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| Jun-06-24 | | Chessinfinite: Its important Gukesh plays a training match with a strong player before taking on WC Ding. Not having match experience can be serious setback. Plus It will do Gukesh a lot good to not fall for external expectations and discover his strengths, and not copy someone, or try to imitate Anand for example. Nigel Short tried to imitate Fischer with disastrous results, he did manage to imitate Fischer in disappearance, if not in performance. A slight change in topic but the imitating happens even at government level..imo the brit government today trying to imitate the US electing Obama, the brits 'selected' Rishi Sunak to show the world that they are tolerant of 'minorities'!!..Sunak is a brainwashed brit who grew up in the UK, and is naive imo, who playing into the hands of the 'British deep state'..much like the British policy in colonial times to kidnap children of deceased indian ruler collaborators and send them to UK for 'brainwashing''..a well known British practice..So maybe Rishi Sunak seems to think brits will 'appreciate' his work when in reality the message is more to the world that UK has changed -like the USA..just my 2c |
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Jun-09-24
 | | ketchuplover: Please elaborate on how Short tried to imitate Fischer. Thank you |
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| Jun-11-24 | | Chessinfinite: Sure, I can elaborate...One among many of Short's comments 'before' playing a match with the Russians- was Short claiming-like Fischer did- that Russians collude to fix their games, with no data to support that claim, which at least was not proven to be true in the 90s. Maybe it was too much for a challenger to say who was not even in the top 5- I don't know.. A normal pre match 'chest beating' such as mocking your rival is welcome, even appreciated - Mr Short commented on Kasparov being a 'hairy beast'-- Good one, maybe a bit personal, but still a good one..but accusing the Russians of colluding games was different..Fischer did that too, but he came back and won the title convincingly. ..and since you asked, please try to give an explanation why Short vanished after being 'manhandled' by Kasparov ?? Not sure if he lost heart or feared facing Kasparov again.. Fischer vanished too, but after winning the title and convincingly proving that he was the top player at that time.. There is a difference..It looks to me that Short imitated Fischer in that..and instead by going to Iran to train Iranian women in chess, a seemingly 'easy' target, Short denied himself any further chances to be with the big guys in Chess .. also actually Iranian women are sharp and brilliant, I have worked with them, so maybe Nigel Short did not have such an easy time there as well :) |
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| Jun-11-24 | | Olavi: It must be one of those miracles of nature, seeing that after the Kasparov match, Short beat Gulko in the next cycle and then lost to Kamsky. |
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Jul-01-24
| | ketchuplover: GL in Singapore young man |
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| Jul-02-24 | | whiteshark: 02/07/2024 -
The Singapore Chess Federation, supported by the Government of Singapore, has won the bid to host the FIDE World Championship Match 2024. The Match will feature the defending Champion <Ding Liren> from China and the Challenger <D Gukesh> from India and will take place <between November 20 and December 15, 2024.> Check out the press release by FIDE. The exact venue, match schedule, rules and regulation will be notified later. Total prize fund of the match is US$ 2.5 Million. https://www.chessbase.in/news/FIDE-... |
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Aug-04-24
 | | MarcusBierce: Apologies if this was answered: who are on the respective teams for the upcoming WC match? |
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Aug-04-24
| | MarcusBierce: < CourtChesster: "Dommaruju" bears a resemblance "Dormammu" one of most powerful the super arch villains in Marvel Comics and the bane of Dr Strange.
