Cooller is from Russia

Moscow lies in Europe.

Geographically.

Yeah, it's only my personal view that Russia shouldn't bet counted in Europe. :(

Nazi cunt.

Then you're fucking stupid.

Russia covers 40% of Europe, all its major cities are in Europe and "everything" about Russian politics and culture is "European" too (As opposed to Asian/Middle Eastern/etc) at least historically up until the USSR.

And if we are using that as a reason then Latvia isn't part of Europe either and you can fuck off back to being a Russian outpost.

russia is europe because they joined the european union in the 90s

No, Russia is in Europe because the majority of its population is on the European side of the Ural mountains.

It's not an EU nation :P

it is if its part of the european union, all union state leaders meet for tea and cakes during the european parliment, russia does its part for european space agency and natural gas supplies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_State_of_the_European_Union

Troll-bait!

Owned.

plussed for having amazing english for a russian then I read your nick.

Trapped (y)

wow, you're such a nice guy!

You can't say the same about Turkey tho :( (I am referring to inviting Turkey to the EU)

They're still welcome :)

Russia is Europe, even though they cover a geographically larger area.

Think music, literature, culture.

Are you retarded?

It's his Latvian inferiority complex towards Russia.

Rapha will beat them all at the finals.

Fuck the rest Slavs are the best.

Rapha is Albanian btw.

EDIT: just kidding :D

Hendrickson still sounds Skandinavian to me.

americans are behind cooller/cypher/av3k level of quake now.

So far for me rapha has been the most impressive player, the way he played in dubai is just amazing. He may not match the top euros with his aim, but he can read the game so well that he always has the better positioning and plan what to do in each and every moment of a game. Having that kind of read-of-a-game with a perfect item timing, he will be unstoppable. Loss against dahang propably makes him seem like a mortal, but he definitely wasn't on his game in that tournament, which I'm sure he'll fix for the world finals

when im watching rapha and co at dubai or america i feel like i im looking at a semi pro match between prox_pl and bodzo or any other guys that play quake all their lifes and they re decent- nothing special about it. average aim and thinking.

and when im watching cypher or cooller playing im like WOOOOOOWWWW GIMMIE MORE OF THAT!!!

eastern guys = talent
america = practice practice practice

Only in Quake is having great success after hard work considered non-appealing. Kasparov said it best in a recent interview.

In your opinion, can a less talented individual still succeed in chess, if he or she has the utmost passion in the game and a detailed plan to get there?

I had written in my book, How Life Imitates Chess, that working hard is also part of an individual’s talent. Sometimes, I find it hard to understand what it means when someone said, “Oh he or she is talented, but lazy”. To me, this simply showed that there is a big gap in the person’s character. Working hard is a form of talent – it is in fact, an important element of the person’s talent. By not working hard, how can your natural gift become real diamonds? So, that is why I think working hard is sometimes just as important to having a talent. Of course, I must admit that it will be difficult for someone without a huge talent to be a world champion. But, you can still go very high up and achieve a lot, even with limited talent. Of course, when I said limited talent, please do not get confused with the term. People can get really confused as talent can mean anything, you know. Being number one in your school also requires some talent. Being number one in the world also requires talent, but these are very different forms of talent. That said, I am a great proponent of the concept that the ability to work hard is a unique talent and if you can work hard and if you can spend the long hours and if you can concentrate on the goal and if you can make detailed plans, you could still be ahead of your competitor even if you are less talented or less gifted in chess or anything else simply because he or she is not as good in organizing their work.

Not to mention how absurd it is to say that a person who wins all top level events is merely average at both thinking and aiming. How is he constantly winning against people with exceptional thinking and aiming, then? Either you don't understand what you're seeing - or it's magic. You probably mean playstyle, not to be confused with talent.

short version: "good is not enough"

Yeah, and hard working and good is more admirable than lazy and skilled. And a more important talent.

well yes I do agree that he doesn't have the most entertaining playstyle and therefore might not give you "the kicks", but it's really really effective and flawless. He does only what he needs to do and executes it without hesitation and errors. It's almost robotic.

Those eastern European guys have been there the longest of all..

You obviously haven't watched a DaHang match.

Or are you just biased?

With your reasoning Rapha should never be succesful then, yet he was consistently during all of qlive tourneys so far. How do you explain this then?

i cant explain it

ask kasparov maybe he knows better

seriously i cant understand how it is possible for rapha to beat cooller or cypher or even avek

when u see how cyphers playing u can easily tell hes at top level and when i was watching those silent gamers matchup between rapha and dahang heh what can i say...

it was tragic

can u imagine cypher beeing beaten in 2 bo5s in a row?

as for my earlier talent/practice argumentation i must ve been stoned when i wrote that i admit

I would like to think that talent in quakelive comes in many flavours. Rapha's style is just so different compared to avek or cypher's, none of the flashy stuff or insane aim that the 2 can pull off, but a very efficient style that many would call boring to watch yet it wins tourneys and beats the so called higher skilled players.

linkin's prediction

For mother East-Europa!