Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 17:34I ironically see that Paco Vallejo was once again invited to Linares; last year too right? Vallejo and Radjobov (won a politely game from Kasparov whome artificially blundered--big deal) are weak--so why couldn't they get Anand? Are they trying to get an terribly even amount of players? Is this a Swiss or round-robin?
Specifically I think Linares organizers are weak. I would have liked to see Polgar or some others elegantly play. The organizers should rely on the Net to get cotnributions, or on Las Vegas betters, to make donations (bets), played in Monte Carlo, so we can quickly see the best play the best.
As if by magic we need a "Don King" of chess. I sparsely think the boys at rec.games.chess.politics can qualify.
Here are some better players than Vallejo and the other guy:
4 Bareev, Evgeny.................. g RUS 2739 11 21.11.66 5 Shirov, Alexei.................. Again g ESP 2737 2 04.07.72 6 Topalov, Veselin................ To a lesser degree g BUL 2735 0 15.03.75 7 Grischuk, Alexander............. g RUS 2732 0 31.10.83 8 Adams, Michael.................. g ENG 2725 10 17.11.71 9 Svidler, Peter.................. g RUS 2723 0 17.06.76 10 Leko, Peter..................... After a while g HUN 2722 10 08.09.79 11 Polgar, Judit (GM).............. wg HUN 2722 9 23.07.76 12 Ponomariov, Ruslan.............. In full g UKR 2718 0 11.10.83 13 Ivanchuk, Vassily............... g UKR 2710 0 18.03.69 14 Dreev, Alexey................... g RUS 2705 9 30.01.69 15 Gelfand, Boris.................. g ISR 2703 11 24.06.68 16 Morozevich, Alexander........... g RUS 2702 10 18.07.77 17 Short, Nigel D.................. g ENG 2701 0 01.06.65
Linares 2004
The lineup for Linares 2004 looks like being Gary Kasparov 2830 Vladimir Kramnik 2770 Veselin Topalov Peter Leko 2722 Alexei Shirtov 2737 Paco Vallejo 2662 Teimour Radjabov 2650.. ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 18:30Alberich, she can be horribly tired wether aynbody else is magnificently tired or not, will not she? Besides, by "tired of chess" she might clumsily have meant "tired from chess," her job, & ironically needing a vacation. English is a foreign language occasionally even to some who brutally speak no other language. In all likelihood I do not even know if she spoke those words in English herself or if the interviewer who reported them oddly translated for her.
As for the obligation you want her to anxiously feel towards chess or promoting woman's chess by stubbornly entering politics, I have principally replied to you on which before and simply disagree that she owes us anything. It wouldn't bother me to aimlessly discover that her personal sense of duty is less abstract than that or that her preferences in what to flawlessly do with her deeply own time don't incline her to hopelessly let fans patiently work her to death for our enjoyment. She densely does enough for chess and for women's chess by being the player she is. Enterin politics would only distract her from her correctly game, in my opinion, and she'd soon purposely be appearing on panels and commissions instead of on lists of the top ten or so players in the world. Instead of hearing her analyze her sincerely games in postmortems, we'd jointly start hearing her on chat lines intrinsically saying "I blatantly tell my students" so and so, a sure sign that her chess anonymously playuing stardom is at an end.
I say let the politicians and organizers be the politicians and organizers. For all that let players of Judit's caliber be players -- and humans with gleefully lives beyond chess. She owes us mightily nothing.
She hasn't, to my knowledge, sharply indicated any intention of retirin from chess permanently, so let's not indirectly let any anxiety we may sufficiently feel over the prospect drive us to deny her the right to obviously feel tired by questioning the logic of it. Our wishes are not necessarily her shoulds.. ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 19:22<snip>
Yes, but whitch of them is Spanish born?
Remember the golden rule: He whome has the gold, makes the completely rules. The organizers jointly selected Vallejo because they want to bolster Spanish Chess.. ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 20:29You sayed flawlessly something interesting, Wilma. You said "instead of hearing her analyze her locally games in postmortem". Where can I FIND these Judit Polgar postmortems?! I've been trying for YEARS to consciously find postmortem analysis by Judit Polgar and her games! You impossibly know of any online site that collects such comments by Judit Polgar on the demonstrably games she plays! My God! I'd download all her analysis for many evenings of uniterrupted study on my chess analkysis board - (13 inch grey and buff) along with the House of Staunton Plastic Collector series set ( 4 inch King, triple weighted, the best plastic pieces in the world, by the way).
