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| Aug-31-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @<Owerbart>
some attractive Portisch games/finishes:
Portisch vs S Johannessen, 1966
Portisch vs I Radulov, 1974
Portisch vs Petrosian, 1974
Portisch vs J Benjamin, 1987
(Hat tip: Informator 85) |
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| Sep-06-11 | | Owerbart: Thanks a lot for the info! |
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| Sep-06-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @Owerbart
you're welcome. I have ordered the 1979 Varnusz book of Portisch's best game recently, so no doubt I will come across some other attractive games which I can post about here. |
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| Sep-25-11 | | wordfunph: entertaining Portisch trivia from Grandmaster Chess by Glenn Flear.. <Postisch, who is noted for practising his singing in his hotel room during tournaments(!) has been one of the top players in the world for thirty years.> :-) |
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| Sep-25-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @<wordfunph>
Portisch told me that he might have followed singing if he hadn't followed chess. He was like Smyslov: a talented GM and singer. |
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| Sep-25-11 | | wordfunph: <SimonWebbsTiger> thank you. |
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Sep-25-11
 | | perfidious: <spawn2: <Eduardo Bermudez> <Actually, Portisch played in 20 olympiads!!!> In this coming Olympiad, GM Eugenio Torre of the Philippines will equal the record of the great Mangyar Chess Legend.> Maybe so, but there's no comparison between the two players' careers, solid one though Torre has had, with a Candidates appearance to his name, which even some of his better-known contemporaries never managed. |
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| Sep-25-11 | | ewan14: Zagreb 1965 - Portisch comes fourth
despite beating joint
winners , Ivkov and Uhlmann , and beating
World Champion Petrosian ( again ) |
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Oct-05-11
 | | JohnBoy: There is a beautiful game lost by Portisch as black - like 25-30 moves long w/ queenless middlegame king hunt. Clearly not it LP's notable games. Bonus points for anyone who can identify it for me. It ought to be GotD. |
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| Oct-06-11 | | Retireborn: <JohnBoy> that sounds like the famous Botvinnik-Portisch game from Monte Carlo 1968, it wasn't queenless though. |
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Oct-10-11
| | JohnBoy: <Retire> - nah - that's not it. White was some lesser eastern euro (not rooskie) master. Don't even know if the guy was a GM. |
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Oct-12-11
| | JohnBoy: Here it is - Portisch was white, my bad, against Pinter. Pinter was not a GM when I was active, although he was when this was played. It has already been game of the day. I love it. Portisch vs Pinter, 1984 |
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| Oct-13-11 | | Retireborn: <JohnBoy> Oh yes, that's one of my favourite games too. 27.Bxa6 would have just about saved the game, according to Pinter's own notes in Informator. Another spectacular Portisch loss that I enjoy revisting is this one: Hartston vs Portisch, 1974 That's evidently been GotD too. |
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Nov-20-11
 | | jackpawn: Sad that such a great player has only 5 pages of comments. Portish was a world class player for about 25 years, but apparently he's forgotten today. |
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Feb-02-12
 | | twinlark: Interesting interview with Portisch (linked in the bio). |
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Feb-02-12
 | | ketchuplover: bump!!! |
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Feb-02-12
 | | parisattack: An interesting Interview with GM Portisch on ChessBase.com. Something I personally found interesting:
Q - How would you characterize your own style in chess? A - Positional. I was always very positional.
I interviewed Portisch for the school newspaper when he was in Denver on the way to the Church's Fried Chicken tournament. I had always thought he said he and Fischer were both tacticians. But upon reading the CB piece, I pulled the actual news clipping (Colorado Daily) for 22 Nov 1972: Q - What of the new World Champion? You have played him often and have a credible record against him. How would you say your style differs from his? A - As far as style, there is actually little difference. We are both positional players. The biggest difference is that I prefer to open the game with 1. P-Q4 and Fischer always prefers 1. P-K4. Portisch was very pleasant through the entire interview - but it was tough to get him to volunteer much more than a basic answer to my questions. He seems to have opened up some in the intervening years. |
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| Feb-02-12 | | bronkenstein: That shameless bump reminded me of the mentioned interview part one ---> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... and freshly available part two (the final part) --->http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Feb-03-12
| | twinlark: Doesn't anyone read bios? The interviews were posted there as soon as chessbase published them. |
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Feb-03-12
 | | WannaBe: Bios?! Bios!? We need no stinkin' bios. |
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| Feb-03-12 | | AlphaMale: Bios are not the place for links to newly published articles/interviews. <Portisch was very pleasant through the entire interview - but it was tough to get him to volunteer much more than a basic answer to my questions. He seems to have opened up some in the intervening years.> I'm confused. When did you interview him? |
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Feb-03-12
 | | TheFocus: <parisattack> I knew you were a renowned international author, but conducting chess interviews too? Their are many interesting facets to you, my friend. |
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Feb-03-12
| | parisattack: <TheFocus: <parisattack> I knew you were a renowned international author, but conducting chess interviews too? Their are many interesting facets to you, my friend.> :) I did the chess column for the school during the high-tide of the Fischer interest when just about everyone wanted to learn chess. The club went from 15 or so members to over 100 for a few months. A few perks there - but perhaps not for the younger CG.com ears. Over a beer or two or three at the Shorebird beach bar, perhaps soon? I did also interview Linda Ronstadt right after she broke from the Pony. WHAT A DOLL! |
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Feb-03-12
| | parisattack: <AlphaMale ....I'm confused. When did you interview him?> Evening of 20 November 1972. Went to the then fashionable Playboy Club with him and the club 'big wigs' afterwards. Recounted earlier in this Forum. |
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Feb-03-12
| | TheFocus: <Over a beer or two or three at the Shorebird beach bar, perhaps soon?> You got it. Shorebird used to be my hangout on Sundays after a morning in the sun. I would go for mai tais and a mahi mahi sandwich! They have a great breakfast and lunch buffet too. |
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