Dec-10-02
 | | Honza Cervenka: Murray Chandler beat Kasparov a la Steinitz. King is a strong piece not only in ending but also in opening or in middle game... sometimes...:-) Garry's pawn sac (19...Kf7) looks like not the best idea. Murray controlled the game after that without difficulties. Of course, black cannot play 29...Bxg2 for 30.Rg1 Rg3+ 31.Kf2 Rf3+ 32.Bxf3 Nxf3 33.Rd3 Nxg1 34.Kxg2 and black knight has no escape. |
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Dec-10-02
| | Honza Cervenka: And of course black cannot capture the pawn on g2 in the 26th move (26...Bxg2?? 27.Bh5+) nor in the 28th move (28...Bxg2 29.Nxg2 Rxg2 30.Bh5+). |
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| Dec-10-02 | | R.J. Hunter: Is he the one from New Zealand? |
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Dec-10-02
| | Honza Cervenka: Yes, he is. |
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| Dec-10-02 | | drukenknight: I agree w/ HC about 19..Kf7 if Gary is the attacker it seems that he should keep that stratgy going as long as possible until it turns into something else. maybe 19...Qc6 20 QxQ and then 20...000 |
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Dec-11-02
| | Honza Cervenka: To capture the pawn by queen wasn't good: 20.Qxd7?! Rhd8 21.Qb5 Qxb5 22.cxb5 Nd5+ 23.Kd2 Nxf4+ 24.Kc3 Rxd1 25.Nxd1 Ng6 etc. |
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| Nov-17-03 | | Nova1990: While researching this game, in which Chandler beat Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition, I came across this fascinating article by Bobby Ang: http://queen.chessclub.com/philches... In it, Bobby relates how Kasparov’s simultaneous exhibitions against national teams led to the founding of Chessbase, the company which gives us Fritz and is a wonderful source of chess news. In case this link ever becomes dead, I’ll summarize part of the article here: Kasparov was playing a simultaneous exhibition against a German national team in 1985 and fared very poorly (he was facing two GMs, two IMs, and four FMs). Kasparov attributes his poor results to exhaustion and not being familiar with the playing styles of his opponents, which put him into time trouble. After his loss to Chandler, Kasparov was invited to spend Christmas Eve with Frederic Friedel and his family. It was the first Western Christmas that Kasparov ever experienced. It was that night, after playing some computer chess games, that Kasparov related to Friedel that he would have do much better if he had a quick way of studying his opponents’ games. Friedel started work with a German physicist named Matthias Wuellenwebber to create a database that would solve Kasparov’s problem. In 1987, Kasparov played another simul against the Hamburg team. Because of the database that Friedel and Wuellenwebber provided, Kasparov was able to prepare quickly enough so that he beat six of the Hamburg team and drew with the other two. The result, 7-1, was extraordinary. Because Kasparov knew their games and habits, he could lead them into traps. This story is also told in Kasparov’s book, “Child of Change”. After Kasparov did well against the Swiss National team in another simul, Friedel and Wuellenweber went on to found Chessbase, based upon Kasparov’s successful use of their database. I think this story demonstrates how databases have advanced the quality of chess and chessplayers that we now see today. It also provides fascinating insight into how Kasparov prepares for his matches and tournaments. |
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Nov-17-03
 | | Eggman: I find it really off-putting when Kasparov talks about being unfamiliar with an opponent as if this was an unnatural or perhaps even unfair circumstance. I just think: join the club! Isn't it enough to know the first 25 moves of every line of every opening ever conceived? I'd be dying to see how Kasparov would fair at Fischerandom. |
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| Nov-17-03 | | Shadout Mapes: To be fair, I'll bet every one of those players have been studying Kasparov's games for many years. |
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Feb-24-07
 | | Jonathan Sarfati: Chandler wrote in his chess column in NZ that he had no intention of being the first GM to lose to another GM in a simul. He won cleanly here. |
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| Feb-24-07 | | clocked: <Honza Cervenka> points out the strength of the king. So where is white's win if the king is pushed back after 32...Kf6 with the idea of Rh4+? |
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| Apr-29-08 | | waustad: Although he did not do well against Karpov, Murray has a positive score against Spassky and is even against Petrosian and Tal. The other game against Kasparov was when they were 16 and 13 respectively and the older Chandler won. That was about a year before I met him in Vienna and played offhand games against him and Andronico Yap. |
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Dec-12-09
 | | Benzol: How often has it happened that a GM has had to face another GM in a simultaneous display? As it was a simul how is it that Kasparov ended up with the black pieces in this game? |
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| Jun-27-10 | | shatranj7: How to Beat Your Dad at Chess! |
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| Apr-04-15 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Eggman: I find it really off-putting when Kasparov talks about being unfamiliar with an opponent as if this was an unnatural or perhaps even unfair circumstance. I just think: join the club! Isn't it enough to know the first 25 moves of every line of every opening ever conceived? I'd be dying to see how Kasparov would fair at Fischerandom. |
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Aug-24-16
 | | perfidious: <Eduardo Bermudez: Eggman: I find it really off-putting when Kasparov talks about being unfamiliar with an opponent as if this was an unnatural or perhaps even unfair circumstance. I just think: join the club!> Part of Kasparov's extraordinary ability was that of preparing deeply for every opponent; to him, not being familiar with someone he faced at the board certainly had to be unnatural. In my playing days, I utilised every bit of knowledge to hand whenever preparing for games--such as I did, down to their psychological strengths and weaknesses when familiar with those. |
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Mar-23-25
 | | Sally Simpson: Being the first GM to play a GM in a simul Murray did not want to play - Kasparov was not keen on playing him either. But it happened. The New Zealand Listener column (15th Feb 1986) that <Jonathan Sarfati> mentioned where Murray discusses the simul match v Hamburg. https://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/h... All of Murray's New Zealand columns from 1976 to 1988 here: https://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/h... |
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Mar-23-25
| | Sally Simpson: Wrong link to Murray's collected columns, it is https://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/h.... I've been going through them at random.Good. Just finished reading how Plaza (1988) was put together. (17th October 1987) https://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/h... |
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