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Dec-28-04
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Born 14th October 1962
Awarded the IM title in 1982 he was also European junior champion in 1982-83. |
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| Dec-28-04 | | admiralnemo: For you New Yorkers out there, and anyone else who appreciates it: If memory serves , Ehlvest is the Marshall Chess Club's champion for the past couple years... |
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| Apr-30-05 | | WorldChampeen: "Jaan Ehlvest, Estonia's strongest player since the legendary Paul Keres, has lived through some very interesting times." - Washington Times, http://washingtontimes.com/entertai... " In his unpretentious new autobiography, "The Story of a Chess Player" - He has written a book, 40 annotated games vs. the likes of Kramnik, Spassky, Anand, etc. So if the link does not work, check the Washington Times. One last quote from the story:
""The Story of a Chess Player" is most intriguing when the author describes the struggles and rewards of being a solid pro in a game he loves. Using the efficient Q&A format employed by Mikhail Tal in his classic autobiography, Ehlvest gives an inside look at the Soviet chess system in its last days, including a kindly profile of former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik and generous portraits of rivals such as Valery Salov, Alex Wojtkiewicz and Kasparov. " |
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May-21-05
 | | keypusher: It's also one of the few chessbooks with a blurb from a supermodel on the back. http://www.askmen.com/women/models_... |
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| May-22-05 | | WorldChampeen: Ehlvest seems to be doing well at the HB Global Chess Challenge, despite his round 5 lost; I'm glad it didn't leave him all shook up. |
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Jul-05-05
 | | Joshka: According to ICC Jan is going to play a Man vs Machine match against a computer July 6-9, believe it's the program Zappa. One classical game per day starting at 11am ICC time. Will <chessgames.com> be covering? |
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Jul-05-05
| | Joshka: How strong is this program? What is it's record against Hydra? |
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| Jul-06-05 | | csmath: Has no record against Hydra. I played 5 games against Zappa and I beat it twice and had 3 draws. It is fairly strong, not as strong as Hydra but pretty good for the hardware which is dual Opteron 246. It does not have weaknesses in general but lacks better opening book.
Today Elhvest has chosen rather sharp opening and the result of course is as expected. ;-)) |
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| Jul-07-05 | | csmath: This is the game Ehlvest lost today to Zappa. Zappa generated serious attack with knight sacrifice and Ehlvest actually defended pretty good. Nevertheless he started to play passively (watch kings moves) and was quickly punished. Classical time controls. [Event "Ehlvest-Zappa(C)"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "2005.07.06"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Zappa(C)"]
[Black "GM_Ehlvest"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Kan, Polugaievsky variation"]
[ECO "B42"]
[NIC "SI.42"]
[Time "10:55:48"]
[TimeControl "7200+0"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Be7 7. Qg4 g6 8.
Qe2 d6 9. O-O Nd7 10. Nc3 Qc7 11. a4 b6 12. Rd1 Bb7 13. Be3 h5 14. f3 h4 15.
a5 b5 16. Nxb5 axb5 17. Bxb5 Nf6 18. a6 Bc6 19. c4 Ne5 20. Bd4 O-O 21. Na5
Bd7 22. b4 Bc8 23. f4 Bxa6 24. Bxa6 Rxa6 25. fxe5 dxe5 26. Bc3 Bxb4 27. Bxb4
Qb6+ 28. c5 Qxb4 29. Qxa6 Qxc5+ 30. Kh1 Nxe4 31. Ra2 Nf2+ 32. Rxf2 Qxf2 33.
h3 e4 34. Rf1 Qd2 35. Qb6 Rc8 36. Qa7 Rf8 37. Nc4 Qc3 38. Ne3 f5 39. Qb6 Kg7
40. Rd1 Rf7 41. Nf1 Qe5 42. Qd8 Qf6 43. Qa5 Kh6 44. Qb6 Kg7 45. Qa5 Kh7 46.
Qc5 Kg7 47. Ne3 Kh7 48. Nc4 Qe7 49. Nd6 Qc7 50. Qe5 Rd7 51. Qxe6 Qd8 52. Rd4
Qe7 53. Nxe4 White wins 1-0 |
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Jul-07-05
| | Joshka: <csmath> You've won against Zappa? Are you GM strength? From my database is 12.Rd1 a novelty? |
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| Jul-07-05 | | csmath: <<Are you GM strength?>> Nope, but my machine is. ;-))
Joshka, machines are nowadays so much stronger than GMs. I cannot believe that people still do not believe this. ;-)) |
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| Jul-07-05 | | csmath: During the game, we were analising (DIEP, Spacechess, BountyHunter etc) and we all saw a saving move for Ehlvest 48. ... Qc3! but Ehlvest was so determined to exchange the queens that he stopped playing anything active and allowed the white knight to reach the attack range. Today at 11 AM there is a game #2, we'll see if Ehlvest can do something more with white pieces. |
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| Jul-07-05 | | aragorn69: Impressive positional sacrifice by the computer (16.Nxb5). The result is not at all clear (say, 17 moves later, e.g.) and yet he plays it... |
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| Jul-07-05 | | aragorn69: Ehlvest's defense (23.-Bxa6!! and 26.-Bxb4!) is very clever indeed and might have out of the comp's horizon. |
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| Jul-07-05 | | Legend: The game can be played over here:
http://www.maleliit.ee/modules.php?... |
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| Jul-07-05 | | csmath: Second game drawn as a GM draw. So sad when programmers decide the draw instead of program. Pathetic. |
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| Jul-08-05 | | SnoopDogg: A miniature if playchess.com is correct today, and no Zappa did not come out on the winning side! (although I think the score is a mistake since it is all book maybe the monster just got unplugged or something) [Event "Computer-Man match"]
[Site "New York"]
[Date "2006.07.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Zappa"]
[Black "Ehlvest, Jaan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "Anthony Cozzie"]
[PlyCount "15"]
[EventDate "2006.??.??"]
