Comments on: Grischuk wins Linares 2009 on tiebreak

By: Aljechins Cat

Aljechins Cat — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:42:49 +0000

@CAL Daniel:

Make a try to understand what I wrote

I wrote:
“The point is … but that top seeds are using the same openings over and over again.”

You wrote:
“Just because you don‚Äôt like this opening is no reason to make blatent untrue statements about it.”

Where is a statement about about any opening in my comment? Nowhere. Obviously the two threads don¬¥t match at all. Secondly, a posting expressing a personal opinion is by definition neither “true” or “untrue”.Only facts are true or not.

Instead of copy-and-pasting your fingers off, I ask you to come down, think and stop offending other people.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:10:43 +0000

Linares is still the best tournament around. Pity that we have to wait for another year.

By: Arne Moll

Arne Moll — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:17:41 +0000

He does, Frits, but not in the usual places:

http://www.chessbase.com/news/2005/wijk/grischuk02.jpg

By: Frits Fritschy

Frits Fritschy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:09:22 +0000

Grischuk may sometimes smile, as the picture shows, but does he ever sleep…?

By: Arne Moll

Arne Moll — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:53:54 +0000

@patj, it took some effort, but here’s the answer to your question:

http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/cms/images/stories/2007/pictures/gmt_players/new/Grischuk%20Portrait%203.JPG

By: patj

patj — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:32:50 +0000

does grischuk ever smile?

By: Goto

Goto — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:35:30 +0000

I am very very happy to see Grischuk won this big event. Once Kasparov commented on young Grischuk’s potential, but there were times I wonder if the promise was ever going to be fulfilled, given the story about him deep into poker… No offense to other wonderful players, but it is always nice to see a new face on top table, expressing full potential. I sincerely hope that he will keep up a good work and show us more wonderful games!

By: CAL|Daniel

CAL|Daniel — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:43:15 +0000

my apologies peter. you can delete my snotty posts if you want.

By: Peter Doggers

Peter Doggers — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:15 +0000

‘because the site has errors’ – it would be a pretty bad spam filter if a post containing 21 links would pass it, wouldn’t it?

By: CAL|Daniel

CAL|Daniel — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:12:57 +0000

OKAY because site has errors in it I couldn’t link you to the 21 decisive slav games from Corus, Linares and Aeroflot. Needless to say if you missed those games then you aren’t paying attention to top level chess anyways. There is alot of risk in the slav/semislav… someone hasn’t been paying much attention to top level chess if you’ve missed these games…

The slav defense is one of blacks best tries to win against 1. d4 besides the KID (which usually leaves very little drawing chances unlike the slav) or its sister semislav. Just because you don’t like this opening is no reason to make blatent untrue statements about it. I wish it was played even more often than it is.