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Sep-29-09
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| Benzol: <WhiteRook48> You're right that Keres should get a mention. See the earlier post of <LittleWing: Dear chessgames.com!
According to the database, Paul Keres is the recorder, who scored against 9 world champions:
1. Capablanca
2. Alekhine
3. Euwe
4. Botvinnik
5. Smyslov
6. Tal
7. Petrosian
8. Spassky
9. Fischer>
Checking in "Warriors Of The Mind" I find that Keres has a slight plus against Smyslov (+9, =23, -8); dead even with Petrosian (+3, =25, -3); a plus score with Euwe (+11, =9, -7); a negative score with Spassky (+3, =18, -5); a plus against Tal (+8, 15, -5); negative with Botvinnik (+3, =9, -8); negative with Alyekhin (+1, =8, -5); dead even with Fischer and a slight plus with Capablanca (+1, =5, -0). BTW he played Karpov twice as well with both games bein drawn. |
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Sep-29-09
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| JaneEyre: <dead even with Fischer> A miscount, I think. Fischer was 4-3 with Keres. |
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Sep-30-09
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| Benzol: <JaneEyre> It looks like you're right. According to Keene & Divinsky the score was (+3, =4, -3) in ten games. However, Wade & O'Connell have the following :
1.Zurich 1959 Fischer
2.Bled 1961 draw
3.Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade Candidates 1959 two wins each
4.Curacao Candidates 1962 One win each and two draws This gives Fischer (+4, =3, -3) against Keres.
It appears that Keene & Divinsky have reversed the number of Fischer wins with the draws in their data. |
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| Sep-30-09 |
| ewan14: During the time period in question did Geller match up well against Korchnoi and Larsen ? |
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| Sep-30-09 |
| ewan14: I think Larsen is up on Geller ! ! !
when Larsen was at his peak , 1967 - 1970 |
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| Sep-30-09 |
| returnoftheking: <xrt99> only now seen your post, I will try to check it one of these days with megabase and the computer count. Bravo for the work btw. |
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Sep-30-09
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| parisattack: A new volume in the Chess Secrets series is out now: Power Players - and includes Geller. Previous Secret volumes were Giants of Strategy and Great Attackers. |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| TheFocus: Does anyone know if Geller ever published a book he discussed in which he would analyze all the games he played against Fischer? |
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Oct-01-09
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| JaneEyre: <1.Zurich 1959 Fischer
2.Bled 1961 draw
3.Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade Candidates 1959 two wins each
4.Curacao Candidates 1962 One win each and two draws >It's just a pity, of course, that Fischer played neither Keres, Tal nor Botvinnik again after 1962. |
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Oct-01-09
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| parisattack: <TheFocus: Does anyone know if Geller ever published a book he discussed in which he would analyze all the games he played against Fischer?> Are you thinking of Application of Chess Theory?
Not much on Geller for the outstanding player he was - Grandmaster Geller at the Chessboard, the Russian 'Black' book of his games... |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| TheFocus: <parisattack> The review of that book says Geller analyzes 100 games, all wins. No, I think the book Geller spoke of doing would only be his games against Fischer. I will check and see if he spoke of it in Russians vs. Fischer. |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| returnoftheking: I don't remember anything about that, it would be a very short book.. |
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Oct-01-09
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| stoy: According to Bronstein's widow her husband, as he lay on his deathbed, named Geller, not himself, as the greatest player of the King's Indian defence. |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| TheFocus: Botvinnik quote: "Before Geller, we did not understand the King's Indian." |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| ughaibu: By my quick calculation, I make his record 69%: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Oct-02-09
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| parisattack: I am looking forward to seeing the Chess Secrets book with Geller. There was a website dedicated to him I saw once some years back. Can't find it now, anyone know of it? Done by a Danish or Sandinavian fellow if memory serves. |
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Oct-04-09
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| parisattack: I received my copy of Chess Secrets: The Giants of Power Play. Neil McDonald did a great job on the Giants of Strategy tome and appears to have done a good job here, also. The players considered: Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy. I am not sure on Bronstein as a Power Player - and I would have switched Alekhine to the Attacking volume and Stein to this one. I've only read the first chapter, Dynamic Elements which is something of an introduction. Some interesting topics follow - Catching the King in the Center, the Goldielocks Queen and A Battering Ram on the f-file. For the Geller fan starved for annotated games, there are 18 here. There are so many chess books coming out from the Brit publishers these past few years. I used to try and buy all of them but gave up - too many in quantity and too few of quality. But The Giants of Power Play is a keeper, IMHO. |
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Nov-03-09
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| BlueMooner: I thoroughly agree with Paris. McDonald's annotation collections are consistently entertaining and his latest offering 'Chess Secrets: The Giants of Power Play' is no exception. Geller's games are great fun & I have been impressed with his aggressive but principled repertoire - some good and exciting ideas. |
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| Nov-10-09 |
| TheFocus: Does anyone know of this book Geller mentions, and was it translated into English? The following is from an interview with Efim Geller in the bulletins from the Fischer - Spassky 19992 match, as recorded in No Regrets by Yasser Seirawan - "I am writing a book which will include a selection of annotated games to honor Fischer’s 50th birthday. I have already signed a contract with a Russian publisher, but the number will be limited – only 2000. A lot of copies are meant as gifts. I will pay special attention to the games I played against Bobby. Fischer was young when we played and every game was a pleasure." |
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| Nov-10-09 |
| returnoftheking: Interesting stuff..
Maybe, (very) maybe it is:
Kak pobeždatʹ čempionov
Geller, Efim
Publisher: Moskva : Ripol Klassik⇋ , (2005)
Unfortunately I can't read russian-at any rate there is no english book on Geller other than the ones mentioned above and below. Grossmejster Geller
Moskva : Fizkul'tura i sport⇋ , (1976)
Grandmaster Geller at the chessboard
Geller, E.
Nottingham : The Chess Player , (1973)
Efim Geller : der russische Morphy
Wieteck, Helmut
Homburg : Neu-Jung , (2004)
→Za šachmatnoj doskoj
Geller, E.
→Odessa : Odesskoe Knižnoe Izd.⇋ , (1962) |
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| Nov-10-09 |
| TheFocus: <returnoftheking> Thank you. It would of course have to be after 1992. |
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| Nov-10-09 |
| returnoftheking: yes;
Kak pobeždatʹ čempionov is the only book that might be it, the rest I just wrote down for completeness; these are all books by Geller known to our national library. |
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| Nov-10-09 |
| returnoftheking: Apart from several opening monographs that is. |
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| Nov-10-09 |
| TheFocus: <returnoftheking> Again, thank you. |
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| Nov-11-09 |
| returnoftheking: Yw, and ty for the info in the first place! |
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