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Aug-16-11
 | | Strongest Force: Stein was a bad mother...... if I could bring him back in a time machine he would be Russian champ again. |
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Sep-18-11
 | | theodor: <<Richard Taylor>: It's not good to see him smoking - probably bad eating habits, drinking and smoking killed him.> my first impression and reaction were the same; I was about to post a warning to young people, frequenting this site. my second thought was the kgb factor: totalitarian countries hated to lose talanted people, acting against them later!(especially in the 'rossia' hotel - a place where all foreigners resided, where even the lowest staff was 'engaged'!) remember Korchnoy, Spassky?-and this in the eighties. what about seventies. do you remember the 'loyal' Karpov and the 'bad guy' Kasparov?(he still is!) the slaves have a slave mentallity: ''we must keep together, if not, you're a traitor!'' one cant have a different point of vew! it's disgusting!
at the end: - this guy is very tough - stats shows that by themselves;what a pity he passed away so young!honour to you Stein, Steinitz would be proud of you! |
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Sep-18-11
 | | talisman: <theodor> how stein died is not hard to figure out or find out...it's here on the pages...if this was a game of CLUE the answer would be...'it was in the bedroom and he was not alone and he was heterosexual'....some say he had a smile on his face when he said bye bye. |
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Nov-12-11
 | | brankat: L.Stein's much premature death was certainly a great loss to chess, to all players and fans. Hard to believe it's been 38 years already. |
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| Dec-23-11 | | dinekum: Fischer-Stein, best game in 60MG |
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| Dec-23-11 | | M.D. Wilson: Definitely one of the best. |
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| Feb-06-12 | | AlphaMale: <Garry Kasparov wrote that Stein "went beyond the bounds of Botvinnik-Smyslov harmony, expanding the limits of our understanding of the game, changing our impressions of the correlation of material and quality of position, of situations with disrupted material and strategic balance, and created the grounds for the emergence of modern, ultra-dynamic chess".> <<Everett: I find Kasparov's quote above puzzling. He said nearly the same exact thing about Bronstein, and who knows what he said about Tal.>> Well, that quote from <OMGP III> was talking generally about the trio of Stein, Tal and Spassky. |
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Apr-07-12
 | | Octavia: This discussion is amazing - starting in 2003 ! & such a long one considering he died before the discussion began! I've become interested because of Nigel Davies "The Power Chess Program: Book 2" where he said that "...is one of my own favourite players" & he devoted a ch to him. |
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Apr-07-12
| | talisman: <Octavia> and sadly the victim of the "only 3 Russians" rule of the interzonals. <died before the discussian began!> and he died with a smile on his face. |
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Apr-07-12
 | | parisattack: <Octavia: This discussion is amazing - starting in 2003 ! & such a long one considering he died before the discussion began!
I've become interested because of Nigel Davies "The Power Chess Program: Book 2" where he said that "...is one of my own favourite players" & he devoted a ch to him.> Stein is also featured in Colin Crouch's Chess Secrets: Great Attackers (along with Tal and Kasparov). |
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| Apr-07-12 | | King Death: < parisattack: <Blockpants: Can't remember where I read about this, but to keep you conspiracy theories burning brightly, wasn't Stein assasinated in error by the KGB?>
Interesting - I had not heard that theory. I heard he was having a little roll-in-the-hay and stroked out, ala Rockefeller.> These are both new to me, I'd read (according to Chess Life and Korchnoi) that Stein had a heart attack. Good old Megan Marshack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_... |
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| Apr-07-12 | | King Death: <M.D. Wilson: Rubinstein should have been given the opportunity, but WW1 really threw a spanner in the works...> I don't think so, the problem started because he couldn't get the money together before the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiba_... Then came St. Petersburg where he didn't make the finals. His prewar record of 5 straight wins in 1912 was a great feat but those events didn't have Lasker or Capablanca in any of them. |
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| Apr-07-12 | | King Death: < Petrosianic: <LEEUHHNID STYYYUN.with feeling now!>
Actually, I think his name was prounounced like Shtain, rather than Stine.> It was and I've even seen books in English where it's translated as "Shtein" or "Bronshtein". |
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Apr-07-12
| | parisattack: <King Death: ...Good old Megan Marshack.> Also the story I heard; Stein sent to i9 whilst having a little tryst...Megana Marshackskova. |
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| Apr-07-12 | | King Death: <parisattack> The girl got around! |
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| Apr-07-12 | | Everett: All these rumors of his death, I'll repeat the one that he went out a la Carradine. |
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Apr-07-12
| | parisattack: LOL! I guess once she was able to get out from under Rocky she ran back to the USSR! But all seriousness, shame on Leonid. Never had particularly good fortune otherwise certainly was WC candidate material. I love his style combination of power player with a hypermodern touch. |
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| Apr-07-12 | | King Death: <parisattack> If Stein couldn't qualify from Stockholm why did FIDE have him in the playoff, instead of letting Gligoric and Benko play a match with the winner getting a ticket to Curacao? Stein 3, Benko 2, and Gligoric 0 and he still goes home. |
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Apr-07-12
 | | harrylime: Swatting up on c4 stuff and I came across Stein v Leynghal where Stein wins blacks queen on move 20 or so in mid board ! lol Stein was a very great player..
Stein was around in an age where there were so many 'world champions' .. |
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Apr-07-12
| | talisman: <King Death> on stein's death...Raymond Keene was at the tournament when Stein died and confirmed(by that i mean on this site) that Stein was not alone in the room when he had his heart attack. He doesn't want or like talking about it and i hope he doesn't read this post. |
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| Apr-07-12 | | King Death: <talisman> Thanks and I hope he doesn't either. Maybe he found the magic button for me and that would be good this time! |
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Apr-07-12
| | talisman: <King Death> you're welcome. There was a lil campaign here for Stein awhile back to get him on the drop down button list and CG to their everlasting credit did so. anyway Stein is one of my favorites and on my bio i mention 4 players and he is one of them. |
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Apr-07-12
| | harrylime: Nobody care to comment on my Stein game above?! lol Obviously not ..
Cliques and forums lol
Stein fought against cliques..
Sad .. lol |
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| Apr-07-12 | | Jim Bartle: Makes it a little tougher to comment when you spell Lengyel (in this DB at least) wrong. Stein vs L Lengyel, 1971 |
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Apr-07-12
| | harrylime: Thanks for putting the game up Jim and I raise my hat to you .. It's an impressive and beautiful game..Jeez it's been consumed in 'openings theory' now tho.. |
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