tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post7187126445070659044..comments2023-03-23T11:12:13.191-07:00Comments on US Chess League News: Game of the Year -- 6th PlaceArun Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502944059031864655noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-58454749286149363652008-04-17T12:23:00.000-07:002008-04-17T12:23:00.000-07:00All of you anonymous people out there, please do n...All of you anonymous people out there, please do not force me to only allow registered users to post. Greg and I have always held the view that we don't want to discourage anyone from expressing their opinion here by forcing them to register to comment, but if you anonymous people keep posting nonsense of the nature of the comment I just deleted, we might not have a choice.Arun Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17502944059031864655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-78093316962568923962008-04-16T01:37:00.000-07:002008-04-16T01:37:00.000-07:00I will not respond to any anonymous morons out the...I will not respond to any anonymous morons out there who are for some reason incapable of signing in as everyone else and especially when their arguments lack coherency or as in this case when they haven't made any arguments.Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05998314504780560129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-44676088126949025832008-04-15T13:40:00.000-07:002008-04-15T13:40:00.000-07:00while i dont share anon 4:35s tone i agree in prin...while i dont share anon 4:35s tone i agree in principle. looking at the rest of the games in the contest it seems just wrong that this game didnt get ranked higher. i know its subjective and all but it still just seems like a very bad job by the judges to have taht happen. as for ilyas comments its hard to really consider them meaningful when everyone reading this knows full well if this had been a game where a boston player had won instead of loss ilya would definitely be screaming how ridic it is that the game didnt get better. i do agree with him on one thing the solution to this is clearly to get a more competent panel of judges next year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-28637280336003240042008-04-14T22:02:00.000-07:002008-04-14T22:02:00.000-07:00I note with amusement that not only "Anonymous" bu...I note with amusement that not only "Anonymous" but Monokroussos should read the judges' comments more carefully - especially his own. Like Adamson, I too claimed that Perelshteyn was getting outplayed before the piece sac! Yeesh. Anyway, I was wrong or at least sloppy in my judge's eval back then: 19.c5 was just an outright, significant and unforced error.<BR/><BR/>Ilya, you're not including me, are you? I have no dog in this fight at all, and while I'm personally acquainted with about a third of the participants, none are friends. (They're not enemies either; just acquaintances.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-76263415677365369862008-04-14T21:01:00.000-07:002008-04-14T21:01:00.000-07:00Considering that comment is coming from a three di...Considering that comment is coming from a three digit- rated New yorker I wouldn't get too insulted:) I too wasn't that impressed by this game, it lacked fireworks and I didn't see anything which would make this game stand out, of course I'm openly biased in favor of my team! Which brings up another point and that is in reading some of the judges comments, its hard not to notice a very strong bias shining through towards certain last names as well as certain geographical locales, clearly influencing a judge's decision. I think for next season, if we are to treat this thing with any seriousness at all, new and better suited judges must be found!<BR/>Also, I don't know if Shabalov thinks his nicknames are really tha t witty but to me his comments just seem to indicate his general state of levity regarding this whole contest.Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05998314504780560129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-35244914269194904782008-04-14T20:52:00.000-07:002008-04-14T20:52:00.000-07:00Question:Will there ever be a season in the histor...Question:<BR/><BR/>Will there ever be a season in the history of the USCL where there are zero complaints about game of the week or game of the year picks. How about a more modest hope of less than 10 complaints during the season?Greg Shahadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00233341816210357863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-40387113438506181702008-04-14T17:18:00.000-07:002008-04-14T17:18:00.000-07:00That's not very nice Mr. Anonymous! (as I've said ...That's not very nice Mr. Anonymous! (as I've said before please post your name at least if you're going to do that). However, I have had to endure several similar type of insults on this blog myself so I suppose it's only fair game that the judges have to accept some of the same?Arun Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17502944059031864655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-5748381806505769932008-04-14T17:01:00.000-07:002008-04-14T17:01:00.000-07:00It was a tough fight, and from a spectator view it...It was a tough fight, and from a spectator view it was probably interesting to see Charbonneau pull out a win from what many thought was a simple draw. But the game had many serious, unforced errors; no spectacular points; no David vs. Goliath storyline; and while it was important in the particular match, it wasn't part of the playoffs. So what could possibly make this the game of the year?<BR/><BR/>Two other points. First, the judges were given freedom to rank the games according to their own criteria, not anyone else's. So maybe it should have been #1 on your criteria (a game that benefits New York or harms Boston deserves to be rewarded?), but not necessarily on ours. Second, while I don't think your insult is appropriate to any of us, you should at least read the report before insulting "the judges" - Adamson agreed with you! (Btw, about Adamson's evaluation, I disagree about the opening, or at least about the meaning of "outplay". It seemed to me that White was at least equal until 19.c5, an unforced error that destabilized both his knights.)<BR/><BR/>I'm not saying it's a bad game, or that I'd do better or anything like that. I'm just claiming that I don't see any reasonable <I>objective</I> grounds for making it #1.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-47549191507900196542008-04-14T16:35:00.000-07:002008-04-14T16:35:00.000-07:00It is astounding that the judges ranked this below...It is astounding that the judges ranked this below the other remaining games. They must have learned how to play chess only yesterday (perhaps from none other than that other judge Hilton)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-70868467755652115102008-04-14T13:31:00.000-07:002008-04-14T13:31:00.000-07:00Maybe we should bury a Blitz shirt under the Marsh...Maybe we should bury a Blitz shirt under the Marshall Chess Club?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681850489432318981.post-26371739041193380812008-04-14T07:24:00.000-07:002008-04-14T07:24:00.000-07:00And on a day that the Red Sox win the first of the...And on a day that the Red Sox win the first of the season series against the Yankees... the last hope for the Knights to put one over the Blitz disappears too. It couldn't have happened to a "nicer" game... :)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16061228036632685096noreply@blogger.com