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| Jan-12-11 | | wordfunph: 1997 North American Open in Las Vegas:
Before 5th round game, Jerry Hanken saw IM Igor Ivanov examining the pairings and asked him, "Why the long face?" "Bad news. I have black
against Gulko. My record is one draw and nine losses with him." Ivanov replied. Their game eventually ended in a draw… though i couldn't find the game here.. |
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Jan-13-11
 | | HeMateMe: Boris G--the only man to win both the championship of the old USSR and the USA. I remember there was some controvery when he first emigrated here. Seems he was directly seeded into zonal play, without having to compete in the USA championship. The USA closed championship was a zonal tournament, top three finishers advance. Not 100% sure, but I think that is what happened. If in top form, Gulko was probably the best player in the USA at that time. I think the Benjamin-Seriwan-Christiansen group was our best at the time, and there was some anger about Gulko getting a quick lift into zonal play. The USCF probably was desperate to get a USA player into the Candidates matches, thats the way it goes. |
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| Feb-09-11 | | talisman: happy birthday Boris! |
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| Feb-09-11 | | kingfu: Would it not be proper justice, at some point in life, to be able to give birthdays BACK? For example, When we hit the big 60, after that it should go 59...58...57. Happy Birthday, Boris! According to the new formula that would make you 56!!! |
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| May-02-11 | | myschkin: . . .
<<Jan-12-11 <GrahamClayton> > Gulko gave an excellent interview in the 'New York Magazine', dated December 17, 1984,..> Pawns in the Game
".. Gulko is a distinguished-looking grayhaired man of medium height, with a small, pursed mouth ans a very gentle face. He appears to be about 55 or 60. I [author] was shocked to learn that he was 37. Gulko smiled. "If you don't eat for 42 days, you too, will look like are 60," he said. .." (from NY Magazin, 1984, by Fred Waitzkin)
link: http://books.google.com/books?id=du... |
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| Feb-09-12 | | brankat: <Gulko is the only player to have won the chess championship of both the Soviet Union and United States.> Happy Birthday GM Gulko! |
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Feb-09-12
 | | Penguincw: < Gulko is the only player to have won the chess championship of both the Soviet Union and United States. > Stunning. Fischer makes the US champ hard, while the Soviet won is like winning the world champ. Happy Birthday! |
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| Feb-09-12 | | TheFocus: Anna Akhsharumova, the wife of Boris Gulko, was the Women's Soviet Chess Championship in 1976 and 1984. She won the 1987 U.S. Women's Chess Championship, with a perfect score. |
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| Feb-10-12 | | brankat: <TheFocus> Thank You for this info. So, here we have a perfect chess husband-wife team. |
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| Feb-09-15 | | NBAFan: Gulko maintains an impressive 3-1 record against Kasparov, including a victory as black.
Kasparov vs Gulko, 1982 |
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| May-24-15 | | TheFocus: <When a good position begins to collapse, it normally collapses not into equality, but into ruins> - Boris Gulko. |
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| Feb-09-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, GM Boris Gulko. |
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| Feb-09-17 | | Marmot PFL: So Boris turned 70! although he looked 70 since he was 55. Bet he can still play the game. |
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| Feb-09-17 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Boris Gulko. |
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Feb-09-17
 | | perfidious: A droll bit I posted elsewhere a time ago:
<....(I)n 1991, I took a train to Penn Station in Manhattan, on my way to play in the annual US Amateur Team East, spotted Boris Gulko amidst the masses of humanity and introduced myself. Did he ever look stunned-he likely figured I was KGB or some such thing, lol.> |
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Aug-10-17
 | | Fusilli: There was a tournament where Gulko argued that he could play on the Shabbat but could not write the moves (and maybe also press the clock? I don't remember). He argued that playing the game was not work, but writing the moves was. Hence, he requested to have an assistant to write the moves. I don't remember if the request was granted, but I do remember he was criticized, I believe by GM Short, on the grounds that this was a self-serving interpretation of Jewish rules just to annoy his opponents (or something like that). Maybe it was GM Short on one of his "Short Stories" columns in New In Chess? Does anyone remember this better than I do? Can someone post a link to the article in question or more information on this? Thank you! |
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Aug-10-17
 | | Retireborn: <Fusili> This sounds more like Leonid Yudasin to me. I don't think Gulko is that religious, although I could be wrong of course. |
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Aug-10-17
| | Fusilli: <Retireborn> I thought it was Gulko. If we go by attire, Yudasin looks the part of an Orthodox Jew better than Gulko, but Gulko might very well be observant too. Either way, I'd appreciate a link to information on this, whether it is Gulko or Yudasin. Thanks! |
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Aug-10-17
| | Fusilli: Follow up to my own question--I found a reference to the issue here: http://www.chessdraw.com/Religious_...
and here:
https://www.chesscafe.com/text/geur... |
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| Aug-10-17 | | ChessHigherCat: <Fusilli> One of the posters on your second site said this: <It's a peculiar God that forbids you to work [on the Sabbath], but says it's OK to have someone else work for you.> Funny, that's what I thought the creation was all about! |
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| Feb-02-18 | | zanzibar: <Fusilli>'s first link is already stale. Gadzooks! |
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| Feb-02-18 | | zanzibar: I want to post a few of Soltis' comments about Gulko... Let's start with Botvinnik's comment (Botvinnik got to travel to Sweden in 1926 with other Soviets for a team match - he obviously considered the option of not returning...) <The trip also made a lasting impression: When Boris Gulko and his wife applied for exit visas nearly 55 years later, Botvinnik said he “told them that I, too, could have remained in Stockholm in 1926. But, Botvinnik
added, “I didn't and it did not turn
out badly.”>
Soltis <Soviet Chess: 1917-1992> p65. . |
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| Feb-02-18 | | zanzibar: Soltis p276 gives Gulko mention as a "new face" of Soviet chess, while talking about the "missing generation" (i.e. from WWII): <But as the 1960s headed towards their
end, the absence of the “missing generation” born during the War years seemed to have been obscured. The Soviet student team, with new faces such as Vladimir Tukmakov, Kuzmin and Boris Gulko, won the World Student Olympiad at Harrachov, Czechoslovakia in July 1967 by two points. There was no Soviet entrant for the 1967 World Junior because, for the first time in several years, politics overtly interfered. The Soviets and their Eastern Bloc allies boycotted the tournament, held in Jerusalem, to protest the Six-Day War.> At least we now know that <CG>'s unattributed Harrachov games were part of a FIDE World Student Olympiad: M Vukic vs Gulko, 1967
J Tomson vs Gulko, 1967
W Stork vs Gulko, 1967
Gulko vs M Schoeneberg, 1967
Soltis gives the tournament date as July, 1967, also adding info. |
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| Feb-02-18 | | zanzibar: The Sochi 1970 tournament was interesting - it was a Scheveningen tournament of the GM's vs. the (young) Masters. Tal wrote extensively about it in 64, and a translation can be found here: https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... Gulko had a bad tournament, and Tal had this to say: <The Moscow master Boris Gulko was out of practice for several months, and it affected his game. Gulko began the tournament very passively and lost to Korchnoi and Stein without much struggle. But then he managed to get in shape and gave a good fight to Tal in the third round.> . |
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Feb-02-18
| | Retireborn: Wasn't Botvinnik was only 15 or so in 1926? I find it difficult to believe that staying in Stockholm was a realistic possibility for him then, practically and emotionally. The Gulkos were surely in a very different situation. |
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