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Jul-15-13
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| Jul-15-13 | | talisman: <FSR> I just saw this book and was thinking about getting it. do you recommend it? |
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Jul-16-13
| | FSR: <talisman> It's pretty good. Struck me as not quite as good as some of his prior books. I was a little disappointed that he stopped with Petrosian. |
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| Jul-16-13 | | talisman: thanks <FSR>...i'll think i'll get it. |
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| Jul-17-13 | | Caissanist: Sosonko seems to prefer to write about people who are no longer alive, so he can write more honestly. He and Spassky apparently knew each other fairly well, I am sure he will have plenty to say after Spassky is gone. |
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| Nov-03-13 | | Conrad93: His names gets mentioned often when it comes to the Winanwer. |
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Nov-05-13
 | | perfidious: Sosonko has no games with the Winawer French in this DB-what are you maundering on about now? He has always played the Sicilian. |
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| Apr-22-14 | | Conrad93: Many books mention Sosonko when referring to the Winawer. |
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| Apr-22-14 | | Conrad93: The fact that the database is small, and the fact your are unfamiliar with the French is not my problem. |
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| Apr-22-14 | | N0B0DY: <perfidious> Oh, I see 'the idiot' is making untenable assertions once again. For the facts:
Sosonko has played only two French games:
Tseshkovsky vs Sosonko, 1977 <Rubinstein Variation. Blackburne Defense (C10)> and R Ravisekhar vs Sosonko, 1984 a <Classical C13 French> by transposition based on the latest chessbase database with 5.79 million games. |
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| Dec-31-14 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Most consecutive games unbeaten at Chess Olympiads:
1) Tigran Petrosian:94
2) Boris Spassky: 86
3) Vasily Ivanchuk: 84
4) Paul Keres: 76
5) Zoltan Ribli: 67
6) Vladimir Kramnik: 64
7) Mikhail Tal: 62
8) Borislav Ivkov: 51
9) Julio Bolbochán: 50
10) Gennady Sosonko: 47 |
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May-18-15
 | | eternaloptimist: Happy birthday to GM Sosonko! |
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| May-23-15 | | TheFocus: <The Soviet Chess School had wonderful coaches who worked constantly with the young. That was its defining characteristic. Compare that to the 1960s and 70s in Holland, for example, when there weren’t any professional coaches. But the computerisation of that sphere has made it possible to rapidly learn what previously required months and sometimes even years. In many ways that explains Carlsen’s success as well. The best coach now is the computer, if you use it correctly. I doubt Carlsen has read Nimzowitsch’s books. He learns from the games he replays> - This was Dutch GM Genna Sosonko’s response to the question of why ex-Soviet players have failed to dominate the World Championship since the fall of the Iron Curtain. |
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| May-18-18 | | Ironmanth: Happy birthday, Grandmaster! |
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| Nov-06-18 | | Caissanist: Has anyone read his recent biographies (or "biographies") of Bronstein and Korchnoi? I like Sosonko's writing a lot, but they seem kind of pricey. |
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| Nov-06-18 | | hemy: "Siluetas del ajedrez ruso" - Spanish language book of Sosonko. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dammmwctx... |
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| Jan-27-21 | | m.okun: In 1975 G. Sosonko won the match against former world champion Max Euwe 1.5:0.5. |
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| May-18-23 | | WickedPawn: He was black in all his notable wins! Never seen anything like this. He should write “Black is winning” as sequel to Adorjan’s “Black is OK” |
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May-18-23
| | perfidious: In all likelihood, that is a function of Sosonko's style; his opening play as White was typical of a solid, professional GM, whereas with Black, he was a counterpuncher. |
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May-01-25
 | | Sally Simpson: Hans Ree in his book 'My Chess' explains, or at least has a theory as to why the cover of Sosonko's book 'Smart Chip from St. Petersburg ' has what looks like Tal and Spassky playing chess on a board the wrong way round. https://sahmatlista.wordpress.com/w... The picture has been flipped. (Spassky wore his watch on left wrist is another clue) Hans Ree, slightly tongue in cheek, thinks this was done on purpose because chess books reviewers, to give the impression they have actually read a book, look for a nitpick to highlight. The publishers decided to give them one on the cover so they could concentrate on the review. |
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May-25-25
| | Sally Simpson: "When I replay the games of the great old masters and compare them with the modern games, I get the impression that the ruins of beauty are even more striking than beauty itself. However impressive modern glass-and-concrete buildings may be, the Pompei ruins are no less impressive. It is impossible to say which music is 'better' - old or modern - and in the same way we can't say what chess gives us more pleasure - Greco, Morphy, Steinitz, Capablanca, Tal
or Kasparov. But fortunately chess is very versatile, and different people like different things about it." Gennadi Sosonko, 'The Reliable Past.' page 12. https://archive.org/details/thereli... |
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Aug-08-25
| | perfidious: I had no idea the Soviet authorities were so set on punishing Sosonko after his defection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE#... |
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| Aug-08-25 | | Olavi: <perfidious>
Sosonko did not defect, he emigrated with permission. True, it did not endear him to the Soviet authorities. |
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| Aug-08-25 | | Olavi: See his own text given in the footnote-link: "In the summer of 1972 I departed the Soviet Union, my luggage
consisting entirely of a strong desire to leave the country, a rather
sketchy impression of the world that lay beyond its borders, and a
suitcase full of books. According to the rules I was allowed to carry
out only books printed in the country after 1945; books printed before
that date required special permission. Overcoming the obstacles
thrown up by the bureaucracy, I obtained the desired stamp from the
Ministry of Culture – “Permission given to remove from the USSR” –
for a book printed in 1936." |
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Aug-08-25
| | perfidious: Sosonko could simply have stated while leaving that the pre-1945 work was nekulturny (uncultured). That would have been hilarious for a book printed during the purges. Maybe the bureaucrats would even have seen that as doing the regime a favour of sorts. I have no idea what difference removing any books that were dated pre-1945 might have made, as Stalin remained in power well after that date. |
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