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| Petrosianic: Well, Taimanov was never a threat again, so the claim is one quarter correct. |
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| Jan-13-10 |
| Petrosianic: <Other sufferers include Morphy, Capablanca and Fischer.> Heck, sufferers include pretty much every world champion except Karpov and Kasparov. |
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Jan-13-10
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| keypusher: <Petrosianic: Well, Taimanov was never a threat again, so the claim is one quarter correct.> Yeah, but he was never a threat before, either. :-) |
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| Jan-13-10 |
| Petrosianic: Shh! We're not supposed to notice that. |
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Jan-13-10
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| TheFocus: <Petrosianic>< "Spassky's 100 Best Games" was pretty good, but I haven't seen a copy in years.> www.abebooks.com has several copies for under $10.00. |
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Jan-29-10
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| Billy Vaughan: Spassky's the guest of honor at Gibtelcom.
Is he the guest of honor <everywhere>? He spectates like every tournament. |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| Karnatakiaditya: Happy Birthday Sir! One of the most humble World Champions and a very nice human being! |
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Jan-30-10
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| wordfunph: happy birthday Boris Spassky! |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| drnooo: At some point someone a lot smarter than I should go over the very top 60s players and either shrink the ratings back to around Spasskys or raise his and probably 10 other of the top players then to the current inflation and do it in ELO. Spassky is clearly not 100 points below Krammnik Carlsen Anand, etc |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| drnooo: The unhappiest period of my life was when I was world champion.... Boris Spassky |
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Jan-30-10
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| talisman: Happy Birthday Boris. The "most admired" chess champion. |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| drnooo: Not to quibble too much with one of the posts here, since he is largely correct about lessening of interest after reaching the top (for some) but that was not the case with Morphy. He for a few years was more than willing to play anyone. Staunton to the point. What got Morphy was that nobody would take his being a lawyer seriously in the south(also this was right after the war between the states, he tried to hang his shingle in New York even, but there too his renown had followed him and the horrible sobriquet of chess player,"hes a great chess player" was a terrible din in his ears for years. After that it was not even a neutral feeling: he loathed the game. Had he been able to live in both worlds easily there seems to reason to believe he would have not been comfortable with the title. Bobby Jones in golf always insisted on retaining his amateur status, continued as a lawyer, retired at the top, is still considered by some as the best player that ever lived.
By all accounts Fisher tried to play Karpov under the table in several attempts. He hardly ran from him, though some say he did, since by those accounts it was he not Karpov than went on insisting to demands that cound not me met. Karpov wanted the match and in a way they came close with these strange meetings in Japan. So who knows. |
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| talisman: <drnooo> enjoyed your post. you know something i've always wondered about, being from Baton Rouge, is how much Morphy Not fighting in the Civil War affected how others treated him?
sidenote: my great great grandfather's rocking chair i have. cold harbor...2 time POW. |
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Jan-30-10
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| karnak64: Happy birthday, champ! |
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Jan-30-10
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| HeMateMe: From Wiki:
"Unfortunately, Morphy's embryonic law career was disrupted in 1861 by the outbreak of< the American Civil War>. Opposed to secession, Morphy did not serve in the Confederate Army. During the war he lived partly in New Orleans and partly abroad, spending time in Paris and Havana, Cuba. Possibly because of his antiwar stance, Morphy was unable to successfully build a law practice even after the war ended. His attempts to open a law office failed; when he had visitors, they invariably wanted to talk about chess, not their legal affairs. Financially secure thanks to his family fortune, Morphy essentially spent the rest of his life in idleness. Asked by admirers to return to chess competition, he refused. The Morphy mansion, sold by the family in 1891, is today the site of <Brennan's, a famous New Orleans restaurant.>" the article mentions that the Morphy's were wealthy, doesn't mention whether or not they were slave owners. One might reason that a wealty family in New Orleans were large land owners, but they may have been successful in another area, like law, insurance, or retail business. Doesn't say if his whole family was anti slavery, anti secession. Even if they were, New Orleans is/was a sort of cosmopolitan city, not like rural Georgia or Virginia. The residents of New Orleans may not have felt any particular kinship with people in St. Petersberg or Richmond. I get the vibe that not being pro secessionist isn't the reason that Morphy had no law career. Even people like lawyers and accountants have to 'sell' their services, have a certain personality, to draw in customers, along with being competent. Paul Morphy may not have had this ingredient in his makeup. |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| miguelito: felicidadaes campeon , la vida te dio la tristeza de haber perdido a tus padres en la guerra cuando eras pequeño y dios te compenso con un talento inigualable y una personalidad honesta y caballerosa . |
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Jan-30-10
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| muwatalli: happy birthday spassky. may you see many more and enjoy them all. |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| WhiteRook48: after fischer became champion, spassky was like heavily underrated all the time |
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| Jan-30-10 |
| Fanques Fair: Great Spassky ! One of the most agressive (in chess) world chess champions of all times, at the same time a sensible man. |
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Jan-31-10
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| KingG: 3 hours of Spassky commentary here : http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.c.... I love his expression 'chookie' for 'check'. |
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Jan-31-10
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| Open Defence: < KingG: 3 hours of Spassky commentary here : http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.c.... I love his expression 'chookie' for 'check'.> and nookie for mate ? ;-p |
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Jan-31-10
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| KingG: <Open Defence> Lol. |
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| Feb-07-10 |
| 5hrsolver: Would not it be nice if Spassky wrote a book about his 1972 match with Fischer. I am sure it is a time in Spassky's life that he would rather forget. But it would prove an invaluable documentary from the man who sat closest to Fischer during the championship match. One many people would be grateful for. And also I think this book would sell very well. Just stay away from the politics (or touch very briefly on it). Write about how he felt during every phase and every game of the match. His observations of Fischer. His mistakes even. How accurate was Fischer's preparation for the match. I am sure there are a lot of interesting stories that happened during the match. How he and his seconds studied games during adjournment. Of course it is up to spassky to provide the level of detail he would want to put out to chess fans. Also it would be a nice tribute to Bobby Fischer to talk about the finest time in his life. |
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Mar-08-10
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| hedgeh0g: I had a Spassky hairdo when I got up this morning. I decided to keep it so that everyone would think I was good at chess, but alas, I don't think anybody recognised me... |
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Mar-08-10
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| HeMateMe: I think Boris is somewhat allergic to hard work. He certainly could have written a few good chess books in his time; I guess he doesn't want to do the reasearch. He has certainly lived through some interesting chess history, and helped create it. the matches with Petrosain and Karpov, a lot of good stuff. |
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