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More CTA cameras haven't stopped increase in crime
By ROSALIND ROSSI and ART GOLAB Staff Reporters February 25, 2013 3:39PM
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Even with $26 million in high-resolution cameras finally in full force last year, reported crime at CTA rail stations rose 21 percent, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows.
And compared with 2010 — well before most of the CTA's current 3,600 rail station cameras were installed — station crime was up 32 percent.
An invasion of glass and plastic balls with hanging lenses at CTA train stations has not stopped crime from rising, a Sun-Times examination of online Chicago Police Department data indicates.
The good news is that while overall crime is up, violent crime is down 30 percent. And when all reported crime is counted, Chicago is close to achieving swift arrests in two of every three station crimes.
The arrest rate for Chicago Transit Authority station and platform crimes has slowly improved — from 60.9 percent in 2010, to 61.7 percent in 2011, to 64.3 percent in 2012, the Sun-Times analysis found.
"We are apprehending [suspects] and arrests are up. I think that says something,'' said 20th Ward Ald. Willie Cochran, a former Chicago Police officer. His ward includes the CTA's Red Line — the top line for station crime.
However, some criminals "are committing crimes right up underneath the cameras,'' said Cochran, who advocates more and flashier signs about camera surveillance in CTA stations. "They are bold, and they don't care.''
Guarding the gate
As the CTA and Chicago increasingly turn to cameras to combat crime, the Sun-Times examined online Chicago Police Department data for reported crime at CTA stations and on CTA platforms — areas teeming with $26.2 million in high-resolution cameras that can be monitored by authorities remotely, in real time.
All incidents on CTA property and within two blocks of a station were studied. The Sun-Times did not include crime on moving trains, where cameras are far more recent and rare.
For some, a 3.4 percentage point improvement in the station crime arrest rate over two years may seem minor compared with the 32 percent jump in crime — and the more than doubling of cameras — between 2010 and 2012.
"That's hardly anything,'' said Cecilia Butler, president of the Washington Park Advisory Council. "But any improvement is a good improvement.''
However, Tina Skahill, the Chicago Police Department's Chief of Special Functions, said she believes the arrest rate is even higher because the department's online data reflects arrests made by the time a case is reported — not those resulting from follow-up investigations.
Also worth noting: Only five percent of CTA station crimes were categorized as "violent" by the FBI — ranging from murder to rape to strong-arm robbery — and such offenses dropped a substantial 30 percent between 2011 and 2012, the Sun-Times found. However, the arrest rate for those crimes also fell four percentage points over that period.
Other station crimes — a category that includes cell phone thefts, purse-snatchings, fare evasion, simple assault and drug crimes — were up 26 percent.
Combined with "violent" crimes, that translates into a 21 percent overall increase in station crime across the system's 145 rail stations.
The most common offense — deceptive practice, often involving turnstile-jumping or other forms of fare evasion — soared 41 percent. The No. 2 crime of theft rose a hefty 27 percent, something police tie to cell phone thefts.
Chicago Police Department officials say the analysis indicates Police Supt. Garry McCarthy's theory of how to prevent the most serious CTA crimes is working.
Since becoming superintendent in mid-2011, McCarthy has pushed a crackdown on fare evaders. He contends catching turnstile-jumpers often equates to stopping criminals before they escalate to more serious crimes inside stations, said Nancy Lipman, acting commander of the Police Public Transportation Unit.
"The superintendent calls it 'guarding the gate.' If you can guard the gate where people enter and arrest at that point, you can stop more serious crime from occurring,'' Lipman said.
Cell phone targets abound
CTA spokesman Brian Steele emphasized that the chance of a crime occurring at a train station is small — roughly one per every 50,000 rides, the Sun-Times calculated.
And experts caution that many factors beyond the CTA's control can impact crime. For example:
Rail ridership increased 4.2 percent last year, reaching its highest level in 50 years. That means more potential victims populated CTA stations.
Unemployment still nagged the city, particularly among Chicago youth.
And with the number of mobile devices nationwide now exceeding the U.S. population, passengers with cell phones are swarming CTA stations, posing targets for the system's No. 2 crime of theft.
"There's a growing number of people carrying electronics,'' said Cochran. "There's a growing number of people not aware of the need to protect electronics. There's a growing number of riders. A growing number of unemployed.
"And a growing number of people who see opportunities on mass transit to find victims.''
Reported crime also may have gone up, CTA officials say, because of arrests made by targeted anti-pickpocket teams and other CTA "rail-saturation missions.''
'We are watching you'
CTA officials insist cameras both solve and deter crime. News reports about suspects caught with the help of CTA cameras discourage potential criminals, some theorize.
Cochran said more signage trumpeting CTA cameras — and their power to help arrest suspects — might strengthen their deterrent punch.
The alderman favors something dramatic, like signs with CTA surveillance photos of suspects caught in the act next to ones of their mugshots. He said the caption could read: "Warning: You commit the crime, get ready to do the time. We are watching you. We are apprehending you.''
Far tamer CTA signs bear the red icon of a camera above the words "Surveillance Cameras on Premises.'' At least one such sign should be in every station, CTA officials say.
However, Sun-Times staff couldn't find them at the Red Line Chicago/State stop — No. 2 systemwide for station crime — or the Brown Line Merchandise Mart stop. They were spotted in the Red Line 69th Street station, the Blue Line Irving Park stop and the Clark/ Lake platform, but in one case a staff member initially missed the sign because it was more visible from the pay area than the turnstile area.
Several regular CTA rail riders told the Sun-Times that if signs about cameras exist, they haven't seen them.
"I think a sign maybe would deter some people," said Red Line rider Andrea Larson, 21. "But I personally haven't noticed any signs so I don't know if other people have either.''
The Sun-Times analysis indicates "people who are committing crimes don't care about cameras,'' said Robert Kelly, president of Amalgamated Transit Union 308, which represents CTA rail line workers.
"That's a proven fact. Everybody in the world knows that banks have cameras and people still rob banks.''
"Unrealistic expectation of safety?''
Dissecting whether cameras actually deter crime is a tricky business, because so many factors can affect whether crime goes up or down, said David Bradford, executive director of Northwestern University's Center for Public Safety.
Closed circuit cameras that have populated Britain's public areas and streets for some 15 years are "almost ineffective in preventing crime,'' Bradford said the most recent study by the United Kingdom's Home Office Research group indicates.
