Kramnik answered the challenge after 2 consecutive losses to score a HUGE win in the 10th game! How will Topalov handle this very bad loss? Will he be able to come back? What is your prediction?
And while you are at it, you can fill in your own caption for this picture if you wish 🙂
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
“Tee hee!”
this new feature of the chess page was okay the first and the second time, but now …
“What the…!!!”
“OMG this guy really looks like Jhon Turturro!”
caption:
“f6 – why? – aha – finally he plays as a human as i do – hopefully they won’t detect my pocket chess set!
greetz, Vohaul
“I really need to wash my hands after going to the bathroom, this tumb smells really bad”
“Oh oh, the portable chess set is falling from my pocket, act naturally Vladimir!”
“Susan in a bikini hmmmmm”
“Is he mocking me? He is mocking me isnt he? THIS GUY IS REALLY ASKING FOR IT!!!”
No words, but deeds!
Hi there,
Ex-Topalov supporter here.
Given how important the forfeited game has become, and many a GM on ICC saying they couldn’t accept Topalov as the WC if he won because of that extra point — hope it’s not too late for the GMs to put together a unified stance on this. They need to ask FIDE with one voice to have Game 5 played OTB.
There is no benefit to Topalov either if he wins this way — he has lost his fan base already. It’s like winning the battle but losing the war. He needs to win OTB if he wants to be respected as WC.
fyi — I’m not an avid Kramnik supporter. We chess fans want this match decided fair and square over the board.
speak no evil
“Wow, I guess his brain chip has just short-circuited! Now’s my chance!”
“Hmm f6, that attacks my knight. Let’s see where should i go. f7? no, that can’t be good, g6 then? no, nothing. And I don’t like to go backwards, so c6 perhaps. No that isnt good either. Well then I have to go to d7.”
*picks up the knight and moves it to d7*
Hmmm, maybe he tries to confuse Fritz 9?
“I really hate when that creepy arbiter rubs himself against me”
“Am I seeing things?”
I hope Kramnik wins this match, because I want the originators of the toilet scandal punished. If Kramnik loses, there always will be suspicion that he got off track because of the whole story, and such tactics might become more widely used. And if Topalov wins and proceeds to play against Radjabov, I am already scared of how far lower chess will fall.
“Here he goes again. I hope the press get a photograph this time of his ridiculous antics. This is the third time he puts on that Groucho Marx nose to mock me”
(singing to himself) “The pawn is conncted to the knight, the knight is connected to the… queen, the queen is connected to the…”
“Why do I always get to play nuts like this one? It is me? Do I attract this kind of peple? Why o why?”
“The pill I put on his water earlier is working. MUAHAHA!”
“Maybe I should offer him a takeback for this blunder move, but in exchange i want 30 minutes more on my clock… but GG told me before that takebacks are not allowed… hmm ok, then shall it be so.”
I hope Kramnik wins the match before the tie-breaks. Because of the rule of two consecutive wins, he will win also the next game 😉
“Since I visited Susan’s blog I cannot take Ben van Vlierden’s beard out of my mind!. It is the most disgusting thing I have seen on my life!!! OMG please take away that horrid image out of my mind!!!”
Am I really back in the match? Maybe I should ask G. Gijssen whether the move is legal, just to be sure that… I AM BACK!
“Adrian, Adrian, come here Adrian” (in Rocky’s voice)
Confucius him say, “Man who go to toilet with itchy arse, come back with smelly finger!”
“Damn you Vladimir, get your act togheter! You are giving Kasparov material for his next book “My Pathetic Predecessors Part I: Blunderpuss and Drawnik”
“I don’t think Toppy realises I’m giving him the finger!”
“well, the hypnotic finger worked for Fischer against Spassky…”
“First the toilet scandal, now this idiot plays f6, whats next, an internet video of my ‘walks’ in the bathroom?”