Hence I've just discovered that I'm too big of a nerd for a chess forum.> Dormammu is a cool villain. Enjoyed all those old Doctor Strange comics. |
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| Aug-04-24 | | SugarDom: Ding Strange: Dommaraju, I’ve come to bargain. |
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Aug-12-24
| | ketchuplover: I'm guessing at least Raport will support Liren & at least Anand will support Gukesh |
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Aug-18-24
| | ketchuplover: GL in St.Louis young man |
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| Sep-22-24 | | indianchessupdates: . Highest Performance Rating in Tournaments (Classical Games) Min 2980 elo performance or above
(major players)
1. Sinquefield Cup 2014 - 3098 performance - Caruna 8.5/10 2. Olympiad 2024 - 3056 performance - Gukesh 9.0/10 3. Ruy Lopez Festival 2007 - 3021 performance - Sargissian 6.5/7 4. 23rd European Team Chess Championship 2021 - 3015 performance - Firouzja 8.0/9 5. 2nd Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess 2009 - 3002 performance - Carlsen 8.0/10 6. 4th London Chess 2012 - 2991 performance - Carlsen 6.5/8 7. 6th Shamkir Chess 2019 - 2991 performance - Carlsen 7.0/9 8. 6th Grenke Chess Classic 2019 - 2983 performance - Carlsen 7.5/9 9. 2nd Shamkir Chess 2015 - 2981 performance - Carlsen 7.5/9 10. Linaries 1994 - 2978 performance - Karpov 11.0/13 11. Olympiad 2024 - 2968 performance - Arjun Erigaisi 10.0/11 Others
1. V South America U20 Championship 2009 - 3108 performance - Alexandr Fier 9.0/9 2. 2019 Cidade de Famalicão tournament - 3103 performance - Karen Grigoryan 9.0/9 3. 2011 e2e4 Brighton Masters - 3038 performance - Yang-fan Zhou 9.0/9 4. 1st Chebanenco Memorial 1998 - 2979 performance - Morozevich 8.5/9 |
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Sep-23-24
 | | Check It Out: Epic performance at the 2024 Olympiad in Budapest. And just in case you thought he was only beating up on weakies, he chalked up wins against Wei Yi, Maghsoodloo, Fedoseev, and Caruana amongst others. |
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Sep-23-24
 | | perfidious: <CIO>, c'mon, man: as we used to say in the neighbourhood, I could take these guys with one hand. |
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Sep-23-24
| | Check It Out: Yes, I also dream that on a good day I could take a win from one of these guys. In my dreams 😀 |
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| Sep-24-24 | | supy: Gukesh can cross 2800 this weekend in Bundesliga https://www.chessdom.com/arjun-erig... |
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Oct-19-24
 | | pcalugaru: One of the few modern elite Gms I follow and root for |
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Oct-24-24
 | | Troller: Gukesh lost against Andreikin in round 4 of the Euro Club Ch. It looks like he went astray in time trouble in the endgame. He is playing for the top rated Romanian team "SuperChess" which lost heavily 4-2 against "Turkish Airlines" (also very strong) in this round. |
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| Oct-24-24 | | Atking: It's crazy that having a world championship next month Gukesh is actually playing Euro Club. You can't play properly under such engagement. Many contender to WC will argue they can't play their preparation. Or, like Ding did during the Olympiad, take a break when it is not your day. Courageous to play under such circumstances. |
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Oct-25-24
| | Troller: <Atking> He may see it as valuable training. Caruana also played the Olympiad a month before his match against Carlsen. You are right though that his play might be at a lower level than usual in this event, at least his results have not been particularly impressive. |
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| Oct-25-24 | | Atking: <Troller: <Atking> He may see it as valuable training. Caruana also played the Olympiad a month before his match against Carlsen. > Not sure that example is a good one as Caruana has lost this match. |
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Oct-25-24
| | Troller: Haha, you have a point. Still though, I think at least some real practise is a good idea before an important event. I assume Gukesh himself has prioritized after what he believes suits him best. |
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| Oct-25-24 | | Atking: <Troller> I can understand. Yet Gukesh has a very classical approach and actually, he is prepared for a match not for a team competition. Which is not the same setup of mind. Yesterday again, a GM put pressure on him just by keeping strongly the draw option. It is very courageous from him to participate at the Bundesliga as he will play there with two obvious handicaps No showing too much his prep and the risk - as he cares to his rating too - to afford a draw against weaker opposition. The last 4 games show clearly that he is under such pressure. |
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Oct-28-24
 | | fredthebear: Magnus Carlsen predicts, for what it's worth: https://indianexpress.com/article/s... It was MC who predicted that Gukesh was not likely to win the Candidates match. |
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Oct-28-24
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Fred,
It reads like a post on here made a few weeks ago. A lot of Carlsen's interviews sound like posts on here. Between you and me I think he sneaks on here in the dead of night when no one is about, reads a few posts and repeats them during interviews. |
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