Vladimir Kramnik
@VBkramnik
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Vladimir Kramnik, Chess Grandmaster & World Champion ('00-'07). Advocate for fair play in chess.
Joined December 2023
FC Krasnodar became RF champion today,for the first time, agead of Zenit, Spartak, CSKA and others. Sergey Galitsky, the founder of the club, is a brilliant men, both humanly and professionaly, very strong chess player btw I am so happy for you, dear Sergey 🙌 Dreams come true 😉
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What an evening 🫣.Congratulations to Gukesh and special award for both Fabi, Ian for their increadible performance today. One of the most interesting games I ever saw. Bravo, REAL FIGHTERS, for giving it all. Most important, more than anything in chess in fact. Full respect.
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Frankly, the dress code of Carlsen can be defined "smart casual" to me.After fining a player and recieving his confirmation that he will wear regular trouthers tomorrow, imho should be enough, whatever is the name of that chess player. Strange story.
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Congratulations to the heroes we deserve,not those @chesscom selling us.Titled Tuesday stars,where are you all? 🤔
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Nevet yet WC title was decided by childish one move blunder.
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Could hardly imagine there is someone who might be as great as Hikaru but this Norvegian guy is insanely good 🧐.
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I have just learned few minutes ago that Jose's mother passed away a week or two before the match. Jose decided to play the event anyways in memory of her. Just learned from organizers now. My sincire deepest condolenses to Jose.
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Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen, in my stupid opinion 🙂, the best chessplayer in the history of our game 🥇.
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To be able after an important defeat in 1972 to stand up and applaud the opponent Fisher who just performed a masterpiece, tells a lot about the person. And in times when people still did such things sincirely, there were no likes existing :).
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This match, played under such unfair conditions for Hikaru, far away from comfortable home chair, was predictable. Congratulations to Firouzja, someone breaking all normal chesscom standarts, being same level player OTB, online from home, online under survalance. Unique nowadays
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But most important,proud of my guys today, showing they can fight on equal terms with such a team as India. Another tough match tomorrow but most important, boys showing the character and ready to give it all, not afraid of any opponent. Respect 🙌.
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Fans attacking, asking for joined photos even in Davos 🙂
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No recap today, pardon, I was supposed to comment on the WC but,sorry for harsh but true words, this level of play of opponents has nothing in common with World Chess Championship. Maybe next time 🤷♂️.
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Thanks everyone for showing such attention to my X .That is very helpfull for me, promoting my fight for integrity and dignity of chess to the wide audience.Sorry cant answer all of you, but thanks again. Will keep you informed 🫶
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The hall of fame performances from major @chesscom and most of titled tiesdays "heroes we deserve" 🙂 .Page 1
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1 Индия 1 451 000 000 .2 США 342 000 000.3 Узбекистан 36 362 005 🙂.4 Китай 1 419 000 000. 🇺🇿🏆.
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Have an idea, would appreciate your feedback. I have opened the youtube channel and think about interviews, friendly conversations "about everything" with interesting people I know personally. Musicians,sportsmen, bussinessmen, maybe even some chessplayers 🙂. Interested?.
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Congratulations to proud co winners of Titled Circus this evening. Egor Baskakov (FIDE 2272) and Artin Ashraf (FIDE 2268) . And special thanks to chesscom for helping dreams of many unknown players come true.
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What other result do you expect having Anish and Peter commenting 😁.
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1 Official stream.2 Jose screen recording.3 My screen recording. How often that happened? Checking
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I would offer Kirill Shevchenko a deal, to give him a chance, like they often make in juridistical field.1. He admits everything, ban for a year, can come back after,in case he collaborates fully and tels EVERYTHING he knows about cheating in chess,games he cheated on and offline.
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Enough of fake sugar.Many things are deeply wrong in the world of chess nowadays,let us admit, at first. And start being transparent and honest. It is not all just about money interests, its about chess, let me remind everyone.
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Was a very decent WC game today for a change.Not without mistakes but those werent so unforced as in some games before, this one was good level in general.
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Dear friends and enemies, that is my official account on twitter, opened today. Vladimir Kramnik.