“He played f6, over, please advise”
“Hmmm, can I have a quick pick at that bogry while everyone is looking at the board?”
Oh oh if I mess this one up Mr Putin is not going to be nice to me.
“I don’t think anyone realises I’m using the virtual Ouija board to talk to Capablanca”
“And you can stick that in your toilet, Veselin!!”
“Was I suppoused to win or lose in this game? Wait! he played f6, now I remember!…”
“Hey Vess
U betta confess
U made a mess
f6 is cess”
Pee Kramnee
“The electromagnetic field focused on Vaselin’s head is working. Damn those Russian ex-KGB people are good!”
“That new beta of Fritz 10 is sure better than old Fritz 9 was!”
“Ok no one is watching, Ill move his pawn to f6 and say it was him! hehehe”
“So that’s Fritz 5 – Rybka 4”. Fredrich will be pleased.
“Radio Moscow? Im not suppoused to get Radio Moscou now. What the heck are those technicians doing?”
“Is it my turn to blunder or his?”
“Friedrich has 2 snipers posted outside this hall in case I lose, come on Vlad, concentrate!”
“He loves me, he loves me snot…”
[singing to himself] “..if you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands … err did i actually wash my hands”
TRT
“If anyone calls me boring after this match, I’m going to the toilet!!”
“Friedrich made me an offer I could not refuse before this match, If I don’t comply im chess meat!”
“Hmmm. Did I remember to wash my hands, or is my bluetooth overheating?”
Be careful, Vladimir. You may have drunk more than him yesterday
did fritz think Nd7 was a good move. hold on. Danailov said kramnik got that Nd7 move from fritz.
oh oh a big fight over the board. danailov is putting the knight back on e5 and demanding the appeals committee look this one over. but he is keeping kramnik’s clock running. and not allowing him to move the knight.
toppy says krammy will lose on time for sure.
[subvocalised] “Vladdy calling Fritzy. Vladdy calling Fritzy. Are you sure I can win the exchange here?”
“Damn, I should have worn the tie-die jeans. They don’t show the stains so much!”
“Has anyone noticed the puddle under the table, I wonder?”
“I never realised urine was such a good long-wave receiver”
“I guess you feel lucky, punk,”
“Are we playing the first to lose 4 games? I’m confused.”
As I think that photos are only allowed at the beginning of the game, this could not be Kramnik’s reaction to f6??.
“Well… how many times will I go today to the toilett? 60? 70? Sixty-five will be aproppiate…”
they signaled Nf6 ,he did not see (hear) the N
Come siamo caduti in basso!!!
sorry for the above posts, I have been drinking very heavily and I am not very bright to start with
If I win this match, Susan might go out with me..hmmmm..
Now let’s get over with this quickly. I want to read Susan’s blog.
Ah it’s sad to see how jealousy affects some people. Never mind fake JD, you can’t help not beiong as smart as me, even when I am drunk!
Let me sac this knight and confuse him completely.
Now what is the tactic behind it! Damnit I can’t find ! Where did he found this move? I think I should resign, oh well, lets drag the game {moves the knight to d7}
Hummm Susan Polgar is watching me…
I must do my best!
Kramnik is thinking, “A friend said that they would have thumbed their nose at Topalov – I wonder if he is even paying attention to this gesture?
Wow! It looks like it worked – Look at that dumb move he made!”
susan,
I’m afraid that these caption sessions are encouraging the juvenile traits in people that you wish would not be so manifest on this site despite all of your, other, nobler efforts.
Thumbs up Carsten! ….. you were right you said he would go for f6…i didnt think the moron would do it.
Mmm…I so good I kissa myself
Drat! The “heads-up” display projected on my glasses went out!
Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli-lollipop!
Rodin’s “Thinking Man”??
Mmm…I should really shave more thoroughly tomorrow, but hey, the looks goes with my jeans today.
Ohhh…I really, really need to go! Hold it….hold it….
What the HE** was that move!?
