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Dec-24-05
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| fred lennox: It is curious to note Grunfield's reputation of modeling his openings on rubinstein has as his most played opening as black the alekhine defense. What is more surprising is his record with the opening is 11-15-0. Not bad. |
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| Apr-06-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Ernst Gruenfeld GRUNFELD, Ernst
http://www.bidmonfa.com/grunfeld_er...
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| Jun-01-06 |
| samikd: <About the biography> So <neo-Grunfeld defese> was named after him, but <Grunfeld defense> wasn't mentioned ? Thats like saying 'Christ was named after Christians ' ! |
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| Jul-02-06 |
| offramp: I always thought he was Jewish - but he wasn't. |
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| Jul-02-06 |
| WMD: Strangely enough, for a long time I thought that Spielmann was an Aryan, ummm, a Gentile, ummm, non-Jewish, but I was wrong. Funny old world, isn't it? |
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| Jul-02-06 |
| Karpova: Did your attitude towards Spielmann change after that? |
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| Jul-02-06 |
| WMD: Sure, now he's one of my favourite players. Can humanity ever rid itself of tribal feelings? |
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| Jul-03-06 |
| offramp: This great player - a strugger and competitor and innovator - is today's player of the day. It is well-known that he never opened 1.e4, as "I never make a blah blah blah yakkity-splakkity". The odd thing is that he said he never opened 1.e4 in imitation of his hero Akiva Rubinstein. BEHOLD!
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Rubinstein was a King's Gambiteer! And a @#$%ing good one! So up yours, Ernst! |
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| Jul-03-06 |
| RookFile: LOL... |
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Jul-03-06
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| TheAlchemist: Ernst Gruenfeld and B King - The Ernie and Bernie Show |
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| Oct-11-06 |
| aktajha: Yesterday I could play another Grünfeld-defense and again won :). I still have a 100% score with the Grünfeld as black. Thank you Ernst, really really thank you. |
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| Nov-23-06 |
| 2021: Gruenfeld was a good player, but he made a stupid quote:
When Gruenfeld was asked, "Why don't you ever play 1.e4?". He replied, "because I never make a mistake". |
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| Apr-12-07 |
| GrandPatzerSCL: How come, here on ChessGames.com, Ernst's name is spelled differently than his namesake opening?? |
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| Jul-08-07 |
| sneaky pete: Both spellings are wrong, it should be Gehirnfehlt.
"Meister Gehirnfehlt lebt nur mehr in den Mysterien der Schachfelder a bis ha, und es ist ihm gelungen, für die Außenwelt mit dem Worte 'aha' sein Auslangen zu finden." (Richter, Wien, o.J.) |
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Jul-08-07
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| whiteshark: <sneaky, <Meister Gehirnfehlt>> Du <ungekrönter Dampfplauderer> :-) |
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| Jul-08-07 |
| John Thornton: From the biography: <...but is best known as an Openings theoretician having an opening named after him: Neo-Grunfeld Defense (D70).> How about the Grunfeld Defence (D85)? |
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Sep-03-07
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| brankat: Neo-Gruenfeld sounds more sophisticated :-) |
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| Nov-29-07 |
| Larsker: Yes, it's Grünfeld, not Gruenfeld. How come it hasn't been corrected ages ago. |
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| Feb-03-08 |
| Tomlinsky: Re the Bio. "best known as an Openings theoretician having an opening named after him: Neo-Grunfeld Defense (D70)" The origins of the Neo (Anti) Grunfeld should more accurately be credited to Alekhine I believe. Grunfeld himself is best known for, well, the Grunfeld Defence! (Other spellings may randomly apply) :) |
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Feb-04-08
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| brankat: If E.Grunfeld came up with the idea of the Neo-Grunfeld, then, I wonder who was the originator of the Grunfeld. :-) Alekhine? |
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| Sep-11-08 |
| Karpova: C. N. 5750
Edward Winter received information from Michael Ehn:
<‘His birth certificate says that he was baptized “Grünfeld Ernest Franz”. The rather exotic “e” was subsequently omitted for the sake of simplicity.’> (from "Ernst Franz Grünfeld" (Vienna, 1993) - the original text in German: <‘Seine Geburtsurkunde besagt, daß er als “Grünfeld Ernest Franz” getauft wurde. Das etwas exotische “e” ließ man später der Einfachheit halber weg.’>) Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Nov-23-08
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| brankat: 115 since E.Gruenfeld's birth.
R.I.P. Master Gruenfeld. |
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| Mar-28-09 |
| Andrijadj: This guy was fascinating...He had extensive opening knowledge and nice tactical style of play...If he had been born in let's say 1972(instead of 1892) and equipped with rybka and other monsters,he would be easily top 5...His style reminds me of aronian... |
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| Mar-28-09 |
| Andrijadj: and he had equal scores with Capablanca and Lasker,and beat Euwe 3:1... |
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| Jun-09-09 |
| WhiteRook48: "I never make a mistake on the first move!"
-Gruenfeld, who never played 1. e4 |
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