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@chess24com Can you stop making a pip show out of WC match and let players along in their PRIVATE room at least during the decisive game?.
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There is also something even .more important then mastery of chess, mastery of your emotions, learning it,a key.
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Top eight qualifiers in chesscom leaderboard on the date. 1. Nepo 3118 n 22.2. Caruana 3098 n 35.3. Carlsen 3306 n 2.4. So 3213 n 5.5. Firouzja 3228 n 3.6. Niemann 3202 n 7.7. Duda 3117 n 24.8. Murzin 3010 n 91.
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Just tried puzzle rush for the first time. Is it some joke or what?
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Dearest friends,. I have a documented prove Hikaru Nakamura very recently accused another player of cheating in a chat during Titled Tuesday event, I can send the screenshot this GM forwarded to me. On top of many other public accusations and insults he made towards others 👇
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Pavel Durov,founder of Telegram , arested today in Paris. He was approached by both FBI and FSB earlier but refused to give them access to messanger codes. Got into trouble with both. Now Europe (France in particular) doing the same and even worse. States want to control us all.
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Checked ALL the Titled Tuesdays from 2023 on of Carlsen. By far the best average level of play (CAPS), but . his best TT performance 93,7 (and in total 5 out of 90 events played 93+ CAPS average) is just a joke compared to some onliners. There are even 94,6 94,8 and 94,9 😉.
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Expected.This will happen more and more because of the major chess forces are doing nothing in this field, at best, makes cheaters believe they will never be punished.
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Something is telling me the second act will happen . Time for another player to appear on stage? 🤔. 🍿.
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If there are few people interested can stream commenring Candidates in few minutes.
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Carlsen today on muting Vladimir Kramnik on chesscom :."I want to say that in general freedom of speech is very important. I will not talk specifically about this case,but in general I think that opinions should be answered with a another opinions, but not with silencing".
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Hope we can continue the match on ANY platform which can provide acceptable playing conditions,no lag,no bag. Would like to ask the platforms if they are ready to host the remaining part of the online match. Let me know asap.
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Boris Vasilievich Spassky wasnt only a chess legend but also a very charismatic personality. In memory of him will publish a few funny and mostly unknown stories from him or about him . The first one today 👇.
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Olympiad is the best place meeting people you havent seen for years.Yesterday had a pleasure meeting and chatting with Vasily The Great, who is still playing, though many of my generation guys already prefer capitan role :).Good luck Vasily, show them all, we also know chess :).
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Performance is the real measure of the strength of a player in a particular event, because opponents are very different in level at times .Here is the top players by PERFORMANCE, those who performed 2700+ FIDE rating today
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I have from today on youtube channel in an hour will stream Titled Tuesday just as a test, join if you are interested, I will try to explain my thinking during play and many other things, welcome.
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2000plus followers in few hours? Unexpected. Thank you everyone for showing interest and Merry Christmas!.
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Just to explain chess fans WHAT IS 3030 performance (blitz FIDE rating) in a long streak made against best world blitzplayers in other terms. This performance similar to:.Beating Magnus +8 in 20 games match(14points).Beating MVL +14 (17 from 20).Beating Grischuk +16 (18 from 20).
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@Kasparov63 I do not fully join you in some other endeavors but would like sincerely to thank you for your chess genius, inspiration and pleasure you gave many chess lovers watching you playing, me included 💫.
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How bad is Hikaru ,even online, when playing Carlsen 🫣.
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Just to avoid misrepresentations in case, in advance .Gotham requested an interview before the match (and maybe after?) My response .Yes,with pleasure, but without editing. We can even do it live tomorrow evening. Just for the record 😉
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Some true statistical data. WC matches from 2000 level of play of participants, in CAPS. In order of best tp worse by joined average of two players. Of course, very general picture, but still find interesting to share
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Thank you for your kind words and wishes, everyone 🙏.
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We definitely need some revolutinary step to get out of the situation chess world is now. I have one strange idea ,as delusional as it sounds, what about stop constant public lies, all people involved? Telling truth is difficult at first,but give it a try,might work ☝️.
