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| Apr-04-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: <Under the January 2005 rating list, Seirawan has a rating of 2631, making him 69th in the world and 2nd in the USA. > A few things have happenned since then. Time for chessgames to update this? |
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May-11-09
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
" Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth. "
-- Seirawan |
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| May-11-09 |
| DaringSpeculator: <whiteshark: Quote of the Day " Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth. " -- Seirawan>
He's no longer walking. |
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| May-11-09 |
| James Demery: He was also the most hate filled Anti Semite celebrity walking the earth ... when he walked the earth ... which he no longer does as Speculator pointed out. What was Fischer supposed to have been misquoted about? Did someone accuse him of liking Jews and the United States? |
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| May-11-09 |
| MaxxLange: <HeHateMe> In Inside Chess, Seirawan's old magazine, there was once an article by a guy who met Fischer in a chess bookstore in Argentina, and had several long conversations with him. He quoted Fischer's remarks about some books in that piece - I'll see if I can find it tonight. |
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May-11-09
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| IMlday: "Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth." --Yasser Seirawan (1992) p. 291 "No Regrets"
An example of myth-making:
"He praised 9/11 because of the number of Jews who were killed in the World Trade Center."
--Paul Hoffman, (2007) p.13 "King's Gambit"
Reality check:
"Bobby was in Japan, which is 14 hours ahead of New York...it was almost impossible for Bobby to have known the extent of damage or loss of life at the time he made the broadcast...If you listen to the exact words Bobby used, you will find that he never mentions the attack on the World Trade Center. Nowhere in the interview does he say the words "World Trade Center". If you listen carefully, you will also see that the interviewer does not say that the World Trade Center has been attacked. Rather, the interviewer refers to "the attack on the White House and I think the Pentagon too"."
--Sam Sloan (2002ish) "Bobby Fischer's Statements have been Misrepresented"
http://www.anusha.com/bobbyout.htm
"I hope this essay isn't just a breeze against a hurricane" Seirawan, (1992) ibid p.307 |
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Jun-09-09
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| hedgeh0g: <Under the January 2005 rating list, Seirawan has a rating of 2631, making him 69th in the world and 2nd in the USA.> This might be slightly outdated... |
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Jun-16-09
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| ToTheDeath: <"Bobby was in Japan, which is 14 hours ahead of New York...it was almost impossible for Bobby to have known the extent of damage or loss of life at the time he made the broadcast...If you listen to the exact words Bobby used, you will find that he never mentions the attack on the World Trade Center. Nowhere in the interview does he say the words "World Trade Center". If you listen carefully, you will also see that the interviewer does not say that the World Trade Center has been attacked. Rather, the interviewer refers to "the attack on the White House and I think the Pentagon too"." --Sam Sloan (2002ish) "Bobby Fischer's Statements have been Misrepresented"> Horse pucky. The interviewer mentioned the world trade center at the start of the interview. Sloan is just lying as a quick glance at this transcipt will show. http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/arti...
It had been all over the world news for several hours so of course he knew, he just didn't care. |
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| Aug-21-09 |
| Everett: Our love of our heroes dies hard, I guess. I remember really liking Rickey Henderson and Charles Barkley for their originality and flair, until I realized later that they were jerks. |
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| Aug-21-09 |
| MaxxLange: <slightly outdated> Last I heard, he lives in Switzerland with his wife now, and is retired from serious chess...he plays every now and again, but he isn't trying to really win any titles like he used to |
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| Aug-22-09 |
| Everett: Netherlands, unless he moved since '07 |
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| Aug-22-09 |
| MaxxLange: <Everett> thanks - my mistake. He has been based in Amsterdam or another major Dutch city for some years now |
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| Aug-22-09 |
| Everett: Glad to be of help.
