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| Jul-01-06 | | Mameluk: Is this player a genius or a joke? |
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| Jul-01-06 | | Prugno: Oh well... another Crisan imitator who thinks he can buy rating points without getting caught. FIDE should check their lists before publishing them to avoid these kind of embarassments :-( |
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| Jul-02-06 | | Mameluk: This guy, unlike Crisan has real games. But for some reason he never seems to leave Tula:) His invitation to some strong tournament would make it interesting. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | Karpova: http://www.chesstoday.net/issues/CT...
<Then they will be getting money (OK, they
probably have expenses when 'earning' their
ratings), depriving some deserving players a
chance to make a better living. Alas, the fact that
FIDE did not take a hard stance against such abuse,
has already tempted more people into inflating
their ratings. For example, I recently received '64-
Chess review' No.7 of 2001. There I read an
interesting article by IM Igor Yagupov, who
described how a local businessmen in his native
Tula (city about 120 km from Moscow; GM Kotov
was from there) last year decided first to get and
then to raise his Elo. That guy - Mr. Vladimir
Afromeev - has been so successful in his fraud, that
he now has an international rating of 2520! I call it
a fraud, because many know that the some of the
tournaments, which he 'organised' never took
place, while in some others certain players threw
points at Mr. Afromeev. Now he is an FIDE
Master and I bet that soon he will become
Grandmaster. God, help our game! Sorry, I meant
Kirsan! :-)
By the way, at some point Mr. Afromeev decided
that his personal driver should have Elo rating too (who wants un-rated drivers nowadays?!). Now
that guy has a rating in excess of 2440. Mr.
Afromeev is even claimed to have said that if he
wanted, his cat would get a rating like that too!
Now, that's something for FIDE to look at, if you
ask me! Alas, as Yagupov's article indicates, the
Russian Chess Federation is not going to do
anything and I doubt that FIDE will do much
either. Yet, this problem can be deal with - for
example by establishing a FIDE commission,
which would examine all suspicious tournaments,
demand score-sheets and warn people, who took
part in them.> |
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| Jul-02-06 | | Karpova: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twi...
<18) Stek Cup
The Stek Cup took place in Tula Russia 16th-27th November 2004. Vladimir Afromeev and Maxim Novikov finished on 9.5/11. News: Sergey Abramov. Official site: http://www.chessassistantclub.com
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Stek Cup Tula RUS (RUS), 16-27 xi 2004 cat. IV (2348)
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1. Afromeev, Vladimir f RUS 2547 * = = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 9.5 2638 2. Novikov, Maxim m RUS 2498 = * = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9.5 2642 3. Yagupov, Igor g RUS 2509 = = * = 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 9.0 2594 4. Zaitsev, Alexander2 RUS 2329 0 = = * = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 2524 5. Shestakov, Sergei RUS 2342 0 0 0 = * = 1 1 = = 1 1 6.0 2384 6. Poletov, Vladimir RUS 2371 = 0 0 = = * 0 = 1 1 1 1 6.0 2381 7. Khanov, Vjacheslav RUS 2216 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 1 1 1 6.0 2395 8. Zhavoronkov, Evgeny RUS 2279 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 * = 1 1 1 4.5 2288 9. Biriukov, Ilja RUS 2256 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = * = 1 1 3.5 2222 10. Kozlov, Mikhail P RUS 2282 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 = * 1 1 3.0 2178 11. Sushkov, Alexey RUS 2275 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * = 0.5 1884 12. Gorbunov, Oleg RUS 2266 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = * 0.5 1884
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| Jul-02-06 | | Karpova: [Event "Efremenkov mem"]
[Site "Tula"]
[Date "2000.02.??"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Gavritenkov,Sergei"]
[Black "Afromeev,Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "C57"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 b5 6.Bxb5 Qxd5 7.Bxc6+ Qxc6 8.0-0 Bb7
9.f3 Bc5+ 10.Kh1 h6 11.Nh3 g5 12.Nc3 0-0-0 13.d3 g4 14.Ng1 Rhg8 15.Nge2 gxf3 16.gxf3 Qxf3+
0-1 |
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| Jul-02-06 | | Karpova: and finally 78 games of Afromeev on this site: http://members.chello.nl/j.vanderko... enjoy! |
