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Oct-09-07
 | | parisattack: I believe his wife often accompanied him to tournaments. Couple of pics of her + Salo on the Internet. Pleasant looking woman it seems. |
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| Jun-21-08 | | Resignation Trap: <weisyschwarz> and <parisattack> Flohr and his wife apparently liked cats as well: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... . |
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| Jun-21-08 | | whiskeyrebel: I know from experience that cats can keep quiet during a players long hours of chess study. Dogs (and some spouses too so I am told) yap too much. |
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Nov-21-08
 | | brankat: One hundred years today, since Salo Flohr's birth!
R.I.P. Sir. |
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Nov-21-08
 | | talisman: happy birtday salo. |
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| Nov-21-08 | | Pyke: Happy Birthday to "my" second! |
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| Nov-21-08 | | GeauxCool: Happy Birthday GMSF! |
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| Nov-21-08 | | fich: Happy Birthday Mr. Flohr! It sure is an honor to have the same birthday with a great player as you. R.I.P. |
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Feb-09-09
| | parisattack: I just finished playing over the games of Flohr in Jimmy Adams' book and - once again - amazed at seeing so many undiscovered jewels! He certainly seems close to Rubinstein and Smyslov in style. |
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| Nov-21-09 | | eternaloptimist: Salo Flohr will always be a special player to me. The 2nd collection of chess games that I ever studied was Salo Flohr's Best Games of Chess, by Salo Flohr (1985 - translated from Russian by Gregory S. Donges). It is a great book & had a profound influence on my playing style. Only Karpov influenced me more. Karpov's book My Best Games was the 1st collection of chess games that I studied. I studied Flohr's book back when I was in my teens shortly after the book was published. He was a great endgame player, & he also made some major contributions to opening theory: there is a 'Flohr variation' in the Caro-Kann Defense, the Ruy Lopez, the English Opening, and the Grünfeld Defense. I'm sure there are at least a couple more variations that were named after him. He must be considered a legend among chess players & a player that will be remembered for the huge impact that he made on chess. |
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Nov-21-09
 | | HeMateMe: I remember reading remenisences of players from Flor's era. Some said, at his peak in the '30s, Flohr was more feared than Alekhine, Capa or any other player at that time. |
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Jun-29-10
| | parisattack: <HeMateMe: I remember reading remenisences of players from Flor's era. Some said, at his peak in the '30s, Flohr was more feared than Alekhine, Capa or any other player at that time.> I am not sure on all of that - but - for a few years in the 1930s he played some of the most beautiful games of chess of all time! I see him more in the Rubinstein/Smyslov lineage than Karpov although more than a little overlap. There are three English language collections of his games; all worth having, studying. |
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| Aug-11-10 | | Resignation Trap: Photo of Flohr at Podebrady 1936: http://smzsnzz.wz.cz/fotky1/0115.JPG |
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Nov-21-10
| | brankat: Happy Birthday and R.I.P. GM Flohr. |
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Nov-21-10
| | talisman: happy birthday to one of my all-time favorites. |
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May-18-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Salo Flohr>
Live film footage of <Flohr> vs. <Botvinnik>: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_6... |
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| Aug-09-11 | | Antiochus: 1161 games of Salo Flohr are here:
http://www.gambitchess.com/antiques... |
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Nov-21-11
| | brankat: Happy Birthday Salo! |
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Nov-21-11
| | HeMateMe: I'm Flohred by his chess. |
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Nov-21-11
| | talisman: happy birthday salo. |
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Nov-21-12
| | brankat: Best wishes. once again. |
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Nov-21-12
| | HeMateMe: Maybe you could reach korchnoi, and, with a medium, have a consultation game with Salo? |
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Nov-21-12
| | talisman: happy birthday to one of the all-time greats. |
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Feb-25-13
 | | Conrad93: It's hard to believe how few Jews there are no in Ukraine after World War II.
Kiev is famous as the Yiddish writer's capital of the world. |
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| Apr-21-13 | | Everett: Hello all Flohr admirers.
From Botvinnik's notes on this game Fischer vs Petrosian, 1971 ... he writes after Petrosian's 17th:
<17...g6
White has mobilized all his pieces, but Black's position is invulnerable as the one of a curly. During the years 1930-40 it was Flohr who created similar positions> I am guessing "curly" means "coil." Anyways, can anyone point me in the direction of games like this? Thank you very much in advance! If I see some "coiled" games myself, I will post them. |
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