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| Dec-01-12 | | Diademas: <paulalbert> Tell your friend from the last 60 years that she ages remarkably well.. ;-) And my warmest congratulations to the new Womens World Chess Champion. |
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Dec-01-12
 | | paulalbert: <Diademas> Actually before my twin sister's and this lady friend's 45th high school reunion, which I also attended even though I'm not an official member of the class having gone away to boarding school, I had not seen the Anna Ushenina look alike lady since she was 18. At age 64 she did not look a bit different,face and figure,other than a slightly different hairstyle, from what I had remembered her at 18. She just turned 70 and still doesn't look much different. I can't say that for the men and many, but not all, of the women, and unfortunately many of my and my twin sister's friends and classmates are already gone. |
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| Dec-01-12 | | cro777: This is the very moment when Anna became the 14th Women's World Chess Champion. http://chess-news.ru/sites/default/... Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych congratulated Anna Ushenina: "Thanks to the talent, hard work, professional excellence you have achieved great personal success, gave the joy of victory for the many fans and have demonstrated the world achievements of the Ukrainian school of chess". |
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| Dec-01-12 | | cro777: Viktor Kapustin, president of the Ukrainian Chess Federation: "This bright success was made possible thanks to Anna’s hard, daily work through the years, and her strong personal qualities…Ushenina…is the pride of Ukraine!" http://chess-news.ru/sites/default/... |
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| Dec-04-12 | | cro777: <"This bright success was made possible thanks to Anna’s hard, daily work through the years, and her strong personal qualities"> ... without decent conditions for training. Anna had a hard life. She still lives with her mother and grandmother with no separate room (she lives in one room with her grandmother). Anna’s friends and colleagues assert, "Anna has shown firm character before, but she has revealed herself to the full only now". Among her
distinguishable features they name her seriousness and ability to focus, as well as man’s playing style. http://sport.segodnya.ua/others/Mam... |
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| Dec-06-12 | | dumbgai: I'm glad for Anna, she's one of those players who've been around for many years but somewhat overlooked. |
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| Dec-06-12 | | Born In 2000: I always thought she was just a pretty face who happened to know the rules of chess. But not only is she beautiful, she is also a strong chess player, talented, disciplined, with many great accomplishments and of course many more to come. You see a pretty face like that and you underestimate the person behind the face, but she is a very intelligent and talented lady. Good Luck Anna! |
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| Dec-06-12 | | dumbgai: Not a big fan of the blonde hair though. |
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| Dec-07-12 | | cro777: It seems that the original looks better.
http://lichnosti.net/photos/4593/13... |
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Dec-07-12
 | | keypusher: <cro777: It seems that the original looks better.
http://lichnosti.net/photos/4593/13>...
You know you're a real chessplayer when you look at that picture and think, <Hey! Is that a Dutch Leningrad Reversed?> |
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| Dec-07-12 | | cro777: <keypusher: Is that a Dutch Leningrad Reversed?> In the photo Ushenina is basically demonstrating that she has not lost a sense of humor, trying to make the early bishops moves in the Polar Bear System work. 
click for larger view |
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| Dec-07-12 | | Jim Bartle: I assume only white can play the Polar Bear system. |
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| Dec-08-12 | | Ezzy: <Viacheslav Eingorn, GM and coach from Odessa, shared his impressions on the recent World Championship with the TV-programme School of Champions. According to Eingorn, Ushenina had the highest chances of winning the competition among all Ukrainian players participating in the WWCC: "You know, any sportswoman can win one short match. Two matches - that's already harder; and winning 6 small matches in a row isn't that easy and of course can't be based on luck only. Apart from preparation one should have briliant sport qualities. Ushenina showed them and deservedly became the Champion." This is what Eingorn said in regard to the upcoming World Championship match Hou Yifan - Ushenina: "This is what I know: to win the World Champion title and to be the champion are different things, - Eingorn said. - In order Ushenina to become a real champion she should just win the match against Hou Yifan. Is it possible? Sure, everything is possible, especially in women's chess."> http://chess-news.ru/en/node/10414 |
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| Dec-08-12 | | dumbgai: <to win the World Champion title and to be the champion are different things> is similar to my view on world championships. I hope it's a good competitive match though, unlike the last one we had. |
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| Dec-09-12 | | dx9293: <to win the World Champion title and to be the champion are different things> Um, really?
