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| Jan-23-11 | | parisattack: <Benzol: I'm very happy to say that after a number of months that Game Collection: Isaac Boleslavsky - Selected Games is now finally complete. I hope you enjoy it.> A wonderful effort; thank you! The book is not too well-known and perhaps your effort will help make Boleslavsky's enormous contribution to chess more widely appreciated! |
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Jan-24-11
 | | Benzol: <parisattack> I'm glad you like it and thanks for the support. In a similar vein Game Collection: Vladimir Simagin Another player whose talent was sadly obscured by a giant Soviet bushel. |
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Jan-24-11
 | | plang: <Today I noticed that Boleslavsky's name his isn't included on the drop-down player list in the advanced search section.> I'm really surprised by that as well. When you consider how close he came to a match with Botvinnk after tying with Bronstein in the 1959 Interzonal and losing a really close playoff match with Bronstein for the right to play Botvinnik in 1951. He actually came a lot closer to a title match than Keres ever did. |
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| Feb-21-11 | | markwell: It might be nice if the bio noted that he was one of the 1950 'original' grandmasters. |
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| Feb-21-11 | | parisattack: <Benzol: <parisattack> I'm glad you like it and thanks for the support. In a similar vein Game Collection: Vladimir Simagin Another player whose talent was sadly obscured by a giant Soviet bushel.> I just looked at this collection - terrific! Yes, too bad so many fine Soviet GMs from the 40s-50s haven't gotten their due...Kotov, Lutikov just to mention a couple more. Averbakh perhaps known mostly because of his books on endgame play...but the single English language tome on his games is worthy, also. So many wonderful games to play, study and enjoy... |
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Jun-09-11
 | | kingfu: Spasibo, Grandmaster Boleslavsky. |
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| Jun-09-11 | | bronkenstein: One of all time greats that missed the WC title shot in blitz tiebreak against Bronstein , his childhood friend. Ahnyway , he became one of the greatest theoreticians and analysts the royal game ever had . |
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| Jun-09-11 | | ughaibu: "Blitz tiebreak"!!!?? |
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| Jun-09-11 | | parisattack: Buy the book of his games! You will not regret it.
To paraphrase Botvinnik, 'Before Boleslavsky we did not understand the King's Indian.' |
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| Jun-09-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @paris attack
I could not agree more.
For those who don't know it, it is an enlarged edition of the Russian collection of his best games (annotated by Isaac) by the brilliant Jimmy Adams the Caissa publishers. I was rather struck that the book intro mentions it had an influence on Bobby Fischer! It's an intriguing thought. Young Bobby, learning a smattering of Russian, was influenced by Zürich 1953, Boleslavsky and Lipnitsky's "Questions of Modern Chess Theory". It explains all those King's Indians and Ruy Lopezs at any rate. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | TheFocus: I agree that Jimmy Adams is brilliant.
Did anyone see his book on the Dresden 1926 tournament won by Nimzowitsch over Alekhine and Rubinstein. A superb work with good annotations. And I really love his rather lengthy poem about Bobby Fischer's life and career. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | parisattack: Adams does a top-flight job on every book. I had heard he was working on a Breyer tome some years ago. Anyone in contact with him, an update? |
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| Jun-10-11 | | TheFocus: I would like to see a good and complete book on Breyer's career. A good and worthy endeavor. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | TheFocus: <parisattack> By the way, today is King Kamehameha Day. Holiday from work. Parade tomorrow. Gonna sit at King Street and watch it. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | parisattack: <TheFocus>
Buschke and a fellow by the name of Streeter began a Breyer book in the 70s - got no further than a collection several hundred unannotated games. I bought a copy circa 1979, passed a copy of the copy sometime back to AA to pass to Adams. Yes, noticed; I read the Advertiser online. Enjoy the holiday today and tomorrow! I am sure he would roll over if he saw what has transpired since his unification. Push a haole off the Pali to celebrate! |
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| Jul-13-11 | | I play the Fred: Viktor Korchnoi on Boleslavsky: "He was silent his entire life." (from Soltis' Soviet Chess) Sounds a little bit hostile, but Korchnoi is always cranky. What would his best friend say? David Bronstein, regarding an incident at a chess tournament: "Even the always silent Isaac Boleslavsky had something to say." (from Bronstein/Furstenburg's The Sorcerer's Apprentice) |
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Jul-13-11
| | plang: <bronkenstein: One of all time greats that missed the WC title shot in blitz tiebreak against Bronstein , his childhood friend. > Of course, there were no blitz tiebreaks in those days but the match could not have been any closer decided 3-2 by Bronstein's win in the last (14th) game of the match. |
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| Jul-13-11 | | diceman: <TheFocus: I would like to see a good and complete book on Breyer's career.
A good and worthy endeavor.>
Never played the Ruy Lopez, but I like his ice cream. |
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| Jul-13-11 | | TheFocus: Yum! Breyer's ice cream. |
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| Jul-13-11 | | bronkenstein: <Of course, there were no blitz tiebreaks> True . The 14th (2nd tiebreak) game , and therefore the match , was decided in Boleslavsky`s severe time trouble , that`s where ˝blitz ˝ association came from. |
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| Aug-09-11 | | Antiochus: 903 games of Boleslavsky are here:
http://www.gambitchess.com/antiques... |
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| Aug-22-11 | | ewan14: Was '' Boly '' not Petrosian's second when Petrosian won the World Championship in 1963 ? |
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| Aug-22-11 | | ewan14: Sorry , I heard a different variation of the Nadjorf story , the final answer '' to play chess '' |
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| Nov-24-11 | | BUNA: <ewan14: Was '' Boly '' not Petrosian's second when Petrosian won the World Championship in 1963 ?> Boleslavsky was first of all Smyslovs second in Amsterdam 1956, when Smyslov won the candidates.
(BTW Boleslavsky's friend Bronstein was there too, if I am not mistaken.) In 1959 Petrosian asked Boleslavsky for help and a relationship was established, that lasted for 10 years.
Until Petrosian lost his title. |
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| Jun-09-12 | | brankat: R.I.P. GM Boleslavsky. |
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