bean_Fischer wrote:
Have you ever heard a swimmer complained about the water is too cold, the color is too pale, the weather is too hot, etc?
http://m.ecr.co.za/post/pe-pool-still-not-ready-for-swim-champs/
Match Carlsen-Anand in trouble?
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Chess should take its example from woman's figure skating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding#Attack_on_Nancy_Kerrigan
rooperi wrote:
bean_Fischer wrote:
Have you ever heard a swimmer complained about the water is too cold, the color is too pale, the weather is too hot, etc?
http://m.ecr.co.za/post/pe-pool-still-not-ready-for-swim-champs/
Cannot open the link. I will open it when it is available.
Was it a swimmer or the organization that complained?
7 April 2013 at 11:30
The South African Swimming Nationals have been called off for a third consecutive day at the Newton Park Indoor Swimming Centre in Port Elizabeth.
The competition will take place tomorrow evening and will no longer serve as a World Cup qualifier.
Officials say the water is still green with a high chlorine content making the pool unsuitable for swimming.
They are working to improve the water conditions.
Problems began on Sunday when a water pump burst and South Africa's top swimmers had to swim in a green pool on Monday
steve-matt wrote:
Carlsen should just get on with it and play. I understand that he needs to feel comfortable but he'll no doubt get treatment worthy of a king. If Chennai has $22 million or whatever, I'm sure enough of it will be spent on Carlsen.
Formula 1 drivers travel all over the world from one week to the next, eat strange foods, adapt to widely differentiating climates and are still able to drive ridiculously complicated cars around race tracks at 200mph in searing heat for hours on end.
Is carlsen really serious about these issues? How about we host the match in New York instead then and make sure there is plenty of cotton wool to wrap him in.
This is a chess match. Being slightly uncomfortable is enough to make a blunder.
Estragon wrote:
varelse1 wrote:
With all his antics, Carlsen is becoming the Bobby Fischer of the Chess World.
I mean, other than Bobby Fischer.
The difference being that Carlsen is complaining when FIDE breaks their own rules, and Fischer wanted his own standards imposed.
FIDE rewrote their rules for Carlsen in the Candidates. I didn't hear him or his surrogates complaining then.
SmyslovFan wrote:
Estragon wrote:
varelse1 wrote:
With all his antics, Carlsen is becoming the Bobby Fischer of the Chess World.
I mean, other than Bobby Fischer.
The difference being that Carlsen is complaining when FIDE breaks their own rules, and Fischer wanted his own standards imposed.
FIDE rewrote their rules for Carlsen in the Candidates. I didn't hear him or his surrogates complaining then.
When did they rewrite their rules for him? I only recall FIDE rewriting their rules to hold a minimatch knockout that Carlsen declined to participate in. After it Kramnik said that FIDE must change the rules and that he wanted a double round robin Candidates, something Carlsen never had said anything about.
Why should fans of either country view their hero in action anyway, when we can send it all to some neutral country someplace where they dont even give a damn?
Also, for next years Superbowl, lets hold it in Ghana.
Most people probably think there have been too many minimatch knockouts in World Championships and qualifications the last decades, and I don't get why Carlsen should complain about not having another minimatch knockout also in this cycle. Last time around even the qualification for the Candidates knockout was another knockout, with lots of blitz chess.
Maybe all the Carlsen's demands are only to make Anand lose his concentration. A psichological issue.
conejiux wrote:
Maybe all the Carlsen's demands are only to make Anand lose his concentration.
Which are all those demands you are talking about? As far as I know he has never demanded anything so it would be interesting to see them listed.
Well finally someone from Carlsen's hometown of Nauruway is posting.
I think Carlsen can complain until the cows turn blue. He probably would not be caught in Chennai with a 10 foot pole.
conejiux wrote:
Maybe all the Carlsen's demands are only to make Anand lose his concentration. A psichological issue.
Seeing the interviews of Anand when speaking about chess, he's very aware of the psychological aspect of match play. I don't think it's possible to phase him. He's competed in so many world championship matches that it's practically commonplace for him.
Carlsen is the one I'd worry about psychologically.
Indian food tastes terrible, it's hot and half the country is poor. No offense but not a great venue.
Indian food is spectacular.
SerbianChessStar wrote:Indian food tastes terrible, it's hot and half the country is poor. No offense but not a great venue.
You don't get out much huh?
SerbianChessStar wrote:
Indian food tastes terrible, it's hot and half the country is poor. No offense but not a great venue.
says the guy with a profile picture of carlsen lol of course you would be defending him
SerbianChessStar wrote:
Indian food tastes terrible, it's hot and half the country is poor. No offense but not a great venue.
Indian food is brilliant. Maybe it's the quality of Indian restaurants in Belgrade that's the problem....
Have you ever heard a swimmer complained about the water is too cold, the color is too pale, the weather is too hot, etc?