Jan 5, 2024 · As a consequence people who dislike Vladimir Kramik truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the statistics behind Vlad's existencial catchphrase "I have top mathematicians compiling statistics and evidence," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons.

Oct 25, 2023 · Kramnik is now obsessed by some kind of cheater-paranoia and spreads it all around chess community. Additionally, he blames some elite chess players for being immoral just because they flag him. Apparently, Kramnik also became arrogant, agressive and abusive to …

Jun 24, 2022 · Vladimir Kramnik on current Candidates tournament: "I have never seen so many bad games in a top-level tournament" News/Events On June 24th, Russian-speaking channel "Levitov Chess" released a 2-hour video of Kramnik analyzing and discussing mistakes of some of the games played in the tournament.

Dec 24, 2023 · Kramnik has really gone off the rails now. Anyone who has watched Hikaru play hundreds of games, like I have, will notice that he frequently finds himself in enormous trouble, in positions he only saves by setting traps and moving at blazing speed or just by moving faster and flagging his opponents.

Nov 27, 2023 · Does Kramnik ever demonstrate with actual math what exactly is suspicious in the results? It's a fool that's thinks mathematics is conjuring numbers is evidence of anything. It's a complete disservice to the lay public that already has trouble understanding abstract concepts coming from academia and researchers when a self-deluded public figure ...

Mar 29, 2024 · Vladimir Kramnik confessed he was playing Title Tuesdays tournaments pretending to be a different person GM Denis Khismatullin (account krakozia at chess.com) for several months. This, of course, is a direct violation of chess.com any other chess web-site rules and fair play policies.

Sep 10, 2023 · The same goes for Hans. Kramnik's "analysis" doesn't really have much merit. In the Kramnik-Hans game, for example, the heavy pieces were traded off on rather non-confrontational terms, resulting in a long, grinding endgame where Hans' bishop pair eventually proved to be more effective than Kramnik's knight+bishop.

Mar 27, 2024 · All these "Kramnik is the favorite OTB" takes are killing me. Jose hasn't played a ton of OTB blitz in the last four years, but when he has, he's maintained his ~2700 OTB blitz rating. Kramnik just got dusted in a 12-game OTB blitz match by Esipenko, who's maintained about a 2600 OTB blitz rating during the same period.

Jun 9, 2024 · Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik is known for releasing controversial statistics on cheating in online chess known as “the procedure”. Due to this a Chess Duel was organized between Vladimir Kramnik and Jose Martinez known as Clash of …

Jul 3, 2022 · Maybe Kramnik isn't angry with flagging as a whole, but rather with people going into "flag mode", which means purposefully playing losing moves to startle your opponent and make them lose time by going back and forth with the mouse.