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| Apr-26-15 | | gokusano: Run for your life Chacho after Short's discovery of your mischief. |
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| Apr-26-15 | | Conrad93: Kasparov hasn't played a match in years.
Short has been playing numerous tournaments in the past ten years, and has been quite successful. Everything should be in Short's favor. |
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| Apr-26-15 | | Pyke: Video Coverage of the second day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJJ... |
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| Apr-26-15 | | optimal play: After this match I wonder if Mrs Short will let Nigel manoeuvre their car out of the garage from now on, or if she will attend to that herself? :D) |
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| Apr-27-15 | | devere: <optimal play: After this match I wonder if Mrs Short will let Nigel manoeuvre their car out of the garage from now on, or if she will attend to that herself?> Perhaps Nigel should have hired a well qualified woman to play the games, perhaps Judit Polgar or Hou Yifan. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Paraconti: The nature of the loss is enough to make any chess professional seriously wonder why he spends so much time at the game. But easy-going Mr Short will take it with good humour and bounce right back by winning his next tournament! |
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| Apr-27-15 | | fgh: Naturally, this result will be a magnet for feminist trolls, who will use it to write a slew of nonsense. Apparently they don't know that Kasparov isn't big on sex equality in chess either. Anyway, it's nice to see Kasparov back in action. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | hellopolgar: I feel that this was just a marketing ploy. Unrated, Huge score difference... |
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| Apr-27-15 | | devere: <Paraconti: The nature of the loss is enough to make any chess professional seriously wonder why he spends so much time at the game.> Often it's because they aren't qualified to do anything else. Lasker was a mathematician of some note who studied under the great David Hilbert, Botvinnik an electrical engineer, Reshevsky an accountant, Smyslov a baritone with a powerful voice, and Taimanov a pianist. Caruana and Giri are young enough to take up an alternative profession, and ought to consider doing so. Here's a sample of World Champion Smyslov's voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbD...
And Taimanov's piano playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sI... |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Imran Iskandar: A massive drubbing by Kasparov! I'm honestly not sure whether Carlsen himself could have gone 8.5/10 against Short on rapid and blitz games. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Shadout Mapes: I think Lasker knew Hilbert, but his doctoral advisor was Max Noether, father of the great algebraist Emmy Noether. |
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Apr-27-15
 | | Check It Out: This must have been tough on Nigel's ego. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | MagnusVerMagnus: Is it true that before the match Kaspy told him "I'll make you famous!" ? |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Chichiboy: Perhaps we had started forgeting he's been one of the greatest chess minds ever, he spent too much in it for it to just go like that. I believe he can still play top, top chess and win tournaments against today's elite. |
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Apr-27-15
 | | Benzol: <Shadout Mapes> Good to see you back again. :) |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Pyke: Day One was bad enough for Short, but Day Two ... Ouch! Kasparov really destroyed Short there. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | PhilFeeley: <HeMateMe: Has anyone asked Kasparov when he will be having a blitz/rapid match with Anand? That's the one that everyone really wants to see. Lets see if the Beast of Baku is up to a real challenge?> I didn't think Anand was a great rapid/blitz player. Kasparov should play Carlsen, the current WC in both formats. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Pyke: If you watch the Kasparov interview at the end of day to video coverage, you'll see a humble Kasparov: (Link to the Video Coverage is posted above) He admits that he wouldn't stand a chance against Carlsen or some other of the Elite players - he explicitly mentioned Caruana and Aronian by name. He says that maybe in Blitz he'd be able to resist somewhat, but nothing more. I like this down to earth evaluation of him. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Sokrates: Kasparov left the stage at his peak - as could be expected from a player who is mentally so focused on winning than anything but being no. 1 is unbearable. With a different mindset - like being content with lower places in the hierarchy, Kasparov could still be in top 10 today, I'm sure. Now it's too late for a come-back, realistically. That said, let's once again celebrate what in my opinion is the greatest chess-player who ever lived. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Pyke: <Sokrates> Couldn't agree more. In my opinion it's great that Kasparov could let go of chess. I imagine it wasn't an easy thing to do. In that way he didn't ruin his legacy by playing on after he'd peaked. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Petrosianic: Like Smyslov and Tal ruined theirs, you mean? Or even Capablanca and Karpov? Nobody takes them seriously any more either. |
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Apr-27-15
 | | tamar: By the way Magnus stayed up to watch the match, I'm not sure he is convinced Kasparov is gone for good. Apparently in 2009 when Garry was teaching Magnus, they split games pretty even. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | newton296: I gotta see kaspy vs carlsen match. make it happen guys. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | ooda: What kind of purse would it take to lure Kasparov into that? We all know he likes money. Maybe Rex Sinquefield could put up a million bucks for a 12 game match, winner takes 750k. I reckon this might tempt Kasparov out of retirement and would probably draw more interest than all the tournies he currently sponsers combined. |
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| Apr-27-15 | | Sokrates: <Petrosianic: Like Smyslov and Tal ruined theirs, you mean? Or even Capablanca and Karpov? Nobody takes them seriously any more either.> I respectfully disagree. I think your conclusion is far too simplistic. Nobody expects that a chess master can perform at his best consistantly throughout his whole career. All the best players in history had their heydays, their best years. In the years after they peaked, they occasionally showed glimpse of their enormous talent, just like Karpov, when he won his famous Linares tournament. The fact that the Karpov or Kasparov of today can't measure with strength in their best years doesn't diminish their reputation and prestige a bit. They are not updated with the latest theory, they don't have the physical and psychological stamina needed to compete in modern chess, but it's a severe mistake to consider dem outranged as far as their valuation and insight is concerned. Unfortunately it has become commonplace to think that chess has developed eksponentially, to derange the old masters and think they are just inferior stages in the evolution. In opening theory, perhaps, but when it comes to middle game and particularly endgame, I would rather set my money on Lasker and Capablanca than Caruana and Giri. |
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