| Aug-10-05 |
| Runemaster: One of the many strong Soviet masters who are largely forgotten now. Although Kan was only awarded the IM title in 1950, he was easily GM strength by today's standards, as well as giving his name to a variation of the Sicilian Defence. A quick look through Kan's games in the database shows that he had wins against Botvinnik (3), Korchnoi (2), Petrosian, Smyslov, Kotov, Taimanov, Ragozin (4), Flohr (3), Bondarevsky and Levenfish. |
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| Feb-06-06 |
| Catholic Bishop: haha da KAN! |
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| Feb-06-06 |
| Jim Bartle: Never played outside the USSR until 1968? |
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Feb-06-06
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| Resignation Trap: <Jim Bartle> Not even then! The games against Day, Fuller and Kuligowski were played by someone else. |
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| Feb-06-06 |
| Jim Bartle: Fascinating. Can you give some more details? |
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Feb-07-06
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| Benzol: This game M Fuller vs Kan, 1973 was played by Wai Shui Kan not Ilia Kan. It actually says so in the gamescore but somehow it ended up in Ilia's file. |
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| Apr-08-06 |
| Zebra: So at last I have discovered who one of my favourite variations of the Sicilian was named after. Or at least I assume I have got the right guy? |
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Apr-09-06
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| Benzol: <Zebra> Yes, you've got the right guy. |
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| Jun-11-06 |
| gilbertblondy: Bonjour à tous
Please, what is IA?
About Kan : He was awarded the IM title in 1950 and became an IA in 1956.
Merci |
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| Jun-11-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Ilia Abramovich Kan KAN, Ilia A.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/kan_ilia.htm
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Jun-11-06
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| Benzol: <gilbertblondy> IA stands for International Arbiter. |
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| Jun-11-06 |
| WTHarvey: Here's a little collection of critical positions from Ilia's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/kan.html |
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| Jul-22-06 |
| Akiba: Not to take anything away from Kan, who was certainly a strong player in his day, but the issue of naming variations never ceases to amaze me. Why are B41-B44, the Paulsen Variation as it is called in Germany (and probably with more historical justification), named after Kan, who has 5 games with it in this database, the earliest of them from 1952, and who had scored 0-4 and 1 draw with it (in this database, there are probably a couple of games missing)? And it's not even as if he was the first to play this line after Paulsen; Tartakower regularly employed it in the 1920s, and with decent success (among them a draw against Em. Lasker in NY 1924). |
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| Sep-29-06 |
| Eggman: <<he was easily GM strength by today's standards, as well as giving his name to a variation of the Sicilian Defence.>> And the Caro-Kan!! |
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| Sep-30-06 |
| nescio: <Eggman: And the Caro-Kan!!> Horatio Caro
Marcus Kann |
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| Sep-30-06 |
| Eggman: So I was wrong! UnKanny! |
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| May-04-08 |
| DarthStapler: kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Jul-13-08 |
| rjfsworstnightmare: So this makes chess a Kan game... |
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| Jul-13-08 |
| rjfsworstnightmare: A Russian database cites 390 games, 118W 147D 124L, for a 49.2%. He is ranked 248 lifetime; Sonas, who knows, go figure... |
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Feb-23-09
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| Pyrrhus: Akiba, the Kan Sicilian is not the same as the Paulsen variation. In the Paulsen variation a6 or Qc7 is played after Nc6, in the Kan a6 is played prior to Nc6. Though transpositions are not infrequent it is also not uncommon for the Kan player not to play Nc6 at all. Often the Kan leads to hedgehog type set ups. It should also be noted that those who contribute to opening theory do not necessarily play the openings they analyze, but introduce them to the rest of us. |
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| Apr-05-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: Yes, he Kan! :) |
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