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Salomon Flohr vs Paul Keres
Warsaw Olympiad (1935), Warsaw POL, rd 15, Aug-27
Queen's Gambit Declined: Barmen Variation (D37)  ·  1-0

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Nov-21-06
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  Phony Benoni: It's worth noting that this game was played the round after the world-famous Keres vs W Winter, 1935. Young Keres found quickly that he had a lot more to learn about chess!
Jul-03-10  SpiritedReposte: I bet Keres was hung over/still drunk at the board! Only way he could play so bad in the opening.
Jul-03-10
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  HeMateMe: Keres was 19. Fischer and Kasparov lost no such games at age 19.
Jul-04-10  Petrosianic: Well, they lost these games:

Kasparov vs Gulko, 1982

Fischer vs Korchnoi, 1962

...but neither one was a Ruy Lopez, or played in 1935, so Keres still looks worse.

Jun-13-12  lost in space: <<SpiritedReposte:> I bet Keres was hung over/still drunk>

I am always thirsty, tired and horny

Dec-18-24
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  marcusantoinerome: 1. I doubt any of you could have won against the Keres of1935.

2. In his chess autobiography Keres said

"This game (Alekhine vs Keres, 1935) was enough to show that I was lacking in the necessary chess maturity, the technique and the experience to fit me to meet the world class type of player.�

To be fair, Estonia was not a chess hotbed in the 1930s so Keres didn�t have the advantage of Fischer in New York in the 1950s.

Dec-19-24
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  perfidious: <marcusantoinerome: 1. I doubt any of you could have won against the Keres of1935....>

Quite true, considering none of us were alive in 1935.

<....To be fair, Estonia was not a chess hotbed in the 1930s so Keres didn't have the advantage of Fischer in New York in the 1950s.>

Keres honed his skills by playing numerous correspondence games during the 1930s.

Dec-19-24
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  tamar: Floor on the other hand was at his absolute peak in 1935 reaching his highest lifetime ranking at #2 http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/...
Dec-19-24
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  tamar: Auto-correct I wrote Flohr…
Dec-19-24
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  perfidious: <tamar>, ever hear the following tale from Nottingham 1936?

During the above event, Flohr believed he would win all the top prizes because the lift boy at the site called off: 'First floor, second floor, third floor....'.

Dec-19-24
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  tamar: Until that fateful day a lift boy uttered the words “bottom floor”?

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