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| From | Message | Posted by chessbaker wordiness.com
10/13/2008 04:00:24 Play online chess | Subject: WCC
Message: Tomorrow the match between Anand and Kramnik starts for the world tittle.
Seems that on GK nobody is busy with it.... or am I wrong?
Say something about it; who do you think will win and why,prognoses and etc.
I think Anand will win,but with only one point ahead.In my opinion Kramnik is not so good as Anand.Also physical he looks not so fit. As you see him I found he looks always very tired.But that's my opinion ,so common and let us know what yours
is
| Posted by heinzkat wordiness.com
10/13/2008 07:48:26 Play online chess |
Message: "Seems that on GK nobody is busy with it... or am I wrong?"
There is not so much "chess talking" in the forums here, which does not mean there is no interest in chess ...! Of course we will follow the match. Here is a link:
www.uep-chess.com
| Posted by ketchuplover wordiness.com
10/13/2008 11:32:59 Play online chess |
Message: I'm picking Kramnik to win. Just a gut feeling. I'm downloading the foidos thing now. Hopefully I'll be able to watch it live FOR FREE! I'm not paying for it!!
Being that I'm on dial-up I'm cautiosly optimistic. ——— Nakamura crushing competition — St. Louis' own Hikaru Nakamura is crushing the competition at the Super-Grandmaster chess tournament being held in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Hikaru has been playing often of late and has more than made up for his bad performance in Moscow at the Tal Memorial (last place) with back-to-back fantastic results! Last month, Hikaru was able to clinch clear second at the London Chess Classic, ahead of world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen. Hikaru is doing even better in Reggio after starting out with a scintillating score of five points out of six games against the world's best. After a draw against Fabiano Caruano of Italy in round seven, Hikaru had a slight misstep in round eight as he lost to Alexander Morozovich, the chess player just ...
Posted by chessbaker wordiness.com
10/13/2008 12:09:24 Play online chess | wcc
Message: I can not open that foidos thing.I try it from yesterday morning without success ——— Kaidanov's chess homework pays at Eastern Open — Kentucky GM Gregory Kaidanov is perhaps better known today as a chess teacher than a competitor. But he gave his students an object lesson on the value of doing one’s homework while winning the 39th annual Eastern Open, held last week at its traditional home at the Westin Washington hotel downtown. With 2½ points in the chess tournament’s final three rounds, including victories over fellow GMs Alexander Ivanov and Magesh Panchanathan, the affable Kaidanov posted an undefeated 6-1 result, a half-point ahead of Ivanov and New Jersey IM Dean Ippolito. A total of 170 chess players competed in the event’s four sections. Kaidanov revealed after his critical Round 5 win over Ivanov that he had worked out fully ...
Posted by heinzkat wordiness.com
10/13/2008 14:37:58 Play online chess | If I understand correctly...
Message: They want you to pay some 90 euros for the software (and you can just follow the WCC then):
www.foidoschess.tv
——— Chess: Turning the tide — After a strong start world chess champion Vishy Anand falls to an enterprising counterattack. The world chess champion Vishy Anand only made a 50% score at the recent London Chess Classic, suffering this early defeat to the US no 1. Anand started well, but with so many pieces on the chess board and both kings compromised, a counterattack is always possible. How did Nakamura turn the game in his favour? RB: Wow, complicated. I really have no idea. Maybe – this is clutching at straws – I can march my second h-pawn down the board to try to open up the White king position? It looks promising, but then runs into the problem of White's light-square bishop, which has an eye on h3. 1…Qe8 doesn't help, because ...
Posted by heinzkat wordiness.com
10/13/2008 15:21:43 Play online chess | ...
Message: Tip: try ChessVibes. So far it has always delivered pretty good covering of events (games, analysis, videos, interviews...); I'm sure in Bonn the coverage will excel again:
www.chessvibes.com
(for example, a video of the opening press conference is available there, and all for free) ——— On Chess: Is struggling Anand looking ahead? — Recent months haven’t been kind to reigning world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, who posted mediocre results in three consecutive chess tournaments. His last effort — the London Chess Classic, in which he scored six draws, one loss and just one win — was, in his words and by his standards, “a disaster” not befitting the status of world chess champion. No doubt he was distracted, in part, by preparations for an upcoming May title defense against Boris Gelfand in Moscow’s renowned Tretyakov art gallery — a venue that Anand hopes will inspire “ beautiful and artistic chess.” Based on their past performances in hundreds of games, Anand is an almost a 3-to-2 favorite to win the 12-game match. He also has ...
Posted by ketchuplover wordiness.com
10/13/2008 16:13:29 Play online chess |
Message:
chess.ca ——— Chess: The Year in Review — Chess again crossed paths with politics in 2011, with the most remarkable moment occurring in Tripoli, Libya, during the NATO bombing campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the World Chess Federation president, flew to Libya in June and played Qaddafi. Ilyumzhinov had known the Libyan leader since at least 2004, and there was speculation that he was on a mission to try to end the war. The game ended in a draw, but the war continued. (Tripoli fell to the rebels two months later, and Qaddafi was killed in October.) Politics also shadowed an achievement by Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian chess grandmaster who set a record in February by playing 614 people at ...
Posted by pgroenborg wordiness.com
10/14/2008 05:53:40 Play online chess | Not my hero
Message: I'm with Anand all the way, but Kramnik is very, very solid, like a rock. Remember Kramnik was the one to overthrow Kasparovs 15 years reign - and I was hoping for Kasparov at the time.
I am not a fan of Kramniks style, Anand plays a more lively game I think.