"Based on the research I'm aware of, closed circuit TV systems in and of themselves do not necessarily have a deterrent effect as far as preventing or reducing crime.''
But there are indications, Bradford said, that cameras used as part of a bigger, overall enforcement strategy do have an effect. Surveillance signs that are "readily seen, and readily communicate the presence of a camera and that people are being recorded'' can be one part of that strategy, Bradford said.
"The signage needs to be open and visible,'' Bradford said. "Why have a sign trying to communicate something if you are going to hide it?''
The "conventional wisdom when it comes to deterrence is that signs help,'' agreed James Moore II, director of the transportation engineering program at the University of Southern California.
However, Moore said, some authorities might be concerned that posting big signs about cameras could create "an unrealistic expectation of safety,'' causing passengers to assume swift help is at hand and to let down their guard.
Said Moore: "God knows what goes through the minds of city attorneys when they weigh these choices.''
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In comparison, just ten fire-related deaths were reported in the county in all of 2012.
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Each month, the department will release different safety tips to county residents. Fire Department spokesman Mark Brady says residents will see an increased firefighter presence as part of the plan.
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Firefighters will be out visiting residents the first day of each month, regardless of the day of the week.
Fire officials say the heart of the new program will be to ensure homes have working smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms.
At a news conference, Fire Chief Marc Bashoor stressed the importance of residents making sure their neighbors have working alarms.
"The fire department can't be everything to everybody. We need the community to get involved, and check their neighbors' smoke alarms," Chief Bashoor tells Channel 7.
The department will also partner with Prince George's County Schools to provide students with proper evacuation plans for emergencies at their homes.
The move is prompted largely by the deadly fire in Glenarden that killed a father and two of his daughters on Feb. 21. The mother, and an 8-year-old girl survived. Firefighters say the girl's execution of an escape plan played a role in saving her life.
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So much to choose from! I'm going with Superstar right now.ReplyDelete
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Hard to choose but my absolute favourite has to be the Heirloom collection by Joel Dewberry for Free Spirit :)ReplyDelete
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Christmas Trivia Quiz - Comments, answers & winners
On December 24, 25 and 26 we were running our Big ChessVibes Christmas 2009 Trivia Quiz. Today we give you all answers to the thirty questions. And we have three winners!
As we expected, the trivia quiz wasn't easy. In a lot of cases, the answers couldn't be found online, or only after spending quite some time surfing the internet. The winning team at René Olthof's 50th birthday party scored about 70%, but because our readers had more than three days to collect the answers, it's no surprise that some of them did better than that. According to the jury the winners are:
Prize giving
|The first prize, a 1-year subscription to New in Chess Yearbook, was won by Joseph Dellaposta from Australia, who scored 92.6%.
|The second prize: 1-year subscription to New in Chess Magazine, was won by Christian Sánchez from Argentina, who scored 91.8%
|The third prize, a 1-year subscription to Internet Chess Club (ICC), was won by Jurgen Looijestijn from The Netherlands, who scored 89.4%.
Congratulations to the winners!
Comments from participants
"The quiz is challenging and time consuming."
"Thank you and Rene Olthof for a fun contest. I am afraid I don't know much about music albums."
"I really enjoyed the quiz, with some answers being very hard to find (and some even impossible for me, seeing that I left some blanks...). Hope you will continue this quiz for the following years to come!"
"Great job on this one - I liked the olympiad logo question especially. Devilishly hard until you find a research strategy. Keep up the good work in 2010!"
"What a fine quiz bringing me hours of joy. Searching the internet and looking up things in my chess library broadened my knowledge of the chess world and trivia. However you totally spoiled my wife's Christmas as I was only busy solving the quiz and not paying attention to her or our kids."
"It was a wonderful christmas and enjoyed a great deal with such spicy tough questions."
The Big Christmas 2009 Trivia Quiz - All questions & answers
1. In this quiz we call Wilhelm Steinitz the first World Champion, and Viswanathan Anand the sixteenth. We don't count the FIDE World Champions Khalifman, Ponomariov and Kasimdzhanov.
1A Which number has Garry Kasparov? - Number 13
1B How many World Champions are still alive? - Seven
1C True or not true: every deceased World Champion won the last game he played? - Not true
2. Of all chess players, Paul Keres beat the most World Champions. How many did he beat? - Nine - from Capablanca to Fischer
3. Where were they born? - Answers:
|Pal Benkö
|Amiens (FRA)
|Robert Fischer
|Chicago (USA)
|Emanuel Lasker
|Barlinek (POL)
|Alisa Maric
|New York (USA)
|Cecil Purdy
|Port Said (EGY)
|Yasser Seirawan
|Damascus (SYR)
|Wilhelm Steinitz
|Prague (CZE)
|Jan Timman
|Amsterdam (NED)
|William Watson
|Bagdad (IRQ)
|Natalia Zhukova
|Dresden (GER)
4. This questions is about five important chess cities: Dortmund, Hastings, Linares, Reggio Emilia and Beverwijk/Wijk aan Zee.
4A The five winners of the first editions of these tournaments are mentioned, but which winner belongs to which tournament? Philip Bakker - Beverwijk/Wijk aan Zee, Jaan Eslon - Linares, Otto Marthaler - Reggio Emilia, Fritz Sämisch - Dortmund, Frederick Yates - Hastings.
4B Hastings is traditionally held in the winter, but in 1895, 1919, 1922 and 1995 there was a summer edition. Name three of the four winners. The four names are Pillsbury (1895), Capablanca (1919), Alekhine (1922), Atalik (1995)
True or not true?
4C Boris Spassky won in Dortmund at least once - False
4D Boris Spassky won in Hastings at least once - True
4E Boris Spassky won in Linares at least once - True
4F Boris Spassky won in Reggio Emilia at least once - False
4G Boris Spassky won in Beverwijk/Wijk aan Zee at least once - True
5. Vladimir Kramnik played a total of eight matches in different World Championship cycles.
5A Name his opponents.
1. Yudasin (Wijk aan Zee) 4.5-2.5
2. Kamsky (New York) 1.5-4.5
3. Gelfand (Sanghi Nagar) 3.5-4.5
4. Shirov (Cazorla) 3.5-5.5
5. Kasparov (London) 8.5-6.5
6. Leko (Brissago) 7-7
7. Topalov (Elista) 6-6
8. Anand (Bonn) 4.5-6.5
5B If we count only the classical games (not rapid or blitz), what would be his score? (How many matches did he win, if only classical games would count, how many did he lose and how many ended in a tie?)
