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| Oct-01-03 | | Kenkaku: Kasparov vs. David Letterman. This must've been played during an appearance on his show. |
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| Oct-01-03 | | Diggitydawg: The first time I saw Garry Kasparov on television was on David Letterman's show. They seemed to have a good rapport. Later, they played a correspondence game over telephone, where Kasparov would give his move at the beginning of the interview and David would give his move at the end of the interview. This must be it. From what I remember, there was a lot of political trouble in Azerbaijan and Garry was worried about his relatives. |
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| Feb-13-04 | | gilbertv: This is awesome I think I remember seeing this when I was in college. Was this mate? |
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| Apr-20-04 | | PaulKeres: I don't think the Scandinavian is very good, there is nothing (IMHO)that Black can do with the Queen after 3.Nc3 which I believe makes this worth while. I just played same first 4 moves as Kaspa, where Black played <4...Qg6>, and also won relatively easily against someone rated above me. |
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| Apr-20-04 | | Jim Bartle: Letterman was goofing around, didn't pretend he could play. Actually he started out with 1...h5 and K made him take it back. After 1...d5 K said, "Well, that's BETTER." (but not good). |
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| Apr-20-04 | | nikolaas: In each case, he makes no chance to be choosen as best chess player ever! If I had a cat, it would play better!(But I haven't any, so don't worry. I'd only take a very intelligent cat.) |
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| Apr-20-04 | | square dance: it doesnt appear as if letterman can play, even i could do much better. |
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| Apr-20-04 | | Pawn Ambush: <Jim Bartle: Letterman was goofing around, didn't pretend he could play. Actually he started out with 1...h5 and K made him take it back.> I remember that. Did you see the look of horror on Kasparovs face when he saw 1....h5? Lol! |
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| Apr-20-04 | | Bobsterman3000: Letterman needs Fritz 8 bad. If you're gonna play the Scandinavian Defense, then you should at least put the queen on a5 after white plays Nc3. Then you can play c5 and retreat the queen to c7 safety later. |
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| Apr-20-04 | | badbadLeroyBrown: I remember this game. Letterman was bragging "I've already won twice as many pieces as you have" after taking the pawn on g2. Kasparov replied "you will pay dearly for that pawn". Hehehe. |
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| Apr-20-04 | | karnak64: Based on the celebrity games I've seen him play, I have to say Kasparov is a great sport. He has far more patience with DL than I ever had with my teenaged nephew, whose moves are at least as poor ... |
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| Apr-21-04 | | square dance: why does kasparov get white against letterman??? i saw him playing with the white pieces against arnold schwarzenneger too. as if it isn't enough of a task to play chess against kasparov... |
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| Apr-21-04 | | TrueFiendish: It seems the champ, whomever that might be, always gets white in such exhibitions. I guess the viewing public doesn't really know the advantage of the first move and the whole idea is that the celebrity gets mashed anyway. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | steven18: I heard Schwarzenneger is quite a good chess player? Anyone know where I can find the game against Arnie Schwarzenneger and Kasparov? Also why was Kasparov on the Dave Letterman show!? |
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| Apr-21-04 | | PaulKeres: <Bobsterman3000: Letterman needs Fritz 8 bad. If you're gonna play the Scandinavian Defense, then you should at least put the queen on a5 after white plays Nc3. Then you can play c5 and retreat the queen to c7 safety later. >, this is good to know.
So does the actually manage to make this opening repectable?
Also anyone met 2...Nf6, or play it themselves. What your view on this move. Lastly, I to would love to see the Schwarzenneger and Kasparov game. Incidently isn't Arnie a member of Mensa, and what is his IQ, I heard its quite high. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | Bobsterman3000: <PaulKeres> One top GM that I've seen play the Scandinavian Defense volume is Ian Rogers, and he usually puts the queen on A5 after white plays Nc3 so that she can easily be retreated to C7 later. C7 is a decent post for the queen but she can easily be chased again by a protected dark-squared bishop arriving on F4. In my opinion, Letterman's choice of E6 for the queen was disastrous -- it holds up basic kingside development and exposes the queen to attack from both pawns and minor pieces. IMO, he could have just retreated the queen to C6 if he didn't like A5.
I don't think that too many top GM's regard the Scandinavian defense as solid, since too much time can be lost shuttling your queen to safety while white develops. I believe that the Caro-Kann (in which black plays 1...C6 and then 2...D5) is generally regarded as a superior way of answering 1E4 with a later D5. In regards to 2...Nf6 instead of 2...Qxd5 I don't like it at all, personally. Possibly, because I am not a strong enough player to reclaim offered queenside pawns, often. Also, IMO the whole point of choosing the Scandinavian defense is for black to avoid locking pawns while also clearing the center in an attempt to prevent white from getting any central pawn majorities. 2...Nf6 flies right in the face of that logic. According to the chessgames.com database players who answered with 2...Nf6 were on the losing end of the stick by 45.8% to 27.8% with 26.4% draws. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | karlzen: Black should choose Qa5 with the idea of Nc6, e5 or c6 and Qc7 with a very solid and acceptable position. 20.Bc4+ Ke8 21.Rxg7! is also quite beautiful, but Kasparov's idea is much more aesthetic. |
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| Apr-27-04 | | nikolaas: <PaulKeres> I only won with the Scandinavian. Allright, I played white, but even than... |
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| Apr-27-04 | | Hanada: Although I hate the Scandinavian as much as the next man I fear that it is very near soundness. Annad used it once against Kasparov although he did lose :): 1. Kasparov vs Anand 1-0 41 1995 Ch World (match) (PCA) B01 Scandinavian
Kasparov vs Anand, 1995
It also has it's GM adherents through time. I think Rubenstein even did analysis of the opening and used it on several occasions. I also, found this link which is kind of interesting. It has a little info on new ideas within the scandinavian (centre-counter) lines. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/Open... Usually afte Nc3, the queen moves to Qa5, but there is also Qd8 and Qd6. Also, after white captures exd5 the queen doesn't need to take immediately necause of ..Nf6. I remeber the first time I saw Qd8 after Nc3 at a club....I almost fell out of my seat, but it wasn't that horrible to my surprise. Hanada |
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| May-11-04 | | talchess2003: <PaulKeres:I don't think the Scandinavian is very good, there is nothing (IMHO)that Black can do with the Queen after 3.Nc3 which I believe makes this worth while> Actually, even though I am not a fan of it as black, the Scandinavian is a pretty solid defense. Anand used it against Kasparov once, I'm too lazy to get the URL, but he came out with a noteable advantage but then was outplayed by Kasparov =\ |
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| May-11-04 | | acirce: Kasparov vs Anand, 1995 |
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| Jun-07-04 | | Whitehat1963: Kasparov plays David Letterman in the opening of the day! |
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| Jun-07-04 | | poktirity: And beats him to! |
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| Jun-14-04 | | Whitehat1963: Kasparov actually displays an interesting attack here with a queen sacrifice to boot. Actually a fun game to look over. |
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