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| Oct-08-03 | | PizzatheHut: Does anyone know anything about this guy? I had never heard of him until the Russia vs. The World match, and come to find out he's rated almost 2700. |
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| Oct-08-03 | | Phoenix: so many 2700+s in Russia, it's easy to be overlooked even if you have a rating of 2670! |
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| Mar-20-04 | | shr0pshire: Rublevsky won the 2004 Aeroloft tournament, and was won 4 Gold Medals in the Chess Olympiads. For more information reference this interview about him in this chesscafe session. http://www.chesscafe.com/misha/mish... |
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| Sep-28-04 | | Knezh: Check out his games with the scotch. Very instructive! |
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| Oct-04-04 | | clocked: Lifetime score versus Kasparov? 1-0 |
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| Oct-04-04 | | yoozum: well, this guy will likely be seeing a boost in his elo points. now he probably automatically gets his game vs. kasparov on his noted games list on chessgames.com. |
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| Oct-04-04 | | acirce: He was rated 2686 on the Jul list (which is also his all-time-high) but dived down to 2649 on the Oct. |
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| Oct-13-04 | | clocked: Kasparov, Kramnik, Bareev, and Karpov aren't playing in the Olympiad, and Rublevsky still can't make the team! |
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| Dec-04-04 | | yoozum: rublevsky just won a strong russian blitz superfinal. his opponents included, but were not limited to, morozevich, grischuk, dreev, and korotylev. looks like beating kasparov wasn't just a strange fluke, this guy is very strong at blitz too. |
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| Aug-24-05 | | waddayaplay: The page could use one of those infoboxes... |
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| Aug-24-05 | | waddayaplay: From what I can tell, he likes to play the Rossolimo Sicilian (only trailing Thomas Oral in most played) and Scotch Game (only trailing Blackburne in number of games in database) |
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| Dec-21-05 | | Petrosian63: This guy is good. +3 -0 =1 against Topalov. |
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| Dec-21-05 | | csmath: Rublevsky is in "strong GM" group (at or above 2650) for 10 years already. <Kasparov, Kramnik, Bareev, and Karpov aren't playing in the Olympiad, and Rublevsky still can't make the team!> He was in Russian team on Olympiads since 1996 regularly. I don't think he will be ever in the elite group but on a good day he can beat anybody. In the past these kinds of players occassionally won Russian/USSR championship so who knows perhaps he can too.
I would not bet on him though. |
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Dec-21-05
 | | tamar: No record to speak of versus Kramnik, just two draws in 1990. v Svidler +2-2=5
v Zvjagsinev +1-1=6
v Morozevich -1 +0 =2
Definitely a guy the others don't enjoy playing, like Geller in the Soviet heydey, known for taking down champions right around 50% of the time. |
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| Dec-21-05 | | notyetagm: Yes, playing Rublevsky is no walk in the park. But he plays a <very narrow opening repertoire>: Tarrasch against the French, Scotch against 1 ... e5, Rossolimo/Moscow against Sicilian. Bareev knew yesterday that Rublevsky would play the Tarrasch against his French, a Sicilian player can be certain that Rublevksky will play 3 ♗b5, etc. Hard to break into the 2700 club when you are so predictable. |
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| Dec-21-05 | | Akavall: <notyetagm> Yes, and his openings are also not objectivly strongest, this with combination with predictability (obviously he can't use them as surprise weapons) is probably the reason he is not in 2700 club. |
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| Dec-21-05 | | notyetagm: <Akavall> Yes. Contrast Rublevsky with Anand. With Vishy, you never have any idea beforehand what he is going to play. Play 1 e4 and expect a Sicilian, Anand might play a Caro-Kann or a French. Prepare your Najdorf against Anand's 1 e4 and he opens 1 c4. A big advantage for Vishy. |
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| Dec-24-05 | | PizzatheHut: Who honestly predicted Rublevsky would be in the lead after 5 rounds? |
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| Dec-24-05 | | PizzatheHut: <Hard to break into the 2700 club when you are so predictable.> I would settle for being predictable and in the 2600 club ;) |
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| Dec-24-05 | | KingG: <Prepare your Najdorf against Anand's 1 e4 and he opens 1 c4. A big advantage for Vishy.> When was the last time Anand played 1.c4? He hasn't even played 1.d4 much these days, although he did surprisingly play 1.d4 twice against Adams this year. |
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| Dec-24-05 | | notyetagm: <KingG: ... When was the last time Anand played 1.c4?> He played 1 c4 against Adams at M-Tel last May, among other times when he has played the English. See the link below for more Anand English opening games. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Dec-26-05 | | Mameluk: <PizzatheHut> I honestly predicted Rublevsky to finish last, because of his tireness and too creative play. But he plays really well, even if experts say that his opponenets play really bad. |
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| Dec-27-05 | | csmath: Rublevsky does look like a happy energetic man. Apparently he has no problem with eating. Today he played an impressive ending against Jakovenko. Some recognition is overdue, how about a photo? |
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Dec-27-05
 | | Chnebelgrind: <csmath <how about a photo?>> See: http://www.bidmonfa.com/rublevsky_s... |
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| Dec-27-05 | | csmath: This guy personifies an average Russian Joe to me. He must be a fun fellow. And it looks like his style is exact match. The way he played so far, he deserves a win on this tournament. |
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