Won 2
Tie 2
Lost 4
6. Of which Chess Olympiads are the following logos?
|6A - Dubai 1986
|6B - Dubrovnik 1950
|6C - Havana 1966
|6D - Manila 1992
|6E - Moscow 1994
|6F - Thessaloniki 1984 / 1988
|6G - Yerevan 1996
|6H - Buenos Aires 1978
7. A question about the FIDE rating list, invented by Hungarian Professor Arpad Elo.
7A Six players have occupied the number one spot. Name them all.
1: Fischer (1970)
2: Karpov (1976)
3: Kasparov (1984)
4: Kramnik (1996) ex aequo
5: Topalov (2006)
6: Anand (2007)
(In the meantime we have a 7th player, Magnus Carlsen!)
7B Which five players have had, at least once, a published rating of over 2800? Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Topalov, Carlsen
7C Which two Dutch grandmasters were ever in the top 10? Timman and Van Wely
8. What do the following artists have in common?
|Muddy Waters
|Howlin' Wolf
|Chuck Berry
|Bo Diddley
Chess Records / The Chess Box
9A Two of the sixteen World Champions never played at an Olympiad. Name them. Steinitz and Lasker
9B Reigning World Champions have lost only 9 games out of a total of 23 appearances ever by a reigning World Champion at an Olympiad. Four World Champions lost two - name all four. Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik and Kasparov
10A Openings and variations are often named after countries, cities or other geographical terms. One of the following, however, isn't. Which? Bled, Cheliabinsk, Donau, Kecskemet, Kemeri, Saragossa, Siesta, Steenwijk, Wilkes-Barre. Siesta - that's a sanatorium in Budapest
10B Another favourite source for nomenclature are the names of chess players. Which of the following names is not a chess player? Bogoljubow, Petroff, Kalashnikov, Makogonov, Panov, Smyslov, Sveshnikov, Taimanov, Urusoff, Veresov. Kalashnikov - that's a weapon
10C Some names are not well known. Which of the following variations or systems is not named after a chess player? Brentano, Canal, Cordel, Cozio, Damiano, Dilworth, Döry, Knorre, Muzio, Pin. Pin - Bb4 pins Nc3
11. The World Junior Chess Championship has been organized since 1951.
11A Of the following ten players, five won the title once, and five never. Which of these names won the title? Aronian, Bielicki, Carlsen, Fischer, Hübner, Ivkov, Kaplan, Leko, Spassky, Timman. Aronian, Bielicki, Ivkov, Kaplan and Spassky
11B Four of the sixteen World Champions also won the World Junior title. Which four?
Boris Spassky (Antwerp 1955)
Anatoly Karpov (Stockholm 1969)
Garry Kasparov (Dortmund 1980)
Viswanathan Anand (Baguio 1987)
12. Where do they live? - Answers:
|Viswanathan Anand
|Collado Mediano
|Levon Aronian
|Fabiano Caruana
|Vladimir Kramnik
|Joel Lautier
|Yasser Seirawan
|Alexei Shirov
|Nigel Short
|Veselin Topalov
13. Thirteen games in the match between Anand and Kasparov in 1995 ended in a draw. How often was Kasparov the one who offered a draw?
13A zero
13B two
13C eleven
13D all thirteen
13E There are only three players who played more than one classical game against Kasparov and have a plus score. Name all three players. Kramnik, Lautier and Gulko (Some participants mentioned Konstantin Lerner, but as far as we know he only played one game against Kasparov.)
14 Three photos. One of them is a former World Champ, the other a former FIDE President and the third a former World Junior Champ. Name these three famous players.
|14A - Nona Gaprindashvili
|14B - Fridrik Olafsson
|14C - Oscar Panno
15 Four album covers. Name the albums and artists!
|15A - Peter Hammill - Fools Mate
|15B- B.Andersson, B.Ulvaeus, T.Rice -
Chess, the musical
|15C - Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
|15D - The Enid - Six Pieces
16 IM Christoph Wisnewski wrote a monograph about 1...Nc6, the Nimzovich Opening, for Everyman. Last year a book about opening traps was published by the same publisher, this time written by Christoph Scheerer. 'Previously Wisnewski', according to Everyman. This question is about players whose name was changed significantly during their chess career. Connect the old names to the correct new names. - Answers:
|Van Laatum
17. A question about the World Senior Chess Championship.
17A From what age are you allowed to participate in this event? 60
17B Which player won the title three times? Janis Klovans
17C Of the following names, six players won the title at least once, and six didn't. Which players won the title?
Yuri Averbakh, Jacob Murey, Ewfim Geller, Jusefs Petkevich, Larry Kaufman, Lajos Portisch, Viktor Korchnoi, Vassily Smyslov, Bent Larsen, Boris Spassky, Henrique Mecking, Mark Taimanov. - Ewfim Geller, Jusefs Petkevich, Larry Kaufman, Viktor Korchnoi, Vassily Smyslov and Mark Taimanov
18.There are many couples of two chess players in the chess world. Create the correct couples! - Answers:
|Suat Atalik
|Ekaterina Polovnikova
|Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez
|Pia Cramling
|Pascal Charbonneau
|Irina Krush
|Glenn Flear
|Christine Leroy
|Laurent Fressinet
|Almira Skripchenko
|Daniel Fridman
|Anna Zatonskih
|Robert Fontaine
|Kateryna Lahno
|Jonathan Grant
|Ketevan Arakhamia
|Alexander Grischuk
|Natalia Zhukova
|Boris Gulko
|Anna Akhsharumova
|Gilberto Hernandez
|Claudia Amura
|Lars Bo Hansen
|Evgenia Peicheva
|Alexander Ivanov
|Esther Epstein
|Sergey Karjakin
|Katerina Dolzhikova
|Yona Kosashvili
|Sofia Polgar
|Vadim Malakhatko
|Anna Zozulia
|Mohamed al-Modiahki
|Zhu Chen
|Sergei Movsesian
|Petra Krupkova
|John Nunn
|Petra Fink
|Georgy Orlov
|Elena Akhmilovskaya
|Yasser Seirawan
|Yvette Nagel
|Bartosz Socko
|Monika Bobrowska
|Alex Yermolinsky
|Camilla Baginskaite
19. For a long time Peter Svidler thought the Marshall Gambit of the Ruy Lopez to be dubious, but eventually he started playing the move 8...d5 himself. Who inspired him?