Irrelevant thoughts during play are a problem. Tal told his famous hippo in the marsh story; Shabalov confesses to thinking about what virtually all men think about while he’s playing, continually.
That’s an issue for me, too. 🙂
Also: I remember as a teenager playing in one Goichberg tournament during which I couldn’t get any song from the “Jesus Christ Superstar” soundtrack out of my head. While prayer may help you win chess games, it’s my experience that rock operas–even this one–won’t.
http://ludens.elte.hu/~gaabi/crd/dal18.htm
I’d come to a critical tactical moment in the game, and I’d hear Caiaphas singing, “What then to do about Jesus of Nazareth…?” (Besides being annoying in a Lloyd Webber sort of way, this would encourage me to seek “a more permanent solution to our problem,” and I’d sack a piece instead of playing the correct waiting move.)
Fortunately, I’ve moved off Broadway: the “stuck in a moment and […] can’t get out of it” album that involuntarily plays in my head is usually Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here.
How do we train ourselves to focus?
Bill Brock
Chicago
“Hmm, it’s his 24th move coming up. If I put my arms in this really wierd position, maybe he’ll get confused wondering how I’m holding my right elbow up and play something stupid.”
I hope that Kramnik will still lose the match. The Russians have dominated chess forever and have a lot more money to pump into chess. Svidler is a more experienced player than Topalov’s helpers. Karpov won his title without ever playing Bobby, and Kramnik has an equally insipid playing style. Kasparov revitalized the game, especially with his skill as an educator. I am not sure that he would have lost a rematch w/Kramnik. Topalov is an up and down player and needs to play more tactically, he tried to play like Kramnik in this last game and failed miserably. F6 was a move that even Fritz 5.32 wouldn’t dare to make. Both of these players need to stop playing for a draw when they get ahead. Kramnik’s win today was not so eventful because it was a result of Topalov’s drawing strategy.
How does the horsie move again?
The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy, rapture! I’ve got a brain!
“Uh oh. How did Superglue get on my thumb?”
..must…control…laughter…
Hey all,
I must admit, I’m not for the negative posts But…
This last one made me laugh!
Good one!
T. Harris
GASP! – and he thinks I need a computer to beat him!!!
from same person @Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:50:21 PM
Topalov’s play was not of a true world champion. Really, I’m not a fan of either. I just want this silly schism to end so that the world of chess can have a *real* world champion.
After all, it’s not a popularity contest, it’s not “American Idol,” it’s the for the right to say, “I am the chess champion of the world!” That is, in the same “line” as Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinik, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, etc.”
The forfeit win will come back, I think, to forever haunt the outcome of this match unless there is a way that Topalov “gives it up” and replays that game.
I am not a chess master. Yet, I don’t think, if he wins the match, he will be accepted by the top 20 grandmasters as the real world champion.
What does the phrase “world champion” mean, any longer? Is it merely a title (akin to “Ph.D.”) that does not necessarily mean “the best?” It should mean that you are the best player and recognized by your counterparts (in this case, the top 20 GM’s) as “the best.”
Topalov can wear the title of FIDE world champ. I can wear a John Wayne cowboy hat. Yet, I will never be nor will never have the talent that John Wayne did as an actor.
Kramnik defeated Kasparov. Topalov did not defeat Kasparov in a match. Politics and titles aside, until you are recognized and accepted by your peers (which in this case are the top 20 or so chess GM’s) as the true “World Champion” then you are nothing but a “title,” akin to an “honorary Ph.D.” Sure, you can call yourself “Dr” but you don’t really have a Ph.D.
Topalov is a great player but would be hard pressed to ever, I mean ever, beat Kasparov (I’d even go so far as say he couldn’t defeat Korochnoi…the world Senior Champ) in a match.
It doesn’t matter which country has “dominated” the world championship for years (i.e. Russia). It matters if the person that won it did it properly.
