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Nov-07-05
 | | Open Defence: <the bishop then stops the connected passed pawns.> puts a new perspective on exchange sacrifices.. yes the poor rook cannot move diagonally an important feature in stopping pawns.. very instructive |
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| Nov-07-05 | | notyetagm: <Open Defence> That's a good point that I thought about when I posted that: the rook cannot stop the connected passed pawns after 51 ... ♕d3 52 ♗x♕ px♗ but the bishop can stop them after 51 ... ♕d2 52 ♖x♕ px♖. |
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| Jan-06-06 | | BIDMONFA: Ivan Sokolov SOKOLOV, Ivan
http://www.bidmonfa.com/SOKOLOV.htm
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| Jan-29-06 | | gunnar373: I don"t think Sokolov will be in 2007 group A in Corus. He has been two years in row in bottom place. He has been playing a lot here in Iceland. But I don"t bet on him winning the Reykjavik open 2006. |
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| Jan-29-06 | | DCP23: <I don"t think Sokolov will be in 2007 group A in Corus. He has been two years in row in bottom place> Somebody's got to be in the bottom place. If they throw out every tail-ender then finally there will be no-one left :) |
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| Feb-01-06 | | supertimchan: But Sokolov finished last in 2005 and 2006. He could only do better than Timman in 2004. I should also point out Sokolov has only won one game against Kramnik in 2004, that was his first and only game he won! |
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| Feb-01-06 | | supertimchan: However Sokolov is welcome to Corus. Corus is famous of inviting players of different strength. The more games he loses the more interesting the tournment is. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | Pawsome: So, I'm following the penultimate round of the XXII Reykjavic open today. Sokolov, who is in the running for the top spot, reaches the following position as black against Laurnet Fressinet 1/q/6
B/3/R?3
6/rk
3/P/1/b/2
2/P/4/p
5/pnp
6/PK
Q/4/B/2
with the move. Whereupon the players agree to a draw! Thing is, it appears Sokolov has a mate in six beginning with Nxf1+......http://www.skaksamband.com/reykjavi... |
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| Mar-14-06 | | notyetagm: <Pawsome> You are right. In the following position White has just played 47 ♔h2, walking in to a double check. 
click for larger viewBlack now has a mate in 6, beginning with 47 ... ♘xf1++. Instead of playing the mate, Sokolov must have accepted a draw! According to ICC, Sokolov had 12:03 left on his clock at this point. You would think that would be enough time for a near 2700 to find a forced mate against a king trapped on the edge of the board. What's amazing is that the position smells like a mate, what with all those Black pawns near the White king and Black pieces aiming at the White king and the initial double check, but Sokolov apparently did not play down to his increment (90 30) looking for one. [Event "Reykjavik Open"]
[Site "Reykjavik, Iceland"]
[Date "2006.03.13"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Fressinet"]
[Black "Sokolov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2625"]
[BlackElo "2689"]
[Opening "Four knights"]
[ECO "C49"]
[NIC "KP.03"]
[Time "11:47:31"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 Bxc3 7. bxc3 d6
8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 Kh8 10. Nd2 g5 11. Bg3 Ne7 12. d4 Ng6 13. Re1 h5 14. f3
Rg8 15. Bf1 Qe7 16. Nc4 Bd7 17. Qd2 h4 18. Bf2 Nf4 19. Ne3 Rad8 20. h3 Bc8
21. c4 N6h5 22. Nd5 Nxd5 23. exd5 f6 24. c5 Nf4 25. cxd6 cxd6 26. c4 b6 27.
a4 Qh7 28. Be3 Bf5 29. dxe5 dxe5 30. Kh2 Qc7 31. a5 Nh5 32. axb6 axb6 33.
Kg1 Ng3 34. Qb4 Rb8 35. Ra6 e4 36. Qb2 Kh7 37. Rxb6 exf3 38. Rxb8 Qxb8 39.
Qxf6 Rg6 40. Qe7+ Rg7 41. Qf6 Rg6 42. Qe7+ Rg7 43. Qf6 Rg6 44. Qa1 g4 45.
