<Sep-21-13 Arihant: I have already said there is lot of unscrupulous,manipulative behind the scenes activities that goes with a Chess Worldchampionship. Fischer alleged , and it was subsequently found to be not unfounded that Russians conspired aginst him or tried to poison him.

Korchnoi /Karpov have alleged to bring Parapsychologists in the playing hall who would just keep on staring the opponent

In one interview , Kasparov have claimed to hypnotised Anand during their 1996 World Champion ship match

Toilet gate

In the recent candiates, Grishuck loss against Kramnik & Radjabov loss against Carlsen are not above the board.

So corruption is always there and one who does it subtly , he escapes.

Carlsen was invited for 20 simultaneous at Chennai against the children who were all participated in National tournaments and rank holders..

there is still scope of something underhand happening in Chennai which shall be unfair to the ethos of good chessmanship

World is not fair and was never meant to be, & so are Chess Championships and the winners.

<yes, there was Pillsbury !
Who during GM's tournament called masters of Germany chessmen and play simultaneously with them , give prizes to them & paid them to play against him.He was one who gave demonstration of his exceptional mind at an event where he palyed bridge, one person rendering difficult medical termnilogy, he only listening and blindfold at 100 boards simultaneously. In the end he shall repeat all the wors and was able to repeat all the moves of 97 boards & coming to 98 th one, he was saying sorry ladies & gentlemen , 31 move is K..err i am forgetting...and all the witnesses were gasping and chewing their fingers....>

where we are these days!>

Best avatar: Phony Benoni

Username: Phony Benoni

Helpful: <hms123>

Best post: <Annie K.>

BTW, I've now added your seconding of Carlsen vs Aronian, 2013 to the count, and also <suenteus po 147> for <Jess>.

Great minds JB. Great minds.

The day either person associated in the 'peace' what's being referred to, gets some type of award for helping ONE man clear his ignore list, "apart from the 2 site weirdos" (his words!) is the day I... ... I'll think of something ridiculously absurd! Besides, to have peace then naturally there has to have been war and the closest I've come to seeing any "war" stopped is when Daniel closed his games for kibitzing.. So if anyone deserves such an award it's Daniel. Not some.. (sorry about this <Thefocus>, I don't dislike you but it has to be said.).. man who got all dramatic over something very petty between us, and thought "My enemies enemy is my friend", rang <the other guy>, plotted a little, before coming back to help AJ learn how to speak to nice people in a nice way till he cleared his jam packed ignore list ( that nobody but him cares about anyway ), and now he's asking by way of statement, followed by a question mark on the main forum for Pandora's box to be reopened!! Maybe I've just rode in on my high horse again and I aren't putting it well.. But it's still true what I've just said.

Brilliant! This here could serve as one of many potential choices:

<Mark> agree about much of what you say, but you still didn't say which one of TheFocus' collections you wanted to nominate? ;p

Here is the <The Focus> games collection I nominated earlier:

Is that you by any chance? It's a long shot, but they say the quiet, unassuming and friendly are modest peoples, so I thought id ask?

<1. Best Avatar <->>

<2 nominations and in>

Annie K., ketchuplover, Perfidious, technical draw

<1 nomination, awaits second>

Artar1, Benzol, chancho, condition, DcGentle, GingerGM, harrylime, HeMateMe, hms123, john barleycorn, MarkFinan, moronovich,nimh, Octavia, Phony Benoni, russsshurig, Tabanus, YouRang

<2. Best Username <->>

<2 nominations and in>

checkmateyourmove

<1 nomination, awaits second>

DrStrangemove, john barleycorn, lost in space, MarkFinan, Phony Benoni, playground player, RandomVisitor, SoUnwiseTheKnight B4

<3. Most Helpful <->>

<2 nominations and in>

FSR, hms123, notyetagm, Phony Benoni

<1 nomination, awaits second>

tabanus, Thanh Phan, tpstar

<4. Best Post <->>

<2 nominations and in>

Karpova - Karpova chessforum

<1 nomination, awaits second>

Arihant - Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013)

john barleycorn - TheFocus chessforum

OhioChessFan - Odd Lie

Shams - Carlsen vs Anand, 2013

Wyatt Gwyon - Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013)

<5. Funniest Poster <->>

<2 nominations and in>

dakgootje, john barleycorn, OhioChessFan, technical draw, TheFocus

<1 nomination, awaits second>

Annie K., LIFE Master AJ, Once

<6. Most Constructive <->>

<2 nominations and in>

hms123, WinKing, wordfunph

<1 nomination, awaits second>

Annie K., Csmath, MarkFinan, notyetagm, offramp

<7. Best Profile <->>

<2 nominations and in>

Domdaniel, MarkFinan

<1 nomination, awaits second>

jessicafischerqueen, john barleycorn, LIFE Master AJ

<8. Best Analysis <->>

<2 nominations and in>

csmath, hugin, notyetagm, YouRang

<1 nomination, awaits second>

ajile, Conrad93, David2009, imag, Jimfromprovidence, kwid, Tabanus

<9. Best Game Collection <->>

<1 nomination, awaits second>

Game Collection: 1970 Buenos Aires (by <TheFocus>)

Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2013 (by <Phony Benoni>)

<10. Most Informed <->>

<2 nominations and in>

Domdaniel, FSR, kwid, SwitchingQuylthulg

<1 nomination, awaits second>

Karpova, Kinghunt, MarkFinan, OhioChessFan, Shams, tpstar

<11. Best Historian <->>

<2 nominations and in>

cro777, Karpova, jessicafischerqueen, suenteus po 147

<1 nomination, awaits second>

<2 nominations and in>

"Dial Emms for Murder" (D P Wheeler vs Emms, 2005)

"Rudolf the Dread Knows Rainer" (H Rudolf vs R Bezler, 2001)

"Jeepers Kuipers, How'd You Beat Art Pijpers?"

(S Kuipers vs A Pijpers, 2007)

"Slaughterhouse d5" (Team White vs Team Black, 2013)

<1 nomination, awaits second>

"Drawn and Quartered" (A Petrov vs P Journoud, 1863)

"Game of Thrones" (Anand vs Carlsen, 2013)

"Olly Olly Albin Free!" (E N Olly vs Albin, 1893)

<13. Player of the Year <->>

<2 nominations and in>

Magnus Carlsen, Boris Gelfand, Borislav Ivanov, Wei Yi, Hou Yifan

<1 nomination, awaits second>

Fabiano Caruana, Jonathan Hawkins

<14. Game of the Year <->>

<2 nominations and in>

Aronian vs Anand, 2013
Shredder vs Gull, 2013
Nakamura vs Gelfand, 2013
Kamsky vs Mamedyarov, 2013
Carlsen vs Aronian, 2013
Anand vs Carlsen, 2013

<1 nomination, awaits second>

Thanks <Annie>!