Corus Chess Tournament, January 2005

ivanhoe

Only Chess

16 Jan 05 03:42

ohfreak

El Freak0

NW GD Ohio

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19 Jan 05 05:29

Man... would like nothing more than to see DrawBoy go down in frames. What a tremendous tool.

DualSpace

Toronto

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Moves: 7885

19 Jan 05 07:07

I think Adams is the dark-horse here. He's looking sharp. Short looked super-sharp with Re5!! against Morozevich. Second half of the tourny Kramnik should wake up. Leko is looking great. Topalov I thought would do really well, until Adams shut him down. Hear Kasparov on Morozevich's poor performance at the russian super GM tourny? "Well, he's not playing 'George' anymore" LOL. He's certainly getting pounded at Corus as well.

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

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20 Jan 05 22:14

2 edits

Originally posted by gambit3
Is there a reason why Kasparov is not playing in this tournament?

Kasparov: "Perhaps the last straw was watching the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee currently underway in the Netherlands. I was forced to give up my invitation to play in this event when FIDE insisted that the match would take place in Dubai on conflicting dates. It breaks my heart to watch such a great event from the sidelines. It hurts me, and I believe chess is poorly served as well."

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2145

( Kasparov to FIDE: Enough is enough)

DualSpace

Toronto

Joined: 22 Oct 04
Moves: 7885

21 Jan 05 08:00

Yes that was the reason. Short always has to mess up after a nice win, doesn't he. He was 'doing it' for a while there. 🙁

arterioes

Cyberspace

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Moves: 12777

22 Jan 05 12:21

Standings after round 6: grandmaster group A
1. L. Bruzon
V. Topalov
P. Leko
M. Adams 4
5. A. Grischuk
V. Kramnik
V. Anand 3½
8. J. Polgar
R. Ponomariov
L. van Wely 3
11. N. Short 2½
12. I. Sokolov 2
13. P. Svidler 1½
14. A. Morozevich ½

DualSpace

Toronto

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24 Jan 05 08:00

Topalov. Can't crack a smile but he's winning. At leat everyone is fighting in this tourny. Short pulled out another win. rock and roll.

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

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25 Jan 05 11:48

Go go Topalov go ... don't let me down ..... 🙂

flexmore

Quack Quack Quack !

Chesstralia

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25 Jan 05 12:05

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Kasparov: "Perhaps the last straw was watching the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee currently underway in the Netherlands. I was forced to give up my invitation to play in this event when FIDE insisted that the match would take place in Dubai on conflicting dates. It breaks my heart to watch such a great event from the sidelines. It hurts me, and I believe ...[text shortened]...
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2145

( Kasparov to FIDE: Enough is enough)

the olympics can be the saviour ... do not give up .. they may take chess on yet ... patience and determination ... the olympics can overcome this farce.

XanthosNZ

Cancerous Bus Crash

p^2.sin(phi)

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25 Jan 05 15:19

Originally posted by flexmore
the olympics can be the saviour ... do not give up .. they may take chess on yet ... patience and determination ... the olympics can overcome this farce.

So the Olympics will solve everything?
But the gold medal winner at the Olympics isn't always the World Champion.
The World Chess Champion should be decided by matches not by a single tournament. It's a different discipline.

WestWood

You House!!!!!!