| Jan-16-07 | | FHBradley: For some reason a number of Benonis has been classified as E00's. |
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| Dec-04-08 | | arsen387: IM Penrose won a great game against Tal using some similar ideas J Penrose vs Tal, 1960 |
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| Dec-04-08 | | Andrijadj: East indian west indian formation etc what the hell is this???This is Benoni... |
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| Dec-27-12 | | leka: this is a K.Ojanen Keres line.The british have robbed this from Ojanen.They called it a Penrose Tal line.It is not right!!Spassky played in WC gme 3 against Fischer and lost.Korchnoi played against Kaparov g2 bishop g2? and lost.These pro players Spassky and Korchnoi studied chess 15 times more than Ojanen.Ojanen should have got a chance too play pro chess.Ojanen had a job.Ojanen studied chess in the weekends and summer holidays.It is a pity story |
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| Dec-27-12 | | leka: Spassky played against Fischer the queen c2??? and lost |
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Dec-27-12
 | | perfidious: < leka: Spassky played against Fischer the queen c2??? and lost> Completely different opening, as anyone familiar well knows. We get it-you think Fischer's decade from 1962-72 was comprised of weak opposition and that Ojanen was a terrific player, but facts do not lie. No-one would ever have heard of Ojanen but for this game. |
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| Jan-24-13 | | leka: Ojanen played a draw against V.Smyslov in the chess olympiad in 1952 |
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| Jan-24-13 | | leka: Spassky played in the Benoni against Fischer queen c2 in 1972 |
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| Mar-30-20 | | dhotts: Fascinating game! Amazing how a no-name Ojanen ties Keres up in knots...This is the first time Ojanen beat Keres and the last. |
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| Jan-01-23 | | Messiah: <idiotissimus: < leka: Spassky played against Fischer the queen c2??? and lost> Completely different opening, as anyone familiar well knows. We get it-you think Fischer's decade from 1962-72 was comprised of weak opposition and that Ojanen was a terrific player, but facts do not lie. No-one would ever have heard of Ojanen but for this game.> Being hostile to CG members without apparent reason is typical perfidy. |
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Jan-02-23
 | | nizmo11: This is definitely his best known game.
For those who have never heard of him:
Kaarle Ojanen (IM 1952 when FIDE started to award the title ) was 13-time Finnish champion.
According chessmetrics pre-ELO ratings Ojanen was in top-100 (even if barely):
Best World Rank: #89
Highest Rating: 2563 on the November 1966 rating list, #98 in world, age 47y11m |
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Jan-02-23
| | perfidious: FIDE began awarding titles in 1950, not 1952. |
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Jan-03-23
| | nizmo11: <perfidious: FIDE began awarding titles in 1950, not 1952.>
Is the list of the first FIDE IMs online somewhere?
According Wikipedia there were 94 IMs and 17 WIMs.
Eero Einar Book is likely on that list.
I though both Ojanen and Osmo Ilmari Kaila were also, but that may not be the case. |
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| Jan-03-23 | | Olavi: Böök, Ojanen and Kaila were all awarded the IM title after the 1952 Olympiad in Helsinki. Böök should have gotten it in 1950, he was simply overlooked, or the Finnish federation didn't pay attention. |
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Jan-03-23
| | perfidious: Given that all these players were Finnish, the Soviets may have exerted pressure to avoid giving any Finnish nationals titles, as they were able to delay the GM title to Bogolyubov, who in other circumstances would clearly have received his in 1950 and not later. |
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| Jan-03-23 | | Olavi: <perfidious>
Your argument slightly suffers from the fact that the Soviet Union joined FIDE in 1952. Yes they sent a delegation to Winterthur 1947, no team however at Dubrovnik 1950. No, they did not delay Finnish titles. |
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Jan-03-23
| | perfidious: They did, however put pressure to exclude--or at the very least delay--Bogo's title, which would easily have been his, given those few who were initially named. |
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| Jan-03-23 | | Olavi: Or was it a western mission? Bogoljubov and Alekhine made a good couple. https://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/bitst... |
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| Jan-03-23 | | Olavi: The FIDE assembly at Copenhagen 1950 made the decisions. Better reports than this are needed: http://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/CL... |
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| Jan-03-23 | | Olavi: And Böök is there in 1950 already, I was wrong. |
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Apr-01-23
 | | Sally Simpson: See J Penrose vs Tal, 1960 (kibitz #60) for where this game led too. |
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