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| Sep-10-10 | | shakespeare: grats to Carlsen - the next world champion I bet - though Vishy will definitely play better then the "World" :-) |
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| Sep-10-10 | | ajile: http://www.zbestvalue.com/images/ca... I probably need to slow it down a bit though. |
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Sep-10-10
 | | Annie K.: <rapidcitychess: <I would use that for my avatar!>> You can ask cg.com to upload this to the avatars for you: http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jjc3ZbnSy0o/T... But only if you unreservedly admire the Carlsen Rook. :p |
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Sep-10-10
| | Annie K.: <ajile> the phrase that comes to mind is "shake well before use". ;p |
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| Sep-10-10 | | rapidcitychess: Not the rook. The other one by the World. I thought was so funny. Carlsen looked like he should poke his head around a corner and quickly walk across the street and dive in to a car with heavily tinted windows. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | ajile: OK here's a better one:
http://www.zbestvalue.com/images/ca... |
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| Sep-10-10 | | ajile: http://www.zbestvalue.com/images/ca... This is avatar size. Since they have to be 48 x 48 I had to scale it to 36 pixels wide. |
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Sep-10-10
| | Annie K.: <ajile> nice. :) But they don't use animated avatars here AFAIK. The one in my link should be acceptable as an avatar, albeit sans Rook. ;) |
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| Sep-10-10 | | ajile: <Annie K.>
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
:o( |
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| Sep-10-10 | | ajile: http://www.zbestvalue.com/images/ca... Well at least they could use my big one.
I changed the speed so now it matches theirs exactly. The gif changes every .5 seconds. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | whiteshark: <ajile: <.../images/carlsen-gangsta...gif>> True! :D |
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Sep-10-10
| | Annie K.: <ajile> now you've got the speed down to the range they normally use. This one is kinda cute - try to send it to cg.com, maybe they'll accept it. :) |
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| Sep-10-10 | | Assassinater: Does anyone know if they will be posting the audio from the event anywhere? I wasn't able to make it this time but I'd really like to hear Kasparov's comments on the game. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | Anatoly21: As a frequent opener of the KID, I had to shudder at 9...c6. It just seems automatic to move the f6 Knight and prepare f5 immediately rather than open the Queenside for White. Also, taking such a long time to get some activity on the Kingside in the KID just looks suicidal. But "The World" did do a pretty good job of resisting after a rough opening, so I do have to give them that ... |
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| Sep-10-10 | | bane77: First of all, this was NOT Carlsen - World. It was Carlsen vs 3 strong GMs.
Important lessons from this game:
1. Ne7 stands as an idiot for whole game. Therefore 6.Nd7 was better than 6.Nc6.
2. Bg7 also is an idiot on g7 square, pointing at its own pawns. Therefore is was necessary to move pawn f7-f5 as soon as possible, hoping to get to c1-h6 diagonal. That means that Polgar's suggested move 12.Ne8 was better than 12.Qd7 played in the game.
The World would put stronger resistance if only it had a chance. This way, black was completely lost after only 25 moves. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | DeepFriedLiver: I actually thought this was a really interesting event, even though the quality of the chess on the world side was lamentable. It's the closest I've been to getting inside the head of a GM in a live game. It's one thing to read live analysis during a game, but quite another to watch three GMs playing different moves and suggesting different plans each step of the way. Polgar seemed to be trying create kingside opportunities in the early part of the game, while Naka was suggesting provocative tactical tricks at every opportunity (usually met with derision from Kasparov). I couldn't really get a feel for what MVL was thinking. Would have been interesting if G-star included a live audio/visual feed of each of the 3 GMs so we could get their reaction to the world's choices. Every now and then the commentators would say something about how Polgar and MVL looked shocked or exasperated when the world sided with Naka (eg, 10...Bg4). In a similar vein, it would have been better if the 3 GMs were posting their thoughts and evaluations (as Naka was) instead of simply moves during the game. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | DeepFriedLiver: Also wouldn't have hurt to put up a live feed of Liv Tyler. You know, for morale purposes. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | whiteshark: <DeepFriedLiver> What pertinent observations! Let's hope you get a good hearing on your constructive suggestions. And Liv, y'know. :D |
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Sep-10-10
 | | Check It Out: It would be good to see them refine this live GM versus the world idea with the fast time control. It could give chess a big boost in the community outside the hard core chess players. From my experience, I large percentage of non chess players HAVE played chess at some point, and have a high degree of respect for the game. This type of event gives them a chess avenue that is not challenging to the ego, and I think that could be the big draw. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | AVRO38: This was falsely billed as "Carlsen vs The World", essentially it was just a consultation game between Carlsen and three GMs. Had the majority vote format which prevails in most "vs The World" games been followed it would have been a much tougher fight. |
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Sep-10-10
 | | Domdaniel: An interesting question is whether Naka's tactical probes - the ones Kasparov snorted at - were his normal best play, or an effort to make the game exciting for the public, or somewhere between the two. The Fianchetto Variation tends to be different from other KID lines. White plays less ambitiously, but Black's kingside attack is seriously restricted and often never gets going at all. For this reason, many KID purists as Black dislike playing against the Fianchetto. It's as different from other KID lines as a Catalan is from a Queen's Gambit. Some KID players, seeing g3, prefer to transpose to the Fianchetto Gruenfeld, [D78-79], but that can be drawish. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | DeepFriedLiver: Thanks, <whiteshark>! <Check It Out> I agree that this kind of thing is good for chess. It preserves some element of the thrill of playing a game without putting anything on the line (reputation, ego, effort required to organize a game, intimidation of facing opponent directly, etc). Plus, there are celebrities involved, so it makes chess more accessible socially to mainstream pop culture. Many of us here might roll our eyes at this publicity stunt and say the money would be better spent for a high-level match, but that misses the point. Sure, we might salivate over Carlsen-Kasparov or Carlsen-Naka rapid, but we don't have girlfriends. We are not the target audience. This kind of event is for the masses. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | birthtimes: Like I've said on here a hundred million times, you cannot give Carlsen a space advantage, therefore 10...a5 needed to be played... |
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| Sep-10-10 | | AniamL: <Domdaniel> Thanks, that is some very interesting information. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | yoozum: For those that watched the game live, was there frequently disagreement among the 3 GMs about which moves to play? |
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