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| Mar-12-08 |
| chopin4525: Happy Birthday to Radjabov!
21 years old,just like me! ^_^ |
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Mar-12-08
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| Tactic101: Happy Birthday Radja! Best of wishes for this year in chess. |
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Mar-12-08
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| Resignation Trap: Happy 21st birthday, Grandmaster Radjabov! |
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Mar-12-08
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| ketchuplover: Happy Birthday Rad :) |
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| Mar-12-08 |
| Augalv: Happiness on your birthday Rad! |
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Apr-02-08
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| ahmadov: Radja has the most number of rating points in FIDE's April list over his chess career... |
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| Apr-22-08 |
| cotdt: he's studying law, following in the footsteps of gata kamsky |
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Apr-30-08
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| veigaman: I have noticed that Radjabov gets better winning positions with blacks than with whites, it means his games are more dinamics and seems to be more suitable with his style.
I think he should try other openings with whites like e4, c4 and b3 . I would like to see him playing with a spassky as his second. Tremendous player!
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| May-05-08 |
| chessya11: Er...after three losses in Baku with e4, I think he had better switch back to d4. |
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May-07-08
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| ahmadov: It was long overdue to update Radja's picture here... |
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May-07-08
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| arifattar: Shouldn't he be into Bollywood or something? |
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| May-07-08 |
| hitman84: <arif>He resembles a Bollywood actor. But I don't know whom.. |
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| May-07-08 |
| Eti fan: from http://www.chessdom.com/mtel-master... <11:15
This year we will not see Mamedyarov at Mtel Masters, however, we continue to hear about him. In an interview for a local Azeri media, Mamedyarov shared, "Without Anand, Topalov, and Kramnik it was not fun in Baku."11:17
Mamedyarov continued, "I was close to the victory, but something was not enough. Gashimov chose the right strategy and took the tournament. I liked the most the game with Carlsen, he was the top seeded and it was a difficult game." 11:20
At the same time Radjabov got attacked by the media and the local 24tv channel and they named him "the looser of the tournament". Clearly that was not the best tournament for Radjabov, but he had very good games and logical final standing. He will surely come to show his best in Sofia.> |
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May-07-08
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| arifattar: <hitman84> Do you have Fardeen Khan in mind? He resembles the Kapoors as well. They all share Central Asian features anyways. |
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May-07-08
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| percyblakeney: Radjabov underperformed in Baku, partly because of attacking too heavily, but he could easily have had a much better score. He has done well in Corus the last years and is definitively capable of winning a tournament like MTel. Depending on how his tough schedule affects him he may return to his normal level now, and my guess is that he will finish second. Mig on Baku: <Radjabov lost three games with white but was in the fight for the lead for much of the way. He was unlucky and/or overoptimistic several times, turning very good positions into losses> http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt... |
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| May-07-08 |
| Augalv: <...and is definitively capable of winning a tournament like MTel.> I hope Teimour will win M-tel. |
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| May-08-08 |
| Sui Generis: It's sad to see that one of my favourite players, Radjabov, is so terribly out of his game. He suffered three losses in the Grand Prix with White, which is just terrible by any standards. He gets good positions but as the game progresses he blunders them into losses. Probably he has just played too much recently, as he is normally very difficult to beat. I have noticed some similarities between him and Lékó: rapid rise to solid 2750-level and the progress stops there (of course Radja is still young and will undoubtedly improve). Both were once prodigies and world's youngest grandmasters; Lékó's draws have made him somewhat infamous, but Radjabov's tournament strategy is often very economical, too, and short draws are not unheard of. However, his occasional brilliancies seem to keep his reputation as an attacking player intact. Another issue is Radjabov's opening repertoire: maybe he should indeed switch back to 1. d4 (as he actually did against Ivanchuk but lost). Kasparov (and many others) have pointed out his too unambitious repertoire with the White pieces and I must agree. The way he plays for example the Scotch doesn't give White any hope for serious advantage and damages his overall performance, because at his level you must play to win with white against anyone; no extra points with Black, as people have learnt their lesson and stopped running into his King's Indian. His Schliemann obviously serves the same purpose as Kramnik's Petrov or Berlin: an effective drawing weapon with Black and so far it has worked well, there is only that one unfortunate loss against Macieja. In computer language these openings may give White a nominal +0.50 advantage but in real life are almost impossible to crack. Let's hope that Radjabov overcomes his apparent exhaustion and plays his best in Sofia. |
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| May-08-08 |
| Augalv: I'm confident he will. Go Teimour! |
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May-09-08
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| ahmadov: <At the same time Radjabov got attacked by the media and the local 24tv channel and they named him "the looser of the tournament".> Where is this 24tv channel? Where was he attacked by the media??? |
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May-09-08
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| ahmadov: <Augalv: <...and is definitively capable of winning a tournament like MTel.>
I hope Teimour will win M-tel.> I also hope and believe! |
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| May-11-08 |
| Billy Vaughan: Poor guy. He's been managing at M-tel with 1.5/4, not at all bad with Ivanchuk running amok, but he seems so stressed and worn out! I hope he gets some well-deserved rest after this tournament. |
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May-12-08
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| ahmadov: <Billy Vaughan: Poor guy. He's been managing at M-tel with 1.5/4, not at all bad with Ivanchuk running amok, but he seems so stressed and worn out! I hope he gets some well-deserved rest after this tournament.> I am not very pessimistic about Radja and I do not think he is doing badly in Sofia... However, I agree that some rest would be great for him... |
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| May-12-08 |
| zarg: Going directly from Baku to M-Tel, was not optimal (rating wise) for one of the lesser playing GM's in prev years. From Radja's FIDE card, he has the following ca. count of rated games: 2007: 35 games
2006: 61 games
2005: 61 games
and so far in 2008, Radja has a staggering 72 games rated already! That's a lot for him, but Carlsen still have more (79 games), Mamed about the same (71), while Karjakin has far less (60). It appears as the youngsters play a lot these days, and Radja got burned the most. I hope Radja can hang in there, and avoid exhaustion in the 2nd leg of M-Tel. |
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| May-12-08 |
| sitzkrieg: Interview with Radjabov in the video coverage of round 5 MTel. He leaves a nice impression to me and despite his results he is even in favor of a "faster" time control for the sake of the chess public. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| May-17-08 |
| erebdraug: Radjabov said it clearly in the M-Tel round 8 conference after his draw with white agains cheparinov :
<"I wanted to play some more solid chess, especially since I had such unpleasant results with white in the Baku tournament, I decided that in this tournament, with White I will play to equalise, and with Black I will try to play for something more."> Source : http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... It's very odd indeed, but at least Radjabov knows he needs to work on his White repertoire... I hope he'll come up with more ambitious opening preparation for the future... It's exactly as <acirce> said once. Facing Radjabov, it's preferable to blay black than white. |
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