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| Jul-15-05 | | themindset: can i have permission to add the bio information that is here to Hein Donner's site on wikipedia? i've already linked it to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_D... |
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| Sep-05-05 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <raykeene> The movie "Discovery of Heaven" is pretty good, though the book is even better. I have searched which company offers at its lowest price. You should go to www.vanleest.nl: http://www.vanleest.nl/pages/produc... The book can best bought at aabooksuk via www.amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos... |
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| Oct-22-05 | | Eastfrisian: People, who have not been offended by Donner, must have been not important. From an article of Dr. Helmut Pfleger. |
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| Dec-31-05 | | Resignation Trap: Venice 1967 was one of Donner's finest moments, when he finished first with a score of 11/13. He himself spoiled the effects when he spoke on Dutch television about the first prize: a large golden gondola with twelve jewels. "I donate it to the Medical Committee Viet Nam. They will buy medicine for it, but I don't mind if it is a machine gun, because the Americans have to be kicked out of Viet Nam!" he exclaimed. A scandal was born. He lost his chess column in Elseviers Weekblad immediately. Donner never got his prize. |
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| Jan-08-06 | | The hachett man: Good News!
Donners book The King:Chess pieces is going to be released in paperback in June 2006. Previously it was only published in a limited hard back edition which was difficult to find and very expensive. Now many more people can read a selection of his humourous writings on every aspect of chess. He was a very much loved man and popular chess writer. We need more chess columinsts like Hein Donner in our newspapers! Who has the best chess column these days can anyone compete with his output? I think he must have been excellent entertaining company! he was a good friend of Bent Larsen for many years. |
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| Jan-08-06 | | BIDMONFA: Jan Hein Donner DONNER, Jan Hein
History Championship Wijk Aan Zee
http://www.bidmonfa.com/historia.htm
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| Mar-12-06 | | nescio: Donner's birthday should be corrected. It is July 6 1927. Two sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_D...
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events... Now that I am here, and to celebrate that I have finally understood what pgn is all about, I would like to draw your attention to the following gem, which I could not find in this database [Event "Wageningen zt"]
[Site "Wageningen"]
[Date "1957.10.26"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Donner,Jan Hein"]
[Black "Troianescu,Octavio"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "E57"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 0-0 6.Nf3 d5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.a3 cxd4
9.exd4 dxc4 10.Bxc4 Be7 11.Re1 a6 12.Ba2 b5 13.d5 exd5 14.Nxd5 Nxd5 15.Qxd5 Bb7 16.Qh5 g6
17.Qh6 Nd4 18.Ng5 Bxg5 19.Bxg5 Qb6 20.Rad1 Rac8 21.Re7 Qd6 22.Kh1 Qc6 23.Rxb7 Nf5 24.Bd5 Qc2
25.Rc1 Qe2 26.Bxf7+ Kh8 27.Bf6+ 1-0
As far as I remember, Donner considered it his best game. |
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| Apr-04-06 | | blingice: "Chess is as much a game of chance as blackjack; or tossing cards into a top hat." ~~Jan Hein Donner From:
http://www.exeterchessclub.org.uk/l... |
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Apr-28-06
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Apr-28-06
 | | ray keene: <hachettman>. <offramp> korchnoi disliked donner because he thought he was not serious and also a communist sympathiser who hadnt thought his support through carefully enough donner was incredibly amusing-his old foe ree is probably the greatest chess stylist writing at the moment tho his last few efforts have seemed a bit flat and ill informed to me--something has gone out of them --tho on top form he is world class-i dont know what it is about the dutch and the irish but they often write the best english--see also swift shaw beckett joyce yeats and others-- |
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| Jun-12-06 | | Luvnlife34: Jan Hein Donner's Biography and "Notable Games" both need to be updated to reflect his win over Robert James Fischer at Varn Ol, Final Round 6, 1962. Thanks. |
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| Jul-06-06 | | BIDMONFA: Jan Hein Donner DONNER, Jan Hein
http://www.bidmonfa.com/donner_jan_...
