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| Aug-17-05 |
| offramp: Hort was Polugaevsky's bete noire http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... . LP won in 1960 but didn't win again until 1976, even though he was always the stronger player. |
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| Dec-19-05 |
| PizzatheHut: <Honza Cervenka> Do you know the score of the match at the time that he lost the game you mentioned? |
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| Dec-21-05 |
| AlexanderMorphy: he drew with fischer... |
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| Dec-21-05 |
| karlth: Hort and Spassky played their candidates match in Reykjavik Iceland in 1977. The match was a major event in my small country and both players were very popular with during their stay. |
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Dec-21-05
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| Honza Cervenka: <PizzatheHut> It was the 15th (next to the last) game of the match and the score was 7-7. See http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/767... |
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| Dec-22-05 |
| PizzatheHut: <Honza Cervenka> Thank you, as always. |
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| Jan-12-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Vlastimil Hort HORT, Vlastimil
Sub-Champion Wijk Aan Zee 1970 and 1975
History Championship Wijk Aan Zee
http://www.bidmonfa.com/historia.htm
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| Feb-03-06 |
| gendalf: It must be Chess960 on the picture.
Take a close look. |
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Apr-14-06
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| keypusher: <I think that one of the co-winners of the 1979 Montreal Tournament of Stars (can´t remember whether it was Karpov or Tal) said that Hort was a natural pessimist when it came to chess: ´Nothing works!´> He should know, he certainly tried everything!
Repertoire Explorer: Vlastimil Hort (white) |
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Apr-14-06
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| Gypsy: <keypusher> A nice post. |
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| May-08-06 |
| Daodejing: @Keypusher
To see the openings of Hort is funny for me because once - I think it was in 1995 - I was in Horgen (Switzerland), where Hort commentated an international Grandmastertournament (with Kasparow participating). He said to the audience that there is no "swiss" opening. So I raise my hand and answered, that there is one: the Grob opening = g4 And this is exactly the only opening he never played. |
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Jul-26-06
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| Phony Benoni: I always thought that he should have formed a chess team called "Vlastimil and his Cohorts". By the way, is he playing Fischer Random in the photo? |
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Jul-26-06
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| plang: I would think they should post a picture of him when he was in his prime in the 70s rather than a recent picture playing Fischerrandom |
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| Jul-26-06 |
| Castle In The Sky: He looks like the German guy on the new Chrysler commercials "Dr. Z" |
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Jul-26-06
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| Honza Cervenka: This is one of Hort's most valuable scalps: Hort vs Karpov, 1981 |
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Oct-23-06
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| Resignation Trap: <Phony Benoni> Do you think that <<Vlastimil and the Cohorts>> would have any chance against <<<Grigory and the USerpers>>>? |
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| Dec-02-06 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles from Hort's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/hort.html |
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| Jan-10-07 |
| BIDMONFA: Vlastimil Hort HORT, Vlastimil
http://www.bidmonfa.com/hort_vlasti...
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Jan-12-07
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| cu8sfan: I met him at the Lichthof Chess Champions (2006). He's a really likeable man. Very approachable and always joking. He used to do chess on TV together with Helmut Pfleger. |
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Jan-12-07
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| diagonal: yeah, Vlastimil Hort is a nice fellow with his own sense of humour and did / does much for the popularization of chess on German and Swiss (german) television - and also a very busy man OTB! In the chessgames statistics with the players have the most games in database he is ranked 8th (behind Korchnoi, Timman, Karpov, Gligoric, Tal, Smyslov and Portisch), in the new chessbase megadatabase 2007 he is even on position 6 of all time with already more than 3'000 games, not to mention lots of his exhibitions & (blind) simuls, cp. the first posting of <Honza Cervenka> in this (maybe - so far - too shorten) thread. Well, enough statistical rhubarb, just two further remarks: As already pointed out by <Gypsy> earlier, Hort played on board 4 for the "Rest of the World" against "USSR", beating individually his opponent Polugaevsky with 2.5 to 1.5. in this famous match in 1970 at Belgrade. On the english wikipedia site there are some interesting details about his Candidate match (quarterfinal) versus Spassky in 1977, lost in extremis. Hort is characterized as a truly fair sportsman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlasti... |
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Jan-12-07
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| diagonal: ... and of course: happy birthday, Vlastimil Hort! |
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| Jun-29-07 |
| Edwin Meyer: ChessVibes video interview Vlastimil Hort http://www.chessvibes.com/?p=986&lp... |
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Feb-18-08
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| percyblakeney: I just read a short summary of an old Hort article from the beginning of the 1970's. He writes that he is disappointed in the younger players and that the slightly older players are more of true gentlemen. Among them he mentions Keres, Smyslov, Korchnoi and Gligoric. Hort means that it's a torture to compete with especially opponents like Mecking and Browne. According to Hort Mecking tries to disturb his opponents in various ways when he has little time left on the clock, while Browne is doing his best to follow Fischer's example when it comes to eccentricities. Hort claims that he lost a game against Browne after the latter was abusing Arbiter, clock and opponent for several minutes while Hort tried to make his moves, and ended up hanging a piece. (Tidskrift för Schack 1:1972). |
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| Mar-09-08 |
| wolfmaster: Is this guy's name pronounced as it looks like(Hohrt), or is it Hoort, Hurt, Hairt, etc.? |
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Mar-09-08
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| Gypsy: 'Hoard', exept with the nonsounding 't' instead of the sounding 'd' at the end, comes reasonably close. |
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