Comments on: No big surprises in World Cup R2 tiebreaks; Ivanchuk says he’ll ‘leave professional chess’

By: vooruitgang

vooruitgang — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:42:33 +0000

Re: Wesley So: You have to admire him for his play and also his honesty. He confirms what Ivanchuck said about his playing badly. And now he took down Kamsky. Increduble that he has no coach to speak of.

Great reporting Peter and the rest of the crew….I always check with Vibes first!

By: Nakamura fan

Nakamura fan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:05:28 +0000

So beat Kamsky.

By: ChessGirl

ChessGirl — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:31:11 +0000

Not Kursnov, Daniel, it was Kurnosov (Russian names can be tricky to remember sometimes )

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:01:35 +0000

@ChessGirl – still a few rounds to go, but we might get the following scenario: all of Mamedyarov (World Cup winner), Radjabov (second in the GP) and Gashimov (organizer wildcard) playing the candidates tournament. And one of them would have to play against Aronian … .

By: Castro

Castro — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:24:00 +0000

Suddenly it became somewhat clowdy over my dream finale Kamsky – Polgar!
Nice combination by Maxime V-L ! (After an equaly nice strategic lesson)
Ponomariov is taking steps… Watch out!
Go Gata!!

By: ceann

ceann — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:01:55 +0000

@Poek
you said it!, when Chucky (likr the Rocket) is ‘on’ he is the best player in the world without a doubt
but when hes not journeymen players like SoWhat can beat him…. and they are both characters in the game….unlike drones like Lego, Karayawn, Wang Dang You among many many more.

By: CAL|Daniel

CAL|Daniel — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:34:46 +0000

yes leigh against Kursnov

By: steven

steven — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:29:38 +0000

picture of Karjakin with Russian flag :
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2422/3913200386_07aa8e710a.jpg

By: leigh

leigh — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:05:12 +0000

Is Mamedyarov the person who lost a game in a few moves and complained the opponent getting help from computer?

By: Amos

Amos — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:04:21 +0000

I hadn’t missed the news of his intentions to change the federation, but, as I said, I had also seen a contradictory information (though, I did have suspicions regarding its factual correctness. Steven is probably right – that article, despite claiming to cite Karjakin himself, was BS). I had also seen the document that grants Russian citizenship to Karjakin. But, quite some time has passed since then, and he still plays under the Ukrainian flag. This seems a bit strange to me. Besides, one can be a Russian citizen and still represent Ukraine.

Seems I had missed he played under the Russian flag in Bilbao. Are there photos of this?