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Feb-01-09 | | nimh: Finee & Reshevsky
http://web.zone.ee/chessanalysis/su...
By the accuracy of their moves, they seem to be diametrically opposite, in spite of the fact that their playing strength must be roughly qeual. |
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Feb-19-09 | | whiteshark: Guess tomorrow's <Quote of the Day> |
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Feb-19-09 | | Dredge Rivers: <"I never read a (chess) book until I was already a master."> So, if he hadn't read any chess books ever, he would have been World Champion? Huh? Although, not reading certainly worked for George W. Bush! |
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Feb-19-09 | | NakoSonorense: I want my money back. I've never read a chess book either and I'm no master! |
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Feb-19-09
 | | Open Defence: <Nako> but maybe the <Playboys> you <read> had something to do with it |
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Feb-19-09 | | stoy: According to Gary Kasparov, Ruben Fine is one of the most underestimated players in the history of chess. He did not play in the 1948 Match Tournament because he did not want to see Russians throwing games to other Russians. |
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Feb-19-09
 | | WannaBe: Oh, geeze, here we go with the pre-arranged games again... =) |
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Feb-19-09 | | Jim Bartle: Yes, we pre-arranged the kibitzes, too. |
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Feb-19-09 | | ughaibu: I'm surprised that he didn't know how to spell "pawed". |
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Feb-20-09 | | Dredge Rivers: <stoy>
<he did not want to see Russians throwing games to other Russians.>
All the more reason for him to go. Then he and Reshevsky (and perhaps Euwe) could throw games to each other and even up the playing field!
BTW, only Smyslov was an ethnic Russian. Botvinnik was a Jew and Keres was an Estonian. I think you meant to say Soviet. |
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Feb-20-09 | | Dredge Rivers: A postscript to my last post. I didn't intend to denigrate Jews or any other group for that matter. I simply meant that in the days of the Soviet Union, Botvinnik and his co-religionists were not regarded (offically, as for example on their internal passports, as well as unoffically) as Russians, but as Jews. Culturally, they were indeed Russian, and should have been considered as such.
Nevertheless, "Soviet" would have been a more precise word for <stoy> to have used. |
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Feb-20-09 | | AnalyzeThis: The one that I sympathize with is Keres. They held a gun to his head and helped him understand he wasn't going to win the tournament. The poor guy had the audacity to win the previous qualifying tournament, but didn't get his match against the champion. |
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Feb-20-09 | | Dredge Rivers: <AnalyseThis>
Yes, but that qualifying tounament, ARVO 1938, was unofficial. Indeed, Alekine back out on his commitment to play the winner before it was even over.
Then he had a few Vodkas. |
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Feb-20-09 | | AnalyzeThis: That it was unofficial was news to everybody but Alekhine who arrived to play at the tournament. It's true that Alekhine did make such an announcement at the opening ceremony. What a guy!
Keres should have changed his name to Bogo. Then Alekhine would have played him right away. |
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Feb-21-09 | | Dredge Rivers: <AnalyseThis>
By unofficial, I meant that FIDE did not sponsor it. Thus, there were no means to force Alekine to play the winner. |
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Mar-15-09 | | suenteus po 147: Another Fine tournament win: Game Collection: New York 1948/49 |
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Apr-03-09 | | Dredge Rivers: <suenteus po 147>
<Another Fine tournament win> That's a pun, right? :) |
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Apr-24-09 | | WhiteRook48: on page 7, there was something about chess books, weren't they
My Strange Blunders by WhiteRook48
How to Hang Pieces Easily by WhiteRook48
How to Win Coincidentally by WhiteRook48
How to draw like Kramnik by WhiteRook48
My best 60 games by WhiteRook48
My worst 3000 games by WhiteRook48
buy them at the chess store |
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May-16-09 | | parisattack: <AnalyzeThis: The one that I sympathize with is Keres. They held a gun to his head and helped him understand he wasn't going to win the tournament. The poor guy had the audacity to win the previous qualifying tournament, but didn't get his match against the champion.> Keres - The player who wasn't a WC but most should have been! Other 'could have beens' - Pillsbury, Rubinstein, Fine, Reshevsky, Bronstein, Korchnoi...But Keres at the top of at least my list. List of those who played WC caliber chess for a period of time quite long - Nimzovitch, Flohr, Kashdan, Stein, Geller... |
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May-17-09
 | | HeMateMe: < AnalyzeThis >
Talk about being pulled in two directions. Someone posted a photo here, I think on the Keres page, of P.K. playing a simul against 15 or so Wermacht officers during WWII. I don't know if this was in occupied Russia, or if Keres was trapped in eastern Europe. I would guess Keres was playing for his supper/life in these games against nazis. After Stalin and his henchmen saw photos like that, I would guess Keres could be convinced to play 'less skillfully' in an important game or two. Siberia is a long ways from Moscow. |
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Jun-05-09 | | Nimzonick: Fine also said his book on the Spassky-Fischer match that by 1948, psychology had consumed him and he was "no longer interested" in pursing a world chess championship. Unrelated note:
http://images.google.com/images?q=R... There is also a huge series of photos on Fischer on this archive |
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Jun-05-09 | | Petrosianic: <By unofficial, I meant that FIDE did not sponsor it. Thus, there were no means to force Alekine to play the winner.> Even if they had sponsored it, it wouldn't matter. FIDE didn't control the title in those days. In 1938, FIDE's "official" challenger was Salo Flohr. That shows you how much pull they had then. |
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Jun-09-09
 | | OhioChessFan: Ahem: <"My Most Memorable Under Twenty Move Losses to Little Chess Partner and How I Was Ashamed to Admit to It Except in the Vain Hope of Making the Memorable Quotes Page"> by OhioChessFan |
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Jun-13-09 | | mistreaver: Robert James Fischer beat Reuben Fine 4 to 1.
Isn't he also one of the world champions (altought the games were played before that moment.) |
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Jul-09-09 | | whiteshark: Quote of the Day
<Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard.> -- Fine
The sky is clearing up. |
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