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| Oct-23-15 | | Nerwal: Anand, Kramnik and Topalov taking rating spots 2, 3 and 4 behind the boss. It happened for the first time in July 1997, almost twenty years ago. |
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| Oct-23-15 | | docbenway: jphamlore, why do you make statements and end them with a question mark and questions and end them with a period?
"Why has this become fashionable."
"At one time Siberia was hoping to have Ding Liren play for them back in May but he had visa problems?" |
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| Oct-23-15 | | docbenway: perfidious, I do make a point of reading your comments, they either give me a grin or send me to the dictionary. |
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| Oct-23-15 | | waustad: As an imperfect typist I botch puctuation more often than I'd prefer. It isn't always any indication of intent. |
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| Oct-23-15 | | PhilFeeley: Powerhouse Armenia doesn't have a team here? Aronian plays for a Russian team? Who transformed the universe into BizarroWorld? |
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| Oct-24-15 | | fisayo123: <PhilFeeley> You've never heard of the European CLUB cup? |
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| Oct-24-15 | | PhilFeeley: <fisayo123> So you're saying Armenia is not in Europe, so their clubs can't participate? Or that folks from all over are members of teams in different countries - which is why Aronian is on a Russian team and Nakamura is on an Italian team, while Caruana is on an Azerbaijani team? Help me out here. Are all these 2700 players members of the clubs they play for? Is the explanation of all the club players on the official site somewhere? |
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| Oct-24-15 | | dunkenchess: Macedonia? Where is that in chess-results.com? |
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| Oct-24-15 | | sonia91: <fisayo> Yerevan club won the open section in 1995 and the women's event in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europ... <dunkenchess> just check chess-results.com home page |
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| Oct-24-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <perfidious: All <hamhock>'s comments have an annoying facility for ending with periods--for in his mind, he is always right.> There you go, making friends again. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | jphamlore: Could have some fun soon in Grischuk - Nakamura as their clocks wind down. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | Karposian: <PhilFeeley: <fisayo123> So you're saying Armenia is not in Europe, so their clubs can't participate? Or that folks from all over are members of teams in different countries - which is why Aronian is on a Russian team and Nakamura is on an Italian team, while Caruana is on an Azerbaijani team> What's the problem? This is common in any sport. You think there are only Spaniards playing for Barcelona? There's the Brazilian Neymar, the Argentinian Messi, the Uruguayan Suarez.. A club can have any members they like. Should they have a racist policy of players from one country only? It doesn't make sense. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | jphamlore: MVL just crushes Li Chao. It's too bad many of these Chinese players just don't have that much experience playing the very top players. However good they might be versus weaker players, playing MVL in this type of position is asking to get cut to pieces. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | jphamlore: Moment of truth as Grischuk and Nakamura blitz their moves before the time control. Could not ask for more. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | jphamlore: Fantastic, Wang Yue saves the match and maybe the event for Siberia. What a year for such an underrated player. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | MOLLOYCHESS: <jphamlore> <Ivanchuk got exactly what he deserved for playing such a feckless Italian Game as White. Why has this become fashionable.
There are far worse things than a Berlin Ruy Lopez.>
He had a slight advantage then self destructed in the endgame. The opening is not everything in chess which you often seem to suggest. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | devere: So what is the cost of hiring the pawnslinger of my choice to represent my "club"? It seems that the ECU charges 2500 Euros per foreign player
http://europeanchessclubcup2015.com...
but what do the super-GMs themselves get for a week's hard work? |
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| Oct-24-15 | | BOSTER: <MOLLOYCHESS:The opening is not everything>. Agree.
This is the pos. white to play 24.
click for larger view White pieces have more freedom, but black pawn structure is better. Here white Ivanchuk could "sacr." the queen playing 24.Nxd5. if 24...Rxe4 25.Nf6+ gxf6 26.Rxd8+ Qxd8 27. Rxd8+ Kg7, and white can get the majority on the queen side. If other <take> , black will lose a pawn. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | sonia91: Congratulations to Siberia team!
Final standings:
1. Siberia 13
2. SOCAR 11
3. St. Petersburg 11
4. Padova 11 |
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| Oct-24-15 | | jphamlore: If the next Candidates cycle is similar to this one, the players are right in the middle of the time period, approximately from May 2015 through April 2016, for ratings qualification to the next Grand Prix cycle. This time all four of Svidler, Karjakin, Giri, and Eljanov from World Cup may accept, leaving I believe 7 invites by rating. (4 potentially from World Cup, 4 sponsor invites, 1 FIDE President's nominee). Then one has the World Champion and challenger who won't play, and likely Topalov and Kramnik declining the invite as well. This is going to be quite an exciting horse race with I think a goal of finishing in the top 14 in ratings over that time period. It's not the money that matters, it's the seasoning playing many of the very best players in an endless grind over 33 games. So for example MVL won a couple of games but then really struggled in the Grand Prix. And he struggled other events. But I think he's finally on the verge of being at his absolute prime. The problem is the competition is so fierce it is incredibly difficult even for a player of his talent in his prime just to stay in the top 9 or 10 in ratings. The Chinese players have barely even started on this process. It appears Ding Liren will get his shot in the Grand Prix and perhaps even the Grand Chess Tour, assuming he can sort out whatever visa problems kept him from playing for Siberia last May at Sochi. Li Chao may make the Grand Prix by rating as well. He could really use it. I am hoping the FIDE President's nominee this cycle for Grand Prix is Wei Yi. Sadly I can also see scenarios where it all falls apart and none of the Chinese players make any of the top events next cycle. Something seems broken in how players get invites. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | BOSTER: < iphamlore>.
I guess that your < an exciting horse race > can be sharply changed.
There are a lot reasons for it. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | waustad: I just read that Andreas Diermair got a GM norm, his second, at the event. I didn't realize that this was one of the special events where a norm for less than 9 rounds was possible. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | PhilFeeley: <Karposian> No, I don't have a problem with it. I was just wondering why Armenia doesn't have a team there. They usually have a pretty strong one in the Olympiad. |
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| Oct-25-15 | | PhilFeeley: Korobov should have won. I'm surprised Mamedyarov lost. |
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