Nice Playchess.com interview w/Anand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ6MLP5_g6c

Carlsen in trouble...

ashley talks a lot.

I think more active players should express their support for Karpov. This way they would support, finally, normality in chess. It is time for this community to unite for a good cause. However in real life more an more it is all about ME; most of people see their interest and think no more about others. I hope chess is still different.

pwning noobs is always fun. :)

Who is the lady on the left of the speaker podium (just below the light)?

It's Garry's girlfriend, stupid.

first sentence = were in stead of where

Prawdziwa szacharnia

Who is the lady on the left of the speaker podium (just below the light)?

@labelled “carlson in trouble"
i'd be very nervous flanked by these two white sharks, karpov and kasparov.
let's hope the kid knows what he's getting himself into.

@h,

What kid?

@jussu “what kid?"
i was reffering to magnus carlson in light of karpov being old enough to be his grandpa.

bring bessel kok back to the table.....

Kosteniuk letter in support of Dvorkovich:

http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2010/kosteniuk-supports-dvorkovich

So, if you pay for her training camps she will sing praises of you.

I don´t trust Kasparov. He was one of the best chess players, but he is greedy of money and power. He is not a good politician and he doesn´t get supported as much as he says in Russia. Poor Karpov.

"I don´t trust Kasparov. He was one of the best chess players, but he is greedy of money and power."

The usual thing to say, but I don't really see where this comes from. Has he actually expressed his greediness? Anywhere? The only thing supporting the hypothesis of him being power-hungry is the fact that he is a politician, but he sure has chosen the wrong side to fill this alleged hunger.

"He is not a good politician and he doesn´t get supported as much as he says in Russia."

Nobody knows for sure, this is Russia. It seems to me that at least Putin, but probably also his opposition greatly exaggerate the numbers of their supporters.

@jussu
“has he [kasparov] actually expressed his greediness? anywhere?

i had to chuckle when i read this. especially coming from you--an informed and objective blogger!
two examples of garri's greediness come to mind although i can assure you there are many more.
1) all the ranting and raving about the money he could not get for the match against shirov.
2) i think the contractual agreement for the match against anand in london was so one-sided (in kasparov's favour of course), so grotesquely unfair that anand simply refused to succumb to garri's greed.

@ jussu:
Kasparov is just paid by Americans to enforce their interests, but he has not much supporters in Russia. He only attracts attention of the media with his demonstrations at not granted locations. He´s also a member of the American neoconservative National Security Advisory Council (NSAC).

If I read something like this http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iFBsMRsIMGyBCVlIk-rAy0... ,i can only laugh about him:
"It's fighting the corrupt international body," Kasparov said. "Creating new rules for engagement for chess, it will be helpful as well for bringing democracy to my country."
Wow, this sentence makes a lot of sence..lol *facepalm*. It´s just blah blah...

@h,

I don't have a blog. Anyway, alright, I'll buy Kasparov's greediness, for the sake of peace. Never seen him cheating anyone, so I guess Karpov is quite out of danger there.

"Kasparov is just paid by Americans to enforce their interests,"

Citation?

"but he has not much supporters in Russia."

Yeah, your word against my word, I don't think this will take us too far. The fact is, neither of us knows. I know a bunch of rather random Russian peole from the net, and they are, well, surprisingly critical against their government.

"He only attracts attention of the media with his demonstrations at not granted locations."

This is as much as opposition can do in Russia. Demonstrations in granted locations used to be impossible. Things actually seem to be improving, is is possible to get a permission for a demonstration these days, but you do not hear about them because, well, nothing exciting happens.

"He´s also a member of the American neoconservative National Security Advisory Council (NSAC)."

Was, until he noticed that they had included him. Not a group of people I would want to be in touch with, but so what?

@jussu
and i stand corrected. i simply meant to say: informed and objective “commentator" but the cool word “blogger" tripped me.

@ jussu:
"He didn´t notice that they included him", hahaha. Oh man, he must either be blind or he just forgot who he belongs to.
But he keeps still keeping in touch with other conservative American think-tank organisation like the Hoover institute. In the early 90´s he also achieved a award by another American think tank organisation for "the defence of the United States and American values around the world".

He supports American politics, or why you think they would give him awards or keeping in touch with him?!? And don´t forget he supported the criminal Yeltsin in the 90`s and thats all facts...

and now...imagine a American who rarely is in America and who presents the interests of a russian think tank organisations claiming bringing freedom and democracy to America.... a joke my friend, wake up. The only real opposition of who can speak about in russia are the communists. Of course lots of people are critisizing the government and its reasonable, but it hasn´t do anything with Kasparov, he´s a clown in the russian political scene. No country needs people who represent the interests of another country...;)

KingTal,

Communists are the only group of opposition that is given some breathing space in Russia. And they cooperate with Kasparov. Yes he supported Yeltsin (this is a very wrong site to discuss the title "criminal", so please keep your opinion on that to more proper places), yes he supports US politics, sometimes in aspects I disagree with, but what is wrong with this? Merely reflects that people have different political preferences. I am not an American but I don't find anything wrong with your example of a Russian-oriented american; with all likelihood, there should be hundreds of such, but none of them are widely known. Maybe they are not chess champions, but maybe the idea of Russia teaching US democracy is more ridiculous that the opposite. Call such people a joke if you like, call Kasparov whatever you like, I still don't see what this name-calling has to do with Karpov's campaign.

@ jussu:
i don´t understand where u got the information about Kasparov cooperating with the communists ...Sjuganov the chef of communist party himself said once that Kasparov wants to sell russia to foreign corporations ...they never will cooperate with him. You don´t seem to have much clue about russian politics or maybe things has changed so much since i last were following the political situations there. And according to your statement you dont have any problem with countries to be controlled and plundered by foreign countries, oh well this is of course a political preference,but not a pleasent one.

I´m sorry about this political statements of me, i know that its a chess forum, but i got a bit infected by the discussion and got off the topic.

Now on topic: What i wanted to say is that there could be negative effects for Karpov with Kasparov on his site because of Kasparovs image in the Russian public and government because of the reasons which i already pointed out detailed.

@KingTal,

Okay, that last bit does make sense: whatever Kasparov's intentions are, his image in Russia will affect Karpov's image in Russia. Evidently Karpov himself does not mind, for he is a person who is rather unlikely to become a puppet.

"i don´t understand where u got the information about Kasparov cooperating with the communists"

My bad, I thought the Communist Party was a member of The Other Russia but it isn't; there are several other communist groups there.

"according to your statement you dont have any problem with countries to be controlled and plundered by foreign countries"

Never said this. We evidently have different opinion about whether US is trying to control Russia - the word I would use is "influence"; we all try to influence everything in our surroundings, such as you and me here are trying to influence (not to control) each other. This is again drifting away from Kasparov's person, so we'd better stop here; our differences are far outside anything related to chess.