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metatron2
Member since Jul-03-07

My peak elo is 2300 but I haven't been active in classical chess tournaments for about 30 years.
My favorite (active/semi active) players are: Kasparov, Topalov, Carlsen, Grischuk, MVL, Mamedyarov, Firouzja, Aronian, Ivanchuk, Morozevich, Kramnik
Like most "inactive" chess lovers, I do play blitz on the Internet:
My handle on FICS is: "metatrony"
If you want to play, just leave me a message here on chessgames or on FICS.
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For years there used to a message here about Moro, following a bet I lost to slomarko, but since he left CG long ago, I figured the time has come to remove it..

metatron2 has kibitzed 2349 times to chessgames [more...]

May-05-25 Vladimir Kramnik

metatron2: <Sally: https://www.gambit.lu/wp-content/up... > Great image, never saw it before.. I don't recognize the guy between Kramnik and Capablanca and he has a camera, so I guess that is the artist of that painting? <fabelhaft: The Anand vs Kramnik debate made more sense around

May-05-25 Hans Niemann

metatron2: Apparently Niemann waited for a full Month before publicly addressing his withdrawal from Paris, and even after all that time, he still couldn't give even a Hint about the reason, other than claiming that thinking that it was related to the strict anti-cheating measurements there ...

May-03-25 Ding Liren

metatron2: Just came across this game of Ding from 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcA... It refreshed my memory of what an amazing creative player Ding was. Too bad we lost him during covid times, with China's strict flight restrictions. He never got back to himself since then, even ...

Apr-27-25 Grenke Freestyle Open (2025)

metatron2: Hi <Teyss> <The mistake arouse from the fact Wikipedia starts with "Transcendental chess (TC) also known as pre-chess" which is wrong> Indeed.. I guess those chess variants are not popular enough to have Wikipedia users that watch the page and correct it.. <you ...

Apr-20-25 Ju - Tan Women's World Championship Match (2025)

metatron2: <keypusher: Am I right to think that she has never been the top rated woman in the world> Technically yeah, but she has been #2 in the world behind Hou Yifan many times, and Hou Y hasn't played in tournaments since 2018, and only kept her rating active with few league games ...

Feb-25-25 Magnus Carlsen

metatron2: Carlsen and chesscom (along with Caruana) managed to include chess as part of esports, which means much more popularity (and money) for the game: https://esportsinsider.com/2024/12/... Maybe a co-operation with fide will be just a burden for Magnus after all.. Seems like fide ...

Feb-11-25 Freestyle Grand Tour Weissenhaus (2025)

metatron2: <Atterdag: Thanks, <metatron2> for these interesting observations and notions. I fully concur> Thanks Atterdag.. We will see weather those observations will hold until the end of the Freestyle tour.. <stone free or die: Before engines there was opening books> I'm

Feb-03-25 Tata Steel Masters (2025)

metatron2: That was an epic finish for this exciting tournament: The 3 young talents fighting for the first place, with the two leaders crack under the pressure and lose, while the 4th young talent making an amazing come back in the last two rounds, after having the worst tournament of his ...

Dec-20-24 Ding - Gukesh World Championship Match (2024)

metatron2: <Atterdag: Thanks to you and no lesser thanks to you I haven't mentioned> You are welcome ..

Dec-14-24 Kibitzer's Café

metatron2: I stumbled on something quite strange on Youtube lately: A woman who calls herself Emily, started a youtube chess channel, aimed to improve your chess. But there were few strange things about it: 1) She said she only plays chess for a few months 2) Even so, her videos are very ...

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