I'm a big fan of Yasser for many reasons, but foremost is his personality. He seems to only want the best for chess and chess players. Also he was pretty good, but not good enough to compete consistently with the younger generation starting with Anand, Ivanchuk, etc. Sad but true. |
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Aug-23-09
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| HeMateMe: I thought Yaz has done a fine job of representing American chess, both as a player and as a commentator/author. Not blessed with Fischer's talent, he has something Fischer didn't--an ability to communicate with different kinds of people and both inform others and put them at ease. I read in an intro to a rook/pawn endgame book that he is a big boxing fan, that he and some other GM on the west coast used to sit around for hours, watching boxing on TV or YouTube, and discussing the pugilists. He is in Holland now, hope he isn't spending too much time in those marijuana bars... |
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| Aug-28-09 |
| Everett: <HeMateMe> That was a nice thing to say, that first paragraph. |
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Aug-28-09
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| HeMateMe: Well, its always nice to see people in this business that are well-adjusted and not crazy... I particulary liked some of the asides in his book about the '92 Fischer Spassky rematch 'No Regrets.' Fish still wasn't speaking to Yaz, years after Yaz had called him 'the ghost of Pasadena', in a book or magazine article. They met up in this Yugo resort town where the match was being held, Yaz sort of apologized and Fischer said "Lets just forget the whole thing." A few days later, they were both at the beach, on a rest day, and Fish walked over and invited Yaz to dinner. They spent the evening analyzing the part of the match that had been played, and yaz was able to remember the home analysis comments, and relay the moves in his book. Fish has a live in girlfriend at this point, a girl from the Balkans, I think. Kind of interesting stuff if you have closely followed RJF's career. I think too, it was mentioned that as the chess software got more powerful, and of more use to professionals, BF asked yaz to try and get him a software/hardware set up with the latest chess stuff. This was well before the match; Fish was still below the radar at this point, Yaz just did it out of kindness, got him a chess computer set up. |
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| Aug-28-09 |
| MaxxLange: <HeHateMe> great stuff. That agrees more or less with what I have heard about Yaz and RJF and the 92 match. I'd like to read that book. another interesting Seirawan effort is "Take My Rooks", an anthology of games with double Rook sacrifices. |
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Aug-29-09
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| HeMateMe: In fact, are there enough double rook sacrifices at the master level to write a book on? |
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| Aug-29-09 |
| Jim Bartle: Yes, and I assume they were dug up primarily by the co-author Nicolas Minev. |
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Aug-29-09
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| HeMateMe: I've got the rook book by Minev, very readable. Is the double rook sac a variant of 'Alekhines gun', the rooks and Queen all piled on one file, usually a rook file? |
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| Aug-31-09 |
| Everett: Does anyone have a list of Seirawan's games from 2008 and 2009? According to the FIDE site, he's still (infrequently) active. http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtm... It looks like he's had 5 games in '09 and 6 in '08... |
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| Aug-31-09 |
| Everett: It seems all the 2008 games are in (the other five were actually played in '07), but he has five wins from '09. |
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| Aug-31-09 |
| Everett: http://www.chessclub.org/news.php?n...
<Yasser says that he was lucky to score 5-0 in the Dutch league this season, that three of the games could have been draws, but look how he takes apart the experienced Belgian GM Luc Winants who is strategically lost out of the opening.
Seirawan,Y - Winants,L [E12]
Rotterdam-HSG, May 10, 2009
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.a3 g6 6.Qc2 Bxf3 7.gxf3 Bg7 8.Bg5 d5 9.cxd5 exd5 10.e4 dxe4 11.0-0-0 0-0 <11...exf3 12.Bxf6 picks up a Rook.> 12.fxe4 h6 13.Bh4 g5 14.Bg3 Nh5 15.e5! Nd7 16.Qf5 Re8 17.Bc4 Qe7 18.h4 Nf8 19.Ne4 b5 20.Ba2 c5 21.hxg5 Nxg3 22.Nxg3 cxd4 <Trading Queen does not provide relief - 22...Qxg5+ 23.f4 Qxf5 (23...Qxg3 24.Qxf7+ Kh7 25.Qg8+ Kg6 26.Bb1+) 24.Nxf5 Ng6 25.Rdg1 Kf8 26.Bxf7 Kxf7 27.Nd6+> 23.gxh6 Bxe5 24.f4 Bf6 25.Nh5 Rac8+ 26.Kb1 Rc6 27.Bd5 Rd6 28.Rhe1 Qxe1 29.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 30.Ka2 Nh7 31.Qg6+ Kh8 32.Bxf7 1-0> |
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| Aug-31-09 |
| Everett: Found them!
http://www.365chess.com/players/Yas... |
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| Sep-04-09 |
| GrahamClayton: <MaxxLange>Another interesting Seirawan effort is "Take My Rooks", an anthology of games with double Rook sacrifices. MaxxLange,
"Take My Rooks" is one of my favourite books. It is great to see that a writer like Seirawan can write books for entertainment as well as instruction. Here is a video about the changes that Seirawan proposed to the game, under the name of "Seirawan Chess": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nht2... |
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