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| Feb-13-04 | | ughaibu: De Groot in his study moots four games as a minimum for master level. |
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| Feb-13-04 | | Catfriend: I think what some of the written here missed is the playing-level. I am VERY far from being a master... But I can play a blindfolded-game or two at once, I've checked that! The point is I play so poorly! What impresses me in AA blindfold-simuls is his level of tactical sight. So, OK, he had such blunders... But he also counted amasing combinations that way! Correct me if I'm wrong, but the classic against Feldt was blindfold simul one, wasn't it? nd I can bring up some more such examples.. |
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| Feb-13-04 | | WMD: The February 1994 Chess Monthly did a feature on blindfold chess including Tony Miles' impressions of giving such a display. Here's how the record developed after Alekhine. "In 1937 Koltanowski played 34 opponents at Edinburgh, scoring +24 =10 in 13 1/2 hours. None of the subsequent attempts have had the tight controls expected for official world record ratification." "In a revealing interview in New In Chess magazine Najdorf remembers: 'I suffered a very big tragedy in the war. I never saw my family again. I lost all my family. All killed by Hitler. I started to work in an insurance company to make some money, a company which I later bought. And I played chess. One of the things I did was play 40 games blindfolded. Do you know why I played these blindfold games? I had a very special reason. Not only a chess reason, but also a private reason. Somebody told me it was impossible, but I believed that if this was a sports record, then perhaps someone from my family might hear about it. If they were in the concentration camps, this news might somehow reach them. They would know that I am alive and that I am playing chess. So maybe they could come to Buenos Aires too after the War and start a new life. I believe that they received this notice, but I never saw them again.' In this exhibition, according to contemporary reports, Najdorf scored +36 =1 -3 in a 17 1/2 hour session at the Rosario Chess Club. Then, four years later, in Sao Paulo, he beat his own record by playing 45 games, winning 39, losing 2 and drawing 4 - in 19 hours and 40 minutes!" "The current world record holder is Janos Flesch - but his feat of 52 boards (+31 -3 =18) in Budapest 1960 was poorly documented. We understand that subsequently Flesch had to spend some time in a sanatorium as he could not get the positions on the boards out of his head, long after the exhibition. Though he made a full recovery and continued his chess career, tragically he was killed in a car crash in 1983, whilst over in England playing in a tournament." |
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| Feb-13-04 | | ughaibu: Flesch also had access to the score sheets so it wasn't a "blindfold" exhibition in the true sense. |
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| Feb-13-04 | | WMD: Your source?
Miles records how he had a conversation with Koltanowski who said that Najdorf's 45 had been achieved with access to scoresheets. "I could do a hundred like that" he said. Miles writes that Flesch's 52 was performed in about 5 hours and "included many suspiciously short games. Perhaps I do him an injustice and it was genuine - are there any witnesses around? If so I would regard it as superhuman." |
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| Feb-13-04 | | ughaibu: Sorry I didn't realise it was the 52 I assumed it was the 96. I think it was Flesch, Guiness Book of Records. |
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| Mar-16-04 | | talchess2003: two questions.....
1) how on earth could there be so much conversation over this game, the most plain and unappealing game to us all? 2) why are people actually arguing about white's chances???? He's done! He's down a queen for a pawn, nothing can save him... and after Bf3 black plays e4 =\ |
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| Mar-16-04 | | talchess2003: I'd invite anyone to play this game out, me black and you white =D~ |
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| Jun-28-04 | | Sj17: uqhaibu: right, Alekhine misunderstood where the queen was. It looks like he thought Black's 13th move was Qb6, not Qd6. Were they using letter/number notation back then? The two moves SOUND the same... |
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| Jul-17-04 | | Calchexas: OK, it's official! There's a very, very simple way for Alekhine to win here. Alekhine simply points to some arbitrary spot on the horizon, screams, "Oh no! It's another Great War!" and while everyone's backs are turned, he switches the board around so he has black. Duh. |
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| Jul-17-04 | | ThomYorke: Alekhine lost only three games. If he blundered on this, it doesn´t matter. He still did a great job. |
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| Jul-23-04 | | Chesspatch: this game should be annotated
23. Qxd5(?^10) Qxd5(duh!)
24. Bf3(?^3) e4(end of discussion)
0-1 (And Alekhine walks out bottle in mouth.) |
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| Jan-31-05 | | GreenDayGuy: Why does it say board 11 under black? And <Chesspatch> LOL. |
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| Mar-21-05 | | Mate Hunter: Maybe Alekhine was playing many games blindford and he thought the white square bishop was on f3 because the black square bishop was on c3. |
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| Jun-02-05 | | blackjacki2: Wait, he played all these games at the same time?? |
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| Dec-24-05 | | weisyschwarz: "Ohh, was his queen on d6?" The Master just plain forgot. |
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Dec-24-05
 | | offramp: Possible scandal!
Firstly, I don't think the explanation that Alekhine misheard "Qd6" as "Qb6" holds water, because if Alekhine thought the black queen was on b6 then the move 17.a4 loses a pawn to 17...Bxb4. However, if Alekhine later in the game asked someone to read him out the score, and during that reading he misheard "Qd6" as "Qb6" - say at about 21 - then that could have been the cause of the error. Clame! |
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| Jun-18-06 | | ughaibu: Presumably they were speaking French. |
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| Jun-18-06 | | Aspirador: I think it makes sense that Alekhine thought the queen was on b6. After 17...Bxb4 18.axb5 and white is fine. He MUST have thought that the queen was somewhere else. Other than d8, b6 is the only reasonable guess. |
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| Nov-13-06 | | black knight c6: It's a pity white resigned while in a winning position <_< >_> |
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| Dec-27-06 | | crwynn: "black knight c6: It's a pity white resigned while in a winning position" What kind of nonsense is that? Nowadays every Russian schoolboy knows that after 23...Qxd5 24.Bf3 Qd3!!! White is lost. See Kasparov's analysis in OMGP: "23.Qxd5!? This move encapsulates Alekhine's contributions to the understanding of dynamics in chess. For what, exactly, has the queen been sacrificed? Because of the difficulty in answering that very question, a player like Capablanca would never play such a move. Alekhine's concept is revolutionary; he understood that Black's extra queen is only a hindrance to his execution of the thematic plan in such positions (that is, transferring the bishop from e7 to b3), and furthermore allows a number of stalemate possibilities for White. 23...Qxd5 24.Bf3
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a)24...e4? The pawn is quite weak here; 25.Bd4 and this centralization is clearly decisive b)24...Qxf3!? attempts to reach a drawn ending of opposite-colored bishops, e.g. 25.gf Rh6 26.Rd1 Ra8 27.Rxd7, but several decades later Huebner observed that in fact these bishops are of the *same* color, effectively burying this line. But it turns out that Black can in fact play for a win from this position, incredible as it may seem: c) 24...Qd3!!! and White is in complete zugzwang, for instance..." And I should think the subsequent variations are obvious. Whether this is a true zugzwang position is debatable; according to the usual definition, zugzwang is a position in which each player wishes that the other did not have to move, and lobbies FIDE to amend the rules accordingly, but this is not universally accepted. |
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| Dec-16-07 | | 2021: How is this a Colle System if white played 4.Nc3? |
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| Jun-12-08 | | ravel5184: Is this the same NN that Greco beat 75-0? |
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| Dec-22-08 | | WhiteRook48: We should make a collection of ALL of NN's wins |
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| Dec-23-08 | | WhiteRook48: Alekwine |
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