| Feb-01-09 | | Travis Bickle: A NM friend of mine told me that Korchnoi is known as a KID destroyer. In Victors 2 dvd set 'My Life For Chess' Korchnoi divulges that to him the KID is boring to play against. Any comments? |
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| Nov-15-11 | | Whitehat1963: What's the finish? |
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| Nov-15-11 | | TheChessGuy: Geller might very well have lost on time. |
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| Sep-10-13 | | BwanaVa: According to Bernard Cafferty's book on the 1971 Candidates series (using annotations and comments from Soviet players in various publications) Geller did lose on time. Geller was in serious time trouble against Korchnoi in almost every game. However, a soviet master unknown to me said that notwithstanding time that 37. Re6 was decisive...but offers no follow up analysis |
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Oct-31-14
 | | WCC Editing Project:
<Travis> Here is something Korchnoi said about playing against the KID in this match: "As White... I prepared to do battle against the King's Indian, of which Geller is so fond, and which I find equally pleasant to play against as White." -<Victor Korchnoi, "Chess is My Life" (Edition Olms 2004), p.75> By "pleasant to play against," I think he means "easy to beat." |
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Oct-31-14
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<BwanaVa>
Paul Keres confirms that Geller lost this game on time. <Paul Keres, "Korchnoi 5½ Geller 2½" "Chess Life and Review" (August 1971), pp.424-425> |
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| May-08-15 | | A.T PhoneHome: Korchnoi has a very high plus score of +157 -31 =82 playing against King's Indian Defence so he most likely means "easy to beat" as noted above. |
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Mar-28-18
 | | sakredkow: There's an interesting line with 32...Bf6 33. Nxf6+ Rxf6 34. Be4 Qb3 35. Bd3 and if 35...Bxc4 36. Qh6! |
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Jun-04-20
 | | Honza Cervenka: <However, a soviet master unknown to me said that notwithstanding time that 37. Re6 was decisive...> 37.Re6 is definitely a serious threat but black can play 36...Kg7 with idea 37.Re6 Rf6. |
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Nov-12-21
 | | Fusilli: I just tried it on Guess the Move
<Korchnoi vs Geller, 1971.
YOU ARE PLAYING THE ROLE OF KORCHNOI.
Your score: 62 (par = 53) >
I feel good about it. I did quite well until the decisive part of the game. I want to learn to play against the KID like Korchnoi! |
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Nov-12-21
 | | offramp: Kramnik also has a big plus score against the KID: Kramnik +52 -10 =44.
Petrosian has a big score versus the KID:
Petrosian +70 -8 =45. |
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Nov-12-21
| | offramp: Spassky seems to have been very harsh against the KID: +33 -2 =19. The 2 losses were against Fischer in 1992. |
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Nov-12-21
 | | perfidious: Not for nothing did Fischer, despite his considerable erudition, avoid the King's Indian at Reykjavik, not to mention he had had some rough spots against players of lesser stature than Spassky. |
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Nov-12-21
 | | harrylime: Victor owned the commie sneak Geller |
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Nov-14-21
| | Fusilli: <WCC Editing Project:
Paul Keres confirms that Geller lost this game on time.> I guess that explains 32...Qg4. Black had to play Bf6. Hard to believe Geller would not see the Nxc5 threat, but if he lost on time, he must have been playing instantly at that point. |
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