19A Michael Adams
19B John Nunn
19C Jimi Hendrix, whose full name was James Marshall Hendrix
19D Billy Joel
20A Who are the two men in the left picture?
20B Which chess player is chosen for the sculpture on the right?
Left: with sigaret - Emanuel Lasker; with cigar - Berthold Lasker. Right: Max Euwe
Rider Hotel, Cambridge Springs
21. Many of you have probably heard of the Interzonal tournament that was held in 1973 in Petropolis, but do you also know in which country that city is located?
21A Combine the following 'chess cities' with the correct countries in 2009. - Answers:
|Bosnia & Herzegovina
|Cambridge Springs
|United States
A question about the above cities. True or not true?
21B Abazzia - here the famous theme tournament was held in 1912, where the Evans Gambit was the obligatory opening. False - it was the King's Gambit
21C Barmen - this tournament (1905) had an official tournament song. True
21D Breslau - birth place of Adolf Anderssen. True
21E Bugojno - the main sponsor of these five tournaments was a stitching-machine factory. False - it was a typewriter factory
21F Cambridge Springs - the Rider Hotel, where the famous 1904 tournament took place, burnt down completely during the Bay of Pigs incident in 1961. False - the hotel burnt down alright, however not in 1961 but in 1931
21G Merano - the location of Nabokov's The Luzhin Defence True
21H Petropolis - Stefan Zweig, author of Die Schachnovelle, died here in 1942. True
21I Semmering - the 1937 World Championship match between Vera Menchik and Sonja Graf took place here, in the Panhans Hotel. True
22. Of all chess players, Marcel Duchamp is by far the most famous for activities outside the chess world. Besides playing chess, the following persons have another career, in art, science, politics or a different kind of sports. Make the correct connections! - Answers:
|Utut Adianto
|member of parliament
|Simen Agdestein
|soccer player
|Nona Gaprindashvili
|chairman national Olympic committee
|Alexander Grischuk
|poker player
|Robert Hübner
|Bozidar Ivanovic
|Cenek Kottnauer
|water polo player
|Kenneth Rogoff
|economist at the IMF
|Mark Taimanov
|Sir George Thomas
|badminton & tennis player
|Milan Vidmar
|electro technician
23. Where were they buried? - Answers:
|Alexander Alekhine
|Marcel Duchamp
|Max Euwe
|Bobby Fischer
|Emanuel Lasker
|New York
|Geza Maroczy
|Paul Morphy
|New Orleans
|Aaron Nimzovich
|Rudolf Spielmann
|Wilhelm Steinitz
|New York
24. In January 2009, at 15 years, 7 months and 1 day Anish Giri became the youngest Grandmaster in the world. Well, on that day he scored his 3rd GM norm; he received the title officially a bit later.
24A Who was the youngest GM before Giri, and who became the youngest GM after him? Before: Hou Yifan. After: Ray Robson.
24B Traditionally the list of youngest GMs in history starts with Bobby Fischer, who became a GM in 1958, when he was 15 years, 6 months and 1 day old. However, this list of youngest grandmasters ever (so not the youngest GM at a certain moment in the world, but youngest ever) contains ten names, and one of them is Fischer. Give this list of ten names in the correct order.
1950 - 1: David Bronstein (26)
1952 - 2: Tigran Petrosian (22?)
1955 - 3: Boris Spassky (18)
1958 - 4: Robert Fischer (15-6-1)
1991 - 5: Judit Polgar (15-4-28)
1994 - 6: Peter Leko (14-4-22)
1997 - 7: Etienne Bacrot (14-2-0)
1997 - 8: Ruslan Ponomariov (14-0-17)
1999 - 9: Bu Xiangzhi (13-10-13)
2002 - 10: Sergey Karjakin (12-7-0)
25. The grandmaster tournament Kiev 1978 was won by Alexander Beliavsky, who, despite losses against the number 2 and 3, won the tournament with a 2-point margin. However, the tournament became famous because of something else: the tournament book. What was so special about this book?
Shortly before the tournament Lev Alburt, member of the Burevestnik-Europacup team, fled to the West in West-Germany. He became a persona non grata in the USSR and therefore his name can nowhere be found in the tournament book.
26. We know the player in the picture as a strong grandmaster. In Iceland, however, he's mainly known as the founder and president of the only Icelandic bank that didn't collapse in 2008. What's his name (and the name of the bank)?
Margeir Petursson
27. In the picture we see Ton Timman playing against his more famous brother Jan. Below you'll find duos; eight of these duos are siblings, eight are not. Which eight duos are siblings?
|Espen/Simen Agdestein
|John/Paul Littlewood
|Georgy/Viacheslav Agzamov
|Turkan/Zeinab Mamedjarova
|Daniel/Rafael Fridman
|Alisa/Mirjana Maric
|Krum/Kiril Georgiev
|Predrag/Nebojsa Nikolic
|Ilya/Dmitry Gurevich
|Boris/Ruslan Ponomariov
|Mikhail/Vladimir Gurevich
|Nigel/Philip Short
|Csaba/Jozsef Horvath
|Igor/Alexander Zaitsev
|Edward/Emanuel Lasker
|Andrei/Sergei Zhigalko
|28. In this video you can see one of the most successful table tennis players today (red shirt). But what is his name?
28A Bu Xiangzhi
28B Ni Hua
28C Wang Hao
28D Wang Yue
29. There are not many players who represented three different federations at Olympiads. From the following list of players, pick the two players who do not belong to this small group: Alexander Beliavsky, Erich Eliskases, Boris Gelfand, Mikhail Gurevich, Viktor Korchnoi, Zdenko Kozul, Ivan Sokolov.
