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The FIDE list for may shows Toppy one point behind Carlsen but does not seem to count the recent wc match with Anand. When will the corrected ratings come out?
Originally posted by sonhouseThere is a live rating list where you can see the current (inofficial) ratings: http://chess.liverating.org/
The FIDE list for may shows Toppy one point behind Carlsen but does not seem to count the recent wc match with Anand. When will the corrected ratings come out?
Originally posted by greenpawn34Especially considering none of those blokes can beat any of the top programs with even a single CPU computer, must be an ego bruise for those dudes who consider themselves geniuses.
I agree Enrico these guys just play each other all the time so
you get these silly numbers.
Some people are fascinated by grades and think the number is
actually an IQ rating.
It means they are good at a game. Nothing else. Simply good at a game.
Jealousy?
I'd like to be as good as these guys but I would not like to be one
of these guys.
...[text shortened]... honestly tell all your friends that you have a grade of 2735
on an Offical Chess playing site.
Originally posted by greenpawn34Odd. They sound like perfect candidates for a heavy metal band.
I'd like to be as good as these guys but I would not like to be one
of these guys.
They are all ugly for a kick off and they all look so miserable.
Originally posted by sonhouseThe GM's I know seem to shrug their shoulders and look upon
Especially considering none of those blokes can beat any of the top programs with even a single CPU computer, must be an ego bruise for those dudes who consider themselves geniuses.
Originally posted by greenpawn34I guess if you have a ton of notes, you need a forklift, ehπ
The GM's I know seem to shrug their shoulders and look upon
them as a weight lifter would look at a forklift truck.
Most use them as tool for opening prep.
Some as a lazy way of supplying game notes (and getting paid for it).
Here I fear they are using the forklift truck to do their lifting for them.
Originally posted by ChessBaseI can't find the FIDE page but it seems a player rated over 2700 can challenge for the world title by raising the one million dollar prize-fund. All one of those 40 guys need to do is to find a rich benefactor and they can challenge Anand.
There is a FIDE regulation that states that any player with a rating of 2700 or higher can issue a challenge for a match of 12 games for the World Championship title against the incumbent World Champion. Condition: the challenger's side has to provide the prize fund of one million dollars. Now Silvio Danailov, the manager of former FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov has issued the challenge.
Originally posted by greenpawn34Hey, thanks! I would like to tip a pint or two with you someday! So here I am, my USCF is about the same as my RHP, weirdly enoughπ So someone around 1680-1750, what two books would you rec out of that bunch? Which of those books have you studied?
Hi Sonhouse,
I hob-nob will all the GM's. All I've met and shared pints with are
perfectly approachable and good fun.
When we wrote Rampant Chess we included a Questionaire instead
of a boring introduction.
These were the GM replies:
(they were not allowed to nominate a book they wrote)
the comments in () are mine.
Jacob Aagaard:
Fa s content.
John Watson
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Here endeth the plug. π
Originally posted by greenpawn34On your word, I found them on Amazon, 27 bucks for the two of them, free shipping. Thanks, will be studying them for sure! So you say I will zoom up to 2200 in no time, rightπ?
Hi.
[b]The Quickest Victories of all Time by Graham Burgess
and Simple Chess by Stean.
One will give you loads of tactical shots,traps and ideas, the other will
guide you if your opponent gets out of the opening alive.
I do not have The Quickest Victories of all Time but I have 9/10 other
well read books of the same ilk, including ...[text shortened]... e in an ending then something has gone wrong.
You have not read first two books correctly. π[/b]