Ba7 Kh6 46. Re7 gxh3 47. Kh2
Game drawn 1/2-1/2
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| Mar-14-06 | | notyetagm: I got a message back from Morad-Magdy, one of the ICC admins. He said the Sokolov game very likely is erroneous. I did find it kind of hard to believe that a strong GM could miss a forced mating sequence beginning with a double check. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | Petrosian63: What are Sokolov's best tournament wins to achieve his best 2706 rating? |
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Apr-10-06
 | | plang: He beat Kasparov at Corus in 1999 |
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| May-08-06 | | PhilFeeley: You gotta love underdog wins. Sokolov must have fallen asleep at the end: [Event "Top 16"]
[Site "Asnières sur Seine FRA"]
[Date "2006.??.??"]
[Round "8.5"]
[White "Kurmann, Oliver"]
[Black "Sokolov, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2297"]
[BlackElo "2676"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[WhiteTeam "Mulhouse"]
[BlackTeam "Monaco"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. Bb3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. c3 h6 8. h3
Kh8 9. Be3 Bxe3 10. fxe3 Ne7 11. Nh4 c6 12. Nd2 d5 13. Qf3 Be6 14. d4 Qb6 15.
Qg3 exd4 16. exd5 Bxd5 17. exd4 Bxb3 18. Nxb3 Rae8 19. Rae1 Ned5 20. Nf5 Nh5
21. Qf3 Rxe1 22. Rxe1 Nhf6 23. Qg3 Rg8 24. c4 Nh5 25. Qf3 Qb4 26. Rf1 Ndf4 27.
g4 g6 28. Nxh6 Ng3 29. Nxg8 Kxg8 30. Rf2 Qe1+ 31. Kh2 Nfe2 1-0 |
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| Aug-26-06 | | Petrosian63: Nice win by Sokolov at the Howard Staunton Memorial. After a few months of poor form. |
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| Oct-04-06 | | Petrosian63: Wow! Sokolov know has a bio picture.
Good work Chessgames.com |
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| Oct-06-06 | | argishti: i think chessgames team are just wonderful, but couldnt they pick a better pic than that? |
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Oct-06-06
 | | WannaBe: <argishti> Take a better one and submit it. =) |
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| Oct-23-06 | | ahmadov: Will this guy be able to avoid a loss by Mamed? He has only 14 minutes left to let people now. |
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| Oct-27-06 | | ahmadov: What is going on with this man? He is not in good form at all. I hoped he would not let Topalov reach 2.5 :( |
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| Oct-27-06 | | suenteus po 147: <ahmadov> Have you been following Sokolov's career for very long? He usually has really great tournament performances, or he usually ends up at the very bottom. |
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| Oct-27-06 | | ahmadov: <suenteus po 147> I do not follow his tournaments, but I checked the games he played recently and found that with weaker players he drew and he almost always lost to players 2700+ (like Bacrot, Aronian and Ivanchuk etc.) recently. |
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| Oct-27-06 | | Bufon: A shame for Sokolov to have played like a patzer so far in Essent, his home. |
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| Oct-28-06 | | suenteus po 147: <Bufon> Shame? Patzer? Those words don't make any sense in regards to Sokolov's performance at Essent. |
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| Oct-28-06 | | sitzkrieg: I'd not call Essent his home.. |
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| Oct-28-06 | | suenteus po 147: <sitzkrieg> Of course you're right, it's not his home, but part of his nation that he plays for. Like Van Wely at Corus or Vallejo Pons at Linares or Naiditsch at Dortmund, some players are there for their country and usually don't do very well, but they play the very best they can against the world's elite. And some of them do a fine job. Naiditsch has actually won Dortmund one year. Van Wely and Vallejo Pons, while finishing in the lower rank often score at least one or two great wins against the likes of Kramnik or Adams or Svidler. In a way, they have a better time of it. No one expects them to do well, and when they do the praise is heaped upon them. |
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