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| Dec-01-06 | | Karpova: Hilarious:
<"Men want to beat you up, but women want to take care of you. Personally I prefer a beating, because there's an end of it."> http://home.hccnet.nl/jhw.heesen/#d... |
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| Dec-06-06 | | Caissanist: I believe that Donner was also the first person to make the observation that the American preference for poker (over chess) is clearly reflected in our foreign policy. He said this in 1972. |
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| Dec-06-06 | | Willem Wallekers: < Eastfrisian: People, who have not been offended by Donner, must have been not important. From an article of Dr. Helmut Pfleger. > That's right. I've met him a few times, and he was always very friendly and polite to me. |
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| Jul-03-07 | | sneaky pete: Sphinxo-Hijnn, an analyses by J. H. Donner (from De Gids, 1961). [Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Oedipus"]
[Black "Christ"]
[ECO "?"]
1. pierced feet
1. ... hands also pierced
2. blood from the eyes
2. ... blood from the forehead
3. two mothers
3. ... one mother
4. two fathers
4. ... two fathers
5. kills his maker
5. ... becomes his maker
There is no essential difference between the last moves of white and black. 6. marries his mother
6. ... rejects the female
7. children
7. ... disciples
8. Teiresias
8. ... Judas!?
In the context of this column this novelty cannot be considered at length. Fot Teiresias I refer to: Harry Mulisch, <Voer voor psychologen>, Amsterdam, 1961, and a possible identity of Judas is dealt with in Nils Runeberg, <Dem hemlige Frälsaren>, Stockholm, 1909. 9. blinds himself
9. ... kills himself
10. disappears horizontally
10. ... disappears vertically
11. not guilty
Probably best. Yet, after the warning of the Oracle, Oedipus was frivolous to marry at all. 11. ... guilty
As good as forced. Pilate considered Christ not guilty, but this sceptic probably considered no one guilty. One must agree with the Jews, who referred to the law. 12. saved by the sheperd
12. ... the good sheperd
13. immortal
STALEMATE |
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| Jul-06-07 | | nescio: "There was something in Mr. Donner's towering appearance that attracted irresistible attention. He was a figure one would least expect to encounter at a chess tournament. Much more likely one could see him as presiding judge of a court, or delivering a philosophy lecture, or in Parliament, depending on the garment he would be wearing. In this tournament he chose an informal open sport shirt. At the first rounds of the tournament, Mr. Donner showed tremendous mastery and tenacity, forcing his frustrated opponents to call him a nut impossible to crack. Draw, draw, draw, one draw following another, building a suspence generally not associated with drawing games. However, things began to change with his losses. None of his many friends liked it. Some of the youngsters probably to camouflage their disappointment made silly jokes about Mr. Donner's shirt while more serious people wished that his bad luck would inspire someone to write a treatise on brilliant games which ended in losses. Everyone gasped as Mr. Donner appeared at the final round in a marvelous new shirt. The old discarded one was found in the hall under a table and is now kept in Los Angeles as a souvenir of a witty and unforgettable man. There is an inscription: Here rests a shirt of Mr. Donner. A man of charm, skill and honor." -- Gregor Piatigorsky in the introduction to the Santa Monica 1966 tournament book |
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| Jul-11-07 | | sneaky pete: Jean Pierre Rawie & Driek van Wissen: Beter een half ei dan een lege dop Ik ben nu eenmaal geen pietlut
En daar vriend Donner maar bleef kniezen
Schonk ik mijn stukwerk plus kleingrut
Om ook eens van hem te verliezen.
Mijn vorst rukt op, schoon onbeschut,
Wat zwart dwingt e5 te kiezen;
Koning e3, e4; och gut:
Hij zet zijn eerste stuk en prise.
Die kans laat ik niet onbenut;
Dame h4; ik pak mijn biezen
En Donner, die hier moed uit put,
Speelt paard e7, een bêtise,
Want ik sprak: "Pat", Jan Hein riep "Kut!"
En zo werd het toch nog remise.
