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Apr-21-09
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| acirce: <Peter Leko may not be the most popular player among amateurs, but to neglect his chess would be a pity both aesthetically and instructionally. He is one of the world’s strongest players, after all, and came within a single draw of the world title back in 2004. His wins have a strategic clarity reminiscent of players like Capablanca and Fischer, and that makes them very useful to study.> -- Dennis Monokroussos http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Wise words. |
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| Apr-24-09 |
| falso contacto: good schedule ahead. totally capable of winning this nalchik tournament. |
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| Apr-28-09 |
| danielpi: Go Peter! |
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| May-01-09 |
| Method B: Despite losing to Aronian in the last round Lékó had a pretty good tournament. He showed us good preparation and he finally mixed up his openings. It was great to see him beating the Petroff not once but twice! Especially after that ridiculous 2.Bc4 against Kramnik in Mexico. This is the best Lékó I have seen in the last few years. He may climb closer to the top of the rating list again. Only one thing to note: I wish those last round defeats could disappear.. |
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| May-15-09 |
| ILikeFruits: big wang...
of yue...
reminds me of...
leko... |
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| May-16-09 |
| apple pi: <strategic clarity>: very, very apt.
Leko should supplement his opening repetoire with the Catalan, IMO. He would be very successful in these semi-opened positions we sometimes get out of Catalans. |
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May-23-09
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| chancho: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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May-28-09
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| amadeus: Interview with Peter Leko: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... <I had many trainers during my carrier to whom I am all very thankful. Since this year besides my permanent coach Arshak Petrosian, with whom we have been working for eight years, I also started a serious professional work with German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, who is helping me a lot in refreshing my opening repertoire. I cannot assess the daily number of hours, as it differs. During intensive training sessions it can well be ten or twelve hours a day...> <In general I consider every top player to be universal. On the other hand each of us has his unique style, which depends most probably on the character of a player. I like to play in a “clean and clear” way, and I am definitely not the type of guy who takes unnecessary risks. I believe much more in the logic of our game rather than gambling on your opponent's nerves...> |
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| Jun-08-09 |
| Astardis: Now I don't know, maybe it's about time for Leko to reconsider himself carefully... he gets the home advantage and then draws Adams, barely manages to beat a way-past-his-prime Karpov and then loses to Kramnik, the boy Carlsen (!) and now the Indian. Doesn't this reveal something about Leko's class compared to other top players? |
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| Jun-08-09 |
| Illogic: Not really.. |
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Jul-05-09
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| Knight13: <Astardis> His rating doesn't seem to be that much off from those who are "better" than him is it? He's doing his best. |
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Jul-24-09
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| acirce: Interview from 2002 http://www.chessclub.com/resources/... |
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| Aug-09-09 |
| The Rocket: "How do you estimate your chances to qualify for the next World Championship cycle (through the FIDE Grand Prix or World-Cup)?" how exactly does he qualify? I think he has the game to become world-champion but unfortunately I dont think it will happen. he does have a clean record vs players like magnus carlsen after 10 classical games(with 3wins for leko).... so you never know in a match between the two:) |
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| Aug-18-09 |
| goosesmack2: its great to see Leko performing very well because then all the useless trolls and bashers who claim that he draws all the time can bite their own tongues... everyone who talks like that must be an idiot |
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Aug-18-09
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| Knight13: <goosesmack2: its great to see Leko performing very well because then all the useless trolls and bashers who claim that he draws all the time can bite their own tongues... everyone who talks like that must be an idiot> Exactly. Leko can play against the top players and NOT lose. How many people can actually do that? Not many. He can draw all he wants; it's better than losing.
