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 | | perfidious: <Suge> Anand's victory should rate very highly indeed with many pundits here, who gave him no chance whatever of success. Come to November, I suspect we shall see same dog, only washed: as <KKDEREK> astutely noted elsewhere, Carlsen too has room for improvement in the rematch. |
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| Apr-04-14 | | spawn2: I think the reason why Anand's victory in the Candidates is being hailed as one of his greatest results is because nobody believe that he can win after the thrashing he experienced last November. Remember, he was even contemplating of skipping the Candidates. I won a lot in the chessbucks because there were only a handful of people who bet in him. With regard to the November match, I believe Anand will put up a better fight. Whether he will win or not, I'll rather wait for the results : ) |
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| Apr-04-14 | | Petrosianic: <nobody believe that he can win after the thrashing he experienced last November.> A LOT of people believed he could win. But the people who didn't want to just stuck their fingers in their ears and did The Old "La la la I'm not listening!" Trick. Now that he's won, they're employing The Old "Boy, he sure fooled US, didn't he?" Trick. |
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| Apr-04-14 | | spawn2: <Petrosianic>
To be honest, my betting on Anand was based on sentimental reasons rather than his chess strength after the Carlsen match. "Nobody" may have been a strong word to use. But in terms of believers..there were more people predicting Aronian or Kramnik to face Magnus come November. |
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| Apr-04-14 | | Petrosianic: I confess, I didn't pick him either. But I certainly recognized him as a legitimate threat. My belief was that the most likely winners, in order were: 1. Aronian
2. Anand
3. Kramnik
I know how well Kramnik did last year, but I also know that that spurt he put on at the end was very unusual for him. I really didn't think he'd win enough games to win the tournament. (It turns out he DID, but his losses are what killed him, which is something I did not see coming). So really, my top picks were Aronian and Anand. I knew Aronian was erratic sometimes, but he was 50 points higher than Anand, and playing well. I thought Anand would be tough, and come close, but expected Aronian would get past him, even if only by a little. Then Anand beats Aronian in Round 1. It's a good thing for me that I don't bet on these things. |
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| Apr-05-14 | | pinoymaster77: The 'hype' around the Carlsen vs Anand rematch is good for chess. There's still no 'new kid on the block' tipped to topple Carlsen. Maybe in the next 2 to 3 Championship cycles, we will still see 'veteran' Challengers. Even for the current crop of younger GMs, I still don't see the signs that Caruana is up to it. |
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| Apr-06-14 | | spawn2: Manny Pacquiao's other interests..
http://www.philstar.com/sports/2014... |
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| Apr-07-14 | | spawn2: Schedule of the Bangkok Open 2014
Saturday, 12 April
12.00 - Registration closed
15.00 – 15.30 Welcome & announcements
15:30 – 20:30 Round 1
Sunday, 13 April
09.00 – 14.00 Round 2
15:30 – 20:30 Round 3
Monday, 14 April
14:00–19:00 Round 4
Tuesday, 15 April
14:00–19:00 Round 5
Wednesday, 16 April
14:00–19:00 Round 6
Thursday, 17 April
14:00–19:00 Round 7
Friday 18 April
14:00–19:00 Round 8
Saturday, 19 April
09.00 – 14.00 Round 9 / Final round
16:00 - Closing Ceremony |
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| Apr-07-14 | | lakers4sho: website plz |
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| Apr-07-14 | | joeyj: http://chess-results.com/tnr130151....