So Hou Yifan only became champion when defeating Humpy Koneru in a match, do I understand correctly? I never heard such doubts about Hou Yifan being champion when she won in the exact same format in 2010. She is just considered some kind of wondergirl and has a higher rating, so she immediately became Champion when winning the 2010 knockout, but when Ushenina wins the 2012 knockout, she's not the real champion. This is the kind of double standard crap I can't stand in the chess world. Gelfand wins the World Cup, the Candidates Matches, and only loses the title match <in the tiebreak> and yet he's a fluke because his ranking was too low and he isn't very popular among casual fans. Enough with the double standards! |
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| Dec-09-12 | | dumbgai: One difference is that when Hou Yifan won a knockout, the previous (defending) champion hadn't won it in a match format. And I thought that winning the later match added a lot of value to the title and it made her a "real" champion. I also had no problem with Gelfand being the official challenger, he earned his title shot fair and square. Of course, I can't speak for other people. |
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Dec-09-12
 | | HeMateMe: Yifan is world champion, because of a preponderance of evidence. She was challenger as a teenager, aged 13, narrowly losing a final match to Kosteniuk, I beleive. No such achievement has ever been seen in the men's game, playing for the world championship at age 13. She then won that title at age 16, also unheard of in men's chess. Yifan is the world's highest rated female who competes in women's tournaments. She has won more elite events in the past two years than any other woman. She easily defeated the world's number two ranked woman, Humpy Koneru, in a title match, last year. She finished tied for first in a men's GM tournament in Gibraltar, two years ago, unheard for any women not named Polgar. This is a lot weight indicating that Hou Yifan is the world's best female player, after Judit Polgar. If you wan't to absolutely follow the rules, then fine. Ushenina is your world champion. Privately, I think she too considers Yifan to be the consensus world champion, by merit. BTW, the above considerations do not apply to Magnus Carlsen. He has not played in a strong Candidates elimination event, matches or Candidates Tournament, yet. He had a chance to do so, and declined. For that reason, Carlsen is not able to lay claim as a sort of "unofficial world champion". He so far has lacked the confidence to pursue the title, and this lack of confidence is a necessary component of all world champions. Hou Yifan has shown no such reiticence. she took on Kosteniuk while still sleeping with teddy bears, and almost won, at age 13. We should all congratulate Ushenina for winning a tough knockout tournament. She simply has yet to prove that she is the best female player in the world. |
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| Dec-11-12 | | cro777: Anna Ushenina:"I was born in the year of the Ox".
"China is one of my favorite countries. Everything there is curious and unusual, very different from our everyday life. Even the Chinese calendar. For example, I was born in the year of the Ox, and I think I quite fit the description of this sign. Nevertheless, I don’t take horoscope seriously." http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/Po... The Ox of Chinese Astrology is a born leader, being quite dependable and possessing an innate ability to achieve great things. Oxen tend to be plodding and methodical; they approach projects in the step-by-step manner that serves them best, and they never lose sight of their goal. They are tireless workers who are detail-oriented and believe in doing things right the first time. "At home I basically work on my own, study the chess materials, and train five to eight hours a day. Speaking of my favorite style, I rather like the former world champion Anatoly Karpov." (Ushenina) http://www.day.kiev.ua/240242 |
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| Jan-31-13 | | twinlark: <HeMateMe: Yifan is world champion> Actually, she's not.
Why? Because she didn't win the 2012 Women's World Championship Tournament. It's as simple as that, and that - as they say - is that. Yifan is the merely the <former> women's world champion and somewhat less merely is the second highest rated woman in the world. |
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Jan-31-13
| | HeMateMe: <Tlark> I respect women's chess, and think it should have the same standards as the men's game. The crappy 64 player mini match "world's championship" was quickly jettisoned when it became apparent that no one considered people like Khalifman and Ponomariov to be world champions [If they didn't beat Kasparov, they aren't world champion]. Very strong players? Of course. But, the chess public wanted to see the a handful of the best players take on each other in match chess, with a long match at the end of the cycle between the challanger and defending champion. Why shouldn't women's chess get the same high quality approach? Hou Yifan was not shown that respect. They just threw her in with 63 other players and said "do it again". Admittedly, there is a safety
valve--Yifan got the automatic match against the winner of this big 64 player tournament. She will get the same respect Anand has, except that the match is too short. I think it is only 8 games, the match between Ushenina and Yifan. Really, the 64 player tournament was just a large candidates event to find a worthy challanger for Yifan. It should be named as such. If you <Twinlark> know of any serious chessplayers who think that Ushenina has proven she is better than Yifan, then fine. No one I have spoken to thinks that AU is world champion. She will have to defeat Yifan in a match, for that to happen. |
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| Jan-31-13 | | Lambda: <men's game>
I wasn't aware Judit Polgar was a man.
Let's call it what it is. The <open> game. For anyone who's good enough. |
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Jan-31-13
 | | OhioChessFan: <Jim Bartle: I assume only white can play the Polar Bear system. > If Black accepts, it's the Panda Bear System. |
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Jan-31-13
 | | FSR: "There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat." Bobby Fischer, quoted in <Harper's Magazine>, January 1962 I always thought this was an absurd statement. Then again: Anna Ushenina became Women's World Champion in December 2012. Earlier that year: L Galojan vs A Ushenina, 2012. And White was far from Bobby Fischer. Maybe Fischer could have given Ushenina rook odds. |
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| Jan-31-13 | | twinlark: <HeHateMe>
I agree with your argument that the women's cycle should be the same or similar to the men's cycle. However, that is another discussion altogether.
Ushenina won the undisputed world championship of women's chess. No one disputes that, not the players and least of all Hou Yifan. The whole Khalifman/FIDE KO argument does <not> apply, as that was entirely in the context of a split in the title. This is simply not the case in women's chess. |
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| Jan-31-13 | | twinlark: <Maybe Fischer could have given Ushenina rook odds.> And maybe not. |
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