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| Sep-24-05 |
| pazzed paun: <lentil> RIGHT ON!!! on of the few comments on this page that makes any sense at all. |
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| Oct-16-05 |
| Kriegspiel: Chap's got a very oddly proportioned head and a rather petery haircut...I suppose that's the final word on this subject. Kriegspiel
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| Oct-20-05 |
| kvcs: Final message from <KVCS> for <MSK--Posters/Readers> After a final perusal of Mir Sultan Khan [MSK], no one has as of this date, answered our query of "the first Chess love" of GM Khan. On 14 February, we posted this [page 2]: "For anyone to answer: Please let me know you know what Mir Sultan Khan's first Chess love is. HINT: It was not Chess, or
should I more correctly say, International Chess." This was erroneously attributed by me, Molly, to Agt71/Marie as she was to be the KVCS Chess Correspondent. Then on 27 April two <KVCS> posts appeared [page 3]: "No one, as yet, has satisfied my query of Monday 14 Feb 2005: '...Please let me know you know what Mir Sultan Khan's first Chess love is....". Also, "In short, this 'love' has a name [both colloquial and true]. We at KVCS want to know if anyone else knows either or both." This MSK-Thread is now Closed for further comment by <KVCS>. For a full explanation, you may go to page 8 of Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997 Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997 Full URL: http://www.chessgames.com/
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| Oct-31-05 |
| Udit Narayan: Shahrukh Khan:
"Yeh tara woh tara har tara..." |
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| Nov-06-05 |
| Delusional Patzer: Is it just me or does Sultan Khan look exactly like the midget in 'Me, Myself & Irene'? |
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| Dec-01-05 |
| sleepkid: ...looks more like Hrundi V. Bakshi to me.
Unfortunately he never played the Birdie Num Num opening. |
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Dec-01-05
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| chancho: <Is it just me or does Sultan Khan look exactly like the midget in 'Me, Myself & Irene'?> There IS a slight resemblance to that actor (Tony Cox). Tony, also played Billy Bob Thornton's sidekick, in the movie: Bad Santa. |
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Feb-07-06
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| al wazir: <WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles> You seem to have an endless supply of these combinations from the games of everyone who ever played at the GM level. Did you compile these puzzles yourself? Are they from a book or for one? |
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| Feb-16-06 |
| sagahelten: According to Chessmetrics Mir Sultan Khan was the world #6 in 1933. His highest rating was 2699 (1932) and his best individual performance was 2713 (Ol Prague 1931). Let's just say that he played with grandmaster strength ;-) What a strange fate: Being a servant, playing in Europe for four years and then never again on top level! |
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| Aug-20-06 |
| saturn: <His highest rating was 2699 (1932)> By these norms, he would only be behind Vishy as the second best player India has ever produced but yet ahead of Harikrishna and Sasikiran (so far). |
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| Aug-20-06 |
| OlimpBase: Allegedly he was illiterate. |
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| Aug-20-06 |
| mahmoudkubba: I am thinking that he was Indian in the time as far as I know India was the Jewelry of the crown and part of the British Commonwealth or the British Empire. I also ask if there is any connection to MIR Galaxy Institute in the Soviets ?. I also ask if that is his real picture or there r better pictures. Yet this is as far my knowledge and memory helps me the first time for me to notice this Ch. Player. Did he have any real blitzes if for the British side or others? |
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| Aug-20-06 |
| mahmoudkubba: Also his name MSK is a look like to my name in a similarity or something: MHSK, but as it sems only the initials. WAWWWWW. |
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| Sep-15-06 |
| saturn: <Allegedly he was illiterate> Inspite of that he accomplished whatever he did. All the more glory to him! |
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| Sep-28-06 |
| hitman84: I gathered some info on Sultan Khan.
In 1926, Sir Umar Hayat Khan who later was A.D.C to his majesty King George V
taught him the modern chess.
In 1929, Sultan joined the Imperial chess club where he beat B.E Sieghiem a top player in the club who played for Middlesex. in the same year, just a few months prior to the british Ch., a small round robin quadrangular tnt. was organised for him in Ramsgate at the Gambit chess room by the proprietress
and former lady champion Miss Price.
Competitors,
1.F.D Yates, British Champion
2.Winter W, IM
3.Conde A G, strong Mexican player.
Khan lost, 0-2 to Yates,0-2 to Winter and scored 1.5 against Conde. This was a disastrous tourney for Sulatan Khan but managed to win the British Ch which made many think that the tourney was'nt strong enough as neither Yates nor Sir George Thomas were playing in it. In the first round he lost to Hamond FE
but recovered thereafter to score 8 poits but was lucky against Winter who allowed a stalemate. Harry Golombek, a famous chess writer who participated in the British Championship along with Khan at Ramsgate said that Khan loved to play quick games and discovered that he was uneducated and had a friend as an interpreter. He died of Tuberculosis on 25th April, 1966.
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Sep-28-06
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| keypusher: thanks, hitman84, very interesting. Where did you find this information? |
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| Sep-28-06 |
| hitman84: <keypusher>I found it in our national chess monthly mag(AICF) spread over 4 issues(feb-jun 2000) now defunct. |
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Sep-28-06
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| ray keene: sultan khan learned fast-he went on to defeat tartakower-rubinstein and capablanca-see the book on him by coles at www.hardingesimpole.co.uk the best games of mir sultan khan |
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| Oct-07-06 |
| Maatalkko: Sultan Khan makes me smile. Watching him play simplistic openings and then beat grandmasters has a cheering effect. His play reminds me of a young Capablanca, although somewhat less aggressive. One building move after another, and eventually his erudite European competition would make a mistake. |
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| Oct-28-06 |
| Octavia: <Chap's got a very oddly proportioned head and a rather petery haircut> reminds me to the time my husband had a haircut in India - when he came back, his head was shaped just like many Indian's!!! lol |
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| Mar-14-07 |
| drik: <Kriegspiel: Chap's got a very oddly proportioned head> Here we have one of the greatest natural talents to ever play the game ... and a major topic of interest appears to be his oddly proportioned head. Sigh! It is not as if Anatoly Karpov could have posed for Rodin's The Thinker. |
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| Apr-02-07 |
| itsaworry: "...Col. Sir Nawab Umar Hayat Khan entertained the American chess team at his home one evening in 1933 the table waiter was Sultan Khan, to the embarrassment of all except the illustrious Colonel" (Harold C Schonberg, Grandmasters of Chess) |
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Feb-21-08
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| Knight13: You all know what Sultan Khan means in the once powerful Ottoman Empire right? |
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| Aug-27-08 |
| myschkin: . . .
Photographs:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2385... http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (London, 1932. Theodore Tylor has white against Sultan Khan) |
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| Nov-07-08 |
| anandrulez: The legend , Mir Sulthan Khan is probably the best ever chess player !
He was no GM and he defeated Capablanca ...amazing player . |
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