May-10-07 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 
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| mormonchess: Congratulations, Liviu, on your great win against Topalov! |
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May-07-07 Susan Polgar
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| mormonchess: Susan,
Do you date? If so, would you like to go out sometime for dinner? |
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May-04-07 Nigel Short
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| mormonchess: <To discuss this in a little worthier way, yes, there was a famine in Ukraine. It was mostly caused by kulaks and other counterrevolutionaries resorting to all kinds of barbaric methods in resisting collectivization.> Amusing. Because they wanted to remain free, they ... |
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Apr-28-07 Nisipeanu vs S Williams, 2007
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| mormonchess: Extraordinary endgame technique, indeed. Nisipeanu is a great player. |
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Apr-17-07 Tigran Petrosian
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| mormonchess: Also, Petrosian was considered unstoppable at blitz. He was very fast at the board in normal time controls as well. Only lost once on time in his entire career. |
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Apr-12-07 Petrosian vs A Bisguier, 1954
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| mormonchess: Yes, very impressive pawn play by Mr. Petrosian.
He makes it look like child's play. |
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Apr-05-07 Petrosian vs Najdorf, 1961
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| mormonchess: Petrosian was pretty famous for his delayed castling. Or, in this case, no castling at all! |
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Mar-05-07 Raymond Keene
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| mormonchess: Hi Ray...just bought your Petrosian vs. the Elite and I really enjoy the book. Question for you: did you ever meet Petrosian in person? If so, what was he like, on and off the chess board? |
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Feb-27-07 Petrosian vs Bondarevsky, 1950
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| mormonchess: <notyetagm>: Petrosian and Capablanca really did make chess look like a simple game. Indeed they did! I often find Petrosian's games to be incredibly profound. I enjoy his knight maneuvers in this game. Very Nimzowitschian. <notyetagm> This game shows that Black is ... |
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Feb-09-07 Petrosian vs Bronstein, 1983
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| mormonchess: Petrosian was not a straightforward kind of guy. |
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Kibitzing
