Azerbaijan won the European Team Championship with a new team captain FIDE VP and GM Zurab Azmaiparashvili. Top seed Vachier-Lagrave and Bulgarian GM Zhigalko are leading the World Junior Championship after 9 rounds. Ray Robson is currently tied for 6th and performing over 2600.
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys were scheduled to perform their song “Empire State of Mind” before Game 1 of the World Series. They postponed it to the next night, which I was fortunate enough to attend game 2 of the 2009 World Series. The whole experience is great.
The new FIDE rating list has just come out for Halloween. Topalov is still #1 and Carlsen is now officially at #2.
Anand and Karpov has just started their rapid match today.
It’s Saturday Open Forum. What would you like to discuss? The forum is yours.
Can Karpov win this match?
It’s a tragedy for Azerbeiajan not to have a decent captain from their own country, but instead need to hire from another country. Was this allowed anyways? Shouldn’t all members of one country be – from one country? It’s like ridiculous.
What are the chances you are going to eat too much candy tonight Susan?
‘Can Karpov win this match?’
Yes, if Anand forfeits.
Chessbase showed what they think of Azeri’s captain. They went to the trouble of cutting his body out of the original picture at the winners stage.
http://www.chessbase.com/
images2/etcc09-09.jpg
Wow. That is hate.
the picture is there,
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5877
its sad to have so many Azeri haters here
how can i get the website to follow the judit polgar game