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| Jul-25-14 | | jphamlore: I keep telling you all and I'm right about Wei Yi: His future is Bu Xiangzhi. Because Bu Xiangzhi didn't "fall off the face of top level chess", he did what any Chinese with smarts and options would do -- he went to university. Maybe that explains why in 2012 he won the, you guessed it, the 2012 World University Chess Championship. That might just indicate, I don't know, that Bu Xiangzhi over the past few years at least might have been a university student at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics or something similar. And the exact same thing is going to happen to Wei Yi. He will get a few opportunities to play abroad, but then he will start really studying for his university entrance exams and then will go to university to study a degree that can eventually earn he and his family a lot more money than chess ever could. And then he too will "fall off the face of top level chess" for many years until he is too old to ever come close to being World Chess Champion. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that happening. |
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| Jul-25-14 | | Shams: <jphamlore> People are different. They have different ambitions, different values and different priorities. You don't know the people you are talking about, and you don't have a crystal ball. Enough, please. |
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Jul-25-14
 | | perfidious: <Shams> Had to send that poster to iggydom--he comes off as a pretentious twit who knows people whom he has never met better than they know themselves, in the manner of the missing and unlamented <shach matov>. |
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| Jul-25-14 | | SimonWebbsTiger: today's round 6 draw includes:
Bu - Matlakov
Moiseenko - Romanov
Edouard - Meier
Persson - Rodhstein
Jones - Le Roux
Ikeda - Rapport
A fun match is Rossen - IM Haugli. Rossen is a lovely old Danish chap, untitled, and beating or drawing v. players 200+ above his Elo! He beat e.g. Tatev Abrahamyan, one of the regular WGMs at the US Championships. |
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| Jul-25-14 | | SimonWebbsTiger: game of the day: G Jones vs J P Le Roux, 2014 |
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| Jul-25-14 | | notyetagm: Politiken Cup (2014) Top boards for Round 7:
http://chess-results.com/tnr123323.... <Pairings/Results
Round 7 on 2014/07/26 at 13:00
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 6 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2671 5½ 5½ GM Bu Xiangzhi 2693 3 2 2 GM Rapport Richard 2701 5 5½ GM Jones Gawain C B 2665 7 3 15 GM Cornette Matthieu 2532 5 5 GM Moiseenko Alexander 2707 1 4 4 GM Matlakov Maxim 2685 5 5 GM Schandorff Lars 2529 17 5 22 IM Svane Rasmus 2494 5 5 GM Edouard Romain 2679 5 6 8 GM Negi Parimarjan 2645 5 5 GM Rasmussen Allan Stig 2522 18 7 9 GM Romanov Evgeny 2643 5 5 GM Smerdon David 2519 19 8 10 GM Meier Georg 2632 5 5 IM Tari Aryan 2412 27 > |
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| Jul-26-14 | | jphamlore: Great effort by Bu Xiangzhi to grind out the win:
M Rodshtein vs Bu Xiangzhi, 2014
He headed straight to the endgame from the opening and simply kept making moves until his opponent lost the way in the endgame. |
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Jul-26-14
 | | HeMateMe: Blood on the Board; people are trying to win chess games, here. |
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| Jul-26-14 | | waustad: With 21 players within one game of first Bu Xiangzhi can't afford to just draw out his games for 3 rounds. This could stay interesting to the end. |
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Jul-26-14
 | | Chessgames Bookie: <waustad: With 21 players within one game of first Bu Xiangzhi can't afford to just draw out his games for 3 rounds. This could stay interesting to the end.> Sounds like gambling time!
Politiken Cup rd 8: Bu Xiangzhi-Moiseenko
Politiken Cup: BU SPECIAL |
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| Jul-26-14 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Matlakov won the Blitz tourney, yesterday evening, ahead of 2. Le Roux, 3-4. Stig Rasmussen and Edouard. Some of the top pairings in round 8:
Bu - Moiseenko
Edouard - Matlakov
Jones - Meier
Romanov - Negi
Semcesen - Rapport
Stig Rasmussen - Rodhstein
Timman - Hector
An interesting match up is Schandorff - Haubro. Young Martin might be on course to score a 2nd IM norm. |
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| Jul-27-14 | | waustad: I'm a little disappointed by some of the quick draws by Ramirez, but he had a great result at the pairs blitz going 9/10. http://chess-results.com/tnr141014.... |
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| Jul-27-14 | | jphamlore: Bu Xiangzhi has been channeling the spirit of Capablanca so far this tournament. Yet another attempted endgame crush which so far is going well versus Moiseenko. |
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| Jul-27-14 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Bu won.
For utter crazy excitement, the Stig Rasmussen - Rodhstein game has been great. Both players were in huge time trouble from move 30. |
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| Jul-27-14 | | SimonWebbsTiger: some of the penultimate, round 9, pairings:
Jones - Bu
Rapport - Rodhstein
Matlakov - Timman
Negi - Edouard
Moiseenko - Schandorff |
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| Jul-27-14 | | centralfiles: Bu has just jumped from 54 to 26!
http://www.2700chess.com/ |
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| Jul-27-14 | | waustad: One strange pairing next round is Alejandro Ramirez vs Johannes Haug. People have noticed the young Norwegian player Aryan Tari, but Haug is even younger, born in 2000 and is doing even better here. |
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| Jul-27-14 | | 1d410: Bu Xiangzhi is probably a martial arts black belt too... |
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Jul-27-14
 | | alexmagnus: Not the first time Bu has a run though. Still remember, many years ago, in some open (Gibraltar?) Bu started with something like 6/6 which led to the Chessbase headline "Great Bu's up". |
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Jul-27-14
| | alexmagnus: My memory was half-perfect here - it was indeed Gibraltar (2008), but the score was 7.5/8 http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-gr... |
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| Jul-27-14 | | SimonWebbsTiger: <Great Bu's Up> Ah yes, a lovely reference to Blackadder, the episode "Beer." |
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| Jul-27-14 | | Wavy: Great breakthrough for Bu for finally beating a 2700 player. |
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| Jul-28-14 | | jphamlore: Haug lost very quickly to Ramirez in a standard type of opening trap one sees in Gruenfelds. A Ramirez vs J Haug, 2014
One would think such a young player would enjoy tactical melees, except I would guess they would prefer to be the side threatening checkmate instead of the other way around ... |
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| Jul-28-14 | | jphamlore: Bu Xiangzhi is on an amazing run of crushing his opponents in the endgame this event, as if he were Capablanca reincarnated. Today's feat, probably winning an opposite-colored bishops endgame. |
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| Jul-28-14 | | jphamlore: Bu Xiangzhi's not being on China's 2014 Olympiad team may prove costly for them. |
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