Comments on: President’s Cup: FIDE World crushes Azerbaijan

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“We will improve our software”, says CEO of DGT : ChessVibes — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:02:08 +0000

[...] our last report on the President’s Cup we hinted that it might be the material. Almost all chess tournaments [...]

By: bakusun

bakusun — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:30:19 +0000

thisisdont rule.the best chessplayer of azerbaijan isnt guseynov gashimov mamedyarov radjabov . azerbaijan have more interesting chessplayers.they wants rating turnnaments and real play.they are morestrong than anand kramnik shirov and ets

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:43:32 +0000

So much with Krmnik, he only wins the softened Dortmund cause there he doesn’t play difficult opposition, there’s always only 1 difficult player but nothing more, also Dort. is short enough for him to endure it. He can’t win the real long stuff, i.e. Corus or Mtel, where everybody plays to kill, or a real Linares, no drawfests like 2004, IMO.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:02:50 +0000

@ Arne Moll
Sorry but i never said that Kramnik is a bad player. He’s great when he plays chess. But for some reason he don’t play chess, most of the time he just push wood in the same drawish openings and offers/agrees to a draw around move 20…
And the only player who might have used computer in top chess is topalov at least i think that was the reason for all the lies and insults he made to Kramnik in Elista.
And looks like he succeeded. Before Elista no one talked about Kramnik like that: “If he wins the World Championship it‚Äôs because he uses a computer.”

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:46:26 +0000

I agree with Jonas’ first sentence: Kramnik will have to prove/confirm at other occasions that he is still a force to be reckoned with – I think Dortmund is next on his agenda !?
But I also agree with everything Arne Moll wrote. To add just one thing: Kramnik (or anyone else) did not become world champion, top 10 or even top 100 just with “very short and uneventful draws” … .

By: steven

steven — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:53:01 +0000

And furthermore, Kramnik acknowledges his losses and doesn’t start attacking
his opponents off the board.
Recently the bulgarian ringleader Danailov insulted WC Anand,
saying he doesn’t deserve the chess oscar and only got it because “the
russians” didn’t want to give it to Topalov.
Of course it was the Kremlin who ordered the oscar to be given to Anand,
if not 64-chess magazine would have been closed down, the pimp stated.

By: Arne Moll

Arne Moll — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:59:58 +0000

@Jonas. If Kramnik plays interesting chess it’s because it’s rapid. If he wins with the Petroff it’s because his opponents went too far. If he wins the World Championship it’s because he uses a computer. How many more excuses do we have to hear before we can acknowledge that Kramnik’s simply a great player?!

By: Manindra

Manindra — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:48:47 +0000

Kramanik learnt well after loss to Anand !!

By: Jonas

Jonas — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:35:39 +0000

Don’t make conclusions about Kramnik only after few rapid games.
Kramnik is famous for very short and uneventful draws in normal time control.

By: patyolat

patyolat — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:04:10 +0000

I have just noticed it, thanks…