Mar-07-04
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| meloncio: Last round of the tournament. Alekhine needed to win desperately to get the first prize, but after so long fight, what a disappointment! Why not 23. ... Bxd5? I think he underrated his opponent. |
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| Mar-07-04 |
| Lawrence: meloncio, so who won the tournament?
¡viva er barriozantacrú! (Is that better?) |
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Mar-07-04
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| meloncio: <Lawrence> Antonio Rico, a strong player, won the tournament. Alekhine's opponent, Antonio Medina, was stronger yet. He won seven times the Spanish Chess Championship: 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1963 and 1964. He lived ten years in Venezuela where got three times its National Championship: 1955, 1956 and 1958. A very great player, but he never was a full-time professional. <viva el barriozantacrú> Sí señor, hablas como un sevillano ;-)) |
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| Mar-07-04 |
| Lawrence: meloncio, Googling around, it turns out that Antonio Medina also won the U.S. open once and beat Fischer several times playing fast games. As you probably know he died just a few months ago. I lived in your beautiful city 9 months, precisely in the enchanting Barrio Santa Cruz. That was exactly 40 years ago. |
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Mar-08-04
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| meloncio: No, I didn't know he was dead. I was thinking about it while writing my previous post, because he was born in 1919 in Barcelona. Santa Cruz is not changed very much from sixties (it's still plenty of "guiris"); I hope you'll come back some day! |
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| Sep-28-05 |
| Koster: Looks like an incorrect game score. After Kh8 white could simply take on h6. |
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| Sep-28-05 |
| WMD: I'd better alert Washington. |
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Sep-29-05
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| meloncio: <Koster> You're right. I just checked the game in the Pablo Morán's book and the correct move was 17.... Kh7. No problem on the rest of the game because the black king didn't move until 33.... Kg7. <chessgames.com> Please correct the score if possible. |
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| Sep-29-05 |
| PaulLovric: Never Say Die
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During a simultaneous blindfold display by Alexander Alkehine against thirty two Nazi Generals during the Second World War, the following position was reached. Only four games were left, Alkehine haveing won most of the others, drawing a few. When he came to this board and asked for his opponents move, the general offered to resign since he could not see how he could stop White mating on h8. For example, 1 ... g6 2 Qh7+ Kf8 3. Qh8+ Bxh8 4. Rxh8#. Alkehine offered to swap sides, to which the general readily agreed and play continued. 1... Rh4 2. Nxh4 Qc3
Now the general had to agree that it was white who was losing. For example, 3 Kc1 Qa1+ 4 Kd2 Qxa8. Alkehine again offered to swap sides. This time the general wanted to consider his decision and Alkehine busied himself with the remaing three other boards. On returning the general again agreed to swap sides. 3. Qh8 Kxh8 4. Ng6 Kg8 5. Rh8#
The moral of the story is "Never Say Die".
For a further example see There is always hope.
Source: Alexander Kotovs biography of Alexander Alkehine has any one seen this ?
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Sep-30-05
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| Benzol: <Paul Lovric> Check out Alexander Alekhine for more info. |
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| Sep-30-05 |
| PaulLovric: <Benzol: <Paul Lovric> Check out Alexander Alekhine for more info.> you have a fantastic library <Benzol> thanks |
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| Sep-30-05 |
| PaulLovric: <PaulLovric: After Alekhine had taken the championship title from Capablanca, Capa apparently spent quite a bit of his spare time hanging out in a specific cafe in Paris. Friends, acquaintances, and others would often drop by, participating in games and libations with the former, charismatic, champion. One day, while Capa was having coffee and reading a newspaper, a stranger stopped at his table, motioned at the chess set and indicated he would like to play if Capa was interested. Capa's face lit up, he folded the newspaper away, reached for the board and proceeded to pocket his own queen. The opponent (who apparently had no idea who Capablanca was) reacted with slight anger. "Hey! You don't know me! I might beat you!", he said. Capablanca, smiling gently, said quietly, "Sir, if you could beat me, I would know you."> seen this one |
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Oct-01-05
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| Benzol: <PaulLovric> <seen this one> You have me there I'm afraid. |
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| Jan-18-06 |
| johnnyboy: nice one |
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| Jan-07-07 |
| Tartalacreme: Hey! johnnyboy! Tonight is your lucky night! |
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Sep-05-07
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| Peligroso Patzer: Apparently, the position referred to in the post by <PaulLovric> dated Sep-29-05 is as follows: 
click for larger view |
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Sep-05-07
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| Marmot PFL: Alekhine was no longer the Alekhine of the 1930s. Probably its best he died when he did rather than play a controversial match with Botvinnik in which he would have been badly beaten. |
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Dec-11-07
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| grasser: Yes. Death is always better than losing a match. |
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Apr-10-09
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| notyetagm: <grasser: Yes. Death is always better than losing a match.> LOL |
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