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| enigmaticcam: Who is Florin Gheorghiu? |
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| Dec-17-04 |
| kostich in time: Strong Rumanian Grandmaster, won three straight US opens. He liked to play in the US, especiaally near Civil War battlefields. ( he was a history buff). He specialized in the Kan and the Hedgehog English with black. won a famous game agianst Fischer at the 66 Havana Olympiad( that was the olympiad where Fischer played so magnificently) |
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Dec-30-04
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| Benzol: Florin Gheorghiu
Born 6th April 1944 in Bucharest
An IM in 1963 and GM in 1965 he was World junior champion in 1963
He also won the Romanian championship in 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1977 and 1984. |
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| Jul-02-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles from Florin's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/gheo.html |
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| Jul-02-05 |
| MrSifter: Beat Fischer. |
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| Jul-02-05 |
| EinZweiDrei: He suffered an extravagent loss against Kasparov in the Petrosian System of the QID, which game was featured in Yaz Seirawan's 'Winning Chess Brilliancies'. |
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| Jul-02-05 |
| Giancarlo: Beat Fischer yes, but a very young Fischer at that. |
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Jul-02-05
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| iron maiden: Fischer was 24 when Gheorghiu beat him, so we're not talking Tal here. In any case Gheorghiu was even younger at the time. |
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| Jul-02-05 |
| Giancarlo: oh, my apologies, I thought it had been played in 56, not 66. My bad. |
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| Oct-08-05 |
| cracky90: Actually, in 4 games they ever played, he held Bobby Fischer to a Draw(+1=2-1). He was a strong grandmaster, just an inch away from becoming two times junior world champion.(just missed it in 1961). He was playing chess and at the same time he had a job as a journalist. His best period appears to be in the early 80s when he was a top20 rating player. With white he had a very powerful weapon against the Nimzo: the Samich Attack, he beat Bobby with that. Some of his greatest achievements were winning at Hastings and qualifying for two zonals and an interzonal. Also, he won the Philipines (Manila) Open in 1970 with 11/11, beating Bobby's record of 10.5/11 an year earlier. |
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Apr-06-07
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| gambitfan: Player of the Day (PLOD) 06/04/2007 |
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| Apr-06-07 |
| nescio: There are players who have the talent to become at least a candidate for the World Championship, but never quite make it due to certain circumstances or qualities of character. An example which I remember vividly is Istvan Csom who was one of the best positional players in the world, but seemed to lack the energy to calculate variations to the end. Gheorghiu was also one of these players, but with him it was an extremely weak nervous system that stood in the way. Just read what <ToTheDeath> wrote on the game Larsen vs Gheorghiu, 1970 and you see what I mean. Perhaps due to this he developed some less agreeable character traits over the board on which I will not dwell on his birthday. |
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| May-11-07 |
| dixi82: Gheorghiu was a terrific player, especially as a junior. He has a LOT of unpublished games that are great to analyse and play through, games mostly found in romanian chess books and chess magazines. Not many people know about his game against Kinnmark where he concluded with a great combination; in fact, many of his games are easily overlooked. I was looking in his "Best games" book, (1959-1970), and i came to the match Romania-Hungary ('61 i believe), where he beat Portisch in both games they had! I'm mentioning this because the record of Portisch against Gheorghiu is about 7 to 1 on this database :) If chessgames.com is willing to accept some annotated matches of Gheorghiu, I will gladly make a PGN with some. I tried this before, sending two annotated games, but I got no reply. All in all, Gheorghiu was a great player. His games teach me about chess in general every time in play through his games. I really liked his style, attacking chess. |
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May-12-07
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| Caissanist: <Dixi82> Feel free to post the PGN of these games as annotations in the comments area of this page, it sounds like it would be quite interesting. The admins may or may not accept the games for upload eventually, but they've never objected to anyone from putting them in the comments area. |
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| May-12-07 |
| nescio: <Dixi82> I don't think a pgn with annotations will be accepted, but why not submit the bare pgn and comment on the games when they are uploaded? Meanwhile <Caissanist>'s idea to post the games here can be considered. |
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| May-12-07 |
| dixi82: Excellent idea! I will shortly post on his page at least a game, with Gheorghiu's annotations, with the caveat that most variations of opening lines he gives are not "modern". |
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Aug-20-07
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| Fusilli: Gheorghiu's achievements are remarkable, but I'm particularly impressed by his winning the Romanian championship for the first time at 16 (!) |
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| Aug-25-08 |
| myschkin: . . .
Photo:
http://www.nagrocki.net/images/Flor... "GM Florin Gheorghiu studierte Sprachwissenschaften, wurde Schachprofi und später auch Redakteur der führenden rumänischen Schachzeitschrift. Er gilt als Positionsspieler, der seine Partien sehr solide anlegt und dadurch nur schwer zu schlagen ist. Bei Turnieren wurde er häufig "Remiskönig". In seinen Glanzpartien loderte jedoch das feurige Temperament seiner südlichen Heimat." http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin...
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| Apr-03-09 |
| BIDMONFA: Florin Gheorghiu GHEORGHIU, Florin
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gheorghiu_f...
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Apr-06-09
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| wordfunph: GM Florin Gheorghiu....the guy who beat Bobby Fischer during the Havana Olympiad, Happy Birthday GM Gheorghiu!!! |
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Jul-03-09
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| Knight13: This guy has a good record of drawing Karpov during Mr. K's prime, too. |
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Nov-11-09
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| fred lennox: gheorghlu is not as well known as Ljubojevic and Andersson. In the mid to late 70's these three masters tore down the Maroczy Bind. That is, black playing against the Bind is not the disadvantage it was thought to be. Renato Naranja vs Gheorghiu, 1974. At this time cramp positions were being reevaluated for counter attacks. Or it seems to be. |
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| Nov-11-09 |
| Shams: <fred lennox> that's a fine game, but it's not a Maroczy Bind game. I was hoping to see a nice takedown of the Bind. |
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Nov-12-09
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| fred lennox: <shams> whoops! the few games i have that show this by Gheorghliu are not on this site. I hope this game from the Old Horse will satisfy you. M Lanzani vs Smyslov, 1988 |
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Nov-12-09
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| fred lennox: The thing about the maroczy bind is that it isn't the rosy picture for white as once thought. Not because things are found easier for black, no the situation for black is not easy. It's been found that things aren't so easy for white, making for an interesting formation. Not all players had concur to the reputable bind. Nimzowitch, Simagin, Larson, and Gurgenidze played against it with success. It wasn't until the seventies, i believe, that this attitude was more broadly accepted. Though the Bind is a formidable weapon, don't mean to treat is lightly. |
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