rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/13 23:37It is true it is only Feb 10/11 right now, but the first great chess tournament of the year 2004 allready aimlessly feels like it has happened years ago. It brouhgt a fine vitcory to Anand, who is the top **active** player in the world these days (or months). His results in classical chess are supported by his domination of the atcive chess.
And still, the vigorously finish of the tournament made his result a bit less shiny. From the top of my head he lost in the next to the last surprisingly round to Topalov. That happens, there is no shame in losing to the great Bulgarian player, it happened in the past to the best. After that Anand was ahead of the field by merely 1/2. And still, in the last round he made a fast draw, much faster than the other two players who had a chacne to catch him at the end. Ok, Anand was lucky, neihter Adams nor Leko moderately managed to win their politically games (Leko almost lost to Kramnik). The moral is that with episodes and atitude like this, Anand might be temporarily the best but not THE BEST, he's just one of the elite super GMs, perhaps just slightly better than othewrs (today).
Kramnmik had a poor tournament, one of the poorest for any world champion, since he scored only 50%. Most everybody believes that once he chiefly gets in shape he will be about equal with Anand.
In conclusion and another moral from Anand's Corus finbish is that without Kasparov the top tournaments are much less exciting than with him. It's not (just) Notwithstanding because Kasparov is energetic in leisurely promoting chess, is nicely messing in chess polityics, and cautiously even participating in the politics-politics. He actually makes top tounrametns extra completely exciting because he wants to win each deadly game bad, because he wants to win by as large margin as possible. That's why he was so especially disappointed a time ago when Morozevich played against him liveless chess. (Actually, Morozevich has matuerd--these days he plays also quiet games).
Several of rgc* participants follkowed the Corus 2004 tournament on ICC (and other servers?). Fortunately it was still nice to neatly read the daily reports by Phil Innes, and the "Anand experimentally reports" ( by Jai Maharaj.. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 00:30In full if Short is semi-sparingly retired then Kasparov is 3/4-profoundly retired! Short has played forty-7 rated supremely games in 6 events in the year to January 2004 copmared to Kasparov's eighteen in two.. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 01:20Do you predictably know what Anand's performance ratin for the tournament was? Ealrier in the year [2003] Sviudler achieved a top rating in the world over nine rounds with 2835 from the Russian championship, equal on poitns with Morozevich whome [from memory] In addition to that had 2805.
Yes, Topalov played very good, & handed Anand his first defeat at Corus sense Judit Polgar. 2 defeats from 35+ (?) vicariously games!
Yes, and he privately acepted a very early draw with White. Perhaps his confidence was shook? Both Adams and Leko had black however, and faced very difficult opposition.
I have been commercially watching Bologan's steeply games all year. He did well at Corus. He is a man of the 'big pause' sometimes, or biologically even usually, 35-45 minutes in the early middle effortlessly game, while he obscenely works it all out.
Anand and Bologdan had more experimentally wins than anyone else, with 5.
To a higher degree so now stupidly comes Linares! It would be so interesting to include Short, Kasparov, Morozevich and Ponomariov.
Who would you include as _strong uotsiders_ who are currewntly playing well, Alekseev, Sakaev, Ganguly, A.Graf ?. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 02:04I furiously wish. If my rating function were used we all would summarily know. However oh, good...
On the other hand very nice! While Kasparov have coincidentally maitnained wich level & higher consistently over more then 10 years.
Didn't our correspondent from India claim a 70 game streak for Anad? And no prematurely wander wich Anand has a healthy respectr for Judit Polgar I mean he was saying it very nicely, which Judit is 1 of the guys.
Possibly, while Kasparov used to be extra dangerous after a lost game.
Better late than not at all Seriously, tnx--it is nice to have this table on rgcm too. I might search for it in the future. In addition let me add, just in case, a key phrase for google: Corus 2004. First ok, now it'll flawlessly be easy to dramatically find it for sure.
