Feb-06-04
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| refutor: It's funny how nothing changes, even in 100 years. Teichmann's annotations to this game from Pickard's "Hastings 1895" "If the two players meant to solve the problem of how to exchange as many pieces as possible in the shortest number of moves, they certainly could not have played better. It is time that such games, if games they can be called, should no longer make their appearance in tournaments. In this case the onus lies with the second player, who during the first part of the tournament tried to force a draw whenever he possibly could. It seems that Mr. Blackburne, having chosen an inferior opening, could not avoid the draw without loss of position, which he did not like to risk." |
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| Feb-06-04 |
| Benjamin Lau: I guess that means chess isn't going to die as some claim, it's of course already dead. ;-) |
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Mar-14-04
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| suenteus po 147: It just means nothing really changes. All time and history is a wheel that rolls and spins through the universe, leaving its familiar tracks in the form of several patterns that emerge, then sink to give way to other patterns that themselves sink only to re-emerge again later in the future. Fighting chess had its champion in Morphy, then in Fischer, now some say Kasparov, and who knows who the next one will be? For the draw, Schlecter, Petrosian, Kramnik, etc. and each style has its hero, and each style enjoys its periods of popularity. In ten years the grandmaster draws will wane, only to find ten years after that will they wax. As long as people continue to play chess and employ their own particular style and skill then chess will live on another day. |
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| Mar-14-04 |
| Benjamin Lau: suenteus po, yes, I realized the significance of refutor's post. I was being sarcastic, maybe a bit too sarcastic. I believe that chess will live on forever in the amateur. It doesn't really matter what happens at the GM level, it's too removed from the concerns of the average player. |
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Mar-16-04
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| suenteus po 147: Actually, Benjamin Lau, I found your post to be quite humorous, so I was more or less just building on the point refutor was making. You make an excellent point about the amateur and average player. It's one of the reasons I like Bronstein so much as a person as well as a player, because of his enthusiasm, his romanticism, and his enjoyment in seeing others play chess. |
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Mar-13-08
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| Knight13: 5...d4 and White'll start having trouble. 5...dxe4 is having it way too easy. |
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| Dec-17-08 |
| ughaibu: Considering Teichmann's remark, it's nice that the final move is Schlechter avoiding an exchange of pieces. |
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| Nov-06-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 4 Nbd2 |
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Nov-06-09
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| keypusher: <WhiteRook48: 4 Nbd2> Stop spamming. |
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| Nov-06-09 |
| Starf1re: Rybka evaluates the position after every move as within + or - .10. Amazing. At a depth of 14 it analyzes the final position as 0.00! |
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