Comments on: [lang_nl]Persconferentie Loek van Wely[/lang_nl][lang_en]Pressconference Loek van Wely[/lang_en]

By: gogo milev

gogo milev — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:34:36 +0000

please Jeroen… we need your analisis :]]

By: Xmas

Xmas — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:51:54 +0000

Alexander, learn how to read then come back. It was the arbiter who stopped Danailov’s behaviour in the first place.

Weren’t we supposed to stop this?

By: Blederoff

Blederoff — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:39:17 +0000

Hi all,

I think Topalov and his fans have a big problem, they can’t accept a defeat. Kramnik beat Topalov in Elista last year, so Kramnik must be accused of cheating, of playing like a coward and so on from their point of view.

I like both a good attack of Topalov and a really fine positional game of Kramnik, so please don’t say Kramnik isn’t worth being a World Champion! He is, but he plays a style which is not that spectacular.

FIDE made a mistake when they didn’t think of giving the looser a chance to take place in the next World Championship Qualification.

Greets from Austia

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:21:29 +0000

Ja, Kramnik vertegenwoordigd Rusland met Putin aan de macht!
De match (lang geleden) tussen Fischer en Spaski heeft Rusland zich ook bedenkelijk gedragen (boek: david Edmonds & John Eidinow ?¢‚Ç¨‚Äú Fischer trekt ten strijde).
Voormalig Sovjet was niet vies van be?É¬Ønvloeden van een match, geef Kramnik de voordeel van de twijfel, eerlijk gezegd zou het me niet verbazen als de kabel op de WC ergens voordiende.
Toch heeft Kramnik in het Rapid laten zien wie de sterkste is, laten we hopen dat de volgende match minder niet schaakstof doet op waaien.
Niemand is ermee gediend en zeker niet de schaaksport!

By: dorothea

dorothea — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:15:06 +0000

Does any one remember the match b/w Kasparov-Kramnik, and Kasparov’s comments one year after that.
Kramnik and his team persistently declined a replay …
‘If this is a man’ – (to paraphrase Primo Levi), or, better, deja’ vu.

By: In?É¬°cio de Freitas

In?É¬°cio de Freitas — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:15:47 +0000

After read all opinions, i come to give my contribution for this “council”.

1. Topalov don’t deserves any attack he’d suffered. His is a great player and very dedicated to the “chess cause”. Someone can don’t like his personality, but this don’t justify agressions like those pointed.

2. Kramnik is too a very good ans strong player and who could forget he won Kasparov and Topalov?… But his results on important competitions were poor and almost a misterious, since we all expect from him exactly the opposite extreme. Maybe Kramnik don’t have the wish to win nothing else except on WC matches (what is not a simple task…); maybe he haven’t the energy necessary to do it…

3. For these reasons, Kasparov remais the name to be remembered, and everybody who loves chess still dreams about his results, in tournaments or on the WC matches…

Kasparov remais the bigger name of the modern chess.

From Brasil, In?É¬°cio.

By: Punky

Punky — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:41:19 +0000

Chessbase should be sued if they keep posting rubbish like that.

By: Charley

Charley — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:34:50 +0000

My words matter little, but I am in an argumentative mood:

Chessnews: ChessBase reports on what is happening in the world of chess. If you think *they* wrote the article you dislike, you – like many others – are under a misapprehension. And I doubt Topalov plays very many games against “normal people”, it would be a complete waste of time for everyone concerned.

shame: Check your accusations more carefully. Take “S?É¬ºddeutsche Zeitung” to court, and have fun. They would never publish prima facie libel.

rain: That is also scant evidence. Not every player, however high his rating, has the course of his last game meticulously engraved in his memory.

Johannes Hendricus: Topalov makes “chess look very simple?” Speaking for myself, I can only say he shows me that there is a level of chess I can, in wildly optimistic moments, hope to understand, but emulate: never, not in a thousand years. “Simple chess” was perhaps played by Smyslov at his peak?

Lastly: I had the utmost admiration for Topalov before Elista. I cannot maintain that enthusiasm. I certainly do not feel competent to pronounce on the claims of cheating, but the acrimony Topailov (”we are one person”) has brought into the world of chess sickens me, and probably many other lovers of our game.

By: Cybernijntje

Cybernijntje — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:29:03 +0000

Danailov has a commercial background, something the chessworld has been missing. The whole Elista case is one which put chess in the big picture. We got to accept that to make chess populair, we need scandals. I’ve seen worse scandals outside of chess (politics anyone?).
…anyway, Topalov’s play is great to watch and Kramnik’s play is great to analyse…

By: Goran Urosevic

Goran Urosevic — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:23:46 +0000

I agree with Alexander. Can anyone backup this IM? The entire chessvibes team is there, they must have seen if something suspicious was happening.

In game vs Van Wely, both Bc5 and Rd3 were easy to find, even for candidate master. I am Kramnik fan, but this story is rubbish.