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Richard Taylor vs Ortvin Sarapu
Howick-Pakuranga Open Tt (1988), Auckland, NZ, rd 1, Feb-20
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Chigorin Defense Panov System (C99)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jan-07-08
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  Richard Taylor: 43 Rb7 is an easy win for White but I was in time trouble and being "badgered" by Ortvin...such is chess!

Earlier in the game, I had worked out everything (or as much as I could) and knew I had 26 Kh1!, avoiding mate or checks and winning a piece) I think Ortvin miscalculated -very unusual for him...

Mar-02-08
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  Richard Taylor: I don't know what I meant by 43 Rb7...

But 33 Qe5 may have been better

Mar-02-08
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  Benzol: <Richard> Would 45.♘c2 with the idea of 46.♘d4 to eliminate Ortvin's passed b-pawn have been a better plan?
Mar-05-08
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  Richard Taylor: <Benzol> Yes! I missed my big chance!
Feb-10-18
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  Richard Taylor: It was an easy win for me but the time control and Sarapu's badgering me were two problems. He rarely failed to win those weekend tournaments and here he was losing to a weaker player. So in came the gamesmanship...and it worked! He probably got a good bite of the prize money. My father's view was that was better than the money he got working overtime at a factory for reidrubber. He was only a labourer. Not a professional. Which is not to say he was lower than my father who was an architect, but enabled my father to feel superior to him even though he was no where as good as chess as Sarapu.

The other thing Ortvin wanted was perpetual membership at ACC but Adrian Lentz the then Treasurer and a feisty Dutchman, argued the toss, saying that he was "only a big fish in a small pool" and outside NZ he would be no one, in fact a nothing, if not a nothingness! Adrian had a great temper! He was a character though. They both were. Two of the great eccentrics of NZ Chess...In the Sarapu Era...

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