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| Karpova: Giuoco Pianissimo (very quiet): 4.d3
Giuoco Piano (quiet): 4.c3
seems that <quiet> and <very quiet> are meant in regard to the King's Gambit. |
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| Jun-24-07 |
| Valgua: <This is the italian opening: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 and every following move a subvariation (4.d3, 4.c3, 4.Nc3 or the Evans Gambit). You can look it up, i.e. in Alexej Suetin's opening book.> It's a common mistake. In fact in Italy we distinguish between the "Italian Game" (Partita Italiana) and Giuoco Piano (Quiet Game), the main difference is the fourth move. Giuoco Piano is so called because the white reffuses to immediately attack the center with 4.c3 followed by d4. |
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| Aug-18-07 |
| Manuel Garcia: To Open Defense:
I wrote the next: "The indians heat, food and water anihilated Salov. He got stomach problems from the very begining till the very end. Kamsky was a sportsman while Salov is weak phisically: when he was a baby he was expected to die soon. Obviously he did not, but his organism is very sensible" without the intention of offending you nor India. So, if I did it, I sincerely apologize to you and to everyone who may felt offended by these lines. Next. both 1970 and 1986, during the soccer football world championships in Mexico, the english delegation did take with it their own water supplies, in order to avoid the mexican water. I am mexican and I have lived in Mexico City the overwhelming greatest part of my life, and all of my european friends, without exception, who visited us (my wife is swiss) did get stomach problems, even then, when we cooked at home. My brother-in-law later told us, that he spent all the returning flight to Switzerland sitting on the plain's toilet.
We did once travel to the beach in Oaxaca (south Mexico; quite hot and humid), and my wife's swiss friends did fall very ill, because precisely of the heat, the humidity, the food and the water.
In every occasion my foreign friends blamed the mexican water, food, altitude and pollution (in Mexico City). I have never considered it as an offense against Mexico.
Two years ago I visited my elderly sister, who lives in Ukraine. We went to the dacha of her parents-in-law, where I decided to drink a glas of milk. It was a disaster for me. |
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Aug-18-07
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| Open Defence: <Manuel Garcia> no doubt you did not intend to offend anyone.. the point of my post was that in such events the facilities provided by India have been quite good, in fact some of the Indian sportsmen (not chessplayers) have complained about the facilities abroad!! I just felt that your post maybe could have been framed a bit better... maybe <The indians heat, food and water anihilated Salov.> would have been <The heat, food and water anihilated Salov.> ... the post made it sound as if rather than Salov's inability to cope.. the <Indian> environment and food was to blame.. it may sound that I am making a mountain out of a mole hill, and further, your original post was some time ago.. interestingly when some Swiss friends of mine came to visit they boldly tried some of the local spicy food (though they had ample opportunities to avail food with less spice and from better resturaunts) despite my warning and it did not agree with their stomachs so I know what you were trying to say.. I just did not like the way it was said.. may be I am being too sensitive.. given that you did not mean any malice what so ever.. so maybe this chapter should be closed.. but I certainly did not think you meant any harm.. just did not like the way the words were put
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| Sep-12-07 |
| pawnofdoom: Why'd this guy stop playing? He was one of the 40 guys in the database to go over 2700, and provided us with pretty cool games |
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Sep-12-07
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| dx9293: I was told by someone who I trust, "in the know," that he cracked up (because of pressure or whatever I don't know) and then quit. |
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| Mar-03-08 |
| ARegularPlayer: Maybe he got some death threats from Rustam Kamsky during his match with Gata in 1995 just like N Short had got. I mean Short still suffered from post traumatic stress when he played in Montreal last year. Salov played very weak in that match. |
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| Mar-14-08 |
| Augalv: whatever happened to Salov? anybody knows? |
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| Mar-14-08 |
| Jim Bartle: In an interview with him from around 94-95, he said he wanted to go to the US or Europe and get into banking or trading stocks, where he could earn some cash. He was not happy with the amount he could earn in chess. |
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| Mar-14-08 |
| MichAdams: Valery's entertaining website and his one-man band, the WPC, have been quiet for these last three or so: http://ajedrez_democratico.tripod.c... |
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| Mar-16-08 |
| Tomlinsky: Salov's efforts as Shirov's second when he defeated Kramnik, earning the right to challenge Kasparov for the title, are not often ackowledged. Shirov speaks highly of his talent with their Grunfeld preparations leaving Vladimir completely stymied. |
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| Mar-16-08 |
| MichAdams: The work of a second should be seen and not heard. |
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| Mar-16-08 |
| Prugno: He is still a member of the panel which judges the best 10 games of the previous Informant, and usually his votes are very reasonable, so perhaps he has not gone quite as totally insane as that website of his would suggest... |
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| May-26-08 |
| brankat: Happy Birthday Valery! |
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| May-26-08 |
| brankat: Had never visited this page until today. And I regret it big time, missed out on so much fun around here last year :-) As some say: "A woman's tongue is a sword which never rusts." |
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| May-26-08 |
| Nikita Smirnov: S dnem rozhdenie Valja!!
(I don't have the russian letters on my keyboard) |
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| Jun-20-08 |
| depraved: <Troller> In fact, Salov played in the 1990 IZ in Manila, held 29.6-14.7.1990, scoring +2-2=3 before withdrawing. Anyone suppose it was the enervating lowland climate of the Philippine summer that did him in? At least the organisers of Korchnoi-Karpov 1978 had the sense to hold that match in Baguio City, in relatively cooler circumstances. |
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| Jul-29-08 |
| Caloy: <depraved>I remember that one, saw him in the first few rounds then suddenly withdrew. Reports said he has Varicella (chickenpox). |
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Nov-25-08
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| stoy: Varicella in an adult is very serious - sometimes fatal. It is good that he survived. |
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Oct-10-09
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| Benzol: Has Salov retired from chess completely? |
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| Oct-10-09 |
| nescio: <Benzol: Has Salov retired from chess completely?> Looks like it. There is no evidence for any games later than Las Vegas 1999. The games here 2002-2008 were all played by Sergej Salov |
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| Jan-16-10 |
| shalgo: Does anyone know what Anand might be referring to when he said of the queen and pawn ending in his game today that "if I could give it to Salov to play on, happy to, but not if I have to do this myself"? Why would he mention Salov in particular, who hasn't played in ten years? http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne... |
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Jan-28-10
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| waddayaplay: here is some recent material: http://www.bs-chess.com/latin/tourn... |
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| Jan-28-10 |
| Mr. Bojangles: Am sure I read some where that Salov lost his mind and that he suffering mental illness. I hope he gets better. |
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Jan-29-10
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| waddayaplay: I read a little from his web site. Got tired quickly, lots of tirades with little substance. He has some politically extreme opinions. From reading his web site I am not sure what they are, but he mentions Israel, chess politics, and some people he has a grudge again: Seirawan, Kasparov and the editor of TWIC. |
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