent pushing through by this time, but where is it? |
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| Sep-18-09 |
| kackhander: <There ought to be some new talent pushing through by this time, but where is it?> working in the city? |
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| Sep-18-09 |
| jamesmaskell: David Howell, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane are the upcoming talents. Howell is the new British Champion and I recall Gawain Jones won three tournaments in a row earlier this year. McShane did well in the Staunton memorial in his comeback tournament. There is talent. |
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Sep-18-09
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| pawn to QB4: Yes. There's also Stephen Gordon, Stewart Haslinger - both terrific young GMs - and a few years down the track howsabout Brandon Clarke or Felix Ynojosa? The latter is 13 and has a rating of 224 in our system: I recall playing Nigel Short when he was only a little younger than that, and he was 205, 208 or 213, I forget exactly. Essentially, if you're saying it's significant that Adams and Short have been on top for 15 years, you're saying that you'd expect the country to have produced more people around 2720 in that time. That's rather a big ask: I don't know if we ever did that regularly. |
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Sep-18-09
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| HeMateMe: Just wondering, how young was Mick when he played in his first British Championship? Someone mentioned on Nigel Short's page that Nige was just 12 in his first national championship. That seems hard to believe, is it true? Fischer was 14 (and he actually won) in his first US championship. Outside of Short being age 12, has anyone, say, age 14 or 15 been asked to compete in the Brit National Championship? |
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| Sep-20-09 |
| Cibator: Yep - Jonathan Mestel competed in 1972, aged 15. Scored 6.5/11. |
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| Sep-25-09 |
| jamesmaskell: Lets not forget here that chess isnt treated like a sport in the UK in the same way as it is in other countries. A lot of former Soviet countries have chess as a bona fide sport as part of the curriculum. In Britain its not treated in a similar way as football, rugby, or athletics. Its still effectively just a board game with no serious physical aspect to it to allow it to be treated as a sport. Of course any chessplayer who's played a long stamina draining game will argue different, but those who make the calls in the UK sport-wise arent likely to change their minds very quickly. |
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Sep-29-09
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| whatthefat: Matthew Sadler was another great talent who quit the game. |
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Sep-29-09
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| HeMateMe: <Lets not forget here that chess isnt treated like a sport in the UK in the same way as it is in other countries.> I don't think it's a sport, although many professionals like to think so. The physical element just isn't there. Nor is chess an art, because there are too many fundamental rules and principles that must be followed to play successfully. What Van Gogh did and what Fischer did have not much relation. Chess, for most of us, is a game, a board game, with varying skill levels which increase the intensity on hand and make the margins of victory slimmer. Chess at the professional level is an intellectual exercise contested by people with unusual spatial thinking ability. Chess for most others in entertainment, in lieu of watching 'American Idol'. |
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Sep-29-09
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| whatthefat: Well, sport is nothing but a form of entertainment as well, so in that sense I think chess fits the definition. Of course, in the end it just comes down to semantics. |
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