However they have battled in more than a hundred games, the score is more than 90 draws and 19 victories for Anand and 15 for Kramnik, so it is going to be very tight, we should be lucky to get more than 2 or 3 decisive games in the match I think, it is only 12 games, a short match.
I really excited about it, although I fear the cold Russian will beat the warm Indian.
Cheers and have fun
Peter
ps spellchecking of above is funny, it doesn't recognise the players mentioned, lol
| Posted by blake78613 wordiness.com
10/14/2008 08:23:26 Play online chess |
Message: Anand is certainly a talented player. I am not certain that he has the temperament for match play. Psychologically, I give Kramnik an edge.
| Posted by ketchuplover wordiness.com
10/14/2008 09:54:29 Play online chess |
Message: First game drawn in 32. Semi Slav exchange. Kramnik had white.
| Posted by lighttotheright wordiness.com
10/14/2008 11:39:32 Play online chess | Well!!!
Message: That was a rather simple game. I expected something a little more complicated for a World Championship game. There wasn't a whole lot of risk taken on either side.
Given that these guys have played as much as has been stated earlier, I would not expect them to need to feel each other out that much. But that was the sense I got from just observing the moves only. They seemed to be testing what each other might do.
| Posted by ccmcacollister wordiness.com
10/14/2008 12:20:14 Play online chess | Light, then I would suspect ....
Message: That if the players are starting slow, they are seeking to see what can be gained on their own talents and saving the TN's and Improvements for a more critical point. Which will also give the other side less time to switch openings and study something like that. I havent actually seen the game yet. Maybe too to get comfortable with the venue and cast of characters involved. Maybe they just dont have much new ... cough, choke. Yeah, the Russian #1 and th\\Champ with most the rest of the world behind him ... I also suspect they will have a few things in store to dazzle us. ( Got to admit it, even seen a senior ccm make even a Petroff dazzle once. Ah gosh that was HARD ...oh, and of course it did Draw :))
| Posted by pgroenborg wordiness.com
10/14/2008 12:55:00 Play online chess | Numbers
Message: I read about that high number of games between them somewhere on the net, can't recall the source right now, think it was Chess Vibes, but not sure. Other bloggers use different source? i.e. wikipedia has this to say:
Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik have played 51 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won six, Anand took four wins, and 41 games were drawn.
In rapid games, the score is 10–2 in favour of Anand with 34 draws. In blitz the score is 2–2 with four draws. In the blindfold games the score is 4–3 in favour of Kramnik with six draws. In Advanced Chess Kramnik leads 1–0 with seven draws.
| Posted by ketchuplover wordiness.com
10/15/2008 10:31:51 Play online chess |
Message: Game two drawn. More lively than game one imo. I think Kramnik should've tried Rd2 on move 31
| Posted by lighttotheright wordiness.com
10/16/2008 10:28:24 Play online chess |
Message: If 31, ,,, Rd2 then 32. Bb3. Kramnik didn't have an effective attack here.
| Posted by lighttotheright wordiness.com
10/16/2008 10:52:11 Play online chess |
Message: I was trying to think of something else Annand could have tried instead of the queen swap on move 19. If 19. Be7 Rde8 20. Bg5 Qc5 21, h3 h6, Black looks OK and White would probably have to look for a drawn position anyway.
| Posted by ccmcacollister wordiness.com
10/17/2008 16:30:23 Play online chess | already ...
Message: A win for Anand. That's a pretty quick score on K.
| Posted by lighttotheright wordiness.com
10/17/2008 22:26:56 Play online chess |
Message: Now that was a good and exciting game! That's the kind that we expect from a World Champion.
| Posted by vulpecula wordiness.com
10/20/2008 09:05:24 Play online chess | Another win for Vishy
Message: Can anyone see Kramnik recovering from this ??
Regards, Guy
| Posted by ketchuplover wordiness.com
10/20/2008 09:29:25 Play online chess |
Message: Stick a fork in Kramnik. He's done.
| Posted by ogedei wordiness.com
10/20/2008 11:37:46 Play online chess | oy
Message: Just when Kramnik has two Blacks in a row, too...
Time to come out swinging with Black for the first time in years, Vlad.
Good luck with that!
| Posted by cairo wordiness.com
10/20/2008 13:56:42 Play online chess | It
Message: certainly look rather overwhelming for Kramnik and I personally hope that Anand goes all the way, but don't count Kramnik out yet, he is known as a gritty competitor when it looks worse......
best wishes
Cairo
| Posted by ogedei wordiness.com
10/21/2008 11:41:31 Play online chess | Game 6
Message: Wow.
It seems that Anand is working to to prove the old (and heretofore discredited) adage that, "great players never castle!"
It's a great match, but let's hope Vlad can find his form quickly so that we have some competitive games.
It's tough to watch won of your chess heroes going down in flames...
| Posted by ccmcacollister wordiness.com
10/21/2008 12:32:32 Play online chess | ouch~!
Message: Says Anand to Kramnick?
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqeSUAlI5uI&feature=PlayList&p=03E110C6C3A1931B&index=2&playnext=3&playnext_from=PL
| Posted by ccmcacollister wordiness.com
10/21/2008 12:43:58 Play online chess | btw ...
Message: 1.I know Anand is just too polite to actually Say It ...
2. Thats an extended play you have never heard, I bet.
| Posted by ketchuplover wordiness.com
10/27/2008 16:39:43 Play online chess |
Message: kramnik wins game 10. Anand leads 6-4. Play resumes Wednesday.
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