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| May-28-11 | | JoergWalter: <perfidious> imagine 2 players who follow his teachings perfectly will play a game. they, of course cannot both win at the same time?!? the only winner is the talented guy who collected the enrollment fee. welcome to the club! |
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| May-31-11 | | jpsingh: Well friends, FIDE site lists 38 games of GM Igor Smirnov, UKR (2007-2008) where GM Igor wins 13 games, draws 21 games and looses only 4 games. Please see http://ratings.fide.com/view_games.... That gives a better picture. He is just 23 years at present, so most of the chessgames.com games are of the time when he was quite young. For a review of his courses visit http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspo... |
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| Jun-01-11 | | JoergWalter: <jpsingh> here is what GM Igor writes: <"Full advantage of GM Igor's courses can be taken after watching his video lectures several times and solving all the exercises. But if you can give 2-3 hours daily to GM Igor's courses, they can take your FIDE rating to 2300 easily in 2-3 years. GM Igor's chess knowledge is no doubt superb">
And though GM Igor was in doubt to give his secrets away to the public (see his statement in my post above), he is now rushing his sales:
<"Also, for a limited period, GM Igor Smirnov is at present offering a heavy discount of US $80 on purchase of all the six courses together as a full chess training package (or purchases of $300 or more at a time"> |
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| Jun-01-11 | | jpsingh: Education (even in chess) can only polish your talent, it can't create one. So, if equally educated players will play, more talented will win. You will rarely find a GM who does not have an original style of chess in him. |
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| Jun-01-11 | | JoergWalter: talent is important but very rare. where are the talented instructors?
or at least the well prepared instructors?
on http://chessthinkingsystems.blogspo... in his first video on "breaking stereotypes" GM Igor discusses the famous Winter vs. Capablanca game, Hastings 1919 wherein the white QB gets cut off from the game.
According to Capablanca in his "chess fundamentals" after 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 the trap c6-c5 allowing Nd5 was fatal. in his words: " White falls into the trap. Only lack of experience can account for this move. White should have considered that a player of my experience and strength could never allow such a move if it were good." GM Igor does not address this at all if I remember correctly.
Finally, the board position at the end where he says black plays b5 and wins is not correct. Black played b5 when the c pawn was on c6 and not on c7. (the moves 21.b3 c6 22. Ra2 are missing I guess). |
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| Jun-03-11 | | jpsingh: What is WOK set?? |
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| Jun-03-11 | | jpsingh: Overall record of GM Igor Smirnov at FIDE site
http://ratings.fide.com/chess_stati... looks quite impressive - 117 games (57 won, 48 drawn, only 12 lost) |
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| Jun-03-11 | | JoergWalter: chinese cooking device. offered in those very "entertaining" TV commercials: you buy one - get a second for free etc. etc.. |
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| Jun-17-11 | | snits: Re: Smirnov's record
Big Database 2010 has 407 games, scoring 68% with White, and 53% with Black. |
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| Feb-06-12 | | renumeratedfrog: The guy doesn't seem to have played any competitive games in 3 years... |
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| Feb-07-12 | | AlphaMale: He's on ice. |
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| Feb-20-12 | | cro777: Here are some biographical data:
2002 – Championship of Ukraine (juniors) - 1 place.
2003 – Title of International Master.
2008 – Title of International Grandmaster.
GM Igor Smirnov combined his chess experience and psychological knowledge and started to create his own system of chess education. 2004 – Got the certificate of chess trainer (in the Sevastopol’s Sport School). Since 2005 became a chess coach.
2009 – Got the Master’s degree in psychology.
