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| May-04-04 | | ToTheDeath: There's an interesting background to this game. Apparently Kasparov was behaving so atrociously at the board that Seirawan became distracted and lost a drawn game. Here's how Yaz tells it in a 1993 interview:
"I once was playing Kasparov in Thessaloniki in 1988 in the Olympiad. He had been squishing in the pieces and making bad moves simultaneously. [Laughs] He had a bad position and now I had the better position and I think the shift had really upset him, because he realized he had let the initiative pass. "He was angry at himself and he took it out on the clock. The clock made a jump and I don't get angry. I really, really don't. I have a high tolerance, but that hurt. And I looked at him with a look that said, "Do that one more time, sucker, and a right is going to drop you on your ass!" I was so angry. And he totally disarmed me. And psychologically it reversed the game. I didn't say a word, but right then he said, "Yasser, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that. Forgive me." It totally shattered me, because had he not said that, then I would have really bore down on the game, but I had so much conflict going on I could hardly concentrate on the board anymore." And again when asked by Kingpin magazine about his worst defeat: "But the one that hurt the most was losing to Kasparov in the 1988 Thessalonika Olympiad. His behaviour at the board was so appalling that he affected not only my concentration but that of both teams. I lost an equal ending, which only seems to have justified his antics. It is a lifetime regret that I didn’t cold cock him across the jaw. It would have been an international incident. FIDE would have barred me but my colleagues would have carried me out upon their shoulders." |
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| Sep-10-05 | | THE pawn: Hahahaha, I don't know what impresses me more in this game...Kasparov's ...natural behavior, or Yasser's reaction. |
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| Nov-07-05 | | dakgootje: lovely story :) |
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| Jan-14-06 | | SnoopDogg: <ToTheDeath> Seirawan's lifetime regret is not punching Kasparov in the face! haha that was priceless! PS I wonder if Larry C held him back...(jk) |
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Jan-14-06
 | | Mateo: Maybe Seirawan lost his way with 27... Nc4? He should have played 27... Ncd7. If 28. Rh8? Nf8 wins for Black. 28. Rg8 Kf7 29. Rd8 =. If 28. Rb7 Nc4 29. Kd3 Na3 30. Ra7 Nb5 =. |
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Jan-14-06
| | Mateo: 31. ba?! may not be the best. Stronger looks 31. Kd3 with a most uncomfortable position for the Black Knight. For instance, 31... Ndb6 32. Kc3. |
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Jan-14-06
| | Mateo: 38... Nb7?? is a blunder. 39. Rc8! Kc8 40. a8Q 1-0. Black should have played 38... Kb6. |
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| Mar-20-06 | | Hobgoblin: <ToTheDeath> Terrific story. One can only sympathise with Yasser and applaude his self control. Although a swiftly delivered right cross might have yield him greater pleasure. |
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| Jun-22-07 | | Hot Logic: If he did he could have added another book to his series:
"Winning Chess Knockouts"
In any case Seirawan was also the man who single handedly restrained Gormally and a bunch of angry armenians after Gormally punched Aronian so the man does know how to handle himself in a fight. |
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| Dec-11-08 | | Poisonpawns: 38..Nb7?? was a horrible blunder,but i think black will still lose i.e 38..Kb6 39.Ke3 Nxa7 40.Rh8 Nc6 41.Rxh5 Nd4 42.Rh6
Nd7 43.h5 Kc6 44.rg6 kd6 45.h6 nf8 46.rg7
One of the knights will have to be sacrificed for the h-pawn.I dont know if it holds.Very interesting to study. |
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| Sep-10-10 | | Everett: Is there any rule/penalty for situations like slamming the clock so hard it knocks pieces down or makes them jump off the board? Also, didn't Kasparov slam doors to disturb Anand during their WC match? |
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| Sep-10-10 | | ILoveFruits: i see similar...
antics on...
yahoo chess...
people should...
be nicer...
peace and...
love... |
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| Dec-02-10 | | hedgeh0g: <Also, didn't Kasparov slam doors to disturb Anand during their WC match?> Hahaha! I can just picture Kasparov making a move, getting up, walking over to a door and just opening and slamming it repeatedly while Anand tries to concentrate. |
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| Dec-02-10 | | GilesFarnaby: Sure, everyone knows that Yasser is a much better chess player than Kasparov (Yasser´s record against the best of his time says so as much as the numerous tournament wins he achieved), is only the former´s lack of sportmanship that made Yasser lost 3 of 6 profesional encounters they had. |
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| Dec-02-10 | | Everett: <GilesFarnaby> Nice sarcasm. Shame no one is claiming that Seirawan was better than Kasparov. |
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| Apr-30-11 | | sergeidave: Yasser tells this story again beautifully in the middle of his analysis of the game in his new book "Chess Duels". "26.Rb8!
With this move Garry lashed out and smashed the clock with a closed fist. Unfortunately, the table happened to have little give to it and the end result was that all the pieces jumped off their squares. I was furious. Indeed, Garry had been so violent that on the adjacent board the game between Karpov and Gulko was also disturbed by Garry's outburst as their pieces jumped as well. So here I was, pieces spewed about, my clock running and now this. For the last few moves Garry had been doing his "piece screwing" business, and I had had enough." Wonderful story!
I can't help but picture Karpov and Gulko raising their heads and with a 'what-the-f...' look in their faces only to find Garry apologizing to Yasser just in time to avoid being square-punched in the jaw! LOL! |
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| Apr-30-11 | | micartouse: Seirawan can't stop telling the story - you can tell it really hit a deep nerve. Piece screwing is an annoying ritual - I never understood why players do that. Even worse is when they straighten their hand and slowly nudge a pawn forward with their fingertips. It looks really stupid! |
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| Apr-30-11 | | BobCrisp: It makes a nice break from his <The Bobby Fischer I Knew Stories>. They were better embroided than <Kate Middleton>'s wedding dress. Even <Bobby> was pissed off by them. |
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| Aug-16-11 | | Everett: <Even <Bobby> was pissed off by them.> Ooohhhhh, Bobby was angry! What are we going to do? |
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Aug-16-11
 | | perfidious: <BobCrisp: It makes a nice break from his <The Bobby Fischer I Knew Stories>. They were better embroided than <Kate Middleton>'s wedding dress.....> How is it that you would know that these stories were embroidered, or is it simply another example of your compulsion to have the last word in everything? <Everett: <Even <Bobby> was pissed off by them.>
Ooohhhhh, Bobby was angry! What are we going to do?> Time to fold up our tents and call it a day, I suppose. Fischer, upset by anecdotes written or narrated by others? Say it ain't so! |
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| Aug-16-11 | | BobCrisp: <Seirawan> is a @#$%*&!#ter! <Fischer> was right to call him out. |
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| Aug-16-11 | | Everett: <Time to fold up our tents and call it a day, I suppose.> Thanks <perfidious> for reminding of an end of a poem... And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares, which infest the day,
Shall fold up their tents like the nomads
And as silently steal away |
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Sep-30-15
 | | Check It Out: Good thread here. |
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Sep-30-15
 | | piltdown man: Kasparov was, to me, the Michael Schumacher of chess - a great talent, but not averse to cheating when things don't go their way. I have very little respect for either of those gentlemen, as a consequence. |
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| Sep-30-15 | | The Kings Domain: *Sigh* The late '80s. The mid '80s-early '90s was the last great era of Chess and games from the time like this bring back memories. It's nice to see a game from the two old warhorses. I saw a friendly played by them in the recent Sinquefield tournament in YouTube and it brought back the old times. |
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