Hillar Karner
Number of games in database: 158
Years covered: 1958 to 2001
Last FIDE rating: 2251
Highest rating achieved in database: 2405
Overall record: +39 -70 =49 (40.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (7)      B40 B51 B31 B55 B30  Queen's Pawn Game (6)      A46 A40 D02 E10  Reti System (5)      A04 A05  Queen's Indian (4)      E15 E17 E16  Nimzo Indian (4)      E46 E42 E41  French Defense (4)      C16 C00 C07 C11	With the Black pieces:  Queen's Indian (13)      E15 E12 E17 E16  Sicilian (10)      B80 B97 B84 B30 B54  Queen's Pawn Game (7)      A46 D05 A41 D02 E00  Robatsch (7)      B06  French Defense (5)      C03 C02 C15 C01  English, 1 c4 e5 (4)      A25 A27 A21

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   H Karner vs Karpov, 1972 1-0
   H Karner vs Mass, 1971 1-0
   H Karner vs V Rozhdestvensky, 1958 1-0
   H Karner vs Ulf Andersson, 1973 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Tallinn (1973)

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HILLAR KARNER (born 1935) Estonia [what is this?] Hillar Kärner was born on the 27th or 28th of July 1935 in Tallinn. He was Estonian champion in 1970, 1975, 1977, 1983 (=Alexander Veingold), 1984, 1985 and 1987. He was awarded the IM title in 1980.

page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 158  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. H Karner vs V Rozhdestvensky   1-0 24 1958 Estonia D92 Grunfeld, 5.Bf4 2. H Karner vs Kotov   0-1 46 1962 Ch URS tt B06 Robatsch 3. H Karner vs Keres 0-1 40 1966 Tallinn Kalev-Joud E10 Queen's Pawn Game 4. Keres vs H Karner   1-0 32 1966 Tallinn Kalev-Joud D92 Grunfeld, 5.Bf4 5. Keres vs H Karner 1-0 40 1967 Tallinn Kalev-Joud C49 Four Knights 6. H Karner vs Tal 0-1 36 1967 USSR Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 7. Y Kagan vs H Karner   1-0 26 1967 USSR Championship B08 Pirc, Classical 8. H Karner vs Keres   1-0 46 1967 Tallinn Kalev-Joud E15 Queen's Indian 9. H Karner vs G Borisenko   1-0 42 1968 URS-chT A04 Reti Opening 10. I Nei vs H Karner   ½-½ 25 1968 URS-chT B54 Sicilian 11. Taimanov vs H Karner   1-0 29 1968 Riga E00 Queen's Pawn Game 12. H Karner vs Suetin   0-1 40 1969 URS A71 Benoni, Classical, 8.Bg5 13. H Karner vs Keres   0-1 36 1969 Tallinn Kalev-Joud D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 14. Keres vs H Karner   1-0 48 1969 Tallinn Kalev-Joud A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System 15. H Karner vs A Vooremaa   ½-½ 37 1971 Parnu it D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 16. Tal vs H Karner 0-1 30 1971 Piarnu C15 French, Winawer 17. Keres vs H Karner 1-0 45 1971 Parnu Inf12/421 B60 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer 18. Lutikov vs H Karner   ½-½ 56 1971 Parnu it E41 Nimzo-Indian 19. T Oim vs H Karner   ½-½ 47 1971 Parnu it E15 Queen's Indian 20. H Karner vs Mass 1-0 9 1971 Bjelzy E17 Queen's Indian 21. I Nei vs H Karner   ½-½ 20 1971 Parnu it E17 Queen's Indian 22. Stein vs H Karner   ½-½ 22 1971 Parnu (Estonia) E09 Catalan, Closed 23. H Karner vs H Pohla   ½-½ 39 1971 Parnu it B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 24. H Karner vs R Etruk   1-0 58 1971 Parnu it A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System 25. H Karner vs U Tarve   1-0 38 1971 Parnu it E46 Nimzo-Indian  page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 158

Jul-17-07    whiteshark: Here is a picture taken 2005: http://www.chessbase.de/2005/keresm... Sep-30-08    offramp: Thanks for that. It is nice to be able to visualize the face of the man that owns The Hand That Shook The World. Sep-30-08    whiteshark: You are welcome! I sometimes mix it with 28th April 2006 on the Euston Road. Sep-30-08    jon01: Kärner is currently playing Tallinn Champioships 2008. Here is a video of him from January 2008 Estonia-Finland 100 boards match. It's a quite hilarious game, if you look at 0:50-1:30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCx... Oct-01-08    whiteshark: From the youtube video (start at 0m:40s), Nevanlinna-Karner: click for larger view <1...d2 2.Ra5 d1Q 3.Bxd1 Bxd1 4.Ke3=> (tablebase draw) <4... Bc2 5.Rc5 Bd3 6.Rd5 Bf1 7.Ra5 Bg2 8.Kf2 Bh1 9.Ke3> (karner is doing some sipping now and uncorked...) <9...Bf3 10.Rb5 Bh5 11.Ra5 Bf7 12.Rc5 Bg6 13.Ra5 Ke6 14.Ra6+ Bd6 15.Kd4 Kd7 16.Kd5> shake hands, draw agreed Was White Risto Nevanlinna ?

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