| Jan-19-05 |
| dac1990: The wonderful bird, the Pelikan,
Can hold more in his beak than his belly can,
He swoops down quite low, Three fish in his stow,
And no one quite knows how the hell he can. |
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| Mar-13-05 |
| JoshuaJ8588: is this person responsible for the pelikan variation of the sicilian? |
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| Apr-23-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Jiri Pelikan PELIKAN, Jiri
http://www.bidmonfa.com/pelikan_jir...
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Nov-10-06
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| Phony Benoni: It may be too late to be serious here--but yes, this is the "Pelikan" of the "Pelikan Variation", usually called the "Sveshnikov" (and "Svesh" does have a nice ring to it), but which should probably be named after Emanuel Lasker (Schlechter vs Lasker, 1910). On the other hand, Sveshnikov and Lasker have other variations, so maybe we should give Pelikan a break. |
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Apr-23-07
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| WannaBe: Alas, someone need to update the bio section, Jiri past away a while back, (1985) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%... |
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Jul-20-07
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| Willem Wallekers: Jacques Mieses seems to have been the first to play this variation:
Tarrasch vs Mieses, 1888 |
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Jul-20-07
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| Phony Benoni: With all these comments on the Pelikan variation, I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out that he played the Bird quite a bit. |
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| Sep-13-07 |
| bravado1: It always makes me wonder who a particular variation should be named after. The person who played it first, or rather the one who contributed to its development, provided the basis for theory, played it regularly etc. I.e. I haven't found a single game in this database where Winiawer plays the Winiawer. Similar situation here - even if it was Mieses who played it first, it was Pelikan and Sveshnikov who really deserve their names to be associated with early e5 in the Sicilian, I think. |
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Apr-23-08
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| brankat: <bravado> Well said. |
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