Those who bash him want him to stop drawing so he'll be more likely to lose in equal positions by pushing it. |
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| Aug-18-09 |
| geniokov: What i appreciated from Peter Leko is his "consistency" maintaining his reputation as a part of Elite GM.His handling of e4 is exception from anybody. |
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| Aug-18-09 |
| goosesmack2: <Knight13> Thats the boy! |
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| Aug-23-09 |
| Method B: Poor Lékó. Another tragic end to a tourney. The good news is he seems to mixing up his openings with both colours. It was good to see him playing 1.e4 as well. It makes him more unpredictable and one day he may be the guy who show the opponent the deadly home-prep. Anyway, it was a big chance... |
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| Aug-24-09 |
| Hesam7: <Peter Leko's sad-sack routine added another chapter in Jermuk. Starting the final round sharing the lead with Ivanchuk, Leko lost to Gelfand to finish =4-6 with Kasimjanov and Alekseev. This was a repeat of his loss to Aronian in the final round in Nalchik, when he was again in the lead. These are only the most recent late collapses in Leko's career. Of course the most famous was losing the final game of his 2004 WCh match with Kramnik. Add the final-round loss to Kramnik at Dortmund 2006, again when tied for first, and losing his last two games at Linares 2006 (yep, was in clear first and finished fourth). What I'm trying to say is that Leko should start burning down playing sites with a few rounds to go.> -- Mig Greengard, Daily Dirt, Aug. 23rd. |
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Aug-24-09
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| percyblakeney: <Of course the most famous was losing the final game of his 2004 WCh match with Kramnik. Add the final-round loss to Kramnik at Dortmund 2006, again when tied for first, and losing his last two games at Linares 2006 (yep, was in clear first and finished fourth)> Leko’s last round weakness is one thing, but it is also combined with a top opponent weakness. 0-7 against Topalov after the latest win more than seven years ago, 0-4 against Kramnik over five years, and 1-6 against Svidler the last dozen years. There’s also 2-8 in career score against Anand, 0-7 against Kasparov/Karpov, minus against Aronian and Gelfand, four losses against Ivanchuk just in 2008, to mention the worst examples. A player as strong as Leko, solid top ten for more than a decade and usually around 5th on the world ranking, “should” have better scores. He does have good results against for example Carlsen and Radjabov, mainly thanks to games when they were young(er), but no wins in more than 1½ year. And, compared to Leko, Carlsen and Radjabov have good results against most top players. Carlsen has a plus against Topalov, Aronian and Ivanchuk, Radjabov is even against them (and Anand) but with a plus against Kasparov. Both have a small minus against Kramnik, but Carlsen had black in 5 of 6 games, and Radjabov is even over the last 6+ years. It’s hard to explain why Leko is doing so much worse when he has been playing on average approximately as good chess as them after 2005. |
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| Aug-25-09 |
| Hesam7: <pb: Leko�s last round weakness is one thing, but it is also combined with a top opponent weakness. 0-7 against Topalov after the latest win more than seven years ago, 0-4 against Kramnik over five years, and 1-6 against Svidler the last dozen years. There�s also 2-8 in career score against Anand, 0-7 against Kasparov/Karpov, minus against Aronian and Gelfand, four losses against Ivanchuk just in 2008, to mention the worst examples. A player as strong as Leko, solid top ten for more than a decade and usually around 5th on the world ranking, �should� have better scores.> Thanks for the statistics but I think his problem is psychological. He is not inferior in terms of chess strength, as a matter of fact he gets winning positions against the crowd you mentioned all the time but then all those games follow the same pattern: in time pressure somewhere between moves 30 and 40 he completely destroys what he had built up to that point. This is also reflected in tournament record, throughout the tournament he is playing good chess with good results but once the situation becomes tense (final rounds) he plays rather poorly. In other words, among top players he is the one most sensitive to psychological pressure . |
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| Sep-08-09 |
| kurtrichards: Happy Birthday, Peter! |
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| Sep-20-09 |
| The Rocket: well leko was actually winning at least 2 classical games vs kasparov but still ended up 0-7 so too bad peter:. he will never likely to get a classical win vs kasparov: |
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Sep-20-09
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| Timeline: actually Leko's losses against Kasparov mostly came from earlier in his career also most of them being draws. Leko also have good deal of those wins against Carlsen and Radjabov after they became 2650+ or even 2700+ players while having no classical loss. In fact, he has clean record (no classical loss) againt both and againt Kamsky (2-0). He has virtually even record with Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Shirov, Bacrot & Topalov and plus against Morozevich and Grischuk. I agree he has bad record againt Kramnik & Anand but they have been the juggernaut during those periods and most players who played in his time frame have large loss against them. He does have poor record vs. Aronian and Svidler but even good players have their share of good and bad matchups. |
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Sep-20-09
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| Timeline: Also yea clean record againt Karjakin in classical (2-0), against Carlsen (3-0) Radjabov (5-0) |
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