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| May-17-15 | | RookFile: I guess the goal of 15....Bb4 was maybe to play Bc3 and get rid of the b2 bishop. But, he never got close. So, the move has to be considered a waste of time. |
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| May-05-16 | | ewan14: Keres supreme misfortune was to be Estonian , a people not too popular with Stalin |
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| Apr-11-17 | | Everett: <Olavi: I think that from about 1952 Keres would have had an even chance against Botvinnik, only Smyslov and Tal were in the way. 1962 perhaps... Similarly I'd make Korchnoi the favourite in a match against Petrosian in the 60's. In the first among equals era it was not always the case that if A beats B and B beats C, then A beats C.> If you're looking at match play, Bronstein hardly ever lost one, and was never an easy opponent for Keres. It would have been interesting to see Bronstein in match play in the 50's. Not sure Smyslov beats him there. |
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Oct-02-17
 | | offramp: Four years ago the pun for this game was "Keres the Ball" which was only understood by User: dernier thylacine. Today we have evolved up to "Keres Seen".
That is probably based on Kerosene, a liquid which is known in most of the world as paraffin. You have to slightly mangle the pronunciation of Keres, and ignore who or what is supposed to have <seen> Keres, in order to really find that pun funny. Normally, if chessgames.com is desperate for a game to be GoTD, it simply takes the winner's name and selloptapes the word Immortal after it. Here this <cannot be done> owing to the dreadful Buzz Killington <double S> involved in <Keres's Immortal>. |
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| Oct-02-17 | | morfishine: <offramp> Undoubtedly, you are a national treasure ***** |
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| Oct-02-17 | | goodevans: <18...f6> looks to be such an ugly move, weakening g6 which proved to be fatal. The trouble is it's hard to find anything better for black. Against most alternatives white has <19.Qh5> initiating a similar attack as in the game only now the a1-h8 diagonal is also open. Maybe <18...h6> held out better chances? |
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| Oct-02-17 | | thegoodanarchist: <offramp: Four years ago the pun for this game was "Keres the Ball" which was only understood by User: dernier thylacine. Today we have evolved up to "Keres Seen"...
You have to ... ignore who or what is supposed to have <seen> Keres, in order to really find that pun funny.> I don't know, having some unknown entity "stalking" Keres is not funny, but disturbing. |
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| Oct-02-17 | | diceman: <Today we have evolved up to "Keres Seen"... > Since black's king looks like a chalk outline with yellow police tape. I would have preferred:
"Keres Scene" |
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| Oct-02-17 | | schnarre: ...Good one <diceman>! |
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| Oct-05-17 | | kevin86: Late double check ends it. |
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| May-08-18 | | edubueno: Keres ganó brillantemente ante un jugador tan fuerte como Geller. En esta partida se vió cómo Geller juega bien al ataque pero flojo en la defensa. |
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Jun-22-19
 | | Fusilli: A look at this position, after 18.Ne5, gives support to that quote about tactics flowing from a superior position. (Who said that?)
click for larger viewGeller has been either reckless or overly optimistic. His three minor pieces are all committed to the queenside, where nothing is really happening. Keres' three minor pieces are all aimed at Geller's kingside. Add that the white side is being handled by one of the strongest attackers of all time, and the writing is on the wall. |
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| Sep-25-19 | | seneca16: Geller played like NN in this game. He could at least have tried 17...Bc3 or 17 … Re8 followed by Bc3 to hinder white's attacking pieces. |
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| Feb-13-20 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Many kibitzing about the "ever second Keres" or the "uncrowned world Champion", as said some. Then I decide to see, what the database tell us about KERES and his opponents: He wan more games from the players:
11x7 Euwe (9=), 4x0 Bogoljubov (5=), Panno (5=); 8x5 Tal (17=), 4x1 Korchnoi (12=), 9x7 Geller (21=), 5x2 Boleslavsky (15=), 5x3 Szabo (12=), 3x1 Fine (8=), 3x2 Taimanov (11=), 2x1 Flohr (19=); 1x0 Capablanca (5=), Nezhmetdinov (3=). He draw the scores against:
9x9 Smyslov (22=), 3x3 Petrosian (29=), 2x2 Tartakower (5=), 1x1 Averbakh (9=). However, he has lost more games for the following players:
3x8 Botvinnik (9=), 1x5 Alekhine (8=), 4x7 Bronstein (19=), 4x6 Reshevsky (9=), 3x5 Spassky (19=), 0x2 Stein (6=), 3x4 Fischer (3=), 1x2 Polugaevsky (6=). I made this list to show that even though he was a remarkabe player, his carrer has some highs and lows, as many others.
He won the 1947 and 1950 Soviet Championship. Has an impressive list of 1018 wins, 807 draws and only 206 defeats. He has more wins than Smyslov (918), Geller (803). Above him, Tal (1115) and Korchnoi (1686). But he lost less times than Spassky (209), Tal (296) and Smyslov (306). Note that Botvinnik apeares with only 1165 games in the data base, while Keres has 2031 games, near Petrosian 1933, altough he loses to the number of Kochnoi 4451 games, Tal 2685, Spassky 2276, Smyslov 2603, etc.
I hope that this picture gives a best view of the stronger chess of Keres and his wonderful career. Then, someone become world champion not necessarily tells the power of a chess player. Keres had a impressive score to proof it. |
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| Feb-13-20 | | sudoplatov: Keres also won the 1951 USSR championship. He's got three. |
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| Feb-14-20 | | ewan14: Apart from the 1968 match , Korchnoi had the edge over Spassky.
This made the result of this match all the more remarable |
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| Apr-09-20 | | carpovius: Fantastic game! |
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| Nov-05-20 | | Viking707: Instead of 18. Ne5, why not Bh7+, leaving the black Queen en prize? |
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| Apr-01-21 | | tympsa: Keres just demolished black position like it was some 1800 player against him . But it wasnt, Geller was very good usually, obviously not in this game .
Alarm bells shoud have ringing for him already after 16.d5 . White bishops were already aimed at black king , but white own pawns were on the way . Geller was so careless he helped white to get rid of them . I dont know if Keres said "Thank you" afted pawns were gone and he could add the gasoline into fire with Nd5 and Qh5, but game was already decided at this point . There is no fun to be on the receiving end of attack like that . Sometimes people forget that Keres was no worse attacker that Tal, but on his mature years, he used it less often and preferred more cautious and careful style. But skills were still there even in 1962 |
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May-11-21
 | | scutigera: Worth noting from a junior tactics perspective is the effectiveness of 26 Bh7++; Black has set up two good interpositions for himself on g7 with 23..Qh8 and 25..Rc7, but thanks to the double check he can't use either one on move 26, and since the K is forced to the second rank he can't even use them later. |
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| Jan-04-24 | | mk volkov: Since this is a crucial game for the 2nd place, the better title would be "Paul the Second" |
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| Apr-05-24 | | Petrosianic: White's accuracy: 99.8%.
16 Best Moves
1 Excellent Move
0 Inaccuracies
0 Mistakes
0 Misses
0 Blunders
I hope Kramnik doesn't find out about this. |
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Apr-05-24
 | | perfidious: <The Russians have fixed world chess> |
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| Apr-05-24 | | Petrosianic: Sure looks like it. They must have been way ahead of us to have an engine this good this early. Too bad they didn't put that effort into getting to the moon. |
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Jul-12-24
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click for larger view27. ? |
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