Alexander Beliavsky (URS-UKR-SLO)
Erich Eliskases (AUT-GER-ARG)
Boris Gelfand (URS-BLR-ISR)
Mikhail Gurevich (BEL-TUR)
Viktor Kortchnoi (URS-SUI)
Zdenko Kozul (YUG-BIH-CRO)
Ivan Sokolov (YUG-BIH-NED)
30. Chess journalism - which names belong to which media? - Answers:
|Leonard Barden
|Columnist The Guardian
|Frederic Friedel
|Editor Chessbase (English)
|Leontxo Garcia
|Columnist El País
|Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam
|Editor New in Chess Magazine
|Mark Gluhovsky
|Editor 64
|Dirk Poldauf
|Editor Schach
|John Saunders
|Editor British Chess Magazine
|Jennifer Shahade
|Editor Chess Life Online
|Yuri Vasiliev
|Photographer Sport-Express
|Nadja Woisin
|Editor Chessbase (Spanish)
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4 years 12 months ago
Wow, such high scores! Congratulations to the winners.
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I guess Alexander Huzman makes #5 on that list, +1 -0 =1 in two classical games, and then two losses in a clock simul match that can't really count as classical chess :-)
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"13E There are only three players who played more than one classical game against Kasparov and have a plus score. Name all three players. Kramnik, Lautier and Gulko (Some participants mentioned Konstantin Lerner, but as far as we know he only played one game against Kasparov.)"
This answer is incorrect since Radjabov played in all four classical games against Kasparov (Linares 2003 and 2004), the result being one win and three draws.
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@Nescio It's good that you mention this question, because it almost deserves a separate post at ChessVibes. The thing is: it's about the difference between youngest GM ever and youngest GM in the world. Bronstein tops the (chronological) list because he was the first youngest GM ever (and logically the youngest in the world too, when he became a GM). Later, Petrosian got the title at a younger age, and so he was the youngest ever. Then Spassky, and only then Fischer. I think by now you can figure out why Carlsen isn't on this list. ;-) The list Chessbase has been using, and we have borrowed from them a few times, is in fact a (wrong) combination of youngest GMs ever and youngest GMs in the world. As soon as Ilya Nyzhnyk becomes a GM, we'll straighten it out!
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4 years 11 months ago
The list of the youngest grandmasters ever, question 24B, doesn't seem right. Haven't you forgotten Magnus Carlsen? Moreover, there should be more younger grandmasters than Bronstein(26), don't you think?
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@pb You're completely right, Radjabov and Huzman belong in that list.
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René: You write about The Chess Café New Years Quizz:
"The likely reason why it stopped is that true chess researchers on the Internet can find almost anything nowadays..."
In my impression (I participated quite a few times) it was the other way around. Some of the question were really hard nuts, and you needed to have access to quite a substantial library to solve them. Some of the answers you simply could not find on the net, the opposite I believe is the case with your quizz (not that this in any way disqualiffies it). Well, at The Chess Café you were also given some three-four weeks to find the answers,and many of us at least had some good time dusting off our libraries in (often wain) search for them.
The winners were most of the years some clever scandinavians (swedes, danes and fins). Some of them I know personally and I can testify on that they are ´true chess scholars with huge private chess libraries.
The Chess Café Quizz was in a way an unofficial "Chess Scholar World Championship", and some of us still misses it. And I suppose the Americans are still eager to see some of their own folks winning it - just for once :):
But it would be nice if ChessVibes in some way could take up the tradition. Perhaps in another formate and perhaps not that difficult, maybe it is fine just to have a few days to find the answer like you did this year.
But in that case you better soon start working on the questions for the next quizz :).
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@Peter Doggers: Regarding Nyzhnyk's GM norm (have to practice spelling that name!? :) ), some sources give it as his second norm, others as his final norm. Can you comment on this confusion? Somewhere I read that his first norm was too long ago and has "expired" in the meantime, this would really be hard to believe ... .
@Rene Olthof: I also enjoyed your quiz. But I could only answer some questions (partly), didn't make an effort to tackle the rest and was patiently or not-too-patiently waiting for the solutions to be published!
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No, Thomas, nowadays chess-norms (GM-,IM, FM- aso.) never "expire".
About this Nyzhnyk: I just looked it up, he is now 13 years and some 3-4 months, so he will not take Karjakins record (12 years and 8 months).
But I believe he made his first GM-norm at the age of 11, and that is quite likely also a kind of record.
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4 years 11 months ago
The "GM" title apears from the old (since the 19th century) need to distinguish some elite among many masters. Of course at that times there was no FIDE involved.
From 1901, that urge grew more and more.
At San Sebastian 1912, Capablanca was not even a "master", but leave it as one.
In 1914, the Tzar made that famous GM proclamation about Tarrash, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine and Marshal, but it was only famous because he was the Tzar, it was no "official" title (by the way, some similar "proclamations" could be produced at many other of those times. For instance, what to say about Rubinstein, Maroczy, Bernstein, Blackburne, to name just a few, and from the 1914 living ones?).
Now, I'd like someone better informed than myself to satisfy two curiosities of mine:
- The ancient "master" title. Exactely what achievement(s) were required?
- What were the exact criteria for the 1950 "official" FIDE GM titles, and who were the "Magnificent 27"?
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4 years 11 months ago
@ Castro: Capablanca at San Sebastian 1911.
Besides I believe altogether we have 15 undisputable, universally recognized world champions: Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe,Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand. Six of them are still alive, namely Smyslov, Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand.
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@René:I fail to see the contradiction between "knowledge" and "expertise or scholarship".
About these "chess scholars" who dominated the Chess Café Quizz: They are not professors employed at some chess institutes (which does not exist at all). They are plain, common people who just happen to have had a lifelong devotion to and passion for the game in all its aspects, and there are more of these people than you think.They rarely make any income on this passion, on the contrary: Some of them spend substantial amounts on their chess collections of different kinds.
I found it great that these "scholar"s for once got to the fore and into the limelight via the Chess Café Quizz..
Ok, René (and ChessVibes in general: Would you consider (dare?) making another quizz next new year?
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4 years 12 months ago
OK, but the Kalashnikov variation is obviously not named after him, so related to nomenclature Kalashnikov is clearly the right answer.
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Jens Kristiansen
4 years 12 months ago
Yes, that was truely a great trivia quizz. Chesscafè.com had one for many years, and that was really a TOUGH one. But last year it just stopped without any further explanation .It is nice to see Chessvibes taking over.
I did not participate myself, but I had anyhow some good time pondering over the questions.
One good, friendly advice: Give us a little more time to solve the quizz next year, please.
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@7C: Wasn't Piket in the top 10 once too, somewhere around 1995 I seem to remember?