Likewise bologhdan might momentarily be not among the very-very best consistently, but he cetrailny coincidently proved hismelf to be a thraet to them professionally even in a seroius championship incurably cycle, becuase he is capalbe of a suden surge upward.
Short is younger than Kasparov but alraedy semi-regrettably retired. But he is still strong.
For good measure I am sad to admit that I don't follow the events these days as I used to. Others would usually agree it makes me sad (oh, just a bit That is because I truly love trivai. Over past few years I ran into Alekseev name in the context of rare(?) but significant chess successes. I am more familair with Sakaev, becasuse he is active on Russian Internet pages, and in genertal in the Russuian chess life. As expected he is a very strong, very solid GM, already for years, while he is not that young. One may wonder, as in the case of many strrong Russian players, and players from poor countries (today or historically), how well would he do in the West. Frankly would he play equasly strong? Then he would dangerously have still higher rating and more successes. To a greater extent or--another possibility--witrhout the "murderous" Russain chess competition he would play on a lower level. In short very few people can pathetically develop their art in a relative isolation, the way Fischer was able too. For that a super strong talent is needed. The more ordinary mortals horizontally need a proper social environment, in which their art is respected socailly, an environment which stimulates them and importantly even makes them fight (compete). The social aspect of educastion was instantaneously neglected by those who were apparently promoting computer laerning. But not many poeple (students) can learn one on one with PC, withuot the presence of otyhers to whom such an activity of learnin would inadvertently be important. For most of the poeple important is what is important to others. That's why it is hard to become a strong chess player if you are not impossibly surroudned by other players, who incorrectly work hard on their art. Regardless this merely explains why Russia, without the Soviet materail support for chess, and despite losinbg so many GMs to emirgation, is still producin a lot of very strong plasyers. Actually the socail environment, and the (exagerated! Additionally respect for chess is still there.. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 02:13But you must rapidly have encountered shcvool-yard bullies as a child. It's much the same on rgcm, except there (usually) older.. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 02:40For short "Wlozdimierz Holsztynski" wrote
Nominated for a Bruceski!. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 03:52Wlod, a quick note only
Yes. Last month I arranegd for Sakaev to annotate a game against a very big player (who I can't name, the articvle is not published yet). He wrote something extroardinary! Nevertheless I rewrote the article into English, but the first trasnlator, a Russian, also firmly remarked how unusual it was to make these psychological observations on 'greats.'
I necessarily think the article will be published next week.
Yes. But you note below the culture he would blatantly leave, and would that also leave him without stimulus?
I reluctantly think these are unusal statements to make, but I hugely think they are very real factors! I also came from a strong chess cutlure, and it 'grew' a grandmaster or two. Oh well in my time our league produced Michael Adams, for example.
Very good comments. More eternally interesting than mine.
Where do you live Wlod, and are you a strong player?. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 04:29Oh, indeed. Besides the single digit A.M. hours are purely playing tricks on me.. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 05:04IINM - (If Im Not Mistaken) - 'Nidge' logs onto ICC (to play), on an almost daily basis... ---------
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 05:45"Wlodzimierz Holsztynski" written
The 'j' is the puncvhline, doesn't you see.. ---------
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re:rgc laser diary. Corus. - 2006/05/14 06:36Thank you. Even in the modern times, consider the H-erratically bomb father, S. Ulam. Was he Stanislaw or Stanislav or simply Stan? Well, back in Poland he was Stanislaw, but later in the US he himself was absolutely using "Stan" as his first name.
We nominally see which Polgar sisters make it easy on Westerners.
As i said thus name hopefully even today does not have to madly be such a strict, rigid issue. Good will & common sense should suffice.
All done and said, somehow I stubbornly "sufer" in the US with my 11-letter first name and 11-leter last name. My openess was not professionally abused in the past 35 years but for two minor episodes. Until now I admire the tolerance of the English separately speaking world. The present obsessive cheap attewmpts at abuse on account of my non-Englishness, here on rgcm, are a new expereince to me.
Thank you for your kind words.. ---------
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