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Jul-02-06
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| Karpova: <I remember his story about a girl he met in a tournament in 1953 wherein he had to offer a draw in order to share the lady's tragedy. It was the best chess story I've ever read.> Please tell the story. |
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| Jan-07-07 |
| MyriadChoices: Yes please do, anyone. |
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| Mar-19-07 |
| BIDMONFA: Eduard Gufeld GUFELD, Eduard
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gufeld_edua...
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| Mar-19-07 |
| mckmac: White to play and win(a gift for Eduard Gufeld?)
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| Mar-19-07 |
| James Bowman: whites nf6+ followed by blacks K move followed by ne4 to remove the black defending knight on g5 from the fork of king and queen on f7 upon the promotion. Is that close?? After that idea it is too difficult to branch the posabillities for me. |
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| Mar-19-07 |
| mckmac: <James Bowman> If 2.Ne4 then 2...Nxe4 with check and Black wins. |
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| Mar-19-07 |
| mckmac: <James Bowman> This position is lifted from Eduard Gufeld's book "Chess:The Search For The Mona Lisa" and the story is charming... <Dance of the elephant> <Now I would like to share with my readers a fantastic story and a position that sings the praises of the bishop.In Russian the bishop is known as an elephant and the knight is called a horse.According to statistical data,the former is stronger than the latter.If anyone disbelieves this,I advise them to visit the nearest zoo and see for themselves...How often I like to repeat it: no matter how much you feed a horse,it will not turn into an elephant!This story happened in 1992 in Manila,Philippines,during the Chess Olympiad there.Mok Tze Meng,a member of the Malaysian team,received an anonymous phone call for me,and the caller provided Mok with an extraordinary position,adding that this was a gift for Gufeld. The combination contained in the position is of unsurpassed beauty and reinforces my statement that the bishop is stronger than the knight. Both Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov expressed astonishment at the ideas revealed in this "Dance of the elephant"Until now nobody has claimed to be the creator of this extraordinary position.To me there is only one possible answer to the puzzle--the inventor is from Outer Space!Yes,my friend,you may smile...> |
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Mar-19-07
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| tatarch: CG.com--I realize it was a loss, but how is the Gufeld-Kavalek student olympiad game not among his notable games? |
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Mar-19-07
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| Gypsy: <tatarch> Behold the home page of Lubomir Kavalek. |
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Mar-19-07
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| tatarch: Also, mckmac--that's a great puzzle, I remember seeing it at a chess club meeting a few years ago and being astonished at the answer. That being said, it's also unrealistic for a non-master to solve, so here's a link with the solution for those who are interested: http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/puz... |
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Mar-19-07
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| alexmagnus: <karpova> Gufeld tells the story in his book. I hopy I won't violate copyright by quoting a whole page of a book. See my next post for the story. |
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Mar-19-07
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| alexmagnus: It was a team game between Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The girl who Gufeld was in love with, Bella, played for the Russian team in the other match. Hear is Gufeld's game:
Khasidovsky-Gufeld, Kharkov 1953
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Nd7 10. Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.Nd3 Rf6 14.c5 Rg6 15.h3 h5 16.Ne1 g4 17.hxg4 hxg4 18.fxg4 Nf6 19.g5 Rxg5 20.cxd6 cxd6 21.Nf3 Rh5 22.Nd2 Rh7 23.Rc1 Ng6 24.Qb3 Bf8 25.Nb5 Bg4 26.Qd3 f3 27.Bxf3 Nf4 28.Qb3 Qe8 29.Rc7 Rh1+ 30. Kxh1 Qh5+. And here happened the actual story, see my next post. |
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Mar-19-07
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| alexmagnus: So, now I quote Gufeld:
<Almost all participants of the championship came to our table. Almost all. Bella, who played for Russia, was not there. I remember, I came to her table, in thoughts begging her to stand up and watch my game. Playing that game, I always thought about her. But he sad, without moving, thinking about her next move. Suddenly she looked at me. It seemes she noticed in my eyes more then being interested in her position. Maybe she even understood what I wanted, and she was touched. She mayed her move and - o horror! - she blunderes her Queen! It was a tragedy. Tears came from her eyes. She lost.Overwhelmed by what happened, und understandind that I somehow was guilty in Bella's tragedy, I surprisingly for everybody offered a draw to my opoonent, which was agreed.> <...And what about Bella?She came to the chief arbiter and said that I'm guilty in her loss. On the next day, there came a unique law: to forbid the participant of the Ukrainian Team Eduard Gufeld to come close to the female Russian team. I think, no comeitee in the world has ever made some similar law.> There was another Bella-related story, if sombody wants I post it. |
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Mar-19-07
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| alexmagnus: he sad=she sat*
mayed=made*
Man I never can type without making some silly typo! |
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| Mar-19-07 |
| mckmac: <tatarch> Thanks for posting that link.There's more to this than I was aware of,and the chessbase.com article explains many of the complexities surrounding both the puzzle and the 'Dance of the Elephant story'.However,simply because I can't help myself...here's the final astonishing position! 
