Greetings from Philadelphia!
I just arrived to this wonderful city, hometown of some wonderful chess personalities such as WGM Jennifer Shahade, IM Greg Shahade, NM Dan Heisman and super coach / teacher Steve Shutt, etc.
I will meet Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street as well as the Philly media tomorrow morning. Then I will give a chess talk to hundreds of young players and their parents / coaches, followed by a 100 board simul.
I would like to thank all of you again for the countless kind messages and comments. It has been my pleasure to share this world championship experience with all of you. I know that some of you may not always agree with some of my opinions and I respect that.
Please understand I will always put the interest of chess, the sport that I dedicated for more than 30 years of my life to, ahead of my own. I welcome different view points and opinions. This blog is for you to express yourself. All I ask is for everyone to be polite and respect to each other.
Please feel free to post your comments on how I can make this blog even better and more enjoyable. Even though I may not be able to answer every single email or comment, I DO read every single one of them. Thank you again for your support!
Win with grace, lose with dignity!
Thank you Susan for one of the best websites on the internet. I don’t know how you keep it up. Your great and timely analysis of the championship match, puzzless and stories of players and organizers at all levels make your website the most varied in content that I have ever seen. It’s a must for any serious afficianado of the game.
I, and I am certain many others, should be thanking YOU Susan. This WCC has been my first experience of your Blog and I can say that it made following the games so much more fun and meaningful.
Your speed Blogging during the rapid chess was awesome and should become an Olympic event 🙂
On behalf of everyone in the chess community I would like to apologize for the few mean spirited people who seemed to delight in making uncivil comments. I am sure that they made the comments for their own egotistical reasons, hopefully now the eyes of the world have been averted they will crawl back from whence they came
I look forward to being a regular reader of your pages, and only wish that I lived in the USA so that I could attend some of your events.
Again congratulations on the best web coverage of the WCC, and good luck for all your future events (Especially if you face either Karpov or Fischer across a Gothic board)
Kind regards
THANKS
Trefor
(Sunny England)
Wow. This site (along with Chessbase.com) has been a chess portal for me since the Chess World Championship!
Job well done. Thanks.
Susan… You are a treasure to and for Chess.
Thank you for all of your great work and for who you are as an exemplary representative of this “immortal game” we love so much!
Dr. Rene Carlos Ochoa
Thank you for a great blog, Susan!
By the way, there’s another GREAT photo (or 2 or 3) on chessbase that would be totally fun for another caption contest! Check out the one where Topalov is whispering into his secret wristwatch phone! 😀
Ha! There’s another picture there that could have the caption…I move Water Glass to e4+!
Susan, in recognition of the realities of modern chess, you need to extend your motto slightly:
Win with grace, lose with dignity…
and draw without excessive boredom.
Susan, many thanks for making this championship the great experience it was. I know from purchasing and watching all your DVDs that you have such straightforward and logical explanations of Grandmaster chess tactics and strategy and it certainly carried over to your amazing blog site throughout the analyses. I hope all chess fans can and will support your site and your goals with their donations, purchases, and support. God bless.
Susan, you are amazing!!! Your work in this blog is incredible.
You are not only a very good chess player, teacher and writer, you are a very good person for all your hard work spreading out our beloved chess.
A great woman.
Congratulations!!!
Hi Susan you could have how to start a Good Chess Club
blog..were to begin..etc
I need a few good reasons why watching chess on a computer for two weeks till 3AM and start work at 6AM
is normal
How to stop talking about chess to my dog in the middle of the night just because Topy just hug his rook (it realy worries my wife)
How to cook a nice Hungarian Goulash
thanks GM Susan Polgar for your blog, comments, etc.
i learned a lot from you.
btw, u look like Barbara Streisand. Only ur prettier.
regards
maria
Swap links with me!
http://chess-training.blogspot.com
I’m putting a link to your blog AS WE SPEAK on my blog’s links list…
Susan,
My hope/suggestion is that you will continue commenting on games in the same “live blogging” style. As a patzer, I get more use out of clear explanations in words like “Rd7 is necessary here to take the 7th rank” than several lines of wordless variations.
Thanks for the great work.
One suggestion I have to is ban anonymous posting. I’m sure you had doppelgangers posting multiple times as “anonymous” while pretending to be different people.
On another note, I’d like to see you annotate a game from your career that your particularly enjoyed. 🙂
Susan, thank you from the bottem of my heart! I love your blog I read it every day several times! It was an honour to meet you in person this year in Las Vegas and I treasure the signed board and picture. I also am grateful I was able to draw you in simul, the second World Champion I have drawn, first being Tigran Petrosian in Manhattan Chess Club. I have printed out your comments to the World Championship games and I love the live commentary the best! You have taught me and all of us so much about chess. Thanx for sharing your knowledge. I hope you do more live commentary of games form top notch chess events in the future! I also enjoy when you put the other GM’s comments in the live commentary during games.