Topalov and his team committed an unethical act with their toilet scam. Even if Kramnik wins the match and unifies the title, Topalov and his team should answer for their behavior.
He is an embarrassment to the mere phrase “World Champion.”
Topalov should never, never (after his toilet fiasco) be in the line of world champs as is Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca….Karpov, Kasparov, etc.
But, ethics is of little importance when politics and money rule the day.
Tim Harris
I personally do not understand these calls to replay game five. The current match score has a certain
influence on how one plays a given game. Affected are such as opening choice, whether to play a risky move or a conservative one, whether to press an opponent who may be struggling, etc. In short, the games in a match aren’t independent trials.
Thus, it’s not as if one can replay game five and assume that the result can stand in for what would have happened if the game had been played. Plus, the decisions on how both Topalov and Kramnik would play the remaining games would certainly be influenced by knowing whether or not game 5 is being replayed or not. To make such a decision after game 12 is played seems unfair to both Kramnik and Topalov.
It’s true that, should Topalov win the match, this victory would be tainted. And I’ve certainly supported Kramnik’s side of the bathroom dispute throughout.
But the damage has been done and can’t really be rectified now. It’s best if calls to replay game 5 would just be dropped, and if Kramnik would drop these calls to sue FIDE in an attempt to get game 5 replayed.
hmm ….i wonder if susan polgar would accept an invitation to have a dinner with me!!!…hmmm…may be yes!!!!…hmmm…may be i should invite her to be a member of my team next time
“Wait, I recognize this now … it’s … Sargon III!”
(Apologies to those who were in diapers at the time and won’t recognize the name of one of the original computer chess programs.)
“Is he trying to prove once and for all that HE doesn’t cheat”?
BJ said:”But the damage has been done and can’t really be rectified now. It’s best if calls to replay game 5 would just be dropped, and if Kramnik would drop these calls to sue FIDE in an attempt to get game 5 replayed.”
Wrong . the damage has been done indeed. If the match had continued as it was supposed to. Kramnik would have won the last 5 games but he was blindsided by Topalov and his team’s illegal attack.
Huh?? Oh, I get it, he’s giving me that forfeit point back.
Blackjack, I understand what you’re saying, but both players have known all along that Kramnik did not accept the “loss” of Game 5. Topalov knows he needs to win the last two games to really be accepted by most of the chess world as undisputed champion, and Kramnik would need at least 1.5 points. Anything in between is a mixed outcome that will lead to a fight. (Even if Topalov wins the last two, it may lead to a fight, but Kramnik’s hand would be much weaker.)
Yeah, I guess Kasparov did have it tougher than me. Even Short didn’t play this bad.
Dang…if I pick my nose now, everybody will see. Must…get…to…bathroom!
So Keres DIDN’T throw those games to Botvinnik after all…
Blimey. I guess he didn’t take the risk of being searched today.
Game 2…,yesterday…,and now this…I’m worried that Kasparov is going to write a book called
‘My Weak Successors’
Korchnoi, Karpov, Kasparov, me…No, I guess his name doesn’t begin with ‘K’. I guess Nd7 should be alright, then.
Hmmmm…chess…what a novel game.
I must learn it some day.
Hmmmm…chess…life…war…peace…heaven…earth…
Send me an angel…send me an angel…right now!
Hmmmm…at last we see the video from Topalov’s toilet….
What is that?
Hmmm…but the REAL question remains: where in Vegas can I get 3 to 2 odds on the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series in 6 games or less?
Ummm…ummmm…thank god only my hair dresser knows!
Perhaps if I start losing I should yell “food fight!” and toss my water in his face!
Hmmm…if I should cross dress and wear a blonde wig…maybe that will spoil his concentration…or better yet short-circuit his conection.
dante said…
“Hmmm…if I should cross dress and wear a blonde wig…maybe that will spoil his concentration…”
LOL! I did do something similar once (and won the game too!) :)))