Comments on: Corus Press Conferences Rounds 6-8

By: leandro

leandro — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:10:12 +0000

f5??
straight??? in this level????
Who Nakamura think he is???
Someone spent the whole night telling he is bobby fischer???

This was a well deserved loss.
This is a lesson for naka stops playing so arrogantly
I bet Kramnik gave him a good lesson. I bet he thought playing e4 after the numb f5

Nice interview,,, nice class… really a show
I like Kramnik best… I hope he’ll win Corus this year and jump at least to 2nd place in ranking.

well done

By: Rothschild

Rothschild — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:23:09 +0000

You are of course right, sergio. But I believe that when these players reach a certain high level, they can use the lines generated by computers and understand the ideas for themselves. I sure can’t with some lines suggested, but Im sure the computer is a much better teacher to them than it is for me. It’s the principle of “zone of proximal development” stated long ago by Lev Vygotsky; it would mean that a 900 player profits very much learning from a 1200 player, 1200 from a 1500 player, etc…. and a 2700+ player is ready to actually learn from Rybka

By: Sergio

Sergio — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:33:09 +0000

Hortentius, i disagree. I like beeing teached by a human way more then a computer. Computers are nice aid to analyse you game, but they just give lines. They can’t explain you the deeper purposes off moves like Kramnick can.

By: unknown

unknown — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:06:52 +0000

Kramnik won again! Against Carlsen!

By: Hortensius

Hortensius — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:22:36 +0000

Apparently computers are better teachers than human beings…

By: VladimirOo

VladimirOo — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:17:09 +0000

When tired of playing – the later, the better, of course -, Kramnik would make a wonderful teacher for young talents: so deep, so powerful, and so many knowledge in all aspects of the game!

By: vaughn

vaughn — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:55:00 +0000

1.the logo is anoyng for me.
2.this Giri is suffering,like a lot of chess players,by inculture.

By: Garnoth

Garnoth — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:51:14 +0000

Kramnik has clearly changed his playing style and is taking more risks, he is playing some awesome games lately! I think he will still be a dangerous contender for the world championship for years to come.

He and Aronian are for me the ones who give the best press conferences, clear explanations but still they delve deeply into the positions, great stuff!

By: Rini Luyks

Rini Luyks — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:50:28 +0000

Kramnik’s game is a masterpiece, followed by a masterclass at the pressconference. The Rb1-idea seems to be very good against the Dutch Defence, also in he other (…Qe8) Leningrad-variation and even against the Stonewall.
Maybe it´s some kind of prophecy that the crown in the ChessVibes logo is moving around his head all the time during the video , he still can win the tournament, but being black against Carlsen, Anand and Shirov it will not be easy, as he already said.

By: British fan

British fan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:56:22 +0000

Robson’s first place 2578 performance is misleading. He’s playing only 8 points over his rating, only played the under 2500 players so far, and lost to one of them.