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| Apr-27-06 | | Marmot PFL: I found an old Chess Life today from 1970 or 71, which had a story about a Najdorf simul in Lansing, Michigan. He was there on a business trip so the local club staged a 40 board simul (Najdorf won 34, drew 4, and lost 2. He played 2 blindfold games as well). |
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| Sep-02-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: Well I call him 'Old Father Miguel'. |
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Sep-15-06
 | | oao2102: <Jim Bartle> If it were called the Sicilian, Fischer it would be ten times more popular |
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| Oct-29-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: But if Sicilian,Kasparov?
Then more famous. |
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| Dec-03-06 | | Haeron: Just reading some of the comments, I thought that Najdorf didn't actually invent the Najdorf variation; rather, he was just one of its devotees, much as Fischer later became. |
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| Dec-03-06 | | talisman: he got a raw deal not being invited in 1948.some say botvinnik was scared and some say mad at an unintentional slight.
<James Demery> started w/ the reshevsky match and crystalized w/ the piatigorsky cup. |
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| Dec-10-06 | | ToTheDeath: I remember in one of the Fischer radio interviews he told a story about Najdorf playing a dirty trick on him in a blitz game. Bobby was a rook up and Najdorf did something underhanded to try to save the game. Anyone know the story? |
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| Dec-31-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: To admit a don't play Najdorf anymore because i don't have that old trust in it! |
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| Dec-31-06 | | Jim Bartle: "Bobby was a rook up and Najdorf did something underhanded to try to save the game." Such as, say, playing a strong move, or setting a trap??? |
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| Dec-31-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: Good idea but why "Dirty trick" or was it fischer who didn't want to lose? |
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| Dec-31-06 | | Jim Bartle: Maybe Najdorf said, "Bobby, look over there, there's a Jew eating your sandwich!" |
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Dec-31-06
| | James Demery: lol JB |
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Dec-31-06
| | James Demery: Najdorf is +31 -16 =13 with the Najdorf. Very respectable indeed against GM level competition with the black pieces. |
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| Jan-02-07 | | ToTheDeath: I found the clip online a few days ago. It was in a 10 minute tournament in South America. Bobby said Najdorf was utterly lost, made a move, pushed Fischer's clock and then immediately resigned. So the two begin to discuss the game, meanwhile Fischer's clock is still running. Najdorf waits until Bobby has a few seconds left then says "I play!" No one was around and Bobby barely managed to checkmate him before his flag fell. Najdorf then said "You cheat" and dropped out of the tournament. Perhaps it was such run ins with Reshevsky, Najdorf, Botvinnik et al that planted the seed of antisemitism in Bobby. |
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| Jan-03-07 | | vonKrolock: I saw Najdorf playing blitz and tournament games when he was near his seventies, and never remarked any unsuitable behavior from him. He was simply very brilliant as a chess player. That 'clip' is a record of the episode or Fischer's radio interview record?!
<Perhaps it was such run ins with Reshevsky, Najdorf, Botvinnik et al that planted the seed of antisemitism in Bobby.> What is this? An adaptation from the 'Protocoles of the Wises'? Christians, Atheists, Moslems, Hinduists, Buddists etc can cheat as well in competitions of all kinds, if that's the question - from another side, RJF own Jewish backgrounds are undeniable |
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| Jan-03-07 | | setebos: I believe Bobby on this one. :) |
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Jan-03-07
 | | WannaBe: Well, I'd love to see that clip, but knowning Bobby, I'd err on the side of Najdorf. After all, I play his Sicilian. =) |
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| Jan-04-07 | | sitzkrieg: <Open defence> Did you mean Tal? I believe he said that Bobby briefed Najdorf on the Najdorf when they were competing for first place in the last round of a tournament ( i believe in Switzerland). Bobby promised to draw his last game since he didnt object to finishing tied first will Tal whom " had played well". Fischer drew indeed but Tal deviated, didnt play bg5 but e2 , won and ended up first. Haeron, i think you are right, i believe the Najdorf was played by Opocensky. Tothedeath can you link that source of yours? I heard Najdorf did something but i didnt hear this version before and would like to see it. |
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| Jan-04-07 | | Archives: <...Bobby promised to draw his last game since he didnt object to finishing tied first will Tal ...> That doesn't sound like Fischer! Is that true? |
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| Jan-04-07 | | sitzkrieg: <archives> Tal vs Najdorf, 1961 Once again i was correct and my fenomenal memory didnt betray me! |
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| Jan-04-07 | | sitzkrieg: only a bit. It wasnt Swiss. |
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| Jan-06-07 | | vonKrolock: There's a story about Najdorf and Guimard: Arriving from Poland, Najdorf needed a job, and Guimard promptly volunteer to help him stablish in the insurance branch (where he acted as representative -i mean seller- for an important firma; after some time, Guimard suffered a car accident, and was interned in an hospital for a while - when he recovered, he realized that, in the emergency state off affairs, his best costumers became Najdorf's clients... The situation became definitive (I dont' know exactly what happened - sometimes in the trade's affairs there're many versions of one fact too...) - but Guimard promised "Never again speak to Najdorf", witnesses told that, even in the late seventies he was still keeping his word (although they exchanged eventual chats, but Najdorf talked, and Guimard answered just with "si", "no" , or some head swinging...) |
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| Jan-06-07 | | Caissanist: Thanks <vonKrolock>, that was very interesting. I had previously heard about Najdorf being Guimard's "partner", and that they both got quite wealthy, but not the circumstances. Would you have any idea when the car accident happened? Insurance (or at least life insurance) seems to have been one of the original MLM businesses, with the same mix of "friendship" and scheming/backstabbing that we see today with the Amway crowd. |
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| Jan-09-07 | | vonKrolock: Thank You for the attention, <Caissanist>: No, I dont' know more about that episode, i just remember that my (indirect) source referred to a 'long' staying in the hospital...
Still on Najdorf, grâces to Mr. E. Winter's 'Chess Notes', i realize that his informal performances in 'blitz', that impressed me so much, were noted and commented in BCM already in 1944 http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... number 4802 |
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Aug-12-07
 | | Fusilli: <vonKrolock> <Caissanist> Hmmm... that account of the relationship between Najdorf and Guimard collides with what Hebert Perez Garcia, a chess journalist, reports on this website: http://www.chessville.com/Espanol/N.... (If you read Spanish, scroll down to "Recuerdos de Groninga.") In that article, Perez Garcia mentions that in 1996 an Exhibition tournament gathered the seven survivors from the Groningen tournament played 50 years earlier: Najdorf, Guimard, Szabo, Yanovsky, Christoffel, Smyslov and Denker (at the time PG writes, 2004, the first five had passed.) He says that Najdorf and Guimard were great friends and they had plenty of anecdotes to share. One goes like this: they were playing a tournament somewhere and Najdorf knew he (Najdorf) would be tempted to gamble a lot of money at the Casino, so he gave Guimard all his "reserve" money and told him to take it with him to his hotel room and not give it to him even if he begged for it. That night, Guimard was already asleep when Najdorf woke him up banging on his room door. Then Najdorf begged for his money and the situation became heated, but Guimard refused to give him the money. The morning after, the story goes, Najdorf was the most thankful man in the world. |
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