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| Mar-06-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Zdenko Kozul
KOZUL, Zdenko
http://www.bidmonfa.com/kozul_zdenk...
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| Apr-12-06 |
| Ivan23: Looks like Kozul might be having a tournament of his life in Kusadasi, he's a sole leader now with 6.5/8 |
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| Apr-13-06 |
| Ivan23: ...and Kozul wins again today, which gives him a full point lead with whooping 7.5/9. I'd imagine his ELO performance in Kusadasi is somewhere around 3000. |
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| Apr-15-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: Congrats to GM Kozul for winning the European Championship. |
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| Apr-15-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: Maybe next year again World champion vs European champion? Would be great though. Topalov/Kramnik vs Kozul, hmmm it seems to me obvious result :) Well let's wait and enjoy until then. |
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Apr-16-06
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| acirce: Congratulations to Kozul! Highlight of his career? |
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| Apr-16-06 |
| EricCartman: I think so... I never heard of him before |
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Apr-16-06
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| TheAlchemist: Congratulations to Zdenko! This is surely his most important result so far. He's a local hero here too, he has had some brilliant performances in individual and team competitions in the past, so I'm sure Slovenian chess enthusiasts are just as happy about his success as our Croatian friends. I believe one year he was team champion in at least 4 countries (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Macedonia, if I remember correctly, maybe some others too). |
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| Apr-16-06 |
| Ivan23: He also won 3 European Team Championships with Bosna Sarajevo team. |
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Apr-16-06
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| twinlark: Congratulations to GM Zdenko Kozul. |
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| Apr-16-06 |
| samikd: I am too materialistic to beleive that against proper Black play, Kozul would get away with sacrificing a whole Rook |
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| Apr-16-06 |
| stanleys: Congratulations from me too.Well-deserved victory for GM Kozul. |
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Apr-17-06
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| jperr75108: Congradulations to Grandmaster Zdenko Kozul. (although I was rooting for Ivanchuk) |
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| Apr-17-06 |
| Mameluk: Congratulations to famous war veteran for this completely unexpected victory. Canīt wait for Topalov-Kozul match next year. |
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| Apr-17-06 |
| Prugno: There are two noteworthy things about the new European champion which I want to mention:
1) Relatively low percentage of draws, most of them hard-fought anyway.
2) Narrow opening repertoire, in which he is however a great expert, constantly enriching the same lines with new ideas and refinements (just check the New in Chess Yearbooks to see what I mean).
Both these factors point to a non-routine player who really enjoys chess. His incostancy is probably due to insufficient practice in top events more than anything else, but on a good day he can beat more or less anyone, as he just showed in the Eurochamp. |
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| Apr-17-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: Check his round 7 game against Ivanchuk, Z Kozul vs Ivanchuk, 2006, really amazing how he turns the game into a draw when his Knight is out of play for half of the game. |
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| Apr-17-06 |
| MeatGrinder: <Mameluk: Congratulations to famous war veteran for this completely unexpected victory. Canīt wait for Topalov-Kozul match next year.> They already played a mini match in Lybia - search "Topalov Kozul" |
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| Apr-17-06 |
| Ivan23: Of course, it's going to be a Kramnik-Kozul match next year :) |
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| Apr-17-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: Or Topalov - Kozul :) |
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| Apr-18-06 |
| EmperorAtahualpa: An article in Dutch about Zdenko Kozul by GM Hans Ree: "ZDENKO KOZUL ALS ZELFMOORDVARIANT
Door Hans Ree
,,Iedere opening is speelbaar als zijn reputatie maar slecht genoeg is,'' schreef de grote schaakgeleerde Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956). Tartakower formuleerde zijn inzichten graag als paradoxen en nam het daarmee voor lief dat ze minder ernstig werden genomen dan ze verdienden. Bent Larsen was een verwante geest en werd in de jaren zestig van de vorige eeuw 'de beste van het Westen' (tot Bobby Fischer hem verdrong) en 'de wereldkampioen van het toernooischaak' door openingen te spelen die zo'n slechte reputatie hadden dat niemand zich er serieus in had verdiept. Het kampioenschap van Europa in de Turkse badstad Kusadasi werd eind vorige week gewonnen door de Kroaat Zdenko Kozul. De favoriet Vasili Ivantsjoek werd tweede en daarna volgde een grote groep die de derde plaats deelde. Onder hen was de Bosnische Nederlander Predrag Nikolic. Kozul was in rating slechts de 17de van de deelnemers en zijn overwinning was dus een grote verrassing, die hij dankte aan een openingsvariant met een slechte reputatie. Kort geleden verscheen het zeer lezenswaardige boek The Classical Sicilian van de Amerikaanse grootmeester Alex Yermolinsky. Het gaat over de varianten na 1. e4 c5 2. Pf3 Pc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Pxd4 Pf6 5. Pc3 d6. Een van die varianten noemt Yermolinsky 'The Kozul Suicide Variation'. Kozul kreeg in Kusadasi die variant met zwart drie keer op het bord en hij won alle drie de partijen. Zonder zijn zelfmoordvariant was hij geen kampioen van Europa geworden. Nieuws verspreidt zich tegenwoordig snel in de schaakwereld. De komende maanden zullen veel schakers, geïnspireerd door het succes van Kozul, zijn zelfmoordvariant op hun repertoire nemen en misschien is er nu al iemand bezig met een boek dat straks Winning with Kozul's Suicide Variation zal heten. Als dat boek verschijnt is de aardigheid er af en zal Kozul een nieuwe zelfmoordvariant moeten bedenken." Source: http://www.nrc.nl/rubrieken/schaken... (registration required) (the link also contains Hans Ree's analysis of Kozul's game against Sergey Erenburg.) |
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| Apr-22-06 |
| Ivan23: Chessbase interview with Kozul
http://www.fritzserver.biz/European... |
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| Apr-28-06 |
| alexandrovm: Kozul is a strong chess player, I hope to see more games of him at the top level... |
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| May-25-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: <EA> This is a great article! |
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| May-25-06 |
| Cro: Quite a bad start for a new European champ in the Olympiad going 0.5/2 against lower rated opposition. Kozul has Black against Navara today, could be an interesting game. |
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May-21-08
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| brankat: Happy Birthday Zdenko! |
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