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GeneM Senior Member Offline Tournament winner gets two fun filled knights! Posts: 303 Location: near Seattle WA USA Joined: 01/12/08	Re: Kramnik forgot his own philosophy Reply #3 - 11/16/10 at 16:02:24	Post Tools	Print Post
	TN wrote on 11/16/10 at 08:08:38: I wonder whether 'From London to Elista' by Bareev and Levitov sheds any light on this point. I own that unusual and excellent book. Sadly, Bareev was not involved in Kramnik-Topalov 2006, and Bareev provides no inside info that he might have received by later talking with Kramnik or Hensel. Indeed this last 1/3 of the book is nothing special. The first 2/3 of the book, on Kasparov-Kramnik 2000 and Kramnik-Leko 2004, are fantastic. REVIEWS OF CHESS BOOKS I judge/rate each chess book not just on its quality in isolation, but by how much new it brings to the whole body of chess literature. Next year someone will release yet another fine chess book for kids or beginners, and someone will give it a good review; yet the book will be 98% redundant to a stack of similar books published during the past decade or two. And more books will be published on the Sicilian Defense. It has reached the point where reviewing a chess book in isolation is useless or misleading. When a chess book is reviewed, it should be in comparison to earlier books on the similar subjects. But reviewers seem to not share my opinion on that. Only a small percentage of new chess books bring as much unusual content of such high quality, as does the Bareev book. TO: GMTonyK: I fixed the spelling, to Carsten Hensel. Thanks.

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GMTonyKosten YaBB Administrator Offline Mr Dynamic? Posts: 3171 Location: Clermont-Ferrand Joined: 12/19/02 Gender:	Re: Kramnik forgot his own philosophy Reply #2 - 11/16/10 at 11:26:01	Post Tools	Print Post
	GeneM wrote on 11/16/10 at 04:43:33: Kramnik's then manager Carsten Hansen Carsten Hansen, the former ChessPublishing writer? I think it was another Carsten - Carsten Hensel maybe?!


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TN God Member Offline Posts: 3420 Joined: 11/07/08 Gender:	Re: Kramnik forgot his own philosophy Reply #1 - 11/16/10 at 08:08:38	Post Tools	Print Post
	GeneM wrote on 11/16/10 at 04:43:33: In 2006, when Vladimir Kramnik arrived at the playing hall for match game 5 against Veselin Topalov, Kramnik would have done well to remember his own comment after Kramnik won the WCChamp title from Garry Kasparov in 2000. Instead, Pottygate nearly cost Kramnik his title. http://www.chessquotes.com/player-kramnik "Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you’re caught." -- V.Kramnik I can understand how Kramnik was really thrown by this Danailov-Topalov ploy. On the previous day, Kramnik's then manager Carsten Hansen decided to withhold the looming bathroom-restriction change info from Kramnik. Kramnik was not told until the next day, hours before the game was to start. On the previous day, Hansen should have reminded Kramnik of Kramnik's year 2000 philosophy, and then revealed the new restriction on the bathroom. Or you could do what Ivanchuk does: Don't follow the politics, let the pieces do the talking! I wonder whether 'From London to Elista' by Bareev and Levitov sheds any light on this point.

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GeneM Senior Member Offline Tournament winner gets two fun filled knights! Posts: 303 Location: near Seattle WA USA Joined: 01/12/08	Kramnik forgot his own philosophy 11/16/10 at 04:43:33	Post Tools	Print Post
	In 2006, when Vladimir Kramnik arrived at the playing hall for match game 5 against Veselin Topalov, Kramnik would have done well to remember his own comment after Kramnik won the WCChamp title from Garry Kasparov in 2000. Instead, Pottygate nearly cost Kramnik his title. http://www.chessquotes.com/player-kramnik "Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you’re caught." -- V.Kramnik I can understand how Kramnik was really thrown by this Danailov-Topalov ploy. On the previous day, Kramnik's then manager Carsten Hensel decided to withhold the looming bathroom-restriction change info from Kramnik. Kramnik was not told until the next day, hours before the game was to start. On the previous day, Hansen should have reminded Kramnik of Kramnik's year 2000 philosophy, and then revealed the new restriction on the bathroom.
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