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Jul-04-07
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| Caissanist: Does anyone know the name of Afromeev's driver? |
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| Jul-04-07 |
| TheGladiator: He's finnish I think - his name is Eloraanta... |
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| Jul-05-07 |
| TheGladiator: Some Norwegian words for reference:
ta = take, grab
ran = robbery, theft, hold-up
I guess Arpad didn't know that... |
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| Jul-05-07 |
| skiskichess5: <gladiator> is this him?
http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.ph... |
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| Jul-05-07 |
| skiskichess5: <Stanleys> good find! Kozhakin, an oldish guy, rating goes up >200 points in last 7 years ... plausible ... but seemingly no games at all on chessgames ... nor on chesslab. |
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| Jul-05-07 |
| TheGladiator: I was only joking about a finnish name (I didn't know there existed a chess player with that name!) - this name would mean something like "ELO theft", or "ELO grab" in Norwegian. So it was just my weird mind with a thing for associating that were having fun... |
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Jul-05-07
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| Bridgeburner: Does anyone know the name of Afromeev's cat? |
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Jul-06-07
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| SwitchingQuylthulg: <skiskichess5> That's not him - he mainly plays in Finnish events, and has no suspicious rating gains. Anyway you'd expect Afromeev's driver to be rated higher. ;-) But what with the identity of many top playchess blitzers being secret... we can't really know anything... one of them could be Afromeev's cat. |
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| Jul-11-07 |
| stanleys: Our hero just won Kotov's memorial,scoring 9/12 and getting a GM norm.Congratulations :)http://www.chessmoscow.ru/files/dow... Reaching 2700 is just a matter of time
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| Jul-11-07 |
| TheGladiator: Ok, so he's decided to become a GM. Well, two more tournaments then, and that's it, I guess. One of the FIDE officials said that he's seriously interested in information about this case, so if anyone have anything concrete to bring forward, please let me know. As a starter, it would be nice with the russian article from 2001, a translation of it, and chess today's mention of it... |
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| Jul-11-07 |
| skiskichess5: All the usual stars in that Kotov memorable crosstable including my hero Leonov who managed 0.5/9 He also put in a forgetable display at the Kaissa memorial 2002...
Mikhail Leonov
... but did triumph in one game that, to Leonov's credit, has not gone unnoticed by chess fans. (see 13 move miniature against Onishko) |
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| Jul-11-07 |
| skiskichess5: ... another Onishko gem from the 2002 Kaissa memorial, sadly little appreciated by chess fans A Onishko vs D Posohov, 2002 |
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| Jul-11-07 |
| skiskichess5: ... yes certainly some cracking games at the 2002 Kaissa tournament ... Pity for chess that its many participants can only grace Chessgames with the 8-10 games they played there. |
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| Jul-12-07 |
| skiskichess5: Perhaps I am mean and unfair. I see that there are a lot of players (from eastern europe I saw) who have games only from one (or two) tournaments. Perhaps this is not unreasonable for a 2000-2300 player who perhaps does not have the time nor financial resources to play in rated tournaments. I'm puzzled though as to the factors that determine whether or not chessgames receive games from more or less obscure tournaments. |
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| Aug-16-07 |
| scorpius: I think he must stage the events. Why would all of his opponents in that Tula tourney all be born before 1940!? |
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| Sep-29-07 |
| skiskichess5: Setting the record straight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim... |
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| Oct-02-07 |
| Rubion: This infamous Afromeev is on the up and up in the october ratings list, now in at 67 in the world. He'll be aiming for 2700 soon I'm sure. This from Mark Crowther: <FM Vladimir Afromeev born in 1954 has his performance at the Kotov Memorial (TWIC 662-3) in Tula counted and so moves from 78 to 67 in the world. These events and his rating as a whole are regarded as extremely dubious by many good judges and I'm told there are russian websites saying he openly boasts about how easy it is to get such a high rating.> |
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| Oct-02-07 |
| skiskichess5: Yagupov who it is claimed was sued successfully by Afromeev(see Wikipedia above) finished above half-way in the Kotov memorial and drew with our hero. |
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Oct-02-07
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| whiteshark: <Bridgeburner: Does anyone know the name of Afromeev's cat?>
Cheat-Cat-go |
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Oct-02-07
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| tamar: Perhaps Afromeow |
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| Oct-03-07 |
| skiskichess5: Let's face it we have no evidence that Afromeev's tournament results are fraudulent in any way. One person who so suggested apparently got sued successfully by Afromeev. Put up or shut up isn't that what Americans say. It is entirely feasible that Afromeev is a much better player than we think and earlier in his life was concentrating on his business career and now has more time to devote to chess. Regarding playing weaker opponents to gain in the ratings, this is entirely legal. What is more it is not immoral. Why not someone as a hobby and a challenge to increase rating focus on playing weaker opponents. Soon he will pass Nigel Short in the ratings. I'm not singling out Nigel, it's just because he's dropped a lot and so there is potential for Vlad to leapfrog him. |
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Oct-03-07
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| dx9293: <skiskichess5> You're right. While it is widely believed that there is funny business going on (and I believe there is, too), we don't have real proof. As long as there are players who are willing to have their names appear on FIDE rating reports, and Arbiters that are willing to sign off on the reports, this will continue to go on. The World is a big place, and FIDE can't supervise every tournament! The responsibility falls on the National Federations...remember the "Heroes of Chernobyl" memorial in 2005? |
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| Oct-03-07 |
| skiskichess5: Our other mystery man,
Vladimir Kozhakin also continues to do well.
http://www.fide.com/ratings/id.phtm...
Now ranked 88 in Russia!
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| Oct-03-07 |
| pawnofdoom: What a weirdo. He's 50 years old already, but his ratings been going up so quickly. His last tournament he scored 8/9, but from a field of players averaging 200+ points below him. |
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Oct-03-07
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| dx9293: <pawnofdoom> I think he chooses the fields of players he does because if he chose famous, prominent players whose ratings were closer to his own, the results would look worse, and he would immediately be outed. All of the players he chooses are either unknown, over-the-hill, or non-descript. |
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