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Happy New Year,people 🌍.I am sure this year will become the turning point, beginning of the end of the forces that doing everything to make chess world as uncultural,murky,dishonest and corrupted as possible. Its in their private financial interests. But it will fail. Promise.
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thanks to cheatcom for supporting such talents constantly and consistantly, despite old salty people reporting them. I did a year ago already reported this gentleman, nothing. Than again after recent brilliant TT win, nothing. Shame.
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Another true number. A player, not top 10, played 9 games in a row in TT against >2700 following players. 1 Nakamura. 2 Carlsen. 3 Sarin. 4 Nakamura. 5 Jospem. 6 Firouzja. 7 Carlsen. 8 Firouzja. 9 Nakamura. Scored 7,5 . 7 winnning 1 lost 1 drawing. All fine? 🤔.
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Summary of todays story.Its time for FIDE taking anticheating seriously and professionaly,instead of just pretending. Anticheating regulations implementation must be WAY more strict. Allowing mobile phones, lots of random quests in the playing hall, should not be allowed 👇.
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Start publishing reports about time mistakes,online games of the match with Jospem. From auto recording of my screen. Game 1, the least of troubles with time of all thought still more than any decent playing platform can allow. Seeing all that while playing was raising concerns
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Another piece of stats, 2024 all Cheating Tuesdays, accuracy level in cantipawns in situations player had <10 sec on the clock, average of minimum 700 such moves performed, leaderbord top 12. Enjoy
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Congratulations with another remarkable online achievement, almost 200 rating points in a couple of days, and getting closer to 3300 and 1 place in rankings 💪.I will publish later tonight some video material on kramnik youtube channel analysing this and other records of Danya 👍
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@agadmator Of course, some might wonder if FIDE should have thought a bit making the regulations concerning final WC match situation like that, but understandable, a lot of time and energy was spent on the jeans clause, the person writing the regulations was already tired by then.
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For your understanding about the real scale of the online cheating, some general information, from detailed statistics we examined.Out of 2700 and above FIDE rating players, .1. No reasons to consider ever cheated 8 players.2. Possible, but unclear, 6 .3. Likely cheating 5.
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Boris Vasilievich told me once that he often talking with Fischer in his dreams, and even lately woke up and remembering sharply Bobby telling him that he now believes 1.d4 is more prospectorous than 1.e4 :). Hope they are already playing or analysing chess together now 🫶
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@chesscom Translation : guys,dont cheat THAT OBVIOUSLY, we will be left with no choice but banning you 😁.
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Ok, time to play, explained everything in my previous posts. Everything is FAIR and agreed with all parties involved. Preparing the field IN CASE something goes wrong for chesscom is NOT FAIR imho. Dont show such obvious bias gentlemen. Let us play and enjoy it 👍.
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Such a line up, Teimour even, ok will play for a change as well
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As you can notice here, checking those photos in chronological order,Kasparov Botvinnik school was not only chess school for me, but those great mentors had also changed my life attitude visibly 😁.1 photo 1984.2 1987.3 1993
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I would like to thank organizers of the Clash of Blaims for providing equal conditions and respectfull attitude for both players. Big difference comparing to the previous event.Online part of the match worked perfectly,no lags no bugs. Possible to manage when you want to 😉.
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He immigrated to France in 1976 after the marriage with a french women, but never really learned french language. At some point the visitors of his appartment in Paris noticed a motivator hanged on the wall of his cabinet, handwritten by him in russian " learn French,idiot!" 😁.
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At least today is the day of the week brilliant high level games are going to be played for sure, in big amount, just in a couple of hours 😁.
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Letter to chesscom. I have heard that the so called main organizer of my recent match Divis Martinez publicly claimed,according to chesscom, during the game 13 my account was challenged by 3000 playing requests at a time which caused me losing on time in a winning position 👇.
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@anishgiri @ChessbaseIndia btw can join your conversation and (for a balance) talk about my friendship with Hikaru 😁.
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Now question to top players, after checking all stats, like in my previous post . Are you going to continue pretending nothing is happening? I understand many (most) of you have contract with them, "paid to keep silent" in a way.But do you have selfrespect at least? Think 😉.
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