Mar-31-04
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| vonKrolock: careless opening moves by Fischer... Taimanov let him scape not playing 18.gxf3!!, for instance: 18...Dxb2 19.Te2 Bc5 20.Kh2 Dd4 21.Bf6! gf 22.Dd4 Bd4 23.Td1 c5 24.Td4! etc |
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| Apr-01-04 |
| weepingwarrior: I think Fischer was having fun with Taimanov. |
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Apr-01-04
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| vonKrolock: perhaps... Taimanov never was really a serious contender for the title of "Best in Chess", but i prefer to hear one of his piano performances than to hear the best radio interviews from RJF |
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| May-13-04 |
| sergeidave: I second you vonKrolock... recently I was listening to some of the radio interviews and it's pretty sad all that. I think that Fischer still had tons of great chess for us if he didn't stopped playing and all that. |
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May-13-04
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| iron maiden: Sad as it may be, this draw was one of the highlights of Fischer's 1960 Buenos Aires tournament. He placed 14th with a minus score. |
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May-16-04
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| vonKrolock: <sergeidave> i read in a chessbase.com interview that Taimanov considers his greater achievment as a pianist to have been included in the Philips series of "Great Pianists of the xxth Century" (in duo whith his wife Liubov Bruk); i want to say too that in this interview he won my simpathy revealing that regarded his 1971 Fischer 0-6 match as the summit of his Chess career! (and however he won many Tournaments, even URS ch)... curiosly i saw that CD in Savarin, a seller in my home city, but was by chance - i saw and dont bought - simply because i was searching another item, a Naxos Fischer-CD (it's about harpsichord music by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (c.1670-1746), a Bach's contemporary - by the way, fascinanting music, those Fischer's "the ancient" pieces) - and <iron maiden> yes, it would be unfair not to regarding this as an impressive Fischer's performance in middle & endgame EPILOG: i dont find the Taimanov/Bruk CD again here - now i would have to import at a higher price, i believe... |
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Apr-10-05
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| vonKrolock: And here we find the above mentioned record, from which some highlights can be readilly enjoyed imediatelly - have a nice audition http://www.iclassics.com/productDet... |
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Aug-10-05
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| BobbyBishop: Taimanov took comfort after his match with Fischer by saying "at least I have my music" |
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| Aug-11-05 |
| RookFile: Fischer at Buenos Aires in 1960.
Without going into detail, this
was Bobby's first experience with
women. That is why he did not have
a good chess tournament. |
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Aug-11-05
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| iron maiden: His given excuse for his bad performance was that the lighting was poor. As we all know it was not the last time he complained about lighting. |
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| Aug-11-05 |
| MrSifter: <RookFile> Just out of pure curiosity, how would you know something like that? |
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Aug-11-05
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| BobbyBishop: I read that in a book that Fischer spent a few hours in his hotel room with a "lady of the evening" and when asked how he managed such stamina, he replied that "I thought about chess openings". He also added that it was fun but "chess is better"! |
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| Aug-11-05 |
| RookFile: <MrSifter>
What happenned was told to me by
a well known tournament organizer
and director, who had heard this
from Larry Evans. Evans was at
the tournament, and hung out with
Fischer after the rounds were over,
and helped arrange various activities. |
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| Aug-11-05 |
| paul dorion: <Rookfile> Yes , various for sure. see:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/donne... |
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| Jan-15-06 |
| woodenbishop: <MrSifter>
"The awful thing about chess is that there were no groupies. I hung out with Fischer a lot in the Buenos Aires tournament (the one Fischer did horribly in) and I introduced him to a young lady there. It was the first time he ever got laid. Later I asked him how he liked girls. 'I'd rather play chess,' he said." -GM Larry Evans
(PAL BENKO: My Life, Games, and Compositions, 2003) page 422 |
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| Jun-21-07 |
| Jake Robertson: BobbyBishop, That was hilarious. |
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| Jun-22-07 |
| Tomlinsky: Rumour has it that having achieved a position with sufficient counterplay chances he reached an endgame only to miscalculate and find a piece hanging. |
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| Nov-28-07 |
| HOTDOG: in ''Russian versus Fischer'' it's said that in the endgame Fischer played 15 consecutive strong moves in less than a minute |
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| Nov-28-07 |
| Riverbeast: <Fischer played 15 consecutive strong moves in less than a minute> Are you talking about the chess game, or his first experience with the girl? |
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| Aug-02-08 |
| Vollmer: According to GM Soltis , Fischer missed a win with 39.Re1 threatening 40.Bf4 or 40.Bh6+ and 41.Bg7 . An interesting game with an interesting endgame (see Capablanca vs Janowsky 1916) . |
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| Feb-23-09 |
| WhiteRook48: sacrificial draw?! |
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| Jul-27-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Taimanov missed a win, Fischer was Black! |
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