| Feb-22-06 | | Pobble: A true original. These games hardly do him justice. Notice game 15, a normal opening but it was Victor who invented 11.g4! years before the GM's understood it's strength. He is also an expert on the Latvian defence. There is also has a wonderful little book about him. |
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| Mar-17-06 | | AlexanderMorphy: he also beat Fischer...even though they were only young boys at the time! |
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| Mar-17-06 | | whiskeyrebel: I own and love the book..it's written by Larry Parr and was published in the early 80's. It's loaded with great anecdotes and some wild games. |
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| May-24-06 | | lentil: <chessgames.com> if this is the guy i think it is... dominating washington state chess for decades n the 1970s and 1980s, his first nameis victorS |
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| May-11-07 | | azbycx: I am curious about a game of Victors', Yermolinsky 1-0 Pupols, Rd 2 of the 1997 National Open . It does not show up in this database. Am curious if anyone can point me to an accurate PGN. |
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| May-11-07 | | nescio: <azbycx> Don't know if it's accurate. It looks OK. [Event "National op"]
[Site "Kissimmee"]
[Date "1997.08.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Yermolinsky,Alex"]
[Black "Pupols,Viktors"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A84"]
1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 c6 4.Qc2 f5 5.Bf4 Nf6 6.e3 Be7 7.Nc3 0-0 8.h3 Nbd7
9.g4 Ne4 10.gxf5 exf5 11.Rg1 Kh8 12.0-0-0 Ndf6 13.Be5 Be6 14.Nxe4 fxe4 15.Ng5 Bf5 16.f3 Ne8
17.h4 exf3 18.Bd3 Qd7 19.Rdf1 dxc4 20.Qxc4 Nd6 21.Qc2 Bxd3 22.Qxd3 Qh3 23.e4 Qd7 24.Nxh7 Rf7
25.Rxf3 Qe6 26.Ng5 Bxg5+ 27.Rxg5 Nc4 28.Rxf7 Nxe5 29.Rh5+ Kg8 30.Rxg7+ 1-0 |
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| May-27-07 | | azbycx: <nescio> thanks. this is the same score I have. can you tell me your source? the reason i question it is that both Pupols and Yermolinsky seem to have overlooked a White mate in 1 on move 23. |
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May-27-07
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| Jun-02-07 | | azbycx: <Phony Benoni> Great research and info. Thanks. |
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| May-27-08 | | whiteshark: Lasker mentioned him in the fouth book of his Manual of Chess: <My Pupols
<I want to train Pupols to think for themselves and exercise just criticism.>> |
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| Mar-15-09 | | whiteshark: Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor... |
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| Mar-15-09 | | whiteshark: "Pupols beat young Bobby Fischer with a Latvian Gambit. This is one of only two games that Fischer ever lost on time." Fischer vs V Pupols, 1955 |
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| Jan-31-11 | | Shams: Today I beat Vik Pupols at the Seattle Chess Club for my first master scalp. :) |
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| Mar-27-12 | | wordfunph: <A legend in the Pacific Northwest, Pupols inflicted more tournament defeats (seven) on Yasser Seirawan than anyone else.> "The struggling young artist improves while he suffers!" - Viktor Pupols (would sportingly say to Yasser Seirawan who is in an awful positional grip) *from Seirawan's book Winning Chess Combinations |
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| May-25-15 | | TheFocus: <Chess rewards merit; it is more fair than life. National origin, age, sex, social status don't matter. Good ideas are rewarded; bad ones punished. There are no hole cards or luck; all assets are even and in plain view. Apples and oranges act in harmony; this skill is transferable to other life pursuits> - Viktors Pupols. |
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| May-06-16 | | Boomie: Uncle Vik was a very funny guy. We were playing speed chess at the Last Exit and Vik got up saying "I'm going to the rest room to shoot up." I said "Don't forget to wipe off the ceiling." I'm sure Yaz has a book full of Vikisms. One he told during the recent US Champs was from one of his early Washington championships. The bathroom at the venue had a whiteboard for graffiti. Yaz wrote "All Latvians do not eat giant white mints." Later he noticed that Vik had written "All midgets stand closer to the plate." |
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Nov-20-20
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<Boomie>
<Tim> Here is a newly uploaded game from <Uncle Vik> amirite. He got scalped in this one! Do you remember <Ben Wyde>? Did you ever play him? Ben Wyde vs V Pupols, 2013 |
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| Feb-28-21 | | Boomie: <jessicafischerqueen: Ben Wyde> He was born long after I stopped playing chess. So I never met him. |
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