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| Mar-13-18 | | zanzibar: <A week's engagement booked by the Bulletin for Geza Maroczy at the
Mechanics Institute chess rooms in SanFrancisco, for the week of April 30 to
May 5, had, as a matter of course, to be canceled, and the Hungarian champion
found time instead to go to New Orleans.> ACB v3 N5 (May 1906) p82
Explaining how Maroczy ended up in New Orleans instead of San Francisco during his American tour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_... |
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| Jan-19-19 | | Pyrandus: Maroczy was better than Portisch? |
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Jan-20-19
 | | gezafan: <TheFocus: I believe that the chess world deserves to see a good biography and game collection done on Geza Maroczy, exploring his games and career.> I agree. Maroczy was a very underrated player. Had he ever been able to play a match with Lasker he would have given him a tough time. The Maroczy bind was named after him, a formation which is still frequently used today. Maroczy was also an expert in the French defense. |
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| Mar-03-19 | | Pyrandus: The Great Hungarian Champion. |
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| Mar-03-19 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: Géza Maróczy, one of the great experts in the history of the French defense and queen's endings like the all-time greats Mikhail M. Botwinnik and Viktor L. Kortchnoi, played a very interesting and complicated correspondence chess game against V. L. Kortchnoi from the white side of the French Winawer Poison Pawn variation from 1985 to 1993. Unfortunately, at the end he lost a drawn position in a rook and pawns ending. |
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| Mar-03-19 | | Momentum Man: I lost a blitz game with the Black pieces. My friend used the Maroczy bind to crush me like a bug. It was unpleasant. |
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| Mar-04-19 | | pazzed paun: Maroczy was dead before Korchnoi became a grandmaster |
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Mar-04-19
 | | Stonehenge: Maroczy / Rollans vs Korchnoi, 1985 nonsense of course, but amusing nonsense. |
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| Mar-05-19 | | Momentum Man: "I agree. Maroczy was a very underrated player. " Haha, Mr. "gezafan"!
I think you must be biased, as your user name indicates. But of course, not too biased, since Mr. Maroczy is for sure underrated! Notes by Alekhine in his book confirm that the 4th (official) World Champion had great respect for G.M. |
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| Mar-06-19 | | JimNorCal: Ed Lasker, in his memoir Chess Secrets, says that Maroczy was considered World Champion material. So this seems to be a common opinion. I don't recall EL saying that about Sammy Reshevsky, for example. |
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| Mar-06-19 | | Robed.Bishop: <Momentum Man> Here's a decent video on the Maroczy Bind by Seirawan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJ... . At least I thought it was decent... |
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| Mar-06-19 | | Momentum Man: Thanks, Mr. Bishop! I will take a look at it when I am not at work (please don't tell my manager I am reading chessgames now 8) |
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| May-20-19 | | hemy: Picture of Geza Maroczy, Ostende, 1905.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ga4hpbk5... from the "Das Interessante Blatt",August 3, 1905, p. 9.
The article about the tournament is on page 11. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7h4efpdn9... Small adjustments to the picture were made by me. |
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| Jun-20-19 | | Grad: He is real Bobby Fischer. |
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| Mar-03-20 | | Grad: After all he became Bobby. |
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Nov-02-20
 | | offramp: His name is an anagram of <CRAZY MO>. In fact I'll bet that was his nickname during his wonder years. <Lasker>: Who have you got in the first round? <Réti>: I've drawn that weirdo, "Crazy Mo"! <Lasker>: Oh, bad luck LOL! |
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| Nov-02-20 | | Retireborn: <offramp> We are not amused. |
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| Nov-02-20 | | areknames: "Dreaded Moroczy Bind"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGP...
The above song by NZ outfit Dragon is afaik the only pop song named after a specific opening variation, misspelling of Maroczy notwithstanding. At the time Dragon's keyboardist and main songwriter was the late Paul Hewitt who was a strong amateur. The song is kind of 'meh' and its lyrics have little or nothing to do with chess but I still find the title remarkable. Dragon were massive in Australia in the 70's and 80's. |
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Nov-03-20
| | offramp: <areknames> as you say, the misspelling is a bit baffling. I know that music artists are becoming hyper-vigilant about plagiarism; is it possible they were simply being cautious? |
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Nov-03-20
 | | MissScarlett: Crazy Mo-Fo: L Forgacs vs Maroczy, 1902 |
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Jan-12-22
| | gezafan: According to Chessmetrics Maroczy was the #1 player in the world for 30 months between 1905 and 1908. A very underrated player. |
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| Jan-12-22 | | Diademas: Not trying to take anything away from Maroczy, but his stint at the top happened from 1904 to 1907. Lasker hardly played during this period, something ChessMetrics punishes him hard for. When he resumed playing he immediately leapfrogged Maroczy. |
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| Jan-13-22 | | Z truth 000000001: <Diademas> EDOchess has this (1900-1930) for the top-10: http://www.edochess.ca/top.graphs/g... . |
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Mar-11-25
| | offramp: Could someone find a game where Geza Maroczy would have possession of a triangle of pawns and we would use the name <The Pyramid of Geza> and then our ship would be set fair? Thank you. |
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Mar-17-25
| | gezafan: < offramp: Could someone find a game where Geza Maroczy would have possession of a triangle of pawns and we would use the name <The Pyramid of Geza> and then our ship would be set fair? Thank you.> An interesting idea.
Maroczy was a great player of the French defence. One could make the case that the pawns on f7, e6 and d7 form a triangle / pyramid. |
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