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Jan-26-15 | | Caissanist: Or one for each square of a Capablanca chess board: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capabl.... |
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Nov-07-15 | | Mr. V: It's never too late to run again for the FIDE presidency . . . |
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Jan-26-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, FIDE President and GM Fridrik Olafsson!! |
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May-10-16 | | diagonal: A new website in honor of grandmaster Olafsson opened: http://skaksogufelagid.is/, owned by the Icelandic Chess Heritage Society. Excellent and extensive work, about his career with description of all his games, tournament, matches and team events. Listing of his worthy opponents and results are included. Fantastic archival footage. Watch out! |
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Jun-27-16 | | diagonal: Fridrik Olafsson participates at the current World Team Chess Championship 50+ and 65+ (2016) in Radebeul near Dresden, he is playing in the section 50+ !! Iceland (with Hjartarson, Helgi Olafsson, Petursson, Arnason, and Fridrik Olafsson) is the top-seeded team, narrowly ahead of England 1 (Nunn on board one, Speelman on board two), followed by Armenia (Vaganian on board one):
http://www.schachfestival.de/world-... In the section age of 65+, Russia with Sveshnikov, Balashov, etc. is clearly the highest ELO rated team. |
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Jun-27-16 | | Mr. V: Congratulations on your win against England! |
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Jun-27-16 | | diagonal: <Mr. V> lol, England kicked out by Iceland in soccer (1/8-finals, k.o.-stages at the UEFA European Championship 2016), unbelievable! Well, a consequent Brexit continuation.... Twitter erupted with Brexit jokes after England is out, what about another timely chessgames pun, ie. this game can be suitable: F Olafsson vs C H Alexander, 1957 English Opening, Icelandic Mating = Brexit II |
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Jan-26-17 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Fridrik Olafsson. |
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Jan-26-17 | | diagonal: Legend! Happiness, health, and some inspirational games to come. Portrait photograph of Friðrik Ólafsson, (rounded) 70 years ago: http://skaksogufelagid.is/wp-conten... |
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May-23-21 | | Agferna: Glad Chessgames showed today one of Olaf’s brilliant games. Met him once, while FIDE president. Displayed a calm, quiet, listening, sympathizing, trustworthy intelligence. An extraordinary human being.
Long live!!! |
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Sep-07-21 | | Albertan: The Chess saga of Fridrik Olafsson:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-c... |
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Jan-06-25 | | Nosnibor: Fridrik will be 90 years old in 3 weeks time! The last surviving player from the 1959 Candidates Tournament. An amazing man. |
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Jan-26-25 | | I Lost On Time 00: Happy birthday Olaffson |
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Apr-04-25 | | Ifanivan: May you live long, Mr. Olafsson |
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Apr-07-25 | | avenant69: Friðrik Ólafsson passed away on Aprill 4th 2025. (source: mbl.is) |
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Apr-07-25 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: Islandic media confirm, that GM Fridrik Olafsson, the last integer president of FIDE, died 3 days ago in his home country. May your eternal soul rest in peace! |
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Apr-07-25 | | stone free or die: The <CB> article ref'ed by <Albertan> is a good read, but the photo of Fischer--Olafsson shown there doesn't match the annotated game they include. Instead, the photo comes from this game:
Fischer vs F Olafsson, 1961 (kibitz #31) . |
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Apr-07-25
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The new top 3 is Panno, Portisch, Hort. |
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Apr-07-25 | | stone free or die: Panno (90), Portisch (88) and Hort (81).
Hort is the baby in that crowd. |
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Apr-08-25 | | Obvious Troll: I've been stalking Olafsson very closely for the last 51 years, and I didn't see him do anything to deserve to die like this. Someone resurrect him. I can't do it myself. I failed to complete the 32 year long training required to learn how to resurrect someone. Too excruciating and grueling. |
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Apr-08-25
 | | Troller: <Obvious Troll: I've been stalking Olafsson very closely for the last 51 years, and I didn't see him do anything to deserve to die like this. Someone resurrect him.> I am at it, as we chat. My condition for Hr. Olafsson is that he runs for FIDE president if I succeed. RIP Fridrik... |
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Apr-08-25
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Apr-12-25 | | Nosnibor: RIP Grandmaster Olafsson. The strongest player ever from Iceland. |
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Apr-16-25
 | | Sally Simpson: The Reykjavik Open 2025 was dedicated to Fridrik Olafsson https://chess-results.com/tnr981120... |
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Apr-22-25
 | | alexmagnus: <Panno (90), Portisch (88) and Hort (81).
Hort is the baby in that crowd.>
The "Fischer gap" - lack of strong players born during WW2 (other than Fischer himself) which IMO was a major factor contributing to Fischer's dominance. The next after Hort is Karpov btw. |
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