1. e4 g6 2. d4 d6 3. Nc3 c6 4. Be3 Nf6 5. Be2 Nbd7 6. f4 b5 7. a3 Nb6 8. d5 0-1 |
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| Jul-08-05 | | azaris: <A miniature if playchess.com is correct today> They're not. |
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| Jul-08-05 | | csmath: Well, it is a short game. Ehlvest played inferior opening then got lost in the tactical battle and though Zappa did not play well at all, it was quite enough to smash the GM. Not an impressive game by any standards: [Event "Ehlvest-Zappa(C)"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "2005.07.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Zappa(C)"]
[Black "GM_Ehlvest"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"]
[ECO "B06"]
[NIC "KF.06"]
[Time "10:32:11"]
[TimeControl "7200+0"]
1. e4 g6 2. d4 d6 3. Nc3 c6 4. Be3 Nf6 5. Be2 Nbd7 6. f4 b5 7. a3 Nb6 8. d5 Bb7 9. Nf3 a6 10. dxc6 Bxc6 11. Qd4 Na4? (of course Rb8 is the only move) 12. Nxa4 bxa4 13. Ng5 e6 14. Qc3?! (wrong order of moves, f5 is better) Bb7 15. f5 exf5 16. Bc4 d5 17. exd5 Bg7 18. Qe5+?! (poor move since Bc4! was smashing through) Qe7 19. Qxe7+ Kxe7 20. O-O-O Kd7 21. Nxf7 Rhe8 22. Rhe1 Ng4? 23. Bc5 Ne5 24. Nd6 Nxc4 25. Nxc4 Rad8 26. Re6 Bh6+ 27. Kb1 White wins 1-0 |
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| Jul-09-05 | | azaris: Ehlvest seems to have gotten a break today as the computer inexplicably drops a pawn in the endgame. |
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| Jul-09-05 | | csmath: Yes, strange move 37. ... Nc5+? leads to immediate simplification and Elhvest saves the game. All in all, Ehlvest had absolutely no chances in the match, he survived two games with whites and get crushed in two games with black. He established no countergame in any of the games.
Clear dominance by computer program.
[Event "Ehlvest-Zappa(C)"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "2005.07.09"]
[Round "?"]
[White "GM_Ehlvest"]
[Black "Zappa(C)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: closed, Bogolyubov variation"]
[ECO "C91"]
[NIC "RL.20"]
[Time "10:51:14"]
[TimeControl "7200+0"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. d4 d6 9. c3 Bg4 10. Be3 Bh5 11. h3 Na5 12. Bc2 Nc4 13. Bc1 Nd7 14. b3 Ncb6 15. Nbd2 c5 16. g4 Bg6 17. Nf1 cxd4 18. cxd4 Rc8 19. Re2 exd4 20. Nxd4 d5 21. e5 Bxc2 22. Nxc2 Re8 23. Nd4 Bc5 24. e6 fxe6 25. Nxe6 Qe7 26. Bb2 Bxf2+ 27. Rxf2 Qxe6 28. Qd4 Qe5 29. Rd1 Qxd4 30. Bxd4 Rf8 31. Rxf8+ Kxf8 32. Ne3 g6 33. Re1 Rc6 34. Kf2 Kf7 35. Kf3 Nc8 36. Ke2 Ne7 37. Kd3 Nc5+? 38. Bxc5 Rxc5 39. Kd4 Rc6 Game drawn 1/2-1/2
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| Jan-03-06 | | WMD: <'You are not married yet. What kind of woman are you looking for?' 'I do not know why, but I am very fond of blond women. The personality does not matter much-I think I can handle any kind; but it is best if the woman is clever. She must also have the qualities real women from the past had. I am not a nobleman, but probably I would like a noble, stylish woman for a wife-but I can live without one also.' 'Would you marry someone from the chess world?'
'The idea of having a "chess family" is not so good. Competitive chess, like any other competitive sport, is not for women because it is very stressful and harmful to your health. I do not believe that any caring man should want that his sweetheart gets hurt.' 'Which country has the most beautiful women?'
'I have been asked this question many times and my answer always changes. My first answer was Spain, Iceland, and Russia-I cannot remember the order. On the TV, the Italian women are gorgeous, and having been in the Ukraine I must say that they for sure qualify to the "finals". .. As you get older, you no longer chase after the fairer sex with your tongue hanging out-there are so many of them. Everywhere there are beautiful women; one has to pick what one wants.'> http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/jwatson...
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| Jan-03-06 | | aw1988: <is not for women because it is very stressful and harmful to your health.> First Andersson, now him?! Honestly, people, bug off. |
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Apr-03-06
 | | WTHarvey: In the FIDE ratings that came out a few days ago, Ehlvest is slated under the US Federation (as the #6 US player) for the first time, to my knowledge. Is he now a US citizen? |
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Apr-04-06
| | WTHarvey: Here are some of Jaan's winning combinations from his early games: http://www.wtharvey.com/ehlv.html |
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