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| May-13-08 |
| Riverbeast: He has three whites left in his final five games...You're right <swordfish> there's no reason to settle for draws when he has the chance to pull off a tournament for the ages, and gain a motherlode of rating points to boot. Go for 10-0, Chucky! |
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| May-13-08 |
| Billy Vaughan: <KamikazeAttack: If you believe that he hacked it in those tournaments with his results, then u and I obviously have different standards of what success is at the very top with the big boys are in action.> Point taken. I wouldn't say that he always succeeded at the very top; that would be untrue. But he can. To address what I originally quoted: <He can't hack it in big classical tournaments> Well, he can. He just doesn't. As has been said many times on this board, if he got a sports psychologist or some other aid to help calm his nerves and regulate his play, Ivanchuk could probably play with Anand/Kramnik/Topalov every tournament. |
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| May-13-08 |
| Billy Vaughan: On a lighter note,
http://www.mtelmasters.com/en/news&... <The game will be remembered for the phenomenal saves of Vassily Ivanchuk who played as a goalkeeper in the game.> <Corporate Commercial Bank awarded Vassily Ivanchuk as the Man of the match with a golden pen. > |
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| May-13-08 |
| Riverbeast: What Kasparov said about Ivanchuk's nerves was said a LONG time ago. When Ivanchuk was in his early-mid twenties or something like that. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Maybe with his greater experience, Ivanchuk's nerves are no longer a problem. Kasparov also said Ivanchuk has "the talent to be a world champion". |
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| May-13-08 |
| Akuni: <What Kasparov said about Ivanchuk's nerves was said a LONG time ago. When Ivanchuk was in his early-mid twenties or something like that.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Maybe with his greater experience, Ivanchuk's nerves are no longer a problem.> Umm... see Ivanchuk vs Nisipeanu, Ivanchuk vs Nisipeanu, and Ivanchuk vs Adams (I think, maybe not) plus several recent sub-par tournament results. |
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| May-13-08 |
| Billy Vaughan: Ivanchuk's losses against Aronian and Carlsen this year? |
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| May-14-08 |
| eremite: Vasyl's creative games are quite instructive and his performances give us a lot of emotions. We'll see the critical game of Sofia tommorrow. |
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| May-14-08 |
| Riverbeast: <Umm... see Ivanchuk vs Nisipeanu, Ivanchuk vs Nisipeanu, and Ivanchuk vs Adams (I think, maybe not) plus several recent sub-par tournament results.> Can all of this be attributed to nerves? Maybe they're just bad games or sub-par results. Overall though, Ivanchuk has had an excellent past 12 months. In fact he was on quite a roll several months ago, winning a few strong tournaments as well as the World blitz. |
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| May-14-08 |
| Billy Vaughan: Aww, people are such fair-weather kibitzers. Ivanchuk goes crazy with 5 wins and his page is clogged with activity. He draws and nobody's here to talk :(. Topalov's getting dangerously close....Ivanchuk could really use a win against Topa to seal his victory. |
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| May-15-08 |
| Maatalkko: I bet Chucky has a win or two left in him |
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May-15-08
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| hrvyklly: A few years ago I had a fantastic dream: Ivanchuk wanted to be my friend and kept sending me emails, so we met up for coffee and hung out in HMV. That's it, dream over, zee end of dream. Vassily and I bought coffee and hung out in HMV. And people say chess players are boring geeks... |
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May-15-08
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| NakoSonorense: <And people say chess players are boring geeks...> I don't know where you get that idea from... Cough, cough, cough. |
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May-15-08
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| notyetagm: <Billy Vaughan: Aww, people are such fair-weather kibitzers. Ivanchuk goes crazy with 5 wins and his page is clogged with activity. He draws and nobody's here to talk :(.> I'm always around to talk about Chucky. His games are -fantastic-! |
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| May-16-08 |
| Billy Vaughan: <NakoSonorense> That was the joke... <notyetagm: I'm always around to talk about Chucky. His games are -fantastic-!> Agreed! And he's so unaffected, so modest, so passionate. He's just likable :) |
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May-16-08
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| NakoSonorense: I know. |
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May-17-08
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| notyetagm: <Billy Vaughan: <NakoSonorense> That was the joke...
<notyetagm: I'm always around to talk about Chucky. His games are -fantastic-!> Agreed! And he's so unaffected, so modest, so passionate. He's just likable :)> Yes, Mig said that Chucky is the World Champion that chess deserves, someone who lives only for chess, and I agree. |
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| May-17-08 |
| KamikazeAttack: The world deserves those who win chess championships to be world champion not those who can't/don't win at that level but want a back-door way of securing the title because they live for chess. What kind of asinine requirement to being world champion is that? I propose the Bonn match be cancelled and just coronate Ivanchuck instead lol. |
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May-17-08
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| notyetagm: <KamikazeAttack: The world deserves those who win chess championships to be world champion not those who can't/don't win at that level but want a back-door way of securing the title because they live for chess.
What kind of asinine requirement to being world champion is that? I propose the Bonn match be cancelled and just coronate Ivanchuck instead lol.> I have no idea what you are talking about with a "back-door". Mig and I were talking about wanting to see Chucky -win- the World Championship. |
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| May-18-08 |
| Voltaic: <Mig and I were talking about wanting to see Chucky -win- the World Championship.> that would be just great, i'm not a very big connoisseur of Chucky's games, but hey he's always playing interesting positions and goes for the win if he can, he can blunder a lot OK, but i don't know, i wd rather see a brilliant player like Ivanchuk than some other boring gm's out there living out of draws and playing exclusively some unenterprising, ultra-essayed opening/defense, just my two cents :) |
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May-18-08
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| Tomlinsky: I continually fail to see why the chessic comments of Michael Greengard are particularly worth a carrot to the public in general. Personally, I give the insight of many users here at CG much greater weight than a well connected player rated ~1800 USCF. |
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| May-18-08 |
| hitman84: Add me to the list.
Ivanchuk is the Happy Gilmore of chess!
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May-18-08
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| talisman: looks like chucky's winning. |
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| May-18-08 |
| MichAdams: I thought Topalov lived only for chess. |
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| May-18-08 |
| yalie: <KamikazeAttack: The world deserves those who win chess championships to be world champion not those who can't/don't win at that level but want a back-door way of securing the title because they live for chess.> Back-door ways to a title are only Kramnik's specialty. |
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| May-18-08 |
| Putakti: Congratulations Chucky! for winning the M-TEL at 8/10 with a performance of 3000+ |
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