|
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 6 OF 6 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
| Jul-07-18 | | Caissa04: Is Pragg the only modern GM with more wins than draws? |
|
Jul-07-18
 | | tpstar: <more wins than draws> Great question! Jonny Hector |
|
Jul-07-18
 | | OhioChessFan: Not to mention the LM with far more wins than draws: A J Goldsby |
|
| Jul-08-18 | | Granny O Doul: I'm surprised and impressed to learn that Karjakin remains the youngest ever. I had assumed the record was still being broken every six months. |
|
| Jul-09-18 | | jith1207: Usually, <more wins than draws> could mean losses were more than draws too! As in the above examples given. You may need to narrow down to GMs who have < more wins than draws > and < more draws than losses >. |
|
Jul-09-18
 | | alexmagnus: <I'm surprised and impressed to learn that Karjakin remains the youngest ever. I had assumed the record was still being broken every six months.> The record was never broken after as short as eix months. Indeed, only once did it hold less than a year - in 1997, when Bacrot broke the record (held by Leko back then, three year old one) in March and Ponomariov improved it in December of the same year. He is the fulll timeline of the youngest GM ever record since the GM titles started getting awarded officially in 1950: 1950: Bronstein
1952: Petrosian
1955: Spassky
1958: Fischer
1991: Polgar
1994: Leko
March 1997: Bacrot
December 1997: Ponomariov
1999: Bu
2002: Karjakin. |
|
| Jul-10-18 | | Granny O Doul: That is some great trivia there. Everyone knows Fischer was the youngest-ever GM for thirty-odd years, but how many know whose record he broke? It's like Reggie Jackson breaking Billy Martin's record for most total bases in a six-game World Series. |
|
| Jul-10-18 | | ChessHigherCat: Wise beyond his years: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ram... |
|
Jul-20-18
 | | norami: There's a golfer in the Open named Jazz Janewattananond. |
|
| Aug-26-18 | | Knight13: <Everyone knows Fischer was the youngest-ever GM for thirty-odd years, but how many know whose record he broke? It's like Reggie Jackson breaking Billy Martin's record for most total bases in a six-game World Series.> So are you saying that Fischer breaking Spassky's record is more impressive than Polgar breaking Fischer's record? |
|
Oct-21-18
 | | ketchuplover: He did something vs. Leko today |
|
Oct-22-18
| | ketchuplover: Drawn goes Leko and down goes Eljanov!
or however it's spelled |
|
| Oct-22-18 | | Nisjesram: Anand too draws in second round.
. |
|
| Oct-23-18 | | Nisjesram: <India's wunderkind, GM R Praggnanandhaa scored the biggest upset of the day by taking down GM Pavel Eljanov of Ukraine. Rated 2703, Eljanov is not only about 200 points higher rated than Praggnanandhaa, but he is also one of the former winners of the event. The game hadn't begun very promisingly for Praggnanandhaa. Eljanov had opened with the Richter-Rauzer variation of the Sicilian with the black pieces and had a comfortable position out of the opening. Praggnanandhaa's attempt to create play on the kingside was aptly countered by Eljanov with a pawn break in the centre. By the 26th move, the Ukrainian grandmaster was a pawn ahead and had complete control over the position. The game hadn't begun very promisingly for Praggnanandhaa. Eljanov had opened with the Richter-Rauzer variation of the Sicilian with the black pieces and had a comfortable position out of the opening. Praggnanandhaa's attempt to create play on the kingside was aptly countered by Eljanov with a pawn break in the centre. By the 26th move, the Ukrainian grandmaster was a pawn ahead and had complete control over the position. But just when it seemed Praggnanandhaa was in a bit of trouble, he found a way to complicate the position. Taking a page off Vidit Gujrathi's book, Praggnanandhaa essayed an ingenious queen sacrifice that led to an unclear position. After the haze had cleared, Praggananandhaa had emerged an exchange ahead in the material count. Eljanov had just one pawn to compensate for this but his connected passed pawns on the kingside looked particularly threatening. In the final phase of the game, Praggnanandha rushed to create a passed pawn of his own to generate sufficient counterplay in order to stymie Black's kingside passers. Once this was accomplished, converting the game was only a matter of technique> https://www.firstpost.com/sports/is... |
|
Jan-27-19
| | ketchuplover: 5.5/13 at Tata Steel Event :( |
|
| Jan-28-19 | | zanzibar: Photographic evidence that Praggu can hang with the big dogs! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx74uvx...
. |
|
| Jan-30-19 | | Chessinfinite: A very good performance by Pragyananda at Tata steel tournament! Congrats.
He will become a stronger GM, event top 10, and definitely among India's best hope. |
|
| Mar-08-19 | | Nic Olas: Is anyone out there up to posting the games from tata steel india blitz 2018? I know nothing about pgn if i get no response i may try however. I watched some of the games of Pragg and was really impressed especially by his swindle vs Nakamura. |
|
Mar-08-19
 | | HeMateMe: Quite a prodigy! And,the name is quite a scrabble rack. |
|
| Mar-08-19 | | alfamikewhiskey: <swindle vs Nakamura> swindle, idk. pleasing, anyway. here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kht...> |
|
| Jul-30-19 | | diagonal: Praggnanandhaa took the traditional <Xtracon Chess Open> (2019) in Copenhagen (formerly known as <Politiken Cup>, a pretty famous series, starting already in 1979). The chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa finished clear first at 8.5/10, half a point ahead of shared Aryan Tari, Gabriel Sargissian, Evgeny Postny, Samuel Sevian and Allan Stig Rasmussen who all shared second place, listed in tie-break order: http://www.xtraconchessopen.dk/inde... (recent edition)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtrac... (survey of all winners) |
|
| Aug-01-19 | | MrMelad: <ChessHigherCat: Wise beyond his years> And between his ears :) |
|
Aug-10-19
 | | WTHarvey: R Praggnanandhaa vs Alexander Krastev, Porto Carras, 2015 White to move and win.
click for larger viewSolution (in reverse)
2.Qxf4 Qxe7 1.Nxe7 |
|
| Oct-12-19 | | dwavechess: Congratulations Pragg!! Second youngest U18 World Youth Champion!! Only couple months older than Ponomariov's record |
|
| Jan-28-20 | | JonathanJ: Does his name remind anybody else of this video meme? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESh... |
|
 |
|
|
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 6 OF 6 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
Kibitzing
