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Aug-11-10 | | wordfunph: GM Vladimir Bagirov's pension in Riga was paltry. Winning the World Senior Championship in 1998 brought Bagirov not only moral satisfaction: the prize, although nothing special, was more than two years of his pension. (Source: The Reliable Past by Genna Sosonko) |
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Aug-11-10 | | wordfunph: "You must understand. I can't manage without chess. Without chess, there is no reason for me to liveā¦" - GM Vladimir Bagirov |
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Aug-11-10 | | wordfunph: When Vladimir Bagirov became a Grandmaster late in life, at the age of 42, "When he phoned home, he was crying with happiness," recalls his widow Iraida Bagirova. "At last I am a
Grandmaster! I am a Grandmaster!" he kept repeating.
(Source: The Reliable Past by Genna Sosonko) |
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Feb-11-11 | | TheaN: For a player looking for off-beat (white) openings after a pretty terrible (still ongoing) season Bagirov is definitely worth to study. Although his Alekhine % is not that major it's pretty high for a black opening, and his NLA % is insane even for white standards, losing only seven in what's supposed to be a 'good game' for black in the followup. Maybe I'm going to check the NLA a bit more. |
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Feb-26-11 | | Resignation Trap: I had never seen a photograph of Bagirov until this last week. Here it is: http://www.chesspro.ru/_images/mate... . |
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Feb-26-11
 | | Phony Benoni: <Resignation Trap> He definitely looks like The Most Interesting Chess Player in the World. Obviously not the clean-cut conventional type so favored by Soviet authorities. BIDMONFA also provided a photograph above, clearly taken many years later. |
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Feb-26-11
 | | HeMateMe: He doesn't always drink beer, but when he does, DosXX? |
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Feb-26-11 | | kudubux: <Resignation Trap> For awhile, I thought it was the actor Oliver Platt in the picture. :) |
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May-19-11 | | The17thPawn: Anyone who can play Bronstein and come out even has my respect. I'll be looking further at this gentleman's games. |
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Aug-04-11 | | waustad: Ya gotta love a player who plays 1.) b3. I've enjoyed playing the Nimzo-Larsen (baby orangutang) at times too. |
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May-31-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Rock on, GM Bagirov!
:) LTJ |
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Aug-16-13 | | Abdel Irada: <If you believe some people on this site 1.e4 Nf6 is virtually a forced loss for black!> I've always had excellent results with the Alekhine.
There's one way to play against it that always concerns me, and which I meet with trepidation, but fortunately most people don't play it. In fact, most players below 2400 (and occasionally some above it) seem to have little idea how to play against this daringly hypermodern defense. Perhaps their problem is precisely that they listened to all the people who called it a forced loss and never bothered to study its real complexities, taking a "theoretical" advantage for a victory. The fluid asymmetry of its positions does tend toward decisive results, but it does not lend itself to engine evaluation. Against certain players this also makes it a dangerous surprise, and not infrequently the decision somehow fails to go the way White anticipated. ;-) ∞ |
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Aug-16-13 | | World of Tomorrow: <Abdel Irada> Are you implying that it is theoretically a "forced" loss for Black if White plays that one variation which most people don't? |
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Aug-17-13 | | Abdel Irada: <World of Tomorrow: <Abdel Irada> Are you implying that it is theoretically a "forced" loss for Black if White plays that one variation which most people don't?> No. Merely that it makes equalizing more difficult and slower, and forces Black to play a position of uncongenial (relative) passivity, with constant vigilance required to avoid an early disadvantage. (On the other hand, it's not necessarily White's first choice either, thanks to its drawish tendencies when played correctly.) ∞ |
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Aug-16-18
 | | FSR: The poor guy died less than a month shy of his 64th birthday. He was thus unable to join the pantheon of players who died at age 64, a list than now includes Robert James Fischer, Wilhelm Steinitz, Howard Staunton, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Albin Planinc, Edmar J Mednis, Maximilian Ujtelky, Octavio Troianescu, Claude Frizzel Bloodgood, and Karl Marx. |
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Feb-15-19
 | | Telemus: A tweet by Anand (see
https://twitter.com/vishy64theking/..., punctuation modified):<I remember my first GM interaction. I got to play a simul against GM Bagirov. I offered a draw. The GM came to me, picked up his Rook and my bishop and said in his thick Russian accent said "You see Bishop and you see Rook and you say DRAW?" My first GM lesson on piece evaluation.> Bagirov was also the first GM I played in a simul. This time he offered a draw and I declined. |
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Apr-13-20 | | Pulpofeira: How did it end? |
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Oct-03-20 | | Wanda Nida: encyclopediasupreme.org/0000/Bagirov.txt |
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Oct-03-20 | | Wanda Nida: chessgames, where did you get 2487 rating for bagirov, it was over 2550, duh:
https://old.chesstempo.com/gamedb/p... |
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Jul-15-22 | | Reviews By AdiN: bagirov died playing official chess game and he was probably winning, so did the tournament director call it technical draw? it's good to go loving what you do, like bing crosby did... he and his partner played 3 pro golfers in spain and doctor warned crosby not to play more than 9 holes, but he played 18 and he won and when he said: "my, that was a swell game", he dropped dead! nytimes.com/1977/10/15/archives/bing-crosby-73-d-
ies-in-madrid-at-golf-course-bing-crosby-73-dies-
-at.html |
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Aug-16-23
 | | Gottschalk: peak FIDE rating 2560 JAN !980
World Rank position 30TH
http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo198... |
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Mar-29-24 | | ADmightywarriorIN: as with emory tate since he croaked at the chess table, what were games results, what are rules today, is this email for fide president office@fide.com or whats his direct email? if you croak at the chess table, no matter what the position, it should be technical draw! |
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Mar-29-24
 | | Fusilli: <if you croak at the chess table, no matter what the position, it should be technical draw!> I don't see any logic to that. There are a thousand other things that may happen during a chess game that force you to leave it. In any case, you abandoned it, regardless of reason. Life (and death) happens. Forfeiture seems appropriate to me, otherwise it'd be unfair to the winner. What if you are playing vs the weakest player in the tournament (whom everyone else defeated and collected the point) and he dies on you? Why should you be the one who didn't get to beat him? |
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Apr-02-24 | | technical draw: Please no talking about <technical draw> and croaking! |
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Apr-03-24
 | | Fusilli: <technical draw: Please no talking about <technical draw> and croaking!> Ha! |
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