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| Jan-27-10 |
| visayanbraindoctor: <Augalv: Today Carlsen surprised Karjakin with an opening he never plays and took him out of his preparation. Kudos to the Norweigan for his victory over the Russian SGM.> Karjakin should seriously take up with his seconds how to expand his opening repertoire. After Karjakin got caught in Carlsen's positional web right out of the opening, Carlsen built up a dominating position without allowing any serious counter-play from Karjakin in classic Karpovian prophylactic style. <Rolfo: Fair enough Augalv. New chances for Karjakin tomorrow. Just for curiousity, are you Ukrainian by chance, or?> LOL I have asked that too! <Augalv> es Argentino. (",) |
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Jan-27-10
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| veigaman: <augalv> el ucraniano más argentino de chessgames, verdad mi buen amigo? :) |
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| Jan-28-10 |
| Atking: Not sure the country matters <Augalv> is a very open mind and sportsmanship. He congratulates the victorious player on his favorite player Karjakin if the game is good. If we all react like him the site will be very clean. |
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Jan-28-10
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| Rolfo: Augalv, thanks!
Atking, well put :) |
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| Jan-28-10 |
| Augalv: Thanks, <Atking>. |
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| Jan-28-10 |
| Augalv: <<Rolfo: Fair enough Augalv. New chances for Karjakin tomorrow. Just for curiousity, are you Ukrainian by chance, or?> LOL I have asked that too! <Augalv> es Argentino. (",)> Hasta la medula, <visayanbraindoctor>. (",) |
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| Jan-28-10 |
| Augalv: <veigaman: <augalv> el ucraniano más argentino de chessgames, verdad mi buen amigo? :)> Verdad, <veiga> :) |
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| Jan-28-10 |
| Augalv: <Karjakin should seriously take up with his seconds how to expand his opening repertoire.> <Agree that carlsen surprised sergey with the opening but i have the sensation that sergey play insecure and "shy" as well. No doubt that it was a bad day by far.> I have the same feeling. Maybe it was just a bad day for Sergey who only happened to be outplayed by an opponenet that played an openning which Sergey hadn't prepared well, but it seemed to me that Karjakin's self-confidence was a bit low. He probably didn't feel comfortable playing against Carlsen yesterday. Unlike Sergey, Carlsen has become stronger in the past two years. Two years ago they both had entered the 2700 club with flying colors after having reached the semifinals in the Fide World Cup. Carlsen had achieved 2733 points in the Fide rating list in January 2007, while Karjakin had achieved 2732. He was only one point behind the Norweigan. But two years after Karjakin is having almost the same rating points while Carlsen has not only crossed the 2800 mark, but he happens to be the highest rated player in the world. It's not the same to play against a player who is more or less as well rated as you are as it is to play against the highest rated player in the world, and who, in addition, happens to be in the 2800 club. Psychologically this might have a negative effect on Karjakin and make him feel insecure when playing the Norweigan. If this is what's happening, and I hope it's not, Karjakin should remind himself that he can beat anyone in the world and regain his self-confidence. And he should also widen his oppening repertoire and start playing 1.d4 as pointed out by KingG. Maybe he is already preparing 1.d4 opennings and waiting for more important events to put them into practice such as a world championship match. But if he doesn't, it's going to be easy for his opponents to prepare against his opennings whose systems are almost always the same for black's defences. That's why his game against Carlsen should be taken as a warning signal, imo. |
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Jan-28-10
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| veigaman: < <augalv> agree and i would add that it seems to me that also carlsen is more pragmatic to improvise on the chessboard, it means he has more "potrero" than sergey |
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| Jan-29-10 |
| shintaro go: <Karjakin is among the world's best, but like most of his modern wunderkind peers he's no Fischer, who stood out head and shoulders above his peers—and soon enough above the rest of the chess world as well.> Kasparov comparing Karjakin to Fischer:
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp... |
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| Jan-29-10 |
| Augalv: After his 8th draw in the 11th round at Corus today, Karjakin plays against Shirov tomorrow. Game whose result might deeply affect the outcome of the tournament. |
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Jan-29-10
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| Rolfo: He draws Shirov and Kramnik, finishing quite decently (my guess) |
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| Jan-29-10 |
| Augalv: Drawing against Shirov and Kramnik would be decent finish. |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| cbpatzer: Motylev is the coach of Karjakin http://interviews.chessdom.com/alex... |
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Jan-30-10
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| Rolfo: If Karjakin were to play white tomorrow, I would have given him a decent chance. Anyway, I hope he will put up a great fight. May be very important for his confidence. Go Karjakin ! |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| Augalv: Very tough game for Kajaking playing with black against a Kramnik who after his loss to Anand today is in need of a victory if he wants to have a chance to win Corus. Not that Kramnik doesn't if he draws, but if he does, Shirov should at least draw his game too and Carlsen should lose which I don't think is the most likely outcome. Again, very tough and difficult game for Sergey against a former world champion who is probably in his best form since 2007 and will be very eager to win. Putting up a great fight and managing to at least draw would indeed be very important for his self-confidence. |
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| Jan-31-10 |
| Augalv: Well not such a tough game after a draw was agreed before black even made his 22nd move. Such a quick draw is not what I had really expected. With today's result Karjakin finished +1 and tied 6-7 with his former countryman Vassily Ivanchuk. Decent result but too bad he wasn't able to retain the title. Btw, congratulations to Carlsen on winning Corus. |
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Jan-31-10
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| veigaman: <Such a quick draw is not what I had really expected> agree with you. It was dissappointed to see this game specially for a player fighting for the 1 place as vlade. |
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Jan-31-10
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| Rolfo: Karjakin and Carlsen switched positions from last year. It is very close, losing half a point here and there, that's the difference. Karjakin did fairly well, he will continue to stay with the big boys. Nakamura also did fairly well, the issue is will he be up there next time? |
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Jan-31-10
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| veigaman: <augalv> do you know anything about Gaston Needleman ? It has passed too "many moons" since last time we heard his name. he was a very promising player. |
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| Jan-31-10 |
| Augalv: <Nakamura also did fairly well, the issue is will he be up there next time?> That's the question. And it will be interesting to see how Nakamura will fare this year. |
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Jan-31-10
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| KingG: < do you know anything about Gaston Needleman ?> Yeah, what happened to that guy? It looked like he was quite a promising player, but he hasn't played any games since 2007 it looks like. |
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| Jan-31-10 |
| Augalv: Seems like Gaston Needleman is not playing anymore. I haven't heard from him in years, unfortunately. This guy seemed to be very promising. |
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| veigaman: <augalv> what a pitty because gaston seemed to be an special player, very talented and creative. |
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| Jan-31-10 |
| Augalv: It was a real pity <vega>. Seeming so promising after his incredible performance in 2005, I wanted to see how far he could go. But he disappeared.. |
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