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| May-07-22 | | Albertan: Yuri Averbakh (1922-2022):
https://www.fide.com/news/1738
R.I.P. |
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May-07-22
 | | alexmagnus: At death he was the oldest living grandmaster and the oldest living world championship candidate. The new top-3 of oldest living grandmasters are Matanovic, Krogius, Nikolac The new top-3 of oldest living Candidates:
Olafsson, Panno, Spassky. |
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May-07-22
 | | Fusilli: <At death he was the oldest living grandmaster and the oldest living world championship candidate.> And after death, he is the longest-lived grandmaster (right?) and oldest-lived world championship candidate. RIP to a great player. |
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May-07-22
 | | Messiah: Rest in peace. |
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May-07-22
 | | perfidious: Tip o' the cap to a player and theoretician who left his mark, long before his time on earth came to its end. As the line over the gates to a Sicilian cemetery went, from a Puzo novel: <We have been like you--and you shall be like us> |
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May-07-22
 | | moronovich: Chapeau maitre.
Et bonne voyage.
Merci. |
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May-07-22
 | | 0ZeR0: Rest in peace to one of the giants of chess, GM Yuri Averbakh. Though you are now gone, your legacy will live on forever over chessboards all over the world. |
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May-08-22
 | | paulalbert: May he rest in peace.
I had the honor of meeting GM Averbakh at the Watson ,Farley, Williams Tournament in NY in 1990. Since it was played privately in the law firm offices there were only invited guest spectators. Fortunately as a Trustee of the American Chess Foundation and investment banker at Morgan Stanley i was deemed worthy of an invitation. With so few spectators we were able to personally interact with all the players before and after the games.
Yuri was already well along in age at that time, but still managed a couple nice wins over much younger GMs.
Much later I learned from a chess playing neighbor ( deceased many years ago) Billy Levine, a dentist, but strong chess player that he knew Yuri well from the International Chess Set Collectors Association in which Yuri was also very involved. Billy's house was filled with an incredible collection of unique and valuable sets from all over the world. Billy actually had a win in a simul over Yuri at one of the Chess Set Collectors Conventions in Europe.
Now that Yuri Averbakh is gone I believe that few, if any, of the really elite players from the peak era of Soviet chess remain, other than Boris Spassky whom I also had the pleasure of meeting a few times in NY. |
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| May-08-22 | | nok: I bet <alexmagnus> will come like a vulture to post his updated lists before Yuri's body is cold. Oh wait... |
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May-08-22
 | | piltdown man: Vale, you legend. Always an inspiration to me. |
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May-08-22
| | alexmagnus: <I bet <alexmagnus> will come like a vulture to post his updated lists before Yuri's body is cold.
Oh wait...>
Consider me the chess version of the Gerontology Research Group, who also update their lists of oldest people very quickly and publicly :D |
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| May-08-22 | | whiteshark: <I bet <alexmagnus> will come like a vulture to post his updated lists before Yuri's body is cold. Oh wait...> :D It could also be seen as a <to do> list, for whomever.... |
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| May-09-22 | | wordfunph: rest in peace, legend. |
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May-09-22
 | | OhioChessFan: A wildly entertaining and very long interview from around 2014. https://thealmanach.ru/en/action/av... |
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May-09-22
 | | HeMateMe: a russian man living to age 100? That's a rarity. a tip of the hat to the author of many great games. I think I owned one of his books, too. |
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May-09-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Afternoon: His works on the endgame helped me become a Master. Yuri Averbakh, RIP, and thank you for existing. |
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May-12-22
 | | offramp: Did he died? |
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May-12-22
| | moronovich: <offramp: Did he died?> Yes, he is supposed to be very dead by now. |
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May-14-22
| | Fusilli: <HeMateMe: a russian man living to age 100? That's a rarity.> True. |
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May-14-22
 | | MissScarlett: Pickling a liver in vinegar is better than vodka. |
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May-14-22
 | | Honza Cervenka: Rest in peace, Yuri Lvovich. |
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| May-15-22 | | Albertan: Averbakh on Averbakh:Grandmaster and World Championship Candidate: https://en.chessbase.com/post/averb... |
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| May-17-22 | | Albertan: How Yuri Averbakh fell in love with Chess-Grigoriev’s best pawn studies: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/ho... |
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Apr-22-23
 | | hastae47: Belatedly, and sadly, I see this news. He visited Australia in 1967. For me, significantly. he gave a simul in Sydney where over 40 of us took part. So many that he had to run around the tables at the start, and it still took him about 4.5 hours of work. He conceded only a few draws.
Our southernmost state, Tasmania, was suffering severe bushfires at the time and at the end of his day Yuri gave all his collected simul fees to the fire-fighting fund !
RIP Yuri... gr8 player, gr8 man !! |
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Apr-22-23
| | HeMateMe: Any photos of his chess set collection around? |
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