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Nov-14-19
 | | OhioChessFan: I'm not sure why I read that diatribe. Surov was hilarious enough to make it worth my time, I suppose. |
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Nov-14-19
 | | perfidious: Seems to me Salov missed his calling as a joke writer--trouble his, the material is far from humorous. |
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| Nov-14-19 | | Caissanist: Are any of Salov's forums still online? At one point in the above interview, he refers to <the "Heroes of Chess and Checkers" board. We have a topic about Fischer there, in English and Spanish mostly.> That sounds like it might be interesting, at least after a couple of drinks. |
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| Nov-14-19 | | fabelhaft: I wonder what is gained by Anand and Kasparov pre-arranging their title match games so they have rook sacrifices in games 9-11, six years ahead of 9/11. This all makes Fischer look like an amateur in the conspiracy theory business. |
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| Jan-03-21 | | Messiah: He is a Disneyland of mental problems. |
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Jul-17-21
 | | Williebob: Looking for meaning in obscure patterns is the fate of the chess master. |
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| Sep-22-22 | | thebully99: Can an old-timer enlighten me as to when and why Salov thought Kasparov was responsible for his exclusion from elite supertournaments? |
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Sep-22-22
| | perfidious: Have never understood how Salov came to believe that--then again, his views on 9.11 are bizarre, to put it mildly. |
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Sep-22-22
 | | MissScarlett: I'm no old-timer - in fact, I'm only 8 years old - but this might shed some light on the issue: Valery Salov (kibitz #7) After their games in 1993, they never played again. It could be argued by way of innocent explanation that Kasparov was focused on PCA events for the next few years (plus his matches with Deep Blue), or that Salov (although only 29 in 1993) was eclipsed by the new generation of Kramnik, Topalov, Shirov, etc. but that Salov never played in Linares again (he featured every year from 1990-1993) does seem suspicious. From some point, he even lived in Linares and was on good terms with Rentero (Valery Salov (kibitz #108)), so if Kasparov pressured Rentero not to invite Salov, he may have heard this direct from the horse's mouth. |
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| Sep-22-22 | | stone free or die: Some archived material on Wayback:
<The World Players’ Council’s Address to the 75th FIDE Congress(Calvia, Spain – October 21-31, 2004)> https://web.archive.org/web/2006062... * * * * *
<The Conspiracies of Valery Salov, Part 1 & 2 (May 2015) - (en)> https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... https://web.archive.org/web/2022032... (archived -(ru)) |
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Aug-26-23
| | perfidious: While believing Salov's views to largely be flaky, he is far from wrong on the following, from the Spraggett post: <Now a days the computer dictates how chess preparation develops. Players have become spectators>. |
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| Aug-26-23 | | Refused: I think Giri described how nolveties are discovered these days, illustrating it by one of his game in the Italian against one of the younger Indian GMs (can't recall which one). It more less came down to this.
<I let the engine check a certain position (white to move), and there was this weird looking move as the engine third or fourth choice. I couldn't get my head around why it liked that move, and what the point was. So I looked at it a bit closer (let the engine show me the point). It was very nice hidden tactical idea, which black basically had to see, otherwise he is just much worse. And that's how novelties are discovered these days.> |
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| May-03-24 | | iron john: he was better than topalov.shirov,short.and equal with anand and kramnik.only kamski was beter . |
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May-03-24
 | | plang: I don't think most people would agree with that opinion. |
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May-04-24
 | | Check It Out: Here's Salov's list of eleven cheaters who should be disqualified: Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Khalifman, Keene, Kok, Anand, Carlsen, Caruana, Aronian.and their leader, Kirsan! |
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May-04-24
| | perfidious: Whatever else one makes of it, that is a powerful lot of 'K's in that list provided by Salov, even if including slimepot extraordinaire Ilyumzhinov may be considered a stretch. |
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May-04-24
 | | tamar: Salov seems to be similar to Fischer in that he asserted there were irregularities in the Karpov Kasparov matches in the 80's. " But look, this was a worldwide phenomenon, getting a lot of attention from the entire world. Why? Because the matches were played by two communists with almost identical names. The names seem to be almost cognate. Kasparov and Karpov. It's almost like a football world championship final with two best goalscorers, Pele and Pelele, playing against each other. This would be strange. By the way, "Pele" means "miracle" in Hebrew, which is no accident as well." It is almost as if the pattern spotting mechanism in their brain is overtuned. We think of chess as a training for logic, but I am not sure it is so much as a training in observing patterns. |
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May-04-24
| | perfidious: One of the keys to excellence in chess--as well as in poker, and perhaps the most important of all--is regarded by many as being pattern recognition. The way in which the first K-K match was terminated by Campomanes, in my opinion, and not only mine, was, mais certainement, 'irregular'. |
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May-04-24
| | Check It Out: Here's what he said about Carlsen:
<[...]I looked through Carlsen's games and was bewildered. I can't understand how he wins! He doesn't have a really good technique. Yes, he's winning good technical games, but he's making mistakes unthinkable for a player of such level! I don't know what to think of him.> He doesn't understand Carlsen's chess so he's a cheater; also, because his name is Car... same as the other Car... who is also a cheater., so there's more proof. The Russians would spell his name Kar... and the other guy Kar..., same as the third guy Kar..., which is very close to Kaspar... and Kor...but let's let Kor... off the hook because...well he's still a cheater but he's a contrarian which is admired, so let's let him off the hook. Bonkers. |
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May-04-24
| | perfidious: It may well have escaped Salov's notice, but the game changed considerably after his heyday; no more steering a favourable position towards adjournment and working out the win at leisure; in technical positions, one must know what to do once they have got there, rather than burning the midnight oil with BCE in the quiet of one's study. |
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May-04-24
| | tamar: Sure <perfidious> but that is different than saying the games were prearranged (Fischer) or that the similarity of the names of the players is the key to understanding that the match was fixed (Salov). |
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| May-06-24 | | iron john: in the mid90s he was ready for number 1 . |
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| May-06-24 | | Granny O Doul: I know that in world soccer, there are/were two Ronaldos of note. I'm not sure if "Ronaldinho" is yet a third, or simply a diminutive meant to distinguish the two. I realize I could look this up on my own, but my post would then lose a certain immediacy. In an old (obviously) issue of PCN, Karpov was asked about his name. The interviewer reported that he the interviewer had once asked Fischer the same question and been told "it has seven letters and has something to do with fish". Karpov replied that his name also had to do with fish, though he left it to the reader to count the letters. |
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May-26-24
 | | offramp: Salov is 60 today. I wonder what he'll get for his birthday. Probably a big big cake. |
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May-26-24
| | MissScarlett: Fruitcake. |
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