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Jun-10-09
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| alexmagnus: I never said ratings reflected ability (though, say, a 3-year-average does reflect it). But it reflects recent performance, and does it very well. |
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Jun-10-09
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| furrer: hedgehog:
It doesnt get better now when the K-factor is getting higher either. |
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Jun-10-09
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| alexmagnus: "Ability" is an unprecise term anyway. Who said that <any> past achievements reflect ability? What one is <able> to do, nobody knows - the limits are always open. So it's impossible to measure ability or even rank by it. One may say Kasparov was the best player of his time, but it is impossible to say whther he was the "ablest" player of his time - maybe some other players had better ability but failed to fullfill it... |
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Jun-10-09
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| timhortons: Not that i doubt chucks ability but i feel that moro could have given magnus better fight had they face each other. |
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| Jun-10-09 |
| returnoftheking: maybe. But even now it was already a great fight. |
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Jun-11-09
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| hedgeh0g: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm8979489... |
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Jun-11-09
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| timhortons: <seed of chucky> chuck genes is scary. |
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Jun-20-09
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| wanabe2000: Great two wins for Ivanchuk in a row to lead the Bazna ROM Tournament by 1/2 after 6 rounds. |
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| Jun-22-09 |
| shahjinan: <acirce: Regardless of all that, we all hope that he will bounce back soon -- not just in rapid. And I think he will get over this slump. However, I doubt he'll return to the tremendous form he was in a year ago. I'd be glad to be proven wrong though> and he started bouncing back... |
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| Jun-22-09 |
| TheChessGuy: <shahjinan> The Ivanchuk yo-yo continues. |
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| Jun-22-09 |
| VaselineTopLove: Ivanchuk lives up to his name... |
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Jun-22-09
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| acirce: <shahjinan> Yes, sooner and stronger than I expected -- now let's just hope it lasts.. |
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Jun-25-09
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| waustad: Tremendous result in Romania! I guess he's gotten over the spell following urinalgate. He just kept playing almost every day and worked through it. Amazing. |
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Jun-25-09
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| Geronimo: I don't really care about ratings other than as a snapshot of relative strength at a given moment, but whether that moment is a week-long glance or a three year prediction seems arbitrarily defined according to the statistical game you want to play. Regardless, I measure Ivanchuk's greatness (admittedly a more vague and more subjective term) by other standards: His creativity and stamina, his longevity at the top of the sport/game, his clear love and devotion to chess well beyond the call of duty or that of some peers, his willingness to take risks, and his innumerable contributions to theory, etc. These features ensure that he’ll be in the pantheon of greats long after he leaves the top 10, the top 30 or the top 130 at the end of his career. I think of him as a Korchnoi-in-waiting in this regard even though their respective styles of play are so different. |
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Jun-25-09
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| percyblakeney: In spite of some bad results now and then it seems as if Ivanchuk is able to play on a much higher level now than he did for many years. Undefeated +6, +4, +3 and +2 in Sofia 08/Bazna 09/Tal Memorial 08/Linares 09, and in the latter it would have been +3 if he hadn't given away a draw in a won position. After winning Wijk 1996 he didn't show any amazing results. Not a single plus score in Linares after 1995. Many decent results but nothing even remotely comparable to his top scores in 2008-09. It is telling that his bio here mentions being runner up in a European Championship (after Kozul) as one of the memorable results of the dozen years before 2008. But now Ivanchuk is really playing on an extremely high level during the events when he is in form. |
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Jun-27-09
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| waustad: He really never takes time off. Though he isn't at Dortmund, he's playing in the Greek chess league next week. At this rate maybe he'll catch Korchnoi for the most games in the base around the time he is 60. |
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| Jun-28-09 |
| returnoftheking: At chessvibes there is an interview with ivanchuk-he mentions a game played in his youth in a match Ukraine-Azerbeijan.
Any ideas to what game he was referring? |
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Jun-30-09
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| chancho: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy... |
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Jul-01-09
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| firebyrd: <He really never takes time off. Though he isn't at Dortmund, he's playing in the Greek chess league next week.> But that only lasts until the 9th, and Biel starts 18th. He may be in for a gruelling week of inactivity there... |
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| Jul-01-09 |
| returnoftheking: More then 3 days!! |
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Jul-01-09
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| amadeus: - There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker. "Difficult to say... but there are days on which there is no chess. I would say three days without chess is possible. That’s the maximum." (Vassily Ivanchuk) No relief,
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/i... |
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Jul-01-09
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| acirce: Is that so special? Probably goes for most top players. I can hardly imagine going three days without any chess at all myself, don't know the last time that happened. Of course I've never <played> nearly as much as Ivanchuk does. |
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Jul-01-09
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| amadeus: On the rest days, he plays Kiss the Queen :)
But, seriously, even if he is able to not study chess for three days, I think it's impossible for a Top GM not to think about chess. He goes for a walk, and there are all those squares on the sidewalk... what a nightmare! |
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Jul-01-09
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| acirce: Exactly :) |
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Jul-01-09
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| wanabe2000: <amadeus> "There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief, "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief". Quote from "All Alomg The Watchtower" by Bob Dylan.
Ivanchuk's relief is, apparently, playing chess. |
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