Comments on: Stunning footage Kasparov simul in Antwerp

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:58:11 +0000

I am absolutely allergic to this person “kasparov”. He’s destroyed the world of chess, but still shamelessly shows his ugly face and shoots his big mouth left and right.

By: test

test — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:54:12 +0000

After having replayed all the games I really have to ask: what is the point.
Most of the players are literally absolute beginners. In some of the games it looks like a random move generator is making the moves, I’m not kidding. What do these people get out of this? Some yuppie bragging rights of being able to say they played the ex-world champion, never mind that they hardly know how to make legal moves? Pretty pathetic.

By: jmd85146

jmd85146 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:14:07 +0000

still, it is somehow funny to see

By: Sergio

Sergio — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:40:46 +0000

jmd he probally spotted the mate in 2 instantly , cause that is a more common patern. I guess if he took his time he would have seen the mate in 1.

By: jmd85146

jmd85146 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:19:42 +0000

Wauw even Kasparov can miss a mate in 1. Game 6 against Kris Peeters 27. Qh7….

By: test

test — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:48:34 +0000

Ok so I watched the rest of the 19 part series anyway. Only part 3-4-5-6 has the wrong sound, the rest is ok.

By: Amos

Amos — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:43:09 +0000

Oh, man, the look on the Kasparovs face at the beginning of the first video (on the 28th second for example)! That guy takes every chess game extremely serious, no matter the opposition.

Is that really Short speaking? I just realized I had never heard his voice before.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:15:56 +0000

At least we finally know what Kasparov plays against the Damiano Defence! Should be interesting stuff for ChessVibes Openings!

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0000

In the past, Kramnik and Kasparov have taken on national teams (and won)! Would be nice to have Kasparov play against Russia

By: PP (NL)

PP (NL) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:28:00 +0000

Somehow it’s not that appealing to me to watch absolute amateurs play against Kasparov.

I would like this kind of coverage with something like they did with Kramnik against 2 grandmasters. That was a nice experiment. Could be done with 3 of 4 international masters or something like that.