Dec-23-01
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| Sneaky: Speelman is great! |
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| Feb-12-03 |
| Sarimanok: Why Speelman is great? |
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| Sep-14-03 |
| Shadout Mapes: I always remember his loss to Tal as one of my favorite games. |
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| Sep-15-03 |
| Kenneth Sterling: Speelman is a brilliant analyst. His games contain some interesting and original ideas. That last trait he shared with Miles, who was more unorthodox, but less solid. |
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| Feb-13-04 |
| Stavrogin: speelman is great cause he is original and dynamic.
Fantasy and fighting spirit combined = beautiful games. |
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| Apr-26-04 |
| Phoenix: I love his book of best games, and am waiting for a spare moment to reread it! |
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| Oct-26-04 |
| offramp: He played for many years without being able to see the board; his glasses were no good. He was practically playing blindfold and he used to offer a lot of early draws. Then his eyesight was corrected and he could see the board and he really took off; he became a candidate. |
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| Dec-17-04 |
| Dedalus: He was the Morozevich of his days - known for original play and original choices of opening variations.
...and just like Morozevich he didnīt manage the top 5 opponents... |
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| Jan-09-05 |
| rochade18: I've never seen a player relying on the Caro-Kann like Speelman! Speelman was an Englishman? |
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| Jan-09-05 |
| hintza: <rochade18> Yes, Speelman is English, born October 2nd, 1956. He was British Champion three times, in 1978, 1985 and 1986. |
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| Jan-09-05 |
| WMD: Speelman made it through to the Candidates stage of the 1987-1990 WC cycle, and eliminated Seirawan and Short before being beaten in the semi-final by Timman. In the next Candidates cycle, he fell at the first attempt, defeated by Short en route to his WC match with Kasparov. A match in which Speelman was one of Short's seconds. |
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| Jan-28-05 |
| Champ Supernova: Speelman has very poor eye sight, and this restricted his play for a long time. Then, when he improved his vision through some type of surgery, he immediately jumped in the world rankings and joined the elite. I believe this happened in the late 80's. I guess he does too much studying. |
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| Apr-29-05 |
| Rocafella: Long Live The Brit! |
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| Feb-01-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Jonathan Speelman SPEELMAN, Jonathan
http://www.bidmonfa.com/speelman_jo...
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Aug-28-06
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| YouRang: I just noticed that (in the chessgames.com database at least), Speelman +3 -0 =2 against Judit Polgar. Pretty impressive, I'd say. |
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| Oct-02-06 |
| Eggman: <<In the next Candidates cycle, he fell at the first attempt, defeated by Short en route to his WC match with Kasparov.>> Even this loss was impressive in a way, considering that it went into overtime and that Short wind up actually winning the candidates. |
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Nov-20-06
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| refutor: does anyone have the pgn for the game palatnik-speelman frunze 1979? i have checked the usual sources (here, chesslive.de, chesslab.com, chessopolis.com/u-pitt, megabase) and couldn't find anything. i assume the game exists becaue there was 50 moves of analysis of a game fragment in speelman's "endgame preparation" (black to move)
click for larger view |
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Sep-17-07
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| notyetagm: GM Speelman is working on a chess puzzle book for GAMBIT, due out in March 2008. For details, see http://www.gambitbooks.com/books/sp.... |
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Oct-02-07
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| keypusher: I lost in a simul to today's POTD in London in 1991 or so. Very pleasant man, then in the top 10 in the world, I think. |
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| Jan-24-08 |
| manethos: Nice game against Nakamura today at Gibralter........ |
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Jun-11-08
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| suenteus po 147: For you Speelman fans, here's a collection of games from his book of best games: Game Collection: Jon Speelman's Best Games This collection includes some new games to the database from Speelman's early days. |
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| Jun-11-08 |
| MichAdams: Does Jon say why he didn't include his win over Kasparov? You'd think his publisher would have insisted. |
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Jun-25-08
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| Ron: A chess column by Jonathan Speelman hasn't appeared in The Guardian in about two months. His column usually appeared weekly. Any information about this? Did The Guardian lay off Speelman like they did to Short? |
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| Sep-24-08 |
| GrahamClayton: Speelman was the chess consultant for the movie "The Luzhin Defence". |
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| Oct-11-09 |
| Bobsterman3000: Isn't this guy known as "Marathon Man" on playchess.com? |
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