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Date: 30 May 2007 14:49:51
From: EG
Subject: Who is your favorite chess player of all time?
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My favorite player is David Bronstein because he is very creative and
imaginative.
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Date: 28 Jun 2007 08:30:03
From: Manuel Wehrmann
Subject: Re: Who is your favorite chess player of all time?
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Super-Nesh!
(Rashid Gibyatovich Nezhmetdinov, 1912-74)
MW
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Date: 27 Jun 2007 21:35:57
From:
Subject: Re: Who is your favorite chess player of all time?
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On May 30, 2:49 pm, EG <[email protected] > wrote:
> My favorite player is David Bronstein because he is very creative and
> imaginative.
>
Mikhail Tal.
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Date: 06 Jun 2007 15:44:46
From: Ray Gordon, creator of the \pivot\
Subject: Re: Who is your favorite chess player of all time?
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Akiba Rubinstein.
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Date: 30 May 2007 23:18:02
From: help bot
Subject: Re: Who is your favorite chess player of all time?
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[email protected] wrote:
> EVANS ON CHESS
>
> "David Ionovich Bronstein was my boyhood hero. In an era when Soviet
> sources were hard to find I wrote the first book about him in English
> on a mimeograph machine by cranking out a limited edition of his 39
> best games from 1944 to 1949."
>
> http://wcn.tentonhammer.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1074&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
While the Web site does not make it entirely clear whether
this article was written by GM Evans or someone mentioned
at the top of the page named "Errejo", in the following I will
assume it was GM Evans.
The first paragraph *seems* to indicate that a book was
"written" by copying and translating a Russian source,
although I expect this was not the author's true intent.
A little further down the page, there is this quote:
"Unorthodox tactics backfired because he pursued beauty...".
Now, I think it is self-evident that the real reason tactics
fail is that they are *unsound*. Beauty, on the other hand,
generally requires just the opposite: soundness of strategy
and tactics, along with a certain depth, which makes the
play stand apart from the ordinary.
Reading further down, we come across this:
"Bronstein began with four draws and a win until this costly
fluke in their sixth game...".
Fluke? How is it that a losing move, if played by one's
favorite player, must be some kind of fluke? No, I think
it is just another mistake, like any other. Next paragraph:
"Bronstein explained his slip of the hand: "I was daydreaming
about what happened in the opening and accidentally touched
my king. I had to move it," he said."
This is simply wrong. A piece which is touched with the
intent to move must be moved. But an accidental touching
of a piece is a different animal. (But then, what do I know
