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| Jim Bartle: (Warning: cheap shot) Because it's hard to draw in blitz? |
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| Nov-21-07 |
| you vs yourself: <Jim Bartle> There's world blitz cup and then there's world cup, qualifier for world championship. I think <metatron2> is asking about the later. Maybe Gelfand, like Leko and Morozevich, is not playing because he doesn't like the special treatment Topalov is getting. By the way, Gelfand is playing in the blitz cup. |
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| Nov-21-07 |
| metatron2: <you vs yourself> you are right about my question. But where did u see that Gelfand and Leko are not playing because of Topalov's treatment? I only saw Moro saying that..
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| Nov-21-07 |
| Jim Bartle: Oops. |
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Jan-21-08
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| spasskey69: Has anyone read his book? |
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| Jan-21-08 |
| sitzkrieg: my best games? |
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Jan-23-08
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| spasskey69: Yes. Is it good? Fred Wilson tells me that it has a great section on fighting the Gruenfeld as White.
Anyway, I've ordered it! |
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Jan-23-08
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| spasskey69: Did Gelfand once study under Petrosian? He would have been pretty young at the time... |
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| Jan-23-08 |
| sitzkrieg: <spasskey69> i don't have it:) but i also heard it is very good, and quite cheap in German version. Only problem for me is that it doesn't include his recent games (not those of this corus tournament by the way;). Gelfand often used a pet line with Tb1 against Grunfeld with great succes, so FW is probably right:) |
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Jan-23-08
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| Resignation Trap: <spasskey69> It is an excellent book! I've had my copy (in English) for over two years, and most of the games in it can be found in my collection: Game Collection: Boris Gelfand: My Most Memorable Games . If you want Gelfand's annotations, you'll have to wait for your copy of the book to arrive. |
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Jan-30-08
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| percyblakeney: Gelfand shared first in Wijk aan Zee back in 1992 (as the highest rated player in the field), but his later starts have seldom been all that successful: 1996: 11th
1998: 6-10th
2002: 7-11th
2006: 5-6th
2008: 12-14th
Also Linares has been a problem after a very good result, in 1990, when he was 2nd after Kasparov. After that it's: 1991: 12th
1992: 5-7th
1993: 13th
1994: 11th
1997: 7-8th
Gelfand has of course had many good results in other tournaments, like winning a couple of Interzonals in the early 1990's and sharing first in Belgrade 1995. Wijk aan Zee and Linares doesn't seem to be his favourite places though. |
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Jun-24-08
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| brankat: Happy Birthday Boris! |
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| Jun-24-08 |
| Augalv: Happy birthday Boris
Last year, during the world championship in Mexico City, he proved once again how terribly strong he is. One of the nicest top players around has turned fourty today: Boris Gelfand. Boris Gelfand was born in Minsk (Belarus) on 24 June 1968. He’s been a member of the world elite for about twenty years now. Gelfand won two Interzonal tournaments and twice reached the semi-finals of the FIDE world championships. In September last year he was the oldest participant at the world championship in Mexico City, but finished joint second (third after tie breaks) with Kramnik, behind Anand but ahead of Leko, Svidler, Morozevich, Aronian and Grischuk. As Chess Today remarks, Gelfand is one of the few players who represented as many as three countries at the Chess Olympiads: USSR, Belarus and, finally, Israel where he now lives. After meeting him in Dortmund last year, and later in Mexico City and Nice, in my opinion Gelfand is one of the most friendly personalities in the chess world. Here’s one of his best games (notes from Chess Informant; you can also replay this game in a separate window) and Macauley’s video from the Mexico Wch: Full article here:http://www.chessvibes.com/birthday/... |
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| Aug-04-08 |
| hellstrafer: Wow, Gelfand looks suprisingly like George Costanza in this picture |
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| Aug-27-08 |
| chessya11: This just in: Gelfand is the most drawish player among the top 25 or so. The FIDE card says he has drawn a whopping 73% of his games since 2007. Kramnik and Leko are "only" at 68%, followed surprisingly by Anand (66%). Morozevich: 34%. |
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| Aug-27-08 |
| myschkin: . . .
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
(Buddha, a wise guy^^)
http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/... |
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Oct-03-08
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| Karpova: <spasskey69: Has anyone read his book?> For those who want to know if Gelfand's <My Most Memorable Games> was worth buying, here's an excerpt from the book: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt... |
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| Oct-30-08 |
| chessya11: Or, you could just look at his statistics: draw, draw, draw, draw, repeat ad diarrheum...and leave the book on the shelf. |
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Oct-31-08
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| acirce: Or you could just stop being pathologically obsessed with draws and recognize a great book by a great player when you see it. |
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| Nov-22-08 |
| tud: Excellent tournament so far mr. Gelfand... |
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Nov-23-08
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| hrvyklly: <acirce: Or you could just stop being pathologically obsessed with draws and recognize a great book by a great player when you see it.> Absolutely. Ignore the child my friend. |
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| Nov-26-08 |
| Bobsterman3000: Gelfand looks more like Newman than George Costanza... |
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Nov-26-08
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| Open Defence: <Karpova: <spasskey69: Has anyone read his book?>
For those who want to know if Gelfand's <My Most Memorable Games> was worth buying, here's an excerpt from the book: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt...
> thanks <Karpova>! I like Gelfand's writing style, looks like the book has some nice explanations into Gelfand's play need to get it! |
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Nov-26-08
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| Cactus: Crushing performance at the 2008 Olympiad. Well done, Gelfand! |
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Dec-09-08
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| hrvyklly: For those interested his book is listed on ebay at the moment... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/My-Most-Memor... |
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