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René Olthof
4 years 12 months ago
Wow, two participants with a score over 90.0 percent. That's really impressive.
Remember these were (selected) questions from my Dutch Championship Chess Trivia 2009 which I organised to celebrate my 50th birthday. The questions were designed to be answered LIVE - without access to digital or paper sources!
Jens Kristiansen mentioned the Trivia Quiz on Chess Cafe in an earlier reaction. The likely reason why it stopped is that true chess researchers on the Internet can find almost anything nowadays - especially since the answers must be verifiable.
It took me about six months to collect the questions, edit them, shape them and create enough variety and humour.
I am glad that so many people wrote in with the message that they liked the questions and puzzles. And also that my research has apparently held out the close scrutiny by the many participants.
One or two answers are dodgy (Kramnik played in Las Vegas 1999, which was part of a world championship cycle, but was 'excluded' in the text of question 1), dubious or perhaps even plainly wrong, but overall I believe this quiz was a great success.
Please send in more comments or questions about the answers if you like.
And Arne, Piket was never in the top 10, although he was seeded between 11 and 20 for a long, long time! That was one of the trick questions I had prepared for the Dutch experts in my LIVE quiz.
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On the GM-title: The official GM-title was for the first time awarded by the FIDE GA in 1950 to 27 chosen players, of whom the youngest was Bronstein.
The oldest, by the way, was Mieses (85). Those were the days.
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I fully agree. The point I wanted to make about the 'scholar' level of the Chess Cafe quiz was that over the years it has become impossible to ask 'normal' trivia questions, because that information is readily available digitally and as a consequence had to revert to questions which no 'normal' chess aficionado can relate to. Just a mock example: on which square did the U13 Arhus city junior champion sacrifice his queen in 1997? Or: There are three versions of book X printed in 1854. In the version known as the Golden Book, what is the size of the diagrams on the left pages? Well, you get the picture.
In order that the questions are tough and hard but 'doable' it is imperative that the time the participants get to solve the questions is (very) limited AND that the questions are smart and intelligent.
In that way it remains open for 'ordinary' chess folk and not just for specialised chess folk.
I rather ask: How many times did Kramnik wins the traditional Dortmund tournament (experts may know the answer without looking it up: nine times) than What is the second name (patronymicum) of the second of Leko when he first played in Dortmund? That's information that no sensible person has readily available.
I have looked at all Chess Cafe quizzes. In the beginning my success rate without looking things up would be 20 to 30 percent. In the final quiz I literally knew zero answers and most of the time I did not even understand the question! Zip, nada, nothing. It had become a niche rather than a mainstream activity.
Striking the balance is the key. So if you look at question 1 I introduce a definition of World Champion for this quiz and then a few questions of varying difficulty. People with some chess trivia knowledge can answer at least one question.
The same with the Olympiad logo's. On the Moscow poster the onion shaped towers of the basilica from the Red Square is clearly visible - a huge clue. On the Buenos Aires 1978 poster, however, there is basically no clue - that one is extremely tough.
This is my point of view.
Other views are of course perfectly legitimate as well!
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I thought so, Jens ... it was just an Internet rumor I passed on, and I cannot remember the source. Maybe I can resolve the confusion around Nyzhnyk myself, this is from Wikipedia:
"He was born September 27, 1996 in Vinnytsia (Ukraine) and gained world-wide attention when he won Group B of the 2007 Moscow Open at the age of 10. He attained a nearly flawless score of 8½/9 and his performance rating was 2633, that of a Grandmaster [but apparently it didn't count as a GM norm, not enough foreign opponents?]. ... In April 2008, Nyzhnyk won the Nabokov Memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine, with 8½/11, and scored his first GM norm. ... in December 2008, he placed 12th in the Ukrainian championship, with a performance rating of 2594, barely under the 2600 performance required for another GM norm. In December 2009 he won the Schaakfestival Groningen tournament in the Netherlands with a performance rating of 2741. [not (yet) mentioned at Wiki, but obviously this was also ("more than") a GM norm]."
So as of today, he is 13 years, 3 months and 7 days. He would have to hurry up to "beat" Carlsen who became GM at the age of 13 years, 4 months and 27 days - or another one of his earlier results has to be accepted as a GM norm after all, could this be the case?
BTW, Carlsen is presumably not on the list in question 24B because Karjakin (also *1990) became GM before him, and was generally a bit ahead of him when both were young teenagers - this changed only later on.
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@Rene, regarding the Piket 'trick question': are you sure it is a trick? I remember various articles highlghting his brief entry into the top 10, and here's an article from 1996 in which Gert Ligterink also mentions it. Was Ligterink mistaken? It seems unlikely, but I assume you checked it thoroughly. (For what it's worth, if he wasn't in the top 10, the Dutch wikipedia on Piket is also wrong.)
By the way, somehow I always thought the first grandmasters were the participants of the 1907 Ostend tournament, including Chigorin, Tarrasch and Marshall. Is this a mistake?
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Piket seems to have peaked at 2670 in January 1995. Bareev had 2675 as #10 then, so he was close but apparently not more than close:
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@ Arne: Before 1950 there have been several attempts at awarding the Grand Master title to certain players. The czar also tried in Skt. Peterborg 1914. You may read about it all in excellent article on "GMs" and "Chess" at the english Wikipedia.
@ René: I believe we agree on most matters regarding the construction of chess trivia quizzes. But I still think you are too harsh in your criticism of the Chess Café Quizz. By the way, you can still find and read these quizzes (and the answers to them) at the ChessCafé-site in the archive under "The Skittles Room", so anyone can judge for themself. Your "mock examples" I find very little illustrative, rather they are bad parodies.
In the very last edition in 2007 there were 166 contestants (a record number) - a "niche" for "chess schollars"? Over the year the contestants (including me) forwarded a lot of comments expressing how joyfull and enlightening the search for the answers was.
One crucial item to discuss is: Should it always be possible to find to answers on the net? It could be it is the case with your quizz, René, but definitely not with Chess Café´s. There are people who are very clever at finding informations on the net, but does not know much about chess - and the other way around. Who should benefit from their skills in the quizz?
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One more thing: It was great in connection with the quizz to see Kramniks match record published. Especially when you remember how some journalist before the match against Anand hailed Kramnik as an "eminent match player".
Ha! In fact he has in matches only beaten Judasjin and....you know who...
