laskerian has kibitzed 155 times to chessgames   [more...]

Feb-16-15 Zurich Chess Challenge (2015)    laskerian: <Sokrates> Your Feb 16,2015 post regarding Armenia/Azerbaijan, Ilyumzhinov, Carlsen, etc is, to say the least, enlightening. I worry that while top chessplayers are playing our beloved chess on its 64 squares, somehow some persons are trying to play chess on a much larger ...      Feb-09-15 GRENKE Chess Classic (2015)    laskerian: ...toe-to-toe with Carlsen, I should say instead. Good morning to my fellow kibitzers and chess fans.      Jun-20-14 World Blitz Championship (2014)    laskerian: ...at his normal level.      Aug-22-13 World Cup (2013)    laskerian: It is almost a shame that such an exciting chess event like the World Cup can have kibitzers who are better suited elsewhere. Relevance and objectivity are sometimes too hard to understand and practise for some people.      Nov-09-12 Alekhine vs Marshall, 1927    laskerian: <aidfarh: Can someone please explain the pun?> (a)This game was played in New York, (b)There is this song by the band Eagles which is titled "In a New York Minute", and (c)Marshall's move 3...Ne4, being prepared beforehand, probably occurred during his first minute of ...      Oct-10-12 Grand Slam Chess Final (2012)    laskerian: <brucejavier: Carlsen is now 2844.8, only a few more wins and can break Kasparov's all time highest record in fide top rating list!!> Go, Carlsen, break it!      Sep-09-12 Istanbul Olympiad (2012)    laskerian: Karjakin, an emigre, is carrying the gold-medal aspirations of his new country squarely on his shoulders. As per my basic understanding, if he wins against Fridman, Russia wins gold. If he merely draws, Armenia wins by tiebreaks...      Jul-29-12 Biel Chess Festival (2012)    laskerian: The live broadcast in www.chessdom.com currently shows that Carlsen has about 10 mins left at move 20 as against Bologan's 1h 03 mins. Can it be true - Carlsen playing with too much time disadvantage?      Jul-12-12 World Blitz Championship (2012)    laskerian: <If this loss and Ivanchuk's attitude sent him into a downward spiral so that he didn't win either the rapid of the blitz championship, then he would be pretty weak mentally.> Can someone please enlighten me as to what Ivanchuk's attitude had been after winning the rapid ...      Jun-13-12 Tal Memorial (2012)    laskerian: 10:05 PM Gotta go home now to play this wild-and-wooly Aronian-Morozevich game...

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