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Mar-20-07
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| alexmagnus: However computers think they have a refutation of the dance of an elephant. White wins anyway, but there is not forced mate. |
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Mar-20-07
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| alexmagnus: Here is it: 1.Nf6+ Kg7 2.Nh5+ Kg6 3.Bc2+ Kxh5 4.d8Q Kg4!. Good luck in searching for the mate:). |
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Mar-20-07
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| alexmagnus: Ah, see this move was discussed i the link above. OK... |
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May-28-07
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| Karpova: Thanks for posting the story, <alexmagnus>! |
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Jun-13-07
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| SirChrislov: yesterday,(6-12-07) I visited E.Gufeld's grave in Hollywood Forever Cemetary. The grave is adorned with black and white squares & a big black bishop. The lady at the office said Gufeld's Mother often went there to clean and care for it. sad that he had to die at 66.I remember him as humorous man. good guy. I played in one of his simuls at his chess academy in LaBrea,Hollywood. he crushed me. loved his stories too. one of his books i want to get is mona lisa. |
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| Sep-05-07 |
| mcgrath999: i wonder wat happened 2 bella, his girlfriend? |
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Sep-05-07
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| whiteshark: <<alexmagnus>: There was another Bella-related story, if sombody wants I post it.> Yes, please!! Who is Bella ??
Any games known ?? |
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| Sep-16-07 |
| mcgrath999: a sudden interest in bella! well, well. poor gufeld, the girls taken da spotlie off him on his own game. anyway, just think abt this. she may have been a beauty then, bcos in his book abt the kings indian, gufeld says she was 5' 7, slim and fair 'big blue eyes, long blond hair, and several rivals in love 4 her." wow! a match 4 h. duff, it would seem. anyway, dat was in 1951, this is 2007, she's an old withered woman now, if not dead, let alone beautiful. i personally scanned google, chessgames, etc 4 picts of her or games. i drew nil |
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Nov-24-07
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| whiteshark: Heavyweight Gufeld (110 kg) has been asked by spectators since when he was playing chess: Ever since I've been weighting 45 kg, he replied. ;D |
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Nov-24-07
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| hitman84: <alexmagnus>Great story! I read this story long back and I remember having gotten inspired by this to the extent of adopting Kings Indian into my repoirtoire. Here is a story I vaguely remember...
Gufeld once more comes face to face(Gufeld could make eye to eye contact with her; she was playing for the women's team in the same hall) with Bella in the final round of a team tournament and as usual was completely concentrating on her. Then all of a sudden he realizes that after the game he won't have the chance to see her again. So he decides to prolong his game so that he can exchange looks. He has two rooks against a queen with some pawns. The game is dead drawn but Gufeld keeps on playing finally his opponent claims a PP. Gufeld is left in a state of shock..if the game ends he will have to part with Bella as he may never see her again(I don't know the exact reason as to why he won't be able to see her again. If my memory serves right I think Bella is leaving the town or something like that..) Gufeld calls the arbiter and asks him to check the PP - he asks him if it were the same rooks in all the three positions. The arbiter is confused and starts playing the moves once again keeping an eye on the rooks. In the mean time Gufeld is in his dreamland staring at Bella..
The arbiter confirms its a PP; the game is drawn and Gufeld leaves with his team mates. |
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