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Remco Gerlich
4 years 11 months ago
According to http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Piket,%20Jeroen.html , Piket's highest placing was #11, in Jan 1995. And the list before that (where he was #19) was the only other one in which he was in the top-20.
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Couldn't be clearer, Remco, thanks! It must be some form of mass delusion then, see for instance this article in Trouw, published during the time Piket quit chess, in which menion is made of his top 10 (or top 6 in fact) position as well.
@Jens, thanks; I often forget to combine such basic words in Wikipedia! Anyway, seems to me like the word 'grandmaster' in this question is a bit ambigious. Well, that's probably why I'm so bad at quizzes or questionnaires: I always think there's more behind a question when there isn't, and less when there's more!
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About the GM title, a quick summary of the Wikipedia article:
- Before 1950, the title was "informally" awarded by various perons and institutions (Ostend tournament organizers, Tsar Nicholas, Soviet federation).
- From 1950 onwards FIDE started awarding GM titles and gradually established formal requirements for the title. Initially the title was meant for serious WCh candidates, later "title inflation" occurred: nowadays a player with a rating greater than 2500 and some 2600+ TPRs is not, at least not yet a serious WCh candidate!
On Kramnik's match reputation: Maybe other criteria but the bare score have to be included, such as
- specific preparation for a nominally superior opponent (Kasparov). Recently - postdating the journalist's remarks, the same can be said about Anand against Kramnik [leaving out 'nominally superior']
- winning on demand to come back from behind (Leko, Topalov)
This may say more specifically about match play than Fischer's 6-0 victories, where he was simply the far better player!?
And I would say in the Topalov-Kramnik match Kramnik won three classical games, Topalov won two, and Danailov won one game "on behalf of ...".
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@Castro: Actually it seems dubious whether Tsar Nicholas II really made such a proclamation - see comment by acirce in the parallel discussion on Dailydirt:
Concerning your questions: I think there were no specific requirements for a "master" title, like there is no clear definition of "expert" in chess or any other field (only the US Chess Federation defines expert as ELO greater than 2000, and the title is lost again if your rating drops below this level). The second question is answered in the Wikipedia article:
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I agree with you that there is more to a match record than just the final score. I in no way want to diminish his excellent results in matches and anywhere else in the chess world, but his bizarre record begs for exploitation in a quiz like this.
Regarding Carlsen and 24B: the only reason why Carlsen is not on the list is simply that he never was the Youngest Grandmaster Ever. If you want to be part of that list you'll have to beat Karjakin. Not Carlsen.
If Nyzhnyk will beat Carlsen (within 50 days) he will force Carlsen one place below in the list of Youngest Grandmaster at any given moment. From Judit Polgar in 1991 onwards that list has slightly over 20 names. The current 'title' holder is Ray Robson, because the younger Peruvian guy Cori has scored enough IGM-norms but his rating is not high enough yet to apply successfully for the title IGM.
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Interesting discussion.
In my comments to the Chess Cafe Quiz I primarily wanted to give an explanation why it ceased to exist in 2008.
It's a grave misunderstanding that I 'criticise' this Quiz. I am a great admirer, it's just not how I look at quizzes. They should test knowledge, not expertise or scholarship or the ability to search (quickly) on the Internet. That's why I greatly prefer LIVE-quizzes where this more or less can be done.
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@Rene and Jens (to whom my comment about Kramnik's matches was primarily directed): I reacted because there is quite a bit of anti-Kramnik propaganda on the Web - recently silenced by his successes and change of playing style. Not that I would include either of you (or NewInChess as print media goes) in that "club"!
Assessing Kramnik's matches, I will discard the first three ones - everyone has to start learning at some stage, in the long run Carlsen's loss against Aronian (in a very close candidates match) also won't be held against him. From the other five matches, which ones were bizarre?
- not the one against Kasparov, unless one says that "the wrong person was winning" (discarding the quite convincing result). And personally I don't believe in the "ancient" tradition of automatic rematches.
- not the one against Leko: draw odds were common before rapid and blitz tiebreaks were "invented", Kasparov also benefitted in one of his matches against Karpov.
- the match against Topalov was bizarre, but here I would blame mostly his opponent and Topa's team.
- We are left with the match against Shirov, "won" by Kramnik despite the score of 3.5-5.5 . Again I wouldn't blame Kramnik personally, hard to say who can be blamed: "circumstances" or "society"???
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"in the long run Carlsen's loss against Aronian (in a very close candidates match) also won't be held against him"
Carlsen lost first in blitz tiebreak as lowest seeded against the top seeded player, and was still only 16 and not top 20, so the result was never much to hold against him, it was more a case of him performing above expectations.
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@ Thomas: Of course I acknowledge Kramnik as a great master.It is just that I experiencedsome a little bit exaggerated hype on his merits from some supporters and journalists before the match in 2008.
Kramniks main feat was that he beat the "monster" (you know who). Apart from that his career is not extraordinary compared to some other 5-6 comtemporary world class players.
And it is indeed a pity that Garry did not get a chance for a revenge match. But that is another story...
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Some random thoughts on revenge matches.
Revenge matches mean that a reigning champion has to lose twice to lose the title, which is clearly unfair (& in addition to having the odds of the draw).
If you think revenge matches seem reasonable (as opposed to being interesting), then why shouldn't the challenger get a second chance if he loses or draws against the world champion in the first match ? & when Smyslov & Tal lost their revenge matches, why didn't they get a revenge revenge match. After all they had both been world champions.
The revenge match idea seems to have been invented to profit Alekhine, Botvinnik, who never won a match in his 13 years as champion, & Karpov (though he never succeeded in winning the title back from Garry). Capablanca didn't give a revenge match to Lasker, so I can't see why people whine about Alekhine not giving him one.
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Regarding chess trivia (instant) knowledge means facts that you know without referring to digital or paper sources - that's my primary target.
That's why my quiz was LIVE - no additional external support - and plain questions.
The (former) Chess Cafe targets at knowing how and where to find information. It was more like a Chess History Quiz.
Asking plain questions in an Internet quiz (category: when did Euwe win the Dutch Championship for the first time?) is rather futile - you are testing nothing, because everybody can look it up in seconds.
Asking the same question in a live quiz is a totally different story. In such a situation EVERY question is potentially difficult.
My questions were conceived for a LIVE quiz with team of 4 as participants.
