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| Jun-18-12 | | BishopTakes: What a wonderful prediction by legendary Geller! It is mysterious that Geller would travel to an unknown town in south India to play the future champion!! |
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| Jun-18-12 | | Call Me TC: Be nice to find a contemporary reference to Geller's prediction. Sounds like something a journalist could readily cook up. |
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| Jun-18-12 | | BishopTakes: I kind of liked the story though :) |
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| Jun-18-12 | | Call Me TC: 'It makes a nice story...' is everything (well, almost) that Edward Winter has been fighting against. |
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| Jun-25-13 | | Estoc: In the book Russian Silhouettes, author Genna Sosonko says he was the one that asked Geller about losing to a little boy in India. Geller's reply in the book was, "A little boy? I may have lost to a future world champion." |
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Sep-13-23
 | | FSR: Geller overlooked 5.Nc3!, which would have forced a quick resignation from Anand. A Zapata vs Anand, 1988. |
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Sep-13-23
| | FSR: Stockfish 11 gives 2...Nf6 (rather than the "correct" 2...Nc6) a question mark, claiming that 3.Nxe5 gives White a +0.85 advantage. Ludicrous. And I don't know why chessgames doesn't use a more recent version of Stockfish. 16 is the current one. |
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Sep-13-23
 | | perfidious: <FSR>, now you know why I never played 2....Nf6 in even a casual game during my career. (laughs) |
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Sep-13-23
 | | HeMateMe: Explain the pun? |
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Sep-13-23
| | FSR: <HMM> Read the early comments. After this game, Geller identified Anand as a potential future world champion. |
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Sep-13-23
| | FSR: <perfidious> Even the inferior 3.Nxe5 Nxe4?! doesn't give White anything resembling a +0.85 advantage. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... |
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| Sep-13-23 | | Idk1992: Did you guys like my pun :) |
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| Sep-13-23 | | morphynoman2: Sorry, I don't like some comments by Stockfish in the opening, like: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6?
I think that's not fair. |
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Sep-13-23
 | | offramp: How good was Efim Geller as a Soothsayer? In 1988, Geller prophesied that Anand would become World Champion. Geller watched Kasparov - Anand PCA World Championship Match (1995) and saw Anand getting beaten like a cherokee drum. Geller then passed to his own happy hunting ground in 1998. In 2007, 19 years after Geller's prediction, Anand became world champion, at World Championship Tournament (2007). Well done, Geller! He read the chicken entrails exactly right. |
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Sep-13-23
| | FSR: <offramp> "Beaten like a Cherokee drum" is harsh. The first eight games were drawn (then a record), and Anand won the ninth. But he scored only half a point in the next five games. Then he recovered to draw the next four. The final score of 10.5-7.5 (58.3%) was not extraordinary. |
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| Sep-13-23 | | idk101: Can someone tell me how they found the tournament record of this game? It didn't have one just yesterday when I submitted the pun now it has all the games too |
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Sep-13-23
 | | Stonehenge: <idk101>
I've uploaded the missing games and made a tournament page. |
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| Sep-13-23 | | idk101: How did you find it Stonehenge? |
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Sep-13-23
| | Stonehenge: I used https://www.365chess.com/tournament... |
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| Sep-13-23 | | Idk1992: But in what circumstances did the foreign players come in India tho? I mean it was definitely not as popular country it is now and it wasn't known that much for chess... Did they get paid a lot? |
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Sep-13-23
| | Stonehenge: Sorry, I don't have any additional information. |
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| Sep-13-23 | | Idk1992: It's okay :) I am just curious |
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Sep-13-23
| | Stonehenge: Little bit of information here: Coimbatore (1987) (kibitz #1) |
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| Sep-14-23 | | eaglewing: Would 47. Rxd6 Rxd6 48.Bxg7 (Rd1 or else) have been drawable? |
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| Sep-16-23 | | Idk1992: No. He can just take with the king instead of the rook and he is up a rook and even if he takes with the rook it's still winning for black. But the last blunder by Geller is Be3. |
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