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Dec-12-06
 | | Peligroso Patzer: By the way, can someone verify for me the correct pronunciation of his name? I have always had the understanding that it would be phonetically represented as follows: <KAIR-esh>. Is that correct? |
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| Dec-12-06 | | technical draw: <Peligroso> This is not the correct pronunciation page. The correct pronunciation page is Max Euwe |
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| Dec-12-06 | | Calli: <Peligroso Patzer> Never heard "esh". More like KAIR-ess. Lets not be careless with your KAIR-ess pronounciation :-) |
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Dec-12-06
 | | tamar: Or as Shakespeare might have said,
A little more than cares
And less than caress. |
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| Dec-12-06 | | Maatalkko: <tamar> good one! |
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Jan-03-07
 | | WTHarvey: Here is a collection of winning combinations from Keres' games: http://www.wtharvey.com/kere.html |
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| Jan-07-07 | | Legend: Happy Birthday, Paul! |
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| Jan-19-07 | | garcia.markina: Keres must tbe pronounced just as it is written: K-E(lf)-R-E(lf)-S(ad). It is very easy! Imagine that it is written in spanish! |
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| Mar-04-07 | | gauer: A Queen up, Keres might have queried the young scholar, "the winning task is that I only have sufficient time to play four more moves, finishing, but how may I prevent the opposing Queen's-Knight's-Pawn's Advance?"
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Can you find the necessary investment, and which squares become the eventual targets? source: Positional Chess Handbook, ch. 1. |
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| Mar-04-07 | | extremepleasure: 1.Qa2+! ba2 2. Nc6! There is no move to prevent the threat of Nd4, which threatens mate both on c2 and b3. This is very nice indeed. |
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| Mar-12-07 | | Vollmer: Keres was one of those players whose style on the board seemed to defy his persona off the board . A great player whose history , considering the conspiracy theories surrounding his loss in the world championship , is an enigma wrapped in a mystery which is covered with political gravy . Unassuming men like he and Dr. Max Euwe used to stroll the stage of chess . It is likely we won't see such men again at the top of the chess world soon . |
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| Mar-12-07 | | Vollmer: "The older I grow, the more I value pawns." Keres
Now I see the problem . Few men grow old with the spirit of youth . "Tal showed us that things are not what they seem ; Fischer and Kasparov showed us that they are indeed ." |
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| Mar-12-07 | | Caissanist: <Unassuming men like he and Dr. Max Euwe used to stroll the stage of chess . It is likely we won't see such men again at the top of the chess world soon .> After Linares the highest rated player in the world is reported to be Viswanathan Anand. I'm not a great Anand expert, but from what I know he seems to be very much in that mold. |
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Mar-13-07
 | | plang: "A great player whose history , considering the conspiracy theories surrounding his loss in the world championship , is an enigma wrapped in a mystery which is covered with political gravy " Well, that is certainly not his fault. It is a shame that such a great player as well as a fine gentlemen has had a cloud placed on his reputation despite the fact that there is no hard evidence. Of course, he is not around to defend himself either. |
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| Mar-13-07 | | ughaibu: Vollmer: Who's the second quote from? |
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| Mar-24-07 | | Helios727: I noticed that Keres did not play in the 1962 interzonal, yet he still played in the 1962 candidates match tournament. What was the reason for letting him play in the latter without playing in the former? |
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Mar-24-07
| | plang: I am guessing that he qualified by finishing 2nd in the 1959 candidates tournament. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | brm786: How do you all rate Keres' analytical ability ? The chapter "The Art of Analysis" in Golombek's book "The Art of The Middle Game" was quite impressive. Jan Timman has also written a book on the art of analysis but I haven't seen it. Who is the best analyst of all time ? |
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Apr-13-07
 | | keypusher: <When they called this guy the eternal #2, they weren't kidding:> Well, how about this guy?
http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Play... But the true Avis of the chess world was Anatoly Karpov. http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Play... <How do you all rate Keres' analytical ability ? The chapter "The Art of Analysis" in Golombek's book "The Art of The Middle Game" was quite impressive. Jan Timman has also written a book on the art of analysis but I haven't seen it. Who is the best analyst of all time ?> Sigmund Freud, maybe? But Keres is certainly up there. Kasparov praises Korchnoi's annotations very highly in OMGP V, but I haven't seen much of his work myself. Fischer's annotations in <My 60 Memorable Games> are tremendous. For sheer bulk, I don't think anyone's ever beaten Robert Huebner. A lot of people seem to respect Mihail Marin's work. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | nescio: <Who is the best analyst of all time ?> Number of investigated variations: Hübner, Kasparov
Quality of analysis: Boleslavsky, with Keres as a close second. I cannot judge the analyses after 1987, for I have rarely read any. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | nescio: <Helios727> <plang> Tal and Keres were directly seeded in the Curacao tournament. Tal as the loser of the last WC match, Keres as #2 in the previous candidates tournament. |
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Apr-13-07
| | keypusher: <nescio> That is very interesting. Where did you see Boleslavsky analysis? <all> There are many stories showing what a gentleman Keres was, but I came across one more example in <Russians versus Fischer>. After the Taimanov match, there was a meeting of the USSR chess federation's trainers council with Baturinsky, Spassky, Petrosian, Taimanov, Kotov, Vasiukov and Balashov (the three that made up Taimanov's delegation), Averbakh, Keres, Boleslavsky, Bondarevsky and others in attendance. This was before the Larsen match, so Taimanov's 0-6 loss was seen as a great disgrace for Soviet chess. At one point in the meeting, Baturinsky harshly criticizes Taimanov and his team (especially Vasiukov, for failing to change Taimanov's opening repertoire before the match). After some remarks by other attendees, Keres speaks (for the only time in the transcript): <I wouldn't agree with the criticism of our methods of preparation. In almost all of the games, Taimanov emerged from the opening with a satisfactory position. To some extent Taimanov was let down by our public and even by his friends, who misinformed him. They belittled Fischer's strength and painted a rosy picture. This was the psychological error in the preparation. Fischer is not only a strong player, but also very hard to oppose as a personality--because he fights to the last and never gives up. We didn't pay enough attention to this trait of his character. We should on no account underestimate Fischer! I could name no more than a couple of other players who are as tough as he is.> I think he was the only one who spoke up for Vasiukov during the meeting. Credit to Spassky, too, who says earlier, <When we all lose to Fischer, will all of us be dragged on the carpet?> |
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| Apr-13-07 | | nescio: <keypusher: Where did you see Boleslavsky analysis?> When he no longer competed for the World Championship he wrote some books which were translated into German and published in East Germany. The same is true of Keres btw. |
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Apr-13-07
 | | tpstar: <keypusher> More quotes and group discussion from that meeting = Robert James Fischer |
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Apr-13-07
| | keypusher: <tpstar> Thanks. Glad to see the debaters (including me) were as polite and respectful two years ago as they/we are now! |
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