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| Sep-27-06 |
| Madinina Killer: splendid !! terrific game
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Dec-30-06
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| notyetagm: Tremendous IQP attacking play by Keres, winning with a blistering mating attack fueled by his Horowitz bishops and a swinging rook. If you play over the games of the great Paul Keres, it really is hard to believe that he never became the World Champion. He seems to know absolutely everything there is to know about chess. |
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| Apr-22-07 |
| Sularus: If i were to pick two of the strongest players never to become WC, i'd pick keres and korchnoi when they were at the height of their WC contender strength. who would you pick? |
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Apr-22-07
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| Richard Taylor: Keres was certainly an uncrowned World Champion. Geller was no fool either - he had a great record against many World Champions. |
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Apr-22-07
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| fm avari viraf: It's a very instructive & beautiful game by Keres. He launches a furious attack where even Geller couldn't stop him. The pun should be "Keres caresses." |
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| Apr-22-07 |
| Timex: <Sularus> How about Bronstein? Keres played a nice attack. Many games feature a Nxg6 sac. |
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Apr-22-07
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| Thrajin: <Timex: <Sularus> How about Bronstein?>
or Morphy, for that matter. |
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| Apr-22-07 |
| e4Newman: incredibly fun - but i only scored 37 :( |
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Apr-22-07
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| sandmanbrig: truly brilliant sacrificial play. i never got why black would play the semi-tarrasch as white gets an excellent position from it. |
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| Apr-22-07 |
| weary willy: not for the first time ... don't get the pun! |
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| Apr-22-07 |
| Jafar219: <<notyetagm>: If you play over the games of the great Paul Keres, it really is hard to believe that he never became the World Champion.He seems to know absolutely everything there is to know about chess> The reason is World War 2. |
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Apr-22-07
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| kevin86: A nice mating attack-of course mate would have followed by Qh3#. I'm surprized that Keres didn't win the title-I guess his timing and bad luck kept him from the laurels. He certainly had the talent. |
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| Apr-22-07 |
| Fast Gun: It is not often that you see Geller get badly beaten in this fashion !!
Keres must rank alongside Korchnoi & Bronstein as one of the greatest chess players never to become World Champion:
Both Bronstein and Korchnoi got to challenge for title, whereas Keres never made it through the candidates to play a title match:
One more thing Botvinnik did not make an attempt to regain his title because
FIDE abolished the right of the defeated champion to a return match:
Had there never been the return match rule it is unlikely that Botvinnik would have ever played Tal in 1961 or Petrosian in 1963, because as Botvinnik himself said "each match takes a year of your life"
Great game by Keres though !! |
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| Nov-23-07 |
| M.D. Wilson: A powerful display. Typical Keres. It has been said that Keres "knew everything that was to be known in chess". Why he didn't become world champion? He certainly had the talent. |
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Jul-18-08
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| arsen387: 26.Bh7+!! |
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Sep-01-08
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| chancho: Keres taught himself the game.
To reach such a high level with his own efforts is not something that you see everyday. |
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Sep-01-08
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| notyetagm: <chancho: Keres taught himself the game. To reach such a high level with his own efforts is not something that you see everyday.> You mean Keres *never* had a coach as a developing player? |
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Sep-01-08
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| chancho: <notyetagm> I could be wrong, but yes.
I read somewhere that Keres played mostly with his brother and with the lack of chess tournaments where he lived, he turned to correspondence chess juggling at least 200 correspondence games. That's a lot of stamps, yo. |
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| Jan-08-09 |
| xrt999: Since the lines with 7.Bd3 or 7.Bc4 give white the advantage in the majority of all the games in the database with this position after move 7, I think Geller was experimenting with different lines for black at move 7. He used this same novelty move order to draw Taimanov 3 years earlier. Taimanov vs Geller, 1959
After looking over some of these QGD games, including
Reshevsky vs Fischer, 1959 I feel that 7.cxd4, giving white the isolated pawn, would be the preferred move I would add to my opening repetoire. |
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Jan-11-09
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| waustad: <weary_willy>"Carries the ball" |
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| Jan-11-09 |
| ILikeFruits: balls...
of...
steel... |
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| Jan-19-09 |
| I Like Fish: who...
keres... |
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| Jun-03-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 28...Kxh7 29 Rh3+
or is there something better? |
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| Aug-21-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 29 Qh3#
was this after Curacao? |
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Aug-21-09
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| Phony Benoni: According to Game Collection: 1962 Candidates play-off match: Geller-Keres,
this game was from a match played to break the second-place tie between Geller and Keres at the Candidates tournament in Curacao. Therefore, I assume it came afterwards. However, with Curacao, you never know. |
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sac: 20.Nxg6
