Happy New Year from beautiful San Antonio, TX!
2008 is over and 2009 has begun. What were the top 5 chess stories of 2008?
Some of the suggestions include:
– The passing of Bobby Fischer
– Anand defeating Kramnik in Bonn
– The meteoric rise of Magnus Carlsen
– The exceptional performance of the Armenian team and Georgian Women’s Team at the 2008 Dresden Olympiad
– Topalov winning Bilbao and Nanjing and regaining the world #1 ranking
What are your top 5?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
lol susan, anand doesnt make the top 5?
nvm…
I think that’s a pretty good list.
Ah, the famous river walk boat tour!
The top story is GM Polgar lighting the Olympic Torch in Dresden!
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The ‘Click here!’ says obsession rather than ironic.
Anand’s win over Kramnik is top for me. Regrettably, Fischer’s passing is not in my top 5: a special mind side-tracked into obsession also.
“Fischer’s passing is not in my top 5”
Fischer is Zeus!!! His Death is Top1, a worldchampion will happen over and over but like Fischer much rare… i think u r juisch
Excellent List Susan!!
Keep up the GREAT work… You are the best promoter of the game of chess in the planet.
For the Love of the Game!!
1)Anand retains Title
2)Bobby Fischer reaches heavenly abode
3)Topa perfects method to reach # 1 ranking
4)Putin Atemi – Waza’s (KO’s) Kasparov
5)Kramnik loses to Anand
“Anonymous said…
The ‘Click here!’ says obsession rather than ironic.”
Brian, I would post your picure lighting the Olympic fire if you can provide me a link?
Right! You are nobody!
ha ha.
What about the allegations that members of the USCF, including close associates of GOICHBERG, may have engaged in criminal activity in an attempt to defame GM Polgar and her family? Surely that’s worth a mention?
What about the rumor that Sloani has impregnated a homeless Eskimo?
This leaves one last racial group he wish to spred his seed to.
His final amorous sights are on the rat-terrier people of Borneo.
The various tantrums. Krush, Ivanchuk, etc. They are significant in the negative publicity generated for the sport.
I thought the Zatonskih-Krush Blitz ending controversy was in 2008 (Oklahoma USA)? It exposed deep or complex flaws in the Blitz rules, and perhaps in the concept of Blitz because the rules seem not plausibly enforcible.
Yet not on the list?
Somebody having the #1 FIDE rating is inevitable and required every year, so not a big story.
GeneM
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