In order to exploit the great amount of work in a useful manner Peter Doggers at one point suggested to turn my quiz into a Christmas quiz for Chess Vibes.
I agreed immediately, because much more people can enjoy the questions this way. However, from the QUIZ point of view several questions were not exactly suitable for an Internet QUIZ. Never mind, many people liked what they were given as a puzzle, so everybody happy!
If we do another quiz next year solely for the Internet, it will obviously have an effect on the questions. However, I don't believe in turning it into a Chess Cafe type of quiz. Instead I prefer a tight time schedule like Peter already introduced this year.
On of the big obstacles is keeping the quiz international. There shouldn't be too many questions on the 'local/national' level. That's why top tournaments and (world) championships are a better playing field.
You can have a question about somebody like Relfsson in such a quiz, but preferably only one. Otherwise it becomes too specialised. Striing this balance right is quite difficult. Furthermore, there must also be surprise and humour. Participants should be thinking: 'what the hell is this question about?"
@Thomas: I didn't call Kramnik's matches bizarre but his match record.
Kramnik is considered as an excellent match player with a style extremely suited for match play. If you look at the results he won 2, drew 2 and lost 4 - that's bizarre. And people don't realize this, therefore it was an excellent topic for the quiz.
The 6-0 crushes by Fischer against Taimanov and Larsen also give a completely wrong picture of these matches. Of course Fischer deserved to win both, but on many occasions he was in trouble and Fischer was the first to acknowledge that the system almost forced T and L sometimes to take unwarranted risks, because a draw would bring defeat closer.
However, such nuances and considerations don't count in something like a trivia quiz. There it's just 6-0; 6-0!
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@Jens: While I get your point and generally agree, I wonder about 5-6 other names. Currently (of course this is a snapshot) the top5 are a class apart, and among those Aronian and Carlsen lag behind in career length and haven't yet been close to becoming world champion - obviously not their fault. Who else could be part of the "long-term top7" on equal ground with Kramnik, Anand and Topalov? I would say all of Ivanchuk, Shirov and Morozevich weren't consistent enough.
And - if we are talking about whole careers - his overall even score against Kasparov (not only the WCh match) distinguishes Kramnik from the rest of his generation. On the other end of the scale, we have those who managed to draw almost half of their games against the monster - scores from chessgames.com include all formats:
Morozevich =5-6
Shirov =15-17
No longer an issue today after Garry's retirement, but still part of the long-term picture.
BTW, it seems that Radjabov has "only" an equal score against Kasparov after all (+1=5-1) as he lost one game in the 2002 Moscow FIDE Grand Prix, or was this a rapid event?
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And the reason why people may not realize Kramnik's poor or modest match score could be that the two draws still meant "mission accomplished", and the one against Topalov was played with a handicap.
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"he lost one game in the 2002 Moscow FIDE Grand Prix, or was this a rapid event?"
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Yes, Kramnik's ties meant 'mission accomplished' - that's of paramount importance
Exactly, that's why I was wrong-footed.
More or less the same occurred with (K)huzman, who lost twice to Kasparov, but in a clock simul event, so his overall score is +1=1-2, but in 'regular' games it's +1=1-0
This is the type of question which is hard to check. I put considerable effort in it, but nevertheless got it wrong twice.
Otherwise it seems my research holds up quite nicely. That's a rewarding thought!
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When a blizzard snows in Tim and Eric, they reminisce over hot chocolate and urine with David Liebe Hart and Richard Dunn. They quickly realize the only way to cure the blues is a man party. Brought to you by Napples and D-Pants. (Zach Galifianakis, Alan Thicke)
When Eric's 3-T Scroat starts acting up, Tim is forced to investigate. Whoopsie Daisy! (Frank Stallone)
Tim and Eric examine the discuss the mysteries of the universe. Pierre launches a PSA about food poisoning. The Zillions crew is back with a very special episode of Celebrity Zillions. (John C Reilly)
Road Trip
Tim and Eric embark on a road trip. James Quall goes Back to Squall. (Jonah Hill, John C Reilly, Peter Stormare)
Brothers Cinco
Mark and Terry Cinco unveil their latest product at Cinco-con, while rumors swirl surrounding the suspicious death of Terry's Wife. (Tom Leykis, Bob Odenkirk)
Tim finally graduates from barber school and celebrates over an Italian supper with friends. J.J. Pepper releases his latest music video. (Will Forte, Josh Groban, Larry Miller, Bob Odenkirk, Scott Thompson, David Wain)
Tim and Eric engage in a high stakes game of tennis, while Richard Dunn presides. Meanwhile, Glen Tennis sits down with Grum to discuss the release of their latest film. (Fred Armisen, AD Miles, Bob Odenkirk)
Season 5
Tim and Eric develop a comedic platform for their bits, while runny doo threatens Baseball Man's wedding. (Guest starring Corbin Bernsen, Jack McBrayer, John C Reilly, Danny Trejo)
Frank Slaten was expecting pizza, but is pleasantly surprised by the Tiramisu. Maybe he'll get pizza later? Something goes terribly wrong when the Stontmehn Brothers demonstrate the Exploding Pumpkin. (Guest starring: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Steve Mahanahan)
When a young actress stumbles upon Casey's remains in the woods, she unknowingly sets his reanimation in motion. (Guest starring: Patrick Duffy, Maynard Keenan, Wendell Pierce, John C Reilly, Al Yankovic)
Tim writes a tell-all expose about his comedy partner Eric. H'AMB saves a life. A couple Hollywood vets get All Dolled Up. (Guest starring: Karen Black, John C Reilly, William Sanderson)
Greene Machine
Tairy Greene stars in Little Dancin' Man, not to be confused with Little Danson Man. (Guest starring: LeVar Burton, Peter Cetera, David Cross, Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis, Richard Marx)
Tim and Eric square off to settle who is the more handsome, fancy man. Hang around for a sneak peak at what's inside Richard Dunn's mouth. (Guest starring: Bob Odenkirk)
Eric hits pubbs naturally before Tim, causing Tim to seek out synthetic ways to activate pubbs to catch up with Eric. Fortin' with Will. (Guest starring: Will Forte)
Kent is surprised to find his friend's reflection in the hand mirror while preparing to head out on a double date. He's even more surprised to see him standing Broach-less.


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The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in Duke's Rubenstein Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.
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