copablanco has kibitzed 28 times to chessgames   [less...]

Nov-06-14 Karpov vs Unzicker, 1974    copablanco: It's the same overall strategy used by Fischer playing white against Oscar Panno : Close the centre, control, and secure the queen side, attack the king flank. Done deal as white stands "reptilian like" better in these types of closed positions. Instructive, however is Karpov's ...      Oct-21-14 Fischer vs V Ciocaltea, 1962    copablanco: Q-f6 was forced, and Kt-g6, and 0-0 for black ???      Apr-11-13 R Nezhmetdinov vs P Ermolin, 1946    copablanco: Black's play was horrible.      Mar-15-13 Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1934    copablanco: Alekhine allows a passed pawn on the queen side then spends a lot of energy getting it back. Nothing "breezy" about it for a "world champion". Lasker and Capablanca are the only two players to win the world championship without loosing a single game. When Alekhine won the ...      Mar-14-13 Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1927    copablanco: Capablanca was said to be busy dallying with the tango ladies of Buenos Aires.      Mar-14-13 Carlos Torre Repetto    copablanco: Wikipedia says he was born in 1904, and in 1915 he went to the US to prove himself against the best chess players...at ten or 11 years old? He had an episode in New York while on a Fifth ave. bus by taking his clothes off !.More is mentioned in The psychology of the chess      Mar-13-13 Golden Executive / Houdini vs Hosea / Schiller / Wall, 2011    copablanco: So now computer chess programs are giving humans "out of book" odds or "out of database" odds. Chess programs have no foresight. Chess programers replaced that with an evaluation function, which considers a move based on "polling" various board positions , and assigning them a ...      Mar-13-13 Tal vs Sviridov, 1969    copablanco: Playing Tal if you were "out of book", you were out of luck.      Mar-11-13 Tal vs Suetin, 1969    copablanco: According to Fischer "He is always on the look-out for some spectacular sacrifice.He is not so much interested in who has the better game, or in the essential soundness of his own games, but in finding that one shot, that dramatic breakthrough that will give him the win."      Mar-06-13 Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997    copablanco: A number of people are under the myth that a chess program like Houdini can evaluate better than a human chessmaster . That view is incorrect .It can evaluate faster, but not necessarily better.      Mar-01-13 Morphy vs S Boden, 1858     Mar-01-13 Morphy vs S Boden, 1859     Mar-01-13 Morphy vs S Boden, 1858    Jan-15-13 Mecking vs Tal, 1975     Jan-15-13 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1936     Jul-04-12 Wang Yue vs Tomashevsky, 2012    Jul-04-12 Vitiugov vs Ding Liren, 2012     Jul-02-12 Capablanca vs Marshall, 1909     Feb-03-11 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927     Sep-07-10 Capablanca vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1922     Sep-05-10 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927     Sep-04-10 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927     May-19-10 Tal vs K Darga, 1963    May-19-10 Tal vs B Vladimirov, 1963     Apr-23-10 Capablanca vs L Molina Carranza, 1911     Apr-29-09 Bogoljubov vs Capablanca, 1928     Apr-28-09 N Marache vs Morphy, 1857

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