and
http://bangkokchess.com/events-cale... |
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| Apr-07-14 | | spawn2: Thanks joeyj. Hopefully, we will see the top boards in chessbomb. |
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| Apr-07-14 | | pinoymaster77: Kelan kaya lipad ng ating mga bida? |
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| Apr-08-14 | | spawn2: <Pm77>
If am not mistaken..on the 10th lipad na sila. |
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| Apr-08-14 | | pinoymaster77: Pati sa Challengers, andun ulit mga 'harvesters', mukhang nag campaign na din sa section na eto before sila Gavilan, Marvin Ting,Alidani, the Calacdays and nasamahan pa Davao's V. Umayan. Entered din super batibot Alekhine 'bbking' Nouri. http://www.chess-results.com/tnr130... |
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| Apr-08-14 | | pinoymaster77: On Bobby Ang Chesspiece's 'Candidates Epilogue', didn't really notice that much the ascent of the 3 'young GMs' in the 2nd round... "India’s national hero Viswanathan Anand won the right to a rematch with Magnus Carlsen this November 2014 for the world chess title. This by itself is a big story, and one that has been covered extensively in the chess media. Let us take up a secondary story on how well the first-timers (Karjakin, Andreikin and Mamedyarov) did in this their first Candidates. Well, in a nutshell, they exceeded expectations. The three of them occupied the bottom places after the first 7 rounds, but in the second half they all recovered (Karjakin actually “won” the second half of the tournament with three wins and four draws, no losses) and they finished in the first five places. Karjakin and Andreikin belong to the “born in 1990 class” which includes Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Mamedyarov is five years older and together the three of them turned the Candidates upside down. Sergey Karjakin was not born in Russia but in Simferopol. He switched from Ukraine to Russia a few years ago because he “needs to train with good coaches.” So far he holds the record for the youngest grandmaster in history at the age of 12 years and seven months and won the 2012 World Rapid Chess Championship. Second place in a Candidates Tournament will be a great addition to his resume. Dmitry Andreikin came into the chess world’s consciousness in 2010 when he won the World Junior Championship. Two years later came an ever bigger surprise as he won the 65th Russian Chess Championship in Moscow after a rapid playoff against five other players. In the Chess World Cup 2013 held in Tromso (Norway), he finished in second place, losing to Kramnik in the four-game final match 1.5-2.5. Here is something interesting. In that World Cup, Dmitry Vladimiorovich did not expect himself to last that long into the tournament and exhausted all his opening preparation. He then decided just to play the different variations of the Torre-Trompowsky with d4 and Bg5 throughout the closing stages. The system is considered lacking in ambition, but with it he defeated Dreev, Karjakin and Svidler! He did the same thing in the penultimate round." |
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| Apr-08-14 | | spawn2: Lagare pala si GM Gomez, he is currently playing in Kuala Lumpur Open 2014 with GM Bitoon, IM Dimaks and Nolte. |
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| Apr-08-14 | | pinoymaster77: Yup, mag-amang Nouri (per FB posts) would be in 5 tournament swing. Pagkaalam ko may 2 magkasunod sa Bangkok, then I think the plan is to proceed to KotaK for other events. |
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| Apr-12-14 | | spawn2: EXciting weekend for Philippine sports followers. GM Wes winning his 1st round game in St Louis, GM Eugene starting his campaign today in Bangkok Open and the much awaited rematch of Pacquiao vs Bradley happening tomorrow. |
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| Apr-12-14 | | lakers4sho: I got Bradley winning by decision. I don't think he's dumb enough to engage in a slugfest. |
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| Apr-12-14 | | joeyj: Bro <spawn2> ... refer kita sa query of a certain Leon from Calcutta, India dtd April 9, 2014 re AFGM and Random chess! Hope you could answer him. http://chessaccount.wordpress.com/e... |
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| Apr-12-14 | | spawn2: Hi <joeyj>
Will see what I can do: ) |
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| Apr-12-14 | | pinoymaster77: May livegames daw sa Bangkok Open, and per text of chess friend parehong panalo FM Paulo and AFGM! Good start ! |
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| Apr-12-14 | | joeyj: http://bangkokchess.com/livegames/t... |
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| Apr-12-14 | | spawn2: Mukhang maganda ang panimula ng ating mga chess warriors: ) Sana ay magtuloy tuloy. |
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| Apr-13-14 | | spawn2: 2 for 2 sila GM Eugene, JP and Oliver sa Bangkok Open. Ituloy lang ang ratsada sa rd 3! |
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