Title given to draw specialist like Carl Schlechter, Petar Trifunovic, Tigran Petrosian, Arthur Dunkelblum, Ulf Andersson, Gennadi Sosonko, Iosif Dorfman and in the 80’s to Boris Spassky…
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Quotes of the Day
Not this time, Mr. Carlsen! (after winning the World Blitz Championship 2016)
Sergey Karjakin 2016
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
Alexander Kotov
Peter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games, I mean, come on, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there!
Anish Giri
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine
The competition in the men’s tournament has grown massively over the past 20 years. Chess is becoming more and more popular, and there are no weak teams in the tournament any longer.
Andrey Filatov