Comments on: Aronian’s finest hour (UPDATE: last video added!)

By: Lajos Arpad

Lajos Arpad — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:52:22 +0000

Svidler had five decided games, two of them were wins.

By: Mamedyarovfan

Mamedyarovfan — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:34:17 +0000

Thanks Peter for the outstanding videos accompanied by well articulated comments that gave us great insights into the players’ ideas and emotions. Have a good break now

By: Chessvine.com

Chessvine.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:47:39 +0000

Aronian Wins Grand Prix…

After a long bit of silence in respect to the round-by-round results of the Nalchik Grand Prix I’ve decided to report on the final standings (due to pressure from my Twitter following).

To make a long and hard fought tournament into a brief stateme…

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:58:30 +0000

@Thomas
You are right for example Svidler don’t mind to draw 99 games and lose one game out of 100.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:35:29 +0000

TC, did you already forget that Ivanchuk was shared first in Linares? I think he simply is a man of extremes: when things go well they go really well (MTel 2008 is an even better example), when things go bad they go really bad.
In part, this is due to his principled approach to chess, striving to win in every single game – when he is in bad form this leads to more losses. Some other players don’t mind a couple of draws in such situations – to recover/stabilize or at least to limit the (ELO) damage …. .

By: patj

patj — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:30:53 +0000

congrats to aronian.
he seems like a great guy – it is nice to see someone like him at the top. i would love to see him and MC play a WC match one day!! : )

By: TC

TC — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:26:39 +0000

Don’t know what is wrong with Chucky lately………. He is a much better than the results he has shown for the past few months…….

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:36:07 +0000

Regarding Arne’s comment on Aronian-Leko after move 24 (”Black has a very nice position [but from this moment it only goes downwards].”): This was also my impression while watching the game live – actually I thought Leko with black was playing for a win. However, it may be sort of an optical illusion – you do not necessarily have serious threats just because some of your pieces are close to the opponent’s king. So, in hindsight, “black SEEMS TO have a nice position” may be more accurate.
Dennis Monokroussos evaluated the position at least += throughout, his comment (after move 16) seems to be spot on: “Black’s position isn’t as good as it may look, and I think it’s because it lacks a certain “improvability”. ” Yes, black’s threats are temporary or maybe just hypothetical, white’s assets (bishop pair, passed pawns [later in the game]) are permanent and will prevail sooner or later [obviously this is written in hindsight].

By: me

me — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:10:00 +0000

I do not understand the question marks in the overall Grand Prix standings. Is it really that hard to work it out???

1) Akopian is the host city nominee (Yerevan) and will certainly play in both tournaments – Yerevan + last GP.

2) Alekseev is also a host city nominee (Nalchik!) and will certainly play in both last GP’s.

3) Navarra is out so he should be at the bottom with “excluded” tag next to him.

4) Both Eljanov and Kasimdzhanov will play in the last GP tournament (count the number of players).

So the only question mark that remains is who will play in Yerevan – Eljanov or Kasimdzhanov. Thats the only unknown variable. And it all depends on where the last GP is going to be. If it’s in Ukraine, it will be Elajnov who plays in Yerevan. If it’s in Uzbekistan, then Kasimdzhanov will play in Yerevan.

By: Jagadish Dube.

Jagadish Dube. — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:19:08 +0000

Very Good Data’s from Harish Srinivasan & Professor Peter Doggers have enhanced
the images of CHESSVIBES.Congratulations to both of you.I hope you will maintain these trend in future also.
Jagadish Dube,Orissa,INDIA.