Garry Kasparov presenting the 1st prize to Igor Smirnov at the "Kasparov's Cup-2009". http://www.expert-chess-strategies.... |
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| Aug-31-13 | | jancotianno: Has anyone here bought any of his courses and know if they are actually any good? |
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| Sep-03-13 | | jancotianno: I can't help feeling that it's a scam. |
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| Sep-03-13 | | dx9293: I have his courses and I like them. The best way to get a feeling for whether you will like his materials or not is to watch his youtube videos (he has a lot of them). If you like those, try one course. If you like that course, try others. I found his materials interesting and helpful for my chess thinking, but it may not be that way for someone else. |
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| May-11-14 | | ralph46: Being a good chess coach is not equivalent to being a great tournament player. For ex MARK DVORETZKI who is a great coach wrote some great books about chess training was never a real great tournament player. You cannot judge someones coaching abilities by tournament results. Anyhow there is not a single coach that his system fits everyone . Even a good master player can teach youngsters a lot. You do not have to be a famous grandmaster in order to be able to coach/ |
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| Aug-29-14 | | cro777: GM Igor Smirnov was interviewed by the team from "October Obsession", where he spoke about chess coaching, psychology, his own experiences as a chess player and about chess in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu0... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9S... |
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Aug-29-14
 | | perfidious: <ralph46: Being a good chess coach is not equivalent to being a great tournament player....> Agreed--one of the better coaches I have seen was actually no more than a novice, but had the ability to impart information as few have in my experience. Had she stayed with chess and broadened her understanding, in my opinion, she would have become outstanding. <....For ex MARK DVORETZKI who is a great coach wrote some great books about chess training was never a real great tournament player....> If you are judging this player by his results, absolute rubbish--Dvoretsky was strong enough to attain a rating of 2540 at his peak (when that meant clearly more than it does today) and play in the final of several Soviet championships. That he never became a GM is largely attributable to his formative years being spent behind the Iron Curtain, where few opportunities for international events were available unless one were in the elite. Put Dvoretsky in a US Championship at any time from the mid seventies into the eighties and he would have contended, despite the baleful presence of Walter Browne et al. |
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| Apr-11-16 | | beerpatzer: This guy stopped playing chess the moment he got the GM title. Now he trumpets this fact in all his videos. Obviously nothing more than a marketting scam. |
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Apr-11-16
 | | chancho: Dvoretsky was a strong player.
This game alone makes that patently clear.
M Dvoretsky vs Smyslov, 1974 |
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Dec-23-16
 | | Domdaniel: Smirnov's youtube videos are actually quite good. There's some hyperbole, of course, and I won't be rushing out to pay for his courses - but he makes some good points. |
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Jun-22-17
 | | GM Igor Smirnov: Hey guys, have you seen my top 3 amazing chess sacrifices? :) Enjoy some beautiful combinations & a few typical tactical patterns that you’ll be able to apply later on in YOUR own games - http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates... |
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Jun-22-17
 | | tpstar: <GM Igor Smirnov> Welcome to the site. =) Message the Administrators here ("contact us" down below) and they will upgrade you to Premium Membership, while giving you Moderating control over your own player page. Best wishes. |
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| Sep-02-20 | | BIDMONFA: Igor Smirnov SMIRNOV, Igor
http://www.bidmonfa.com/smirnov_igo...
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| Nov-16-23 | | djvanscoy: In a November 6, 2023, video posted on his YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=141...) Igor Smirnov claims to have beaten Fabiano Caruana in a casual blitz game. If the game could be authenticated, it might be worth posting to this site. However, Smirnov doesn't give the date of the game (and ignored questions in the YouTube comments about when it was played). Smirnov also doesn't give the time control (other than to say it was a blitz game). Smirnov himself seems to be the only source of this game. He claims that the game went as follows, with Caruana as White and Smirnov as Black (annotations mine): 1.d3 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 d5 4.e5 d4 5.exf6 dxc3 6.fxg7? Bxg7 7.b3 Nc6 8.Nf3 Bg4 9.Be2 O-O?! 10.O-O Qd6 11.h3? Bh5? 12.Be3?? Rad8?? 13.Ne1? Bg6 14.Bf3 b6? 15.Qe2? Nd4 16.Bxd4 cxd4 17.g3 e5 18.Ng2 f5 19.Nh4 Rde8 20.Bg2 e4?! 21.Nxg6?! Qxg6 22.Rae1 Kh8?! 23.dxe4 f4 24.Qd3 Be5 25.g4? f3 26.Bxf3 Rf4? 27.Bg2 Ref8?! 28.f3?! Qg5 29.Rd1 R4f6 30.f4? Rxf4 31.Qe2 h5 32.Bh1? hxg4 33.h4 Qxh4 34.Rxf4 Rxf4 35.Qb5 Qf2# 0-1 Please forgive my skepticism, but is this believable play from White by a 2800 Elo player, even in blitz? |
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