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| Feb-28-09 |
| rchczrms: I wonder if this great chessplayer have really what it takes to be a champion. I guess he wasn't given much of a chance to compete outside the USSR. His games are a gem. If you find Tal's games full of fireworks, Nezh's games on the other hand are full of bombs! |
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| Jul-01-09 |
| spikester2848: Nezhmetdinov deserves more attention than this. They need to post a picture of him up too. This guy was pure genius! |
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| Jul-08-09 |
| visayanbraindoctor: A 5-time Russian Champion, the brilliant Nezhmetdinov was never awarded a GM title? Another cog in the wheel of mounting evidence that the GM title has been devalued in the recent decades. IMO Nez would be a stronger GM than many of present-day GMs. |
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| Jul-08-09 |
| MaxxLange: <visayanbraindoctor> well, it also may speak to the power that the USSR chess machine had to keep down people who they felt were unacceptable. I don't see how else they could justify not giving the GM title to him after that many USSR championship wins; it must have been political |
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| Jul-08-09 |
| MaxxLange: surely winning the USSR championship iss a GM norm result, after all, by FIDE standards, or any reasonable standard. You can't win it except by defeating a whole bunch of top GMs, and not losing to a lot of really sharp second-tier players |
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Jul-08-09
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| acirce: Um, it wasn't the USSR that awarded GM titles, it was FIDE. And he didn't win the USSR championship. He wasn't that strong. |
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Jul-08-09
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| Benzol: <acirce> <He wasn't that strong.> Well he did manage to defeat Tal, Spassky, Boleslavsky, Bronstein, Flohr, Geller, Kholmov and Polugaevsky amongst others but I suppose you could say he wasn't that strong. :) |
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Jul-08-09
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| acirce: Yes obviously he was strong, I don't know why you would think I think otherwise, but he apparently wasn't strong enough to win the USSR Championship. He never even came close. That's what I said. |
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Jul-08-09
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| blacksburg: if being strong enough to win a 60's era soviet championship is a prerequisite to be a GM, well, i suspect we'd have far fewer GM's these days. |
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Jul-09-09
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| Benzol: <acirce> I misinterpreted your meaning. It looked like you were saying he wasn't a strong player at all. But yes you're right that he didn't win the USSR Ch. According to <Phony Benoni>'s splendid collection the best he did was place 7th equal in 1954. See
Game Collection: USSR Championship Player Index (L-O) :) |
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| Jul-09-09 |
| visayanbraindoctor: <blacksburg: if being strong enough to win a 60's era soviet championship is a prerequisite to be a GM, well, i suspect we'd have far fewer GM's these days.> Nice point. Nez was definitely of GM caliber, yet he could not get the GM title during his time. <MaxxLange> Nez had problems with the SU government authorities? I think we also have to consider that the SU provided funds for chess, either directly or indirectly (by providing money for tournament prizes). It's possible that if Nez was born outside the SU, he would not have been able to become a professional chess player. From what I know, it was not that bad for a chess player in the SU. In my part of the world, a chess player could not hope for a regular financial state support in order to make a living in chess. |
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Jul-09-09
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| acirce: <Benzol> Thanks for the link, splendid indeed! Well done <Phony Benoni> :-) |
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| Jul-21-09 |
| tranquil simplicity: I have a deep feeling that Nezhmetdinov was hid under a bushel by the Russians because he was tartar! Things like this happen all the time in this world. Sometimes I feel like becoming a misanthropist when i see such injustices. |
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Nov-24-09
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| Check It Out: Nez's games have been popping up all over this website, but no comments here since 7/09?! No picture here and no GM title - tough breaks all over for this brilliant chess player. |
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| Nov-24-09 |
| jokerman: This man plays aesthetically pleasing chess, i'm glad chessgames.com exists! |
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Nov-24-09
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| parisattack: Chessmetrics shows him never over 2600. Of course at the time 2600 was near SGM level. He certainly owned Tal! Alex Pishkin's Super Nezh has good biographical material, some photos, crosstables and 100 annotated games/positions. |
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Nov-30-09
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| muwatalli: can anyone tell me how to pronounce this guy's name? |
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| Nov-30-09 |
| TheChessGuy: Knee-ezh mee-yet-deenov |
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| Dec-15-09 |
| I play the Fred: Rah-sheed |
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| Dec-15-09 |
| BIDMONFA: Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov NEZHMETDINOV, Rashid G.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/nezhmetdino...
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Dec-15-09
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| eternaloptimist: nezh played some of the most aesthetically pleasing chess games in existence. i love to play over his games. the game that he played against polugaevsky in the "NOTABLE GAMES" section above is just 1 example of a bevy of great games that he played. it would be worth ur time to play over all of his games in the "NOTABLE GAMES" section. i plan to do that myself. |
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Dec-15-09
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| SirChrislov: Happy birthday Rashid. Your 1958 game is an immortal for the anthologies. |
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| Dec-15-09 |
| WhiteRook48: awesome attacking player |
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Dec-15-09
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| talisman: Happy birthday Rashid...Tal once said that he lost a game to you that he enjoyed very much. |
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| Dec-15-09 |
| SufferingBruin: 1000 rating, trying to get better.
Happy Birthday to an immensely entertaining player.
In the books "Chess Openings for Black" and "Chess Openings for White", there is a small chart--or is it a graph?--that purports to show which players had a healthy respect for material and which players had a healthy disrespect for material. Kasparov is in the middle, Karpov to the "right" (more conservative with giving up material) and Fischer is just to Kaspy's left. Nezhmetdinov was all the way to the left. I mean, no one in the same zip code. He was the chess equivalent of the rich uncle who gives the kids toys to keep them quiet--sure, the kids are happy but the uncle has some peace of mind. On the other extreme, FWIW, was Korchnoi who, if the chart is to be believed, would give up a piece whenever there was a blizzard in hell. |
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