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| Jul-02-06 | | Mameluk: <Karpova> Nice info, thanks. I especially enjoy the part about Yagupov´s article and then the crosstable of the tournament 3 years later. This is result of last Afromeev´s tournament victory, so we may be seeing story of complicated friendship. http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.p... For another strange grandmaster, check out Vasily Malinin, and especially names of players who probably threw points to him. We have our Indrak in Czech republic, which is another interesting case. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | percyblakeney: Afromeev is 2620 on the latest rating list and has reached top 100... |
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| Jul-02-06 | | Karpova: We'll see him at MTel Masters 2007 for sure... ;-) |
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Jul-02-06
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| Jul-04-06 | | cuendillar: <Karpova> Probably not, but maybe in Corus B or C. |
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| Jul-04-06 | | skiskichess5: 2620...this looks like a disgrace for FIDE...or is there a palatable explanation |
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| Jul-04-06 | | cuendillar: It is surprising that he could rise so high without getting a title, since the requirement for IM is three performances above 2500 <over 9 games, of which at least 3 are IMs>. He must have avoided any tournaments with titled opposition for years. |
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| Jul-05-06 | | stanleys: I really hate cheaters!!! |
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| Jul-05-06 | | skiskichess5: Afromeev is an FM and has only 5 games on chessgames.com, dating back to 2001. Yet he was born (according to FIDE site) in 1954. Perhaps the nicest thing that can be said is that Mr Afromeev regards the rating lists as a corrupt joke (which they cannot be completely) and to prove that he's decided to force his name up as high as possible in the face of FIDE control. |
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| Jul-05-06 | | skiskichess5: I am surprised that there has not been more comment or speculation about this player .... are folks not concerned about "issues" of this sort? Regarding Vasily Malinin mentioned about, his rating has fluctuated dramatically. He doesn't appear to have any games on chessgames.com...though a Yuri Malinin does.. |
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| Jul-05-06 | | skiskichess5: I take that last comment back, there is a Vassily Malinin on chessgames.com
Karjakin vs V B Malinin, 2002
Here above is his famous loss to Sergei Karjakin though I'm not for one moment suggesting that he threw this game at Karjakin |
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| Jul-05-06 | | skiskichess5: Interestingly there is kibtizing on this game where it is suggested that the game was played before or one very like it....of course this happens all the time...I wonder if this game was played at a tournament at which Karjakin recieved a GM norm. |
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| Jul-10-06 | | Mameluk: http://www.e3e5.com/eng/petersburg/... Apparently Kentler finds Afromeev very promising player. But what would you expect from the man, who writes that only 4 Russians are younger than 20 years?:) |
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| Jul-11-06 | | stanleys: Kentler is just sarcastic,but I think the English version doesn't reflect it.Read the text in Russian |
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| Jul-11-06 | | percyblakeney: Afromeev only needs 80 points more to be able to play a match for the World Championship :-) |
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| Jul-11-06 | | skiskichess5: I agree that just from the English Kentler might be being sarcastic. How about this...
Look at the tournament reported above by Karpova. Oleg Gorbunov came last, zero points with a 1884 performance. Here is his FIDE rating progress card
http://www.fide.com/ratings/id.phtm... Nice work if you can get it....!! |
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| Jul-11-06 | | skiskichess5: Correction to above, Gorbunov scored half a point but fortunately only took it off the guy that came next to last. |
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| Jul-11-06 | | skiskichess5: And talking about Crisan above, how could he get 97 points in one period without playing any games.
http://www.fide.com/ratings/id.phtm... |
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