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Feb-14-09
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| whiskeyrebel: Actually, he's looking away across the playing hall. Some clown forgot to silence his cellphone. |
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Feb-14-09
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| chancho: <whiskeyrebel> lol |
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| Feb-15-09 |
| Jim Bartle: Once a cellphone started ringing during a tennis match, and kept ringing. The umpire kept asking for it to be turned off, until one of the players walked over to his equipment bag, took out his phone and shut it off. The umpire announced, "We request that the players turn off their cell phones so that the spectators are not disturbed." |
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Feb-15-09
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| Stonehenge: I didn't know Danailov had become a tennis coach. |
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| Feb-15-09 |
| laskereshevsky: <chanco> What is write on the wall in the picture?!.... and is it a bricks wall, or a cardboard one?!.. looks like he's playing in a toilette. |
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| Feb-15-09 |
| laskereshevsky: Or in a Circus back stage...
Was he a Ringlin and Barnum's guest in that occasion?! |
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Feb-18-09
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
<164 days> Bingo! :D |
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Feb-18-09
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| Phony Benoni: That picture is interesting in another way. Reshevsky appears to be playing the White side of a Closed Ruy Lopez, something he did very rarely. There are only arouind 15 examples in the database, about half from his days as a preteen prodigy. If I had to guess, I'd say it was staged in a photographer's studio. |
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| Feb-18-09 |
| laskereshevsky: I'd too noticed that was much probably a Closed Ruy Lopez... the presence of a  e1, a  c2 and the contemporary abscence from the second rank oft the c/d/e/  drive to the Spanish game....About the stage, of course I was joking...
U know, dear CG's kibitzer fellows... in the evening at home... after a more or less stressed day... after 1 (or 2) glass of a good 10 Years old LAPHROAIG.... Same little wander from the POINT could be forgived.....I hope.. But I dont think the Photo was taken in a Photographer's Studio... If yes the Guy was not a big profi.... very poor and careless ambientation.. Maybe, as often happen, the set board was not a real game but only created for the occasion.... |
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Mar-22-09
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| fred lennox: His thoughts constantly twists and contorts and his games maintain an inner tension - they are made of metal through and through. Economy and tension seems to be his guiding light. His ability to create tension in simple positions and his endgame fears no comparison to Lasker maybe not quite as bold and imaginative. If Alekhine is a dragon Reshevsky is a snake, quiet but dangerous. |
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Mar-22-09
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| AnalyzeThis: Reshevsky was described a bulldog. In White Fang, the wolf is a champion fighter against other animals, but loses to the bulldog even though for most of the fight, White Fang was inflicting bad cuts on the bulldog. What happened is that at some point, the bulldog got close enough snap his jaws closed around White Fang's throat, and then tenaciously hung on despite all of the wolf's attempts to get free. They had to have two men use a crow bar to relax the grip. That's what Reshevsky was - a bulldog. |
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Apr-22-09
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| whatthefat: But little Bobby White Fang lived to fight another day... :P |
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Apr-22-09
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| HeMateMe: He was leading Fischer in their match, till Fischer walked out. RJF was off form, might have lost the match. bob can't lose. So he gathered up his toys, said "I'm not playing anymore" and went home. |
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Apr-22-09
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| chancho: <HeMateMe> I believe the match was tied when Fischer quit. |
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Apr-22-09
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| AnalyzeThis: It certainly was tied in terms of games actually played. But you can get into all kinds of semantic battles that nobody cares about, because Fischer forfeited first one game, then another, before the match was declared over. |
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Apr-22-09
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| chancho: I remember that Fischer was royally pissed off because the scheduled time for a game in the match was suddenly changed to accomodate Mrs Pitiagorsky's attendance of it without Bobby's consent. |
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| Apr-23-09 |
| Jim Bartle: Something about her husband liking to play the cello, and she wanted to go to a little recital he'd arranged. |
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Apr-23-09
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| AnalyzeThis: Yes that was the issue. I understand Fischer's point of view. On the other hand, I understand Reshevsky's, too. The old warrior showed up to play, without excuses, ready to do battle, even though it was inconvenient for him too. |
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| Apr-23-09 |
| SimonWebbsTiger: I just looked up the Piatigorsky incident in "The Games of Robert J. Fischer". Arthur Bisguier didn't shed too much light on it other than say the schedule was moved to 11 am and that was enough to make Fischer walk out and that reader's letters to "Chess Life" were quite pro-Fischer re. his decision! No doubt there's more in Frank Braidy's book on Fischer? |
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May-31-09
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| technical draw: <Bronstein, in his last book, Secret Notes, published in 2007 just after his death the previous year, confirmed long-standing rumours by writing that the nine Soviet grandmasters (out of a field of 15) at Zurich were under orders from both their chess leadership and the KGB to not let Reshevsky win the tournament under any circumstances, with Smyslov being the preferred victor. When Reshevsky maintained his strong contention late into the two-month event, Bronstein claims that the Soviets prearranged several results in games amongst themselves to successfully prevent Reshevsky's overall victory, while also ensuring that Reshevsky faced the maximum test in his own games against the Soviet players.[8] Several other writers, including Alexei Suetin (who was the second of Tigran Petrosian at Zurich 1953), also confirmed the Soviet collusion in Zurich.> Candidates tournament, Zurich, 1953.
I guess Fischer wasn't paranoid after all. |
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| May-31-09 |
| ughaibu: Bronstein's claims are obviously sour grapes. The various points where they dont make sense have been thoroughly exposed. |
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May-31-09
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| AnalyzeThis: Actually, Reshevsky himself implied that the Russians colluded in his last interview. |
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| Jun-01-09 |
| ughaibu: "I cannot say, or course, exactly how much, but what he says is not 100%
true, about anything, really. This is my experience based on
many contacts with him. Let us say, he cannot be 100%
objective; this is the point." Averbach talking about Bronstein, with particular reference to Zurich.
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt... |
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Jun-01-09
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| AnalyzeThis: Found out a tidbit tonight: Averbakh's daughter married Taimanov. |
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Jun-01-09
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| technical draw: Taimanov. A grandmaster, world championship contender, accomplished pianist, survivor of the Soviet system and father in his old age. What a life! |
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