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The world's #2 ranked player, and #3 FIDE all-time, Levon Aronian, turns 30 today. His Wikipedia entry doesn't shed any light on how the name Aronian was derived (neither of his parents had that surname).
Extracting one tidbit therein, the U12 WYCC in 1994 housed 5 future elite GMs. Aronian won that event, despite only having learned the game from his sister 3 years earlier, ahead of future 2700 club members Grischuk, Ponomariov, Bacrot, and Vallejo Pons. There was certainly no shame in missing the medal table that year!
That guy is'nt talking, he's reporting; do you want people to copy/paste the whole of the week in chess starting a tread for everyday and be praised for it? Am I the only one who thinks like that or what? I can remove my critisism if you want, I don't mind.
This site is called Chesstalk Claude.. because we talk about CHESS.
Lol/Touche, Andy!
Tangentially, I must confess that I thought the subject might be a proper invite for you to post one of your famous pictures. I must say that U12 WYCC class of 94 did exceptionally well in the, umm, pulchritude department.
I guess I really am the only one who thinks that was overinformation, I'll leave my place to "johnTurner" then.
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Probably way too early, but I'd love to see the opening odds for the 2014 World Championship. Personally, I like Aronian's chances since he'a almost as likely as Carlsen to emerge victorious from next March's Candidates Tournament and, imho, has a far better chance of dethroning Anand in a World Championship match. The empirical evidence (classical only) ito date s rather overwhelming.
Anand vs Carlsen: +6 -1 =17
Anand vs Aronian: +1 -6 =14
Talk about polar extremes. And I'm sure Aronian will go off at significantly higher odds.
I hate the Kovalchuk thread. Every time I see it, for a few seconds I think it has to do with Anton Kovalyov and then realize it has to do with hockey. Blah.
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