Judit Polgar (13) verovert Amsterdam: MATTEN 5

Recent comments

• Jagdish Dube., 5 January 2009, 18.34: Ivanchuk has already won the 5th game.6th game is drawn.
• Rob, 5 January 2009, 10.34: About Miguoel, there has been an article about his performance in Groningen at the Chesscool website, so for the people who are interested …
• Remco Gerlich, 4 January 2009, 20.32: Thanks for the illumination, Bartlomiej! The change in K makes obvious sense.
• Jan, 4 January 2009, 19.18: And by the way, I whink that 2500 is no longer sufficient to become a GM. The bar should be raised to 2600. Also I believe that players with ratings below a...
• Jan, 4 January 2009, 19.10: Yep, some 25 years ago a rating above 2700 was a rare exception (Karpov, Kasparov). Nowadays the 2700+ section is flocked with players. Of course they are...
• xtra, 4 January 2009, 18.05: maybe many people mean that there is a rating inflation when less chess skill is required to maintain a certain rating over time. so in a sense, or so they...
• Maurits Dijkhoff, 4 January 2009, 4.47: Congratulations to the Ghana Chess Association with their Team participating in their first Chess Olympiad and for their win against Aruba. At...
• Bartlomiej Macieja, 4 January 2009, 2.42: ————&# 8212;— guncha: The increase of K Factor looks like complete crap! There are more and more 2600+ players...
• Bartlomiej Macieja, 4 January 2009, 2.00: —– Jens Kristiansen: On the matter of increasing the K-factor: I do not really see it can be a problem that we get a more precise...
• JM, 4 January 2009, 0.30: Miguoel is not a typo, as far as I know. I’ve never seen his name spelled any different, so I suppose it’s correct.

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