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| May-04-20 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: <FSR>
I am not so sure, that Alireza Firouzja will become world champion in CLASSICAL chess one day. Remember, that T. Radjabov and S. Karjakin were predicted to become world champion 10 till 15 years ago and now it seems they will never get the title. First of all, Firouzja has to beet ALL of the big sharks in a candidate tournament and, reaching that, he has to beet Carlsen in a match. There is/are ONLY one or two player(s) of a chess generation (10 to 15 years), who will reach the crown (Fischer 1943, Karpov 1951, Kasparov 1963, Kramnik 1975, Anand 1969, and Carlsen 1990). |
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May-05-20
 | | FSR: <Damenlaeuferbauer> You make good points. I'm not sure who predicted that Karjakin and Radjabov would be world champions. Not I. I think I've only previously tagged one teenage phenom to become world champion, and that was Kasparov. We shall see. |
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May-05-20
 | | perfidious: Even superb judges of talent can err: while I do not recall the exact quote, Botvinnik thought little of Karpov, one of his students, ca 1966. |
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May-05-20
 | | moronovich: I think your memory is correct <perfidious>,but in all fairness to Botwinnik,it shall also be mentioned that
Karpov was a quite ordinary player(compared with other Russian super talents) in the first year or so. |
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May-05-20
| | perfidious: <moronovich>, it would not be amiss to mention that Botvinnik, in a 1978 interview, had rather a different outlook; he then praised Karpov's play in comparison with that of Petrosian, stating that Petrosian only undertook active operations when assured of the absolute security of his position, whereas Karpov would take a more active approach. |
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May-05-20
| | moronovich: <stating that Petrosian only undertook active operations when assured of the absolute security of his position, whereas Karpov would take a more active approach.> Spot on,I think.
Larsen also stated that Petro sometimes
was a chicken and e.g. Fischer never understood,in view of his outstanding tactical skills,why he never took bigger risks. IM Debarnot once told me,how he kicked him under the table.
But that is another story :)
Or is it ? |
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| May-05-20 | | Atking: <it would not be amiss to mention that Botvinnik, in a 1978 interview, had rather a different outlook; he then praised Karpov's play in comparison with that of Petrosian, stating that Petrosian only undertook active operations when assured of the absolute security of his position, whereas Karpov would take a more active approach.> Very interesting. Until this note I didn't understand why Botvinnik saw no future in Karpov's play. Sure there is more than one comparison with Petrosian's python style. A style that Botvinnik could dislike indeed. |
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May-05-20
| | perfidious: <moronovich….Larsen also stated that Petro sometimes was a chicken and e.g. Fischer never understood,in view of his outstanding tactical skills,why he never took bigger risks....> When Bill Hartston annotated Hartston vs Petrosian, 1977 in the BCM, his first note was after 1.e4 e5 and went something to the effect that Petrosian tended to opt for 1....e5 when satisfied with a draw. |
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| May-23-20 | | Whitehat1963: I think it’s starting to look like the kid has what it takes to become a fixture in the top 5 within the next five years and stay there for at least 10 years. He might even become the next world champion, but that’s way too speculative. Whatever happens, we’re going to be seeing a lot of him in the next 20 years. He’s for real. |
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May-23-20
 | | MissScarlett: Alireza in trouble again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world... |
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May-23-20
 | | Sally Simpson: He would have been arrested in this country by the fashion police for wearing those shorts. |
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Aug-06-20
| | MissScarlett: Seems to have gone very quiet...out of sight, out of mind... |
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| Sep-14-20 | | rgr459: Death to America. |
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| Oct-05-20 | | EdwinKorir: A nice win over Duda |
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| Oct-12-20 | | EdwinKorir: Aronian taken down. |
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| Oct-25-20 | | The Rocket: Karpov said that he had some confused concepts and that Botvinnik was right to hold the view he did of boy Karpov. |
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| Oct-26-20 | | Pulo y Gata: How about Beth Harmon, do you think she'll become world champion in the sequel? |
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Oct-26-20
 | | chancho: <Pulo> I put that Netflix show on and surprisingly my wife who doesn't care about chess liked it. I, however, like Chess and just gave it the brief look now and then. Borgov reminded me of Paul Keres for some reason... |
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| Oct-28-20 | | The Rocket: @Chessgames
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Alireza Firouzja 3 to 0, with 1 draw is wrong. You are counting one of the armageddon wins as a classical chess game. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | Messiah: C'mon, Angry, TEACH JUSTIN TODAY HOW TO PLAY CHESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Jan-16-21
| | MissScarlett: Alireza had the world champion on the ropes today. Shortly after he was carried out on a stretcher. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | SChesshevsky: Interesting game in Firouzja's loss to Carlsen. Appears Firouzja somehow blew it but probably not so straightforward. Opening looks like it eventually got to some sort of QGD semi-tarrasch exchange position. Computer likely says close to equal but this is practically very difficult for black. Always feels ready to get out of control with all the play for white. Here seems Firouzja gains a lot of material but never comes close to getting any sort of initiative away from white. Problem is how to consolidate the gains without losing complete control. Alireza apparently did not solve that problem. Frustrating for black. But seems many of these semi tarrasch's end up that way. |
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| Jan-25-21 | | virginmind: This guy is good.I'll keep an eye on him. |
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| Mar-01-21 | | Diana Fernanda: Due to the level of his game and the beauty of his plays, everything suggests that he will soon be competing for the world title, the phenomenon Alireza is here to stay. |
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| Mar-01-21 | | Diana Fernanda: >Enero virgimindyou< do well, I will copy you and follow your task, |
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