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Nov-12-16 | | parisattack: Stein has long been one of my favorite players. Aggressive with a somewhat hypermodern repertoire. His English is excellent! Four tomes of games:
Leonid Stein: Master of Attack - Keene
Leonid Stein: Master of Risk Strategy - Gufeld
Chess Secrets: Great Attackers - Crouch has a full section on Stein, though I see him more as a power player. Stein: Move-by-Move - Engquist
The Engquist volume has a excellent biography with (perhaps) the true story of his untimely demise. It is my favorite book of the group. |
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Jan-02-17 | | parisattack: Tom Unger's very excellent book, Strategical Themes (Thinker's Press 1989), has a number of Stein's games with the double-fianchetto both as white and black. |
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Jul-29-18 | | ZonszeinP: This great player should have been in the 1965 candidates.
Probably the only one who could have beaten Spassky.. But then
There's no justice in this world |
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Jul-29-18 | | ewan14: Spassky did manage two draws in the 1964 2nd zonal tournament. He might have been playing not to lose |
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Jul-29-18 | | ZonszeinP: Fighting games.
One of them was a famous Marshall game |
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Jan-01-19
 | | Dionysius1: I don't think I smoke after intercourse, but I've never looked to see. |
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Jan-21-19 | | Gallicrow: "I know how he died. Stein was preparing for the inter-zonal tournament in Brazil. And, as they did with everyone travelling to exotic countries, the doctors have him strong injections against a variety of illnesses…his organism could not cope with this. In hotel “Russia” at the dead of the night, someone called me on the phone and did not say anything. Later I understood that it was Leonid calling, but he no longer had the strength to say anything. In this way, having bade a silent farewell, a most talented chess player departed at the bloom of his age and strength". (V. Korchnoi) from http://ruchess.ru/en/persons_of_day... |
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Sep-25-20 | | ARubinstein: Leonid Stein was an incredibly strong Grandmaster. In the West, he never got the attention and respect he deserved. I did an analysis of lifetime head to head scores of the top 50 players from 1945 to 1980, and Stein came in fourth place behind Fischer, Karpov and Botvinnik and ahead of such legends as Korchnoi, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Keres, Smyslov, Geller and many others. This is absolutely remarkable for a player who only became a chess master at 24 due to the unfortunate circumstances of his youth. He had an equal or plus score against: Botvinnik, Bronstein, Keres, Kholmov, Polugaevsky, Reshevsky, Smyslov, Spassky, Tal, and many other great players. |
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Sep-25-20
 | | MissScarlett: Dying early (Stein), retiring early (Fischer), being close to one's peak in 1980 (Karpov), and playing very selectively (Botvinnik), are all winning strategies in that regard. |
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Sep-25-20
 | | plang: Dying early is not a strategy and not sure what you are saying about Karpov. |
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Sep-25-20
 | | MissScarlett: All these strategies serve to <hide the decline>. |
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Sep-25-20
 | | harrylime: Stein was a good commie
Bobby had his number tho |
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Sep-25-20
 | | harrylime: stein was a good commie
fischer had his number tho ... |
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Sep-25-20
 | | harrylime: Sometimes
James
Nick Parker and Friends
https://youtu.be/HhQBA4dR4l0 |
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Sep-25-20
 | | moronovich: <ARubinstein>
Thanks for your analysis.
And Stein was indeed something special.
One of the best ever. |
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Sep-25-20 | | ARubinstein: <harrylime: Stein was a good commie
Bobby had his number tho>
Yes, Fischer won a grand total of ONE game against Stein... They only played twice, with one draw and one win for Fischer. The only player who really had Stein's number was Efim Geller. Geller won 7, drew 8, and lost only one game against Stein. Geller's score was by far the most lopsided result against Stein on my list -- nobody else came close. |
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Jan-05-22 | | Messiah: <Albertan: Can someone please add this game to the Stein database as my iPad won’t download the pgn. file properly.Thanks: https://www.chess.com/games/view/13... Are you the mysterious database crap uploader? The game is already in the DB: Korchnoi vs Stein, 1965 |
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Jan-06-22 | | pazzed paun: I was in a big chain bookstore
I ran into a 2300 rated player who’s father had been a chess master
He saw a copy of stein move by move
And said why are they writing books about nobodies?
He really had no idea who stein was ! |
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Nov-12-23
 | | offramp: Today is Stein's birthday.He would be 88 this year. He died 50 years ago. |
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Oct-01-24 | | ewan14: No Moscow 67 or 71 in the notable tournaments either ! |
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Jul-22-25 | | Petrosianic: <offramp: Today is Stein's birthday.He would be 88 this year. He died 50 years ago.>
Try to think of something pleasant, no matter how much it hurts. |
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Jul-22-25 | | Petrosianic: I've never understood why Stein is so poorly remembered. He had a popular attacking style. He was never world champion, but neither was Rashid Nezhmetdinov, who is quite kitschy. Stein got a lot closer to the title than Rashid did. I'm looking at Stein's record against other top players of his day, and it's quite impressive. In 65 games against world champions, he broke even. vs. Botvinnik +1-1=2
vs. Smyslov +1-1=8
vs. Tal +3-0=14
vs. Petrosian +1-2=8
vs. Spassky +3-2=11
vs. Fischer +0-1=1
vs. Karpov +0-2=3
Against other top players, his record is more than impressive. vs. Korchnoi: +2-2=12
vs. Keres: +2-0=6
vs. Bronstein: +4-1=11
vs. Portisch: +2-3=2
vs. Gligoric: +7-1=1
vs. Geller: +2-7-8
vs. Taimanov: +5-1=7
vs. Najdorf: +0-1=1
vs. Averbakh: +2-0=7
vs. Larsen: +1-2=0
vs. Olafsson: +0-1=2
vs. Reshevsky: +0-0=7
vs. Furman: +4-2=4
vs. Tolush: +1-0=0
vs. Kholmov: +3-2=11
vs. Uhlmann: +4-1=0
vs. Unzicker: +0-0=1
vs. Krogius: +6-0=0
Winning records against most of these. About the only guy in all of this who seemed to have his number was Geller, while he had Gligoric's number. And 6-zip against Krogius is no small feat. |
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Jul-22-25
 | | offramp: Hmm. I think THIS is the most interesting datum: <Petrosianic: ...
<vs. Unzicker: +0-0=1>>. I am racing to that game. |
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Jul-22-25 | | unspiek: <Petrosianic> vs. Bill Addison: +0-1=0 Stein vs W Addison, 1970 |
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Jul-23-25 | | Petrosianic: <offramp> <I am racing to that game.> I only mentioned that one at all because I had Uhlmann in there, and have always mentally associated Uhlmann and Unzicker, as the top East and West German players of that time (and both names starting with a U). It seemed wrong to put one in and leave the other out, like mentioning Tweedledum without Tweedledee. |
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