[lang_nl]Persconferentie Ljubomir Ljubojevic[/lang_nl][lang_en]Press conference Ljubomir Ljubojevic[/lang_en]
23 January 2008, 21.04 CET | Last modified: 17:37 | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags: Videos
[lang_nl]Voormalig nummer drie van de wereld Ljubomir Ljubojevic kreeg vandaag net als Kramnik gisteren Pxf7 voor zijn kiezen, had niet Topalovs persconferentie gezien maar won toch van Timman. Zijn uitleg.[/lang_nl][lang_en]Former world’s no. 3 Ljubomir Ljubojevic faced Nxf7 today, just like Kramnik yesterday, and he hadn’t seen Topalovs press conference. Still, he beat Timman, and here he shows how.[/lang_en]
[lang_nl]Maar liefst vier videoschermen vandaag. Want Ljubojevic gaf niet alleen uitgebreid en zeer vermakelijk commentaar op zijn overwinning op Timman, nee, ook vertelde hij daarna nog uitgebreid over de verschillen tussen schaken in zijn beste tijd en nu. Een prachtige uitspraak noteren we alvast:
“When I was young, I thought tomorrow will be always more important than yesterday. Now that I’m older, I think yesterday was much more important than tomorrow.”
Waarom hij dat vindt? Dat moet je maar in de video’s bekijken![/lang_nl][lang_en]No less than four video screens today. Because Ljubojevic not only commented extensively and amusingly about his victory against Timman, no, he also told a lot about the difference between chess in his best time, and now. We’ll already mention one beautiful statement:
“When I was young, I thought tomorrow will be always more important than yesterday. Now that I’m older, I think yesterday was much more important than tomorrow.”
Why he thinks this? You’ll find the answer in the videos![/lang_en]
Having problems viewing the videos? You can also find them at YouTube.com/chessvibes.
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Why Ivanchuk didn’t give any press conference
It’s a pity, they have only one press-conference room
I would love to hear both Ljubojevic and Carlsen… and Kramnik 
– there were several very interesting moments in his game as well.
We’ve added a short video of Carlsen, commenting right after his game of today.
Ljubo rules !
@chucky
I think I read on this website that he was never giving any interview to non-russian press.
May be he’s some kind of nationalist guy (I know he’s ukrainian) ?
It is great to get to watch living legends simply enjoying the game. We are all grateful Chessvibes.
As for the game, going into this crazy sacrifice without any preperation just for the fun of it and being able to play better than Kramnik (Rhg8 instead of Qxd4?) shows that experience can be a useful tool when confronted with a strong novelty (even though Timman had also no preparation in this line). And the analysis was so much more, dare I say, HUMAN, yes? (i.e. asking “show me”, making mistakes, forgetting pieces off the board (Bg4) as a result of analyzing Bxe6 after each black’s move etc) …
More games needed!
Well, at least Timman had more preparation in this line than Ljubojevic, because he was present in the press room during Topalov’s press conference, while Ljubojevic was analysing his game with Korchnoi at that moment.
@Thomas S:
as for my perception, Ivanchuk is a kind of person, who is trying to do everything in a perfect way. He isn’t sure about his English, so…He’s is a very good product of (perhaps not a bad one…) Soviet educational system.
in firefox at least, you can only see the left side of the last two videos.
Strange, it’s fine in FF 3.0b2, IE6 & IE7. I’ll check it out.
Very talkative
Nice video.
That was fantastic! great game and great lecture, the best video so far this year, thank you chessvibes.com for all your hard work
@Thomas
Ivanchuk doesn’t speak excellent English and he gets quite annoyed if the interviewer speaks too fast or unclear. But I did interview him at the Corus a few days ago (and I’m no Ukranian!) and I have an audio file to prove it! It was about his game against Carlsen (can’t remember which round that was).
Yes, fantastic video.
Keep it up.
Ljubo rules…
Best video of Wijk so far … even Topalovs dry humor coudn’t top this. You can (literally) see Ljubos joy in playing chess and showing lines afterwards. He was even not afraid of showing lines he didn’t calculate to the end, being anxious to know whether he was right in his judgements or not. Great entertainment and fantastic work by chessvibes!
I think that the whole chess community should be grateful to Cheparinov for coming up with this sacriface. The chess knowledge is richer today than a few days ago!
Thanks Ivan!
What a great player and wonderfull explanation.
Ljubo is a REAL chess player!
We should see him play more often!
It’s just great to see legends like this talking about chess!!!
They should invite veterans much more to tournaments! Like in here, in some kind of ‘honorary’ group!
Great stuff! Thx for the video!
Big respect to Ljubo!!
Great to see Ljubo hasn’t lost much of his energy yet.
Thanks to him for all the fun he let us in to.
And thanks to chessvibes for skipping the terrible opening sound!
Rarely I was so deligted by a chess explanation by a Grandmaster in the near past. In contrary to many others Ljubo has managed to keep a fresh mind and his love for the game of chess. We would need many more of such personalities
where can you buy a wooden analysis board like that?
I like Ljubo’s comments very much. very natural!
Again and again thanks to Chessvibes, this is just a wonderful video. Ljubo is noticeable a man that likes to talk, lucky us. He shows is doubts without regret and very humbly. Maybe he is not the player he was, but the understanding of the game was not lost. A great player who produced some masterpieces and no doubt a gentleman. It is a pitty is not invited to comment on big tournments, I am sure he would make them all more colorful.
Indeed an experience to have the oportunity to listen to his remarks.
Chessvibes rules.
Love 4 Ljubo!