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Oct-19-07
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| Peligroso Patzer: An interesting excerpt from Kholmov's final interview (which can be found at the link provided by Iron Maiden [Mar-17-06]): Question: "Many things have changed. What do you think about the new FIDE time controls?" Kholmov: "I am at odds. On the one hand it is good for us, the older generation. You don't have to sit there for five hours or longer. That is very tiring. But for the grand game of chess the short time controls are suicide." |
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Oct-19-07
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| Peligroso Patzer: <Prugno: *** I hope some good author will pay tribute by writing a worthy book about his life and games.> This may or may not fully meet your criteria, but there is at least one book with 64 annotated games played by Kholmov: "Ratmir Holmov", by Aidan Woodger, The Chess Player (c)1999, ISBN 1 901034 23 2. |
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May-13-08
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| brankat: A very talented player Mr.Kholmov. After learning how to play the game at the age of twelve, it took him only a couple of years to reach the master's level! Very few, if any, compare to that. A fine tactician. I liked his attacking/aggressive approach to the game. Amongst his "victims" were Fischer, Spassky, Petrosian, and even Kasparov! I believe that many years of heavy alcohol abuse prevented Kholmov from accomplishing more. He was quite a legendary boozer. My kind of a guy :-) RIP GM Kholmov. |
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May-13-08
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| whiskeyrebel: He's my kind of guy too, even though his "tree" has been hacked down over the years by many sage critics. It just so happens I'm working on "How to Calculate Chess Tactics" by Valeri Beim, which rakes Kholmov over the coals..I feel deservedly, whereas of course others may not. Either way, Kholmov's infamous book was a mind blowing shot when it made it way to the U.S. when I was young. I raise my shot glass to him. |
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| May-13-08 |
| zoat22: did he ever become GM? |
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May-13-08
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| Benzol: <zoat22> <did he ever become GM?> Yes he did in 1960 and I thought that was in the bio originally. Maybe someone edited that bit out subsequently. |
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May-13-08
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| Calli: <Kholmov's infamous book> <whiskey> do you mean "Think Like a GM"? Thats Kotov not Kholmov. |
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May-13-08
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| whiskeyrebel: Yow!...pardon my K-name blunder. Thanks for pointing it out Calli. I feel like a knucklehead. |
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May-14-08
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| WannaBe: Yeah... All those names with K's... Kramnik, Kasparov, Karpov, Khiskeyrebel, KannaBe... =) |
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May-14-08
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| brankat: Mix those names with a few shots of whiskey, and pretty soon You can't tell between Kholmov and Kotov :-) |
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May-14-08
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| whiskeyrebel: Where's my krayons?
I'm gonna draw me a pitcher of Kapablanca, Keuwe, and the Klasker sisters. |
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| May-14-08 |
| Hafen Slawkenbergius: <brankat> Didn't you mean vodka? |
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May-14-08
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| whiskeyrebel: When my deceased Father (an always sober but crabby Professor) would lose a game to me, he often would angrily accuse me of playing the "Revashevsky" opening against him. I Don't know where he dreamed that one up or why he thought the Revashevsky was so lethal, but if I had corrected him he would've belted me. |
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May-14-08
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| brankat: <Hafen Slawkenbergius> I used "whiskey" because of <whiskeyrebel>'s handle :-) |
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| May-14-08 |
| najdorfman: There is a very funny story about Kholmov that goes something like this. He sits down at the chessboard quite drunk. He has the black pieces. The game goes 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 b6 3.Nf3 e5??! (blundering away a pawn). Kholmov remarks, "I've been playing the Grunfeld Defense my whole life. Never have I gotten such a bad position out of that opening!" |
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May-14-08
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| keypusher: <najdorfman: There is a very funny story about Kholmov that goes something like this. He sits down at the chessboard quite drunk. He has the black pieces. The game goes 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 b6 3.Nf3 e5??! (blundering away a pawn). Kholmov remarks, "I've been playing the Grunfeld Defense my whole life. Never have I gotten such a bad position out of that opening!"> I love the story, but I don't believe it. According to the database he never played 1...Nc6 against 1. e4 in his life. Repertoire Explorer: Ratmir Kholmov (black) Hmm, I wonder if the "Picky Killjoy" handle is taken. |
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| Dec-06-08 |
| GrahamClayton: In the course of finishing =3rd in the 26th USSR championship at Tbilisi in 1959, Kholmov won the following 7 prizes: 1. Best result by a master player
2. Best results by a master against GM opponents
3. Best results over last 5 rounds
4. Most number of wins with Black
5. Best result against the top 6 finishers in the tournament.
6. Making a GM norm
7. Playing the "most beautiful game" |
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Dec-24-08
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| blacksburg: <I love the story, but I don't believe it. According to the database he never played 1...Nc6 against 1. e4 in his life.> perhaps kholmov mistook e4 for d4 and was trying to go into the grunfeld with Nc6(f6), b6(g6). |
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| Jan-25-09 |
| TheChessGuy: Ratmir is an unusual first name for a Russian person. It sounds Serbian or Croatian. |
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| Apr-21-09 |
| returnoftheking: GM Ree tells the same story as Najdorfman. In dutch unfortunately: http://weblogs3.nrc.nl/schaken/2007... He concludes that the "Inversed Grunfeld" is quite playable. |
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| Jul-07-09 |
| ughaibu: Three games in which Kholmov played the Gruenfeld: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Aug-02-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
".. Ratmir Kholmov was known as <The Central Defender> in Soviet chess circles, because of his great skill at repulsing enemy aggression. But he was also a very dangerous attacker, as most of the leading Soviet players learned, at one stage or another, often to their chagrin. During his peak years, Kholmov was exceptionally tough to defeat, even at the top levels. He qualified for 16 Soviet finals between 1949 and 1972, with an aggregate well over 50 per cent, and never had a truly bad tournament at the Finals level. .." Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratmir...
* In Memoriam:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
(by Dagobert Kohlmeyer) |
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| Sep-19-09 |
| alshatranji: A "stylistic" comment on the bio. The second part of the second sentence doesn't make a lot of sense: "and it took him only a couple of years to reach master level but in 1960 he was awarded the Grandmaster title". Why is the "but"? Do you mean "but he was awarded the Grandmaster title only in 1960" or "but it took him until 1960 to be awarded the Grandmaster title". A small issue, but you can make things clearer. |
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| Oct-03-09 |
| andrewjsacks: Kholmov is another of the under-appreciated Soviet GMs of the second level, overshadowed by their chess superstars. |
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Oct-04-09
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| Open Defence: well in the 50s - 70s chess in the USSR seemed much more collaborative to me..voluntary or otherwise... |
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