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Jul-14-09
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| blacksburg: what a great picture. this one should go on all their player pages. :) http://www.chessbase.com/news/2005/... |
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Jul-14-09
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| dx9293: New article on ChessBase tonight featuring pics of the site and surroundings...and some of the players including Ruslan and his beautiful girlfriend :-)) http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Jul-14-09
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| JointheArmy: <dx9293> You weren't kidding. She looks western in this pic with Vallejo Pons. http://www.chessbase.com/news/2009/... |
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| Jul-20-09 |
| anandrulez: She is a babe ! Pono has a nice gf :) |
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| Jul-26-09 |
| Bobsterman3000: Ouch:
Naiditsch,A - Ponomariov [B81]
XXIV Int'l Ciudad de Villarrobledo 2009 Villarrobledo/ESP (9), 26.07.2009
[Robot 3]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g4 h6 7.h3 Nc6 8.Bg2 Bd7 9.Be3 Ne5 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.0-0-0 Rxc3 12.bxc3 Qa5 13.f4 Qxc3 14.fxe5 dxe5 15.Rd3 Qa1+ 16.Kd2 Bb4+ 17.c3 Qb2+ 18.Nc2 Ba5 19.Qd1 Bc6 20.Qb1 Qxb1 21.Rxb1 Nxe4+ 22.Kc1 f5 23.Nb4 Bxb4 24.Rxb4 Kf7 25.Bxe4 Bxe4 26.Rd7+ Kf6 27.Rxe4 fxe4 28.Rxb7 Rd8 29.c4 1-0 |
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| Oct-18-09 |
| KamikazeAttack: Ruslan Ponomariov must be the most disappointing chess player of modern times. Boy, he showed so much promise in his late teens (destroying everyone in his path including his countryman Ivanchuck in his quest for the title) that by now one expected him to be on the Anand/Kramnik level tussling for the title, if not champion.
How could a once promising elite SGM just lose him power, ambition and will??? What went wrong Ruslan? |
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Oct-18-09
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| JaneEyre: If you can call an ELO of 2741 disappointing, then I suppose he has been. The trouble with the world's top 10 is that there's only room for 10 at any one time. |
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| Oct-18-09 |
| I Like Fish: hello kamattack...
i met a devil woman...
she took my heart away...
she said i had it coming to me...
but i wanted it that way...
i think that any love is good loving...
so i took what i could get...
she looked at me...
with big brown eyes...
and said...
you aint seen nothing yet...
b..b..b..baby...
you just ain't seen n..n..nothing yet... |
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Oct-18-09
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| dx9293: KamikazeAttack: <dx9293 Jul-12-09: <returnoftheking> Read the kibitzes beginning on Ponomariov Page 23 for several pages after that.> |
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| Oct-18-09 |
| KamikazeAttack: Thx dx9293, I really enjoyed the trail of posts on Pono. Pono's career makes me sad in a way. |
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Oct-18-09
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| veigaman: < How could a once promising elite SGM just lose him power, ambition and will??? What went wrong Ruslan?>
There 3 reasons to me:
1. The death of his mentor and tutor affected negatively his development. 2. He was a victim of the chaotic chess organization , it means, a victim of kasparov and fide. 3. He seems to me a very educate guy with a lot of interest apart from chess. What it could be, it wasnt and probably chess fans lost 2 exceptional talents like ruslan and grishuck. |
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| Oct-19-09 |
| Nouvelle: Oh guys, come on! Hold the funerals. Grischuk and Ponomariov are still young and still have to develop much more as players. Just as the song that was already mentioned says, You ain´t seen nothing yet! ;) |
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Oct-19-09
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| dx9293: <Nouvelle> I still maintain that Ruslan Ponomariov was the most TALENTED prodigy since Fischer (yes, including Magnus). He definitely achieved the most. I would love to see him in the Top 5 again, but he would have to put his other interests (education, etc.) on the back burner. |
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| Oct-20-09 |
| Nouvelle: Don´t get it wrong, dx9293, Ruslan is not studying anymore. He already finished his two degrees. As much as I would also like to see him at the top, the truth is that some chess players, after a "prdigious childhood", turn out to have other goals in life, like learning how to ride a bike (many of them didn´t have time for this during their childhood) or having children. Of course this is the player´s cohice, and they are fully aware of the possible consequences. It´s not like none of the players at the top have a life, some of them have managed to reach a very good balance, which is quite an achievement, but some of them just decided to put chess before anything else in their lives, as is Kasparov´s case, hence his chaotic emotional life AND the fact he will go down as one of the greatest in chess history :) |
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Oct-20-09
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| dx9293: <Nouvelle> Oh, good to hear Ruslan is finished with school. I commend him for his other goals in life, but as a fan I am a bit selfish. :-) He is climbing back up the rating list, hopefully he will keep it going. |
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| Oct-20-09 |
| lorker: he just doesn't seem as ambitious these days when he plays, although when hes trying he is capable of playing well above 2741. i hope he finds more motivation |
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Oct-20-09
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| veigaman: < I still maintain that Ruslan Ponomariov was the most TALENTED prodigy since Fischer (yes, including Magnus)> agree and i would add grischuck! Both!!! |
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Oct-20-09
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| SugarDom: He was THE most TALENTED prodigy....
Highly disputable.... |
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Oct-20-09
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| Winter: Ruslan possessed great natural talent and he's slowly but surely regaining his lost glory. No question, this man could still deliver if he wanted to... |
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Oct-20-09
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| dx9293: <veigaman> I agree that Grischuk also is an enormous talent. And that isn't something I say lightly. Far too many people these days are considered "talented," but Grischuk has the goods. <SugarDom> I have reflected on the prodigy thing a lot, but still, it's only my opinion. |
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Oct-21-09
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| tamar: Ponomariov at first seemed a synthesis of Karpov and Salov, but I don't think he ever solved the problem of beating the top guys. That's the dilemma Karjakin, Radjabov and even Carlsen face-although your future looks unlimited when you're 18, the last bit of improvement is never assured. |
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Oct-22-09
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| SugarDom: What's the Carlsen vs Topalov the "top guy" head to head record? |
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| Oct-22-09 |
| hand banana: 5-3 for carlsen, (not counting draws) classical
2-0 for carlsen blindfold
8 draws, 4 classical |
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| Oct-22-09 |
| Violence: Ponomariov is a bum. |
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Oct-28-09
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| norami: <Violence> I once undertook a lengthy study to try to determine the true essence of what it really means to be a bum and my conclusion was that a bum is a worthless person who never works. Is that an accurate description of Ponomariov? |
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