Lucky van Wely didn't end up in Guantanamo after committing the heinous crime of landing in the USA for a holiday during which time he would have coached a few kids.

He landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, and was detained for 8 hours and then handcuffed and escorted by police to a plane and deported to London.

These are the types of games that need to be here as opposed to many trivial games this database is loaded with.

http://www.betteryourchess.com/2008...

Shocking revelations about Vishy, Radjabov and Ponomariov.

Pono hits back:

<Yes, I've seen that interview before. Perhaps the run in the fresh air was a little too much for Loek [Editor's note: referring to the fact that van Wely gave the interview straight after a 10-mile cross-country run]. I'd nevertheless advise him to try and improve and work on himself rather than looking for the flaws in others. That same Radjabov, who he criticises so much, has achieved a great deal more in chess.

As for our work together, I was preparing for a match against Kasparov and seriously studying 1. d4 for White - at the time I hadn't yet played that way. Van Wely had helped Topalov in the Candidates Tournament in Dortmund. Veselin lost in the final match to Leko and stopped being a candidate for the World Championship title in that cycle, and he kindly agreed to help me again after we'd successfully worked together before for the match against Ivanchuk. Silvio Danailov was the one who advised me to do some work with Loek.

We had an agreement to hold two training camps in Yalta: sometimes we'd look at something together, while Loek would spend some of the time analysing with Veselin or Misha Podgaetz. At other times we'd play opening systems in blitz games. Preparing for a World Championship match takes up quite a lot of time and energy, and it was never a walk in the park for anyone. That work, of course, was far from gratuitous, and was actually quite well paid.

Frankly, I expected more from our work together. Perhaps Loek didn't want to show all of his ideas. He did, however, show a certain "database of Kasparov's analysis", which was allegedly sold to him by Azmaiparashvili. I remember one of the ideas was extremely short 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5 Qd6!? I don't know to what extent all of that information was genuine. Another thing: although it was only 2003, Loek, it seemed to me, was already misusing computers: in any position he trusted them more than he trusted himself.

In any case, after that experience of working with him I never had the desire to repeat it. As far as I know, after Veselin and me, van Wely also worked with Kramnik. I won't try and judge how productive his work with Vladimir was.>

Loek Dick loek, see pretty Jane. I'm gonna marry her someday..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckl...

victory party in Ma Mon Loek!