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| offramp: Calle Erlandsson (Lund, Sweden) writes:
‘Looking at the games from 2003’s Capablanca Memorial, Premier I group [sadly, these games are not yet on <chessgames.com>], I noted that 48-year-old Péter Székely of Hungary seems to have made a new drawing record. He made the long trip to Cuba to play a total of 130 moves (his opponents played 133) in the 13 rounds. Székely made a “perfect” score of +0 –0 =13, with an average of ten moves per round. His smallest number of moves in a game was six, and his toughest game lasted 13 moves. He won fourth prize since he had the highest Sonneborn-Berger score of the four players on 50%.’ This is a substantial improvement on the performance of Bilek at Slupsk, 1979 where Istvan Bilek agreed to 10 draws out of 10, playing 125 moves in 109 minutes. I have Székely's games and I can post them if anyone wants to see them. |
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| Oct-06-04 |
| offramp: <chessgames.com> Even so, I think that making his 'Notable game' an 8-move draw is a bit much!
I am not suggesting an alternative... |
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Apr-17-05
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| Karpova: why does he play chess any longer? |
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| Jul-05-05 |
| offramp: <Karpova: why does he play chess any longer?> He died in 2003, according to Adorjan. I am trying to find out more. |
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Jul-05-05
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| lostemperor: <offramp> you should ask Susan Polgar. If I'm correct he was a friend of the Polgar family. |
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Jul-05-05
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| vonKrolock: References to a Peter Szekely on-line here after 2003: <SZÉKELY PÉTER: Csillagászati szeminárium 1.; Csillagda; IV. csillagász > Refers to a seminar of Astronomy, part of a program of researches for the years 2004/5
http://titan.physx.u-szeged.hu/opt/... |
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| Jul-06-05 |
| offramp: Here is the link: http://www.chessville.com/Editorial...
Where Adorjan says, "I don’t doubt that Anand might be the best rapid player in the world, but I’d like to point out two things: 1./ Rapid chess is special. People like Kállai or P.Szekely (who has died at the age of 48) have never played serious part in the traditional time-controlled chess...." I have a feeling that Szekely is a fairly common Hungarian name... I think it's the name of one of the native Hungarian tribes. |
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Jul-06-05
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| lostemperor: I think there is Peter Székely the astronomer and Peter Székely the chessplayer. I've seen the latter a few times in Holland. I think I even played him once without knowing his name. I have spoken him casually. He seemed a gay guy (meaning not sad). |
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Jul-06-05
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| vonKrolock: <offramp>, <lostemperor> You are, highly probably, right that we are speaking about two different P. Székely - chessville.com and Adorjan are reliable sources (althought the lacking of some , so to say, formal confirmation).
Of course I could not avoid keeping the fingers crossed in the hope that our chess-playing P. Sz. could be the same astronomer P. Sz. - because, secondarily , both activities are not incompatible - see Victor Knorre - and, principally - because giving lectures in Szeged is better than ... |
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| Jul-08-05 |
| offramp: On Susan Polgar's page she answered thus:
<Susan Polgar: Yes, Peter Szekely died not long ago. I do not know the circumstances.> He was a very talented player and he could have been major Grandmaster; but in more recent years he became amenable to short draws. |
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Sep-20-05
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| lostemperor: <offramp> a late response, but from your first post I think Peter Szekely died a terrible draw death :( |
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| Sep-28-05 |
| offramp: From Bram Stoker's Dracula - it is Dracula himself speaking: "We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood
of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship.
Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down
from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin game them,
which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards
of Europe, aye, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought
that the werewolves themselves had come. Here, too, when they came,
they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a
living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran
the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated
with the devils in the desert." |
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| Jun-02-06 |
| Runemaster: <offramp> Good quote from Dracula. I've just re-read the book after fifteen years or so and I was struck by that passage myself. In the novel as a whole, Stoker stresses Dracula's descent from Attila the Hun as a way of suggesting his ferocity and blood-lust and the fear in which he is held by the local people who are Magyars and other groups. If I can be pedantic for a moment, though, a mistake bothered me when I read this passage: I don't think it's correct for Stoker [Dracula] to say that "the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland". Ugric people are those speaking non-Indo European languages such as Hungarian; they certainly didn't come from Iceland, which was settled mainly by Norwegians. <end pedantry> |
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| Jun-27-06 |
| offramp: Still no news about how he died. |
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| Jun-27-06 |
| Runemaster: <offramp: Still no news about how he died.> [BAD TASTE WARNING]: a knight fork through the heart? Realising too late he was playing in a no-draw tournament? |
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Sep-04-06
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| OhioChessFan: ** Bad taste warning **
** Repeat, bad taste warning **
He was probably satisfied to draw his last breath. |
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| Sep-04-06 |
| Autoreparaturwerkbau: This guy was an original Draw-nik. |
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| Sep-07-06 |
| Runemaster: <Ohio> You sicko!
People like you draw out the worst in me. |
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Sep-07-06
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| WannaBe: Me thinkth, this thread is too long drawn out. |
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| Sep-08-06 |
| Runemaster: <WannaBe> OK, let's agree to end the game and share the point after these 5 moves - that's the way Peter would have wanted it. |
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Jun-18-09
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| hedgeh0g: <a knight fork through the heart?> I thought forks had a hard time penetrating a chest of drawers... |
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