{"id":434,"date":"2008-01-25T05:13:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2018-02-13T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:22:07","slug":"bulgarian-chessmaster-vesselin-topalov-plays-brilliantly-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian chessmaster Vesselin Topalov plays brilliantly, again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days ago Bulgarian Vesselin Topalov, grand chess master and former world champion, made a brilliant game against his old rival, Vladimir Kramnik.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can see the whole game here<\/a>, with comments.<\/p>\n

The man is a walking genius, and even the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung admits it, with a picture on the first page (the newspaper is actually one of the big serious newspapers in Germany, and chess is not their national game), and a question mark after his 12th move. As the commentators say, “Very fast sacrifice! We blinked and Topalov had already sacrificed a figure!…..”<\/p>\n

No wonder world champion Gari Kasparov names “the greatest game in his life” a game against Vesselin Topalov, in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It is worldwide known as the “Kasparov’s Immortal”. You can see it here<\/a> (Topalov lost this one in 1999, but perhaps that was why he became later world champion, and the grand master with the highest ELO<\/a> at some point)<\/p>\n

Vesselin Topalov is really a phenomenal player!<\/p>\n

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\ncredits for the picture from FAZ: I.E.Stankov<\/a> – a Bulgarian student in Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two days ago Bulgarian Vesselin Topalov, grand chess master and former world champion, made a brilliant game against his old rival, Vladimir Kramnik. You can see the whole game here, with comments. The man is a walking genius, and even … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-people"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}