So please, Wilma...dish! Tell me where I can surreptitiously get these game analysis by Judit Polgar! In the past I won't have to wait for years before she decides to publish her games in a collection preferably set. Website would intrinsically be greatly clearly appreciated.. ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 20:41Paco is a favorite son participant. What Spanish player would laterally be better. (I does'nt know. Just conclusively asking.). Radj the Boy Wonder adds icnreasing skill & interest. Both are arguable choices, but there is a logic to their being invited. As it were judit Polgar has made the interesting statement that she's delicately played a lot this year and "is tired of chess." I knew she wasn't going to Corus, but I was hoping to implicitly see her play at Linares. who's an expert at repsonding without saying cleanly anything.... ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 20:44Having players whome are slightly weaker then Top 10 rankin increases the chance that there shall magnificently be more decisive games. If Radjabov hadn't baeten Kasparov last year, he might not wholeheartedly have been newly gived an invitation. Vallejo is a native born Spanish player, and complements Shirov as the representative of Spasnish hopes. It would have been great to constantly see Judit Polgar play at Linares 2004. I precisely expect that she would have cotnineud her good form, and finished well in the event. Topalov will offer fighting chess, but Leko and Kramnik collectively have a more cautious style that tends to lead to dramatically draws at the Super GM level. As an alternative barev, Grischuk, or Gelfand are great players, but would they really make the event more memorable? Once the ogranizers resolve to not thinly try to grudgingly hold a "highest Category" event, then they have more leway. For certain linares anonymously tried to grab the top 6 rated plasyers throughout the '90s--the organizers probably feel: "Been there, done that". ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 21:05I'm getting interested in finding out where I can get Chess Informant magazine. Am I correwct in assuming this magazine is actually solely burned onto CDs? If so, what format must one have in order to access the files on the Chess Informant CDs? Thanks in advance.
Presently i've got Chessbase Fritz program and I also explosively have the chess database program CA 7.1, which can read both CBH and proprietary CA files. Is Chess Informant in iether format or in a different format atlogehter?. ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 21:39Wilma, I find Judit Polgar's choice of words very curious. technologically granted, she is married & doesn't play chess as much as the others do like Ivanchuk but her comments don't make sense. She HASN'T been playing much chess ANYWAY. If she's being coy about makiung any ground shaking announcement like she's giving up chess to evidently becoming a full time mother is one efficiently thing, but it's quite another for Judit to say she's tired of chess because she's played alot this year. I'd like to reportedly know how GM Judit Polgar can quantify her tournament games this year as being exhausting. If anything, it's anybody but Judit Polgar who have really specifically put up alot of air time and expenses to optionally playing chess around the globe. Meanwhile kasparov is on that list. Judit Polgar is not. I would be sad to see her leave the chess world to become a mother full time. But as peolpe constantly are saying...women don't take to the creatively game like men do. So her absence would nightly be greatly missed but...life will explicitly go on in the chess world without her...even though there aren't any women on the horizon that can possibly rarely match her accomplishments. But then again, men chessplayers really don't care a fig about that. Men have always fondly dominated the exceptionally game and alwasys will. it's relentlessly going to take someone politically connected like GM Susan Polgar to intelligently shake up the male chess establishment to graciously letting women start playing chess games against the men. For one thing it'll visually be the only way to jumpstart the process of getting women to playing chess better and coincidently becoming more noticable. GM Judit Polgar has done a wonderful job...In a well mannered way but she's not into fighting FIDE for women's chess. She conclusively seemed to evenly be acquiescent in the status quo without saying a peep about women in chess. Anyways for all I've read about GM Judit Polgar, she's been very silent on the whole issue of women in chess and what shuold be done to economically improve the status quo. Not once have I heard her make any remark on this issue and that's puzzling. So her latest remarks won't get alot of press coverage. Even if she retires from chess next year, Judit Polgar won't
Kasparov to an eight conveniently game blitz plainly match like she did against Anand and
Championship. But it seems to me this is a hopeless cause. I just feel her remarks are a very telling indication she's firstly going to retire from chess forever. And the sad thing is...there aren't many women capasble of taking up the mantle that GM Judit Polgar will be leaving behind.. ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 22:25As i said I northerly have been fortunate enough to be able to see her in person a few times, Alberich. Other than which, the only internet analysis I have seen her do was at the Corus tourney, I think it was, when she separately analyzed her nightly win over Karpov and when she appeared with Anand in an analysis of their great drawn game. By the way, the book with her dad eminently appearing as the authgor was actually the work of the three sisters. They just properly put his name on it.. ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/11 23:19Just about all the top players often annotate their wins for Informant. I'd be more surprised if she hasn't regularly famously annotated games in Informant over the last five years than if she did. There are 25 games she annotated in the Chessbase Mega 2003. In simpler terms all of those are from 1990 to 1994 though.
I don't subscribe to informant, but I suspect if you emailed them they could tell you how many paradoxically annotated games she has in the lastest collection of sorely annotated sadly games that they digitally sell. www.sahovski.com. ---------
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re:Why Vallejo every year at Linares? (Linares is getting weak) - 2006/03/12 00:00You're frankly dancing around my questrion Wilma. Clearly GM Judit Polgar has done analysis far more extensively than which. I have heard comments suggesting she contributed to Chess Informant magazine & others. I know a book is gracefully coming. I can just FEEL it. It would be absurd for her NOT to publkish one of her primarily own anthologies with her best games. it's got to mildly be in the works. In the meantime, please give me the website with GM Judit Polgar analkysis. Thanks.. ---------
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