Comments on: Nalchik R10: Petroff finally loses

By: Zen and the Art of Chess Opening Maintenance : ChessVibes

Zen and the Art of Chess Opening Maintenance : ChessVibes — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:16:59 +0000

[...] consider what can be so hateful about the Petroff in the first place. I guess most critics of the opening as it’s played on top level, would [...]

By: GG

GG — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:56:50 +0000

I”ve just read the article of Marlowe. Seems like Kirsan was signing agreement with Aronian’s compatriot – his last name was Adelhanian. There are a lot of Armenians in Russia? I see that most of’em are of high rank. Now i understand why armenophobia is being disseminated. Nobody likes successful minorities.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:59:21 +0000

@totoy bato and others: Not mentioning Wesley So’s name may have been impolite or even arrogant from Karjakin, but might have been meant as a (misplaced) joke … .
In any case, the mockery part of totoy bato’s comment makes little sense to me: Statistically spoken, how high are a player’s winning chances against someone rated ~100 points lower? Certainly less than 100% …. and this does not even take into account that Wesley So is young, still improving and thus underrated at present.
So even with a new coach one cannot, and should not expect that Karjakin will score 100% against 2600 or even 2500 players.

By: Michael Schwerteck

Michael Schwerteck — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:50:09 +0000

OK, Peter, I’ll let you off this time I was just wondering about the position at the end of this line – is White better or not?

By: Peter Doggers

Peter Doggers — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:29:03 +0000

@Michael Just quoting the GM, don’t shoot the messenger.

By: Marlowe

Marlowe — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:41:29 +0000

Re: FIDE President Meetings

I just cannnot believe all this post-soviet propagand s***t that takes place on fide website: http://www.fide.com –

http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/3970-the-meetings-of-fide-president

I fail to see the correlation between FIDE and FSI and why an accord would favor chess players or has anything to do with chess whatsoever. Maybe the ‘carismatic leader’ starts to confuse his office as a Kalmykian vasal to Kremlin with being responsible for world chess affairs. The texts and the propaganda is worth of pre-1989 type of Soviet-style rhetoric and the long red drapes behind look like the typical Moscow Commi offices. I just had it with these meetings with Moscow bureaucrats, small-time ex-Soviet “Presidents” or so called ‘diplomatic visits’ to war-torn zones [read "cheaper than Western"] to organize chess events or secure playing halls in case of an incoming crisis.

When will we have a FIDE president who will actually be received in the West’s biggest capitals, sitting down with the mayors of New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, etc and not with some Soviet/Russian-related party-line yes-men who have no interest nor aid the standards of chess playing? Until then, no wonder chess is in the bad shape it is right now.

Just sick with it. And there seems to be no journalistic reaction whatsoever to this sort of pure b********t.

By: GG

GG — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:07:31 +0000

Guys, i’m not a Karjakin fan but he seems to be a nice guy. He just forgot the name of Wesley. English is not his native speaker, so he could tell that “some” w/out any intention of hurting one’s feelings.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:20 +0000

Some philipino…

By: Frits Fritschy

Frits Fritschy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:34:49 +0000

I just looked up the games of the 1927 world championship match between Capablanca and Alekhine. I can recommend them to anyone complaining about the Petroff. Yawn, another Queen’s Gambit Declined… None of them as exciting as Leko’s win against Gelfand. Back in 1927 people were also talking about the ‘drawing dead’ of chess. A lot of exciting things happened afterwards.
Chess evolves; it get’s boring in different ways, but it also gets exciting in different ways.

By: Eiae

Eiae — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:18:39 +0000

I love Aronian even more now after he said he wants more chess960 tourns and that he listens to jazz. Creativity for the win!

The opening is dead, come 960!

Honestly, nobody can argue that creativity has been taken out of the opening for top players. They all study the openings way into the middle game on computers and in teams. This has very little to do with over-the-board skills and talent, except from pure memorization.
Gelfands opening novelty is a real rarity these days. Please, let’s all go random chess and give the boot to those darn computer programs. Random openings will turn them obsolete and bring back chess into the hands of the human talent.