For those unfortunates who have no ear for good poetry, here's a prosaic translation: 
click for larger view[White "Jonkheer Luteijn"]
[Black "Jan Hein Donner"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Eco "000"]
1.Ke2 e5 2.Ke3 e4 3.Kxe4 Qh4+ 4.Ke5 Ne7 1/2-1/2
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| Jul-20-07 | | whiteshark: In 1968 Donner noted:
<However painful it may be, we must not shrink from the truth: <women cannot play chess>. And, if you ask me, they will never learn to play chess. ... And why can"t they play chess? After more than twenty-two years of pure scientific research, I think I have found an explanation. It is a well-known fact that a woman is superior to a man. Physically she is stronger. With her endless patience she will win, in the end, the everlasting battle of the sexes. She can think more logically... She has a far better memory... In everything a woman is superior to a man, but she misses one thing: <intuition>.> True. |
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| Jul-20-07 | | RookFile: Somebody should explain this to the Polgars. |
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| Jul-20-07 | | achieve: It's satire from top to bottom but that's how he was -- Donner did look down on women in a way. |
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| Jul-20-07 | | whiteshark: <<Rookfile> This is what Donner has to say about the subject, four years later: <The difference between the sexes in chess is remarkably big, but in my opinion no bigger than in any other cultural activity. Women can not play chess, like they can not paint, nor write literature, nor compose music, nor be a philosopher. In fact, there is nothing thought or done by a woman, that is worth noticing. So chess is not to blame. But what is? First of all a woman is far more stupid than a man. And, a woman is not at all capable to amuse herself.> Thereby keeping a straight face is a hard nut to crack...> ;D |
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| Aug-01-07 | | nescio: And again, in De Volkskrant, 1977:
"Het jaarlijkse grootmeestertoernooi te Lone Pine in Californië had dit keer een sensationeel resultaat. Medewinnares, samen met Balasjov uit de Sovjet-Unie, en Oscar Panno uit Argentinië, werd Nona Gaprindasjvili, nog vóór te goeder naam en faam bekende grootmeesters als Browne, Evans en Shamokovich. Een ongehoord succes voor de dameswereldkampioen en een zware slag voor allen die, oog in oog met de wassende moddervloed van het feminisme, nog een laatste houvast meenden te hebben in de overtuiging dat vrouwen tenminste niet kunnen schaken. Mevrouw Gaprindasjvili's optreden heeft dan ook niet nagelaten grote verontrusting te weeg te brengen in de brede schakerskringen als ook ver daarbuiten. Een vertwijfeld beroep op de sekse-test - in de schaakwereld niet gangbaar - moet ook falen, want mevrouw Gaprindasjvili is de moeder van twee kinderen. Het is niet meer te ontkennen: opvattingen over de fysieke of psychische zwakzinnigheid van de vrouw hebben vanaf heden geen aanknopingspunt meer in de feiten. Zelfs op schaakgebied is er nu minstens één die tot de wereldklasse behoort. Voor verstokte masculinisten en voor hen die om den brode grappige stukjes moeten schrijven een lelijke tegenvaller, die ons overigens natuurlijk niet in het minst zal beletten onze dappere strijd onverminderd voort te zetten. In Lone Pine bewees mevrouw Gaprindasjvili in het bijzonder haar fijn ontwikkeld positioneel gevoel, zoals dat vooral in het eindspel tot uitdrukking komt. Van deze perfecte eindspelvoering geeft haar ontmoeting met Tarjan een goed beeld." N Gaprindashvili vs Tarjan, 1977 |
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| Sep-15-07 | | Marmot PFL: <whiteshark> He said that cause he was fat & ugly and not getting any. |
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| Dec-27-07 | | bystander: The Corus website has been updated with games from previous tournements this year. Also some statistics are added to the website. One table shows who has played the most games at corus/hoogovens/beverwijk. Top 8 all Dutch, but with a clear lead of Donner! 1. Donner (298), 2. Timman (260) 3. Ree (258).
http://www.coruschess.com/statistic...
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