Mar-31-05 Robert James Fischer 
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| PQB4: On Mikhail Tal's page OJC has posted a link to some beautiful pictures showing the warmth with which Fischer related to somebody (sadly, one of the few) who was neither his enemy nor his worshipper, just a fine man worthy of his respect . There's something tragic about the photos in ... |
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Mar-31-05 Mikhail Tal
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| PQB4: There's one nice story Tal told himself. He was interviewing Fischer for a magazine article, back in about '61 I think.
"I asked him, 'Who do you consider to be the best player in the world?'
He looked at me with such shock. I immediately corrected myself:
'Apart from yourself, of ... |
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Mar-31-05 S Beaudoin vs P Zhao, 2004
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| PQB4: How old was Parker Zhao when he played this piece of cool judgment and long term planning? |
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Mar-31-05 Parker Bi Guang Zhao
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| PQB4: You may well be right. S Beaudoin vs P Zhao: is "wow!" a sufficiently strong comment? I think Nigel Short was 13 and rated 2240 when he last wiped me out - that gives Zhao 3 years to put on 220 points: should be a doddle. |
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Mar-29-05 Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960
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| PQB4: Thanks a lot for the link, AJ. Good grief, what powers Spassky had. I've known of this game for 30 years and as I played through your analysis I was as amazed as the first time I saw it. |
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Mar-28-05 Leonid Stein
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| PQB4: I hadn't thought of him as "relatively unknown" (you're doubtless right) as I was a big fan and hoped he'd be the man to try his luck against Fischer in '75. You'll love Keene's book...there's some thrilling attacking play. GM Keene comments that Stein had a facility for light material |
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Mar-28-05 K Arakhamia-Grant vs J Rowson, 2004
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| PQB4: I recommend this as a very tough contest in a popular line. Looks like right at the end White could have won with 61.Rh4+ Kg6 62.Qb1+ and 63. Rh7+ after a long game played on a knife edge. Must have been a thriller to watch and nerve wracking to play. |
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Mar-27-05 Garry Kasparov
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| PQB4: Ditto, and though you've given flatterers short shrift in the past I'll risk saying it's been entertaining and informative, I look forward to your next 10000. |
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Mar-23-05 Kasparov vs Marjanovic, 1980
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| PQB4: I remember when this was played. The then world champion was a great technician but his games didn't often excite! The week before I saw a brilliant game despairingly annotated thus: "typical of the sort of wonderful attacking chess we will never see at World Championship level so long |
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Mar-22-05 Kibitzer's Café
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| PQB4: Finally, if you ever have as a student a maniac who has no other purpose in life than to improve at chess, the book is "Secrets of Grandmaster Play" by Nunn & Clarke. I nominate them as the chess answer to Charles Atlas based on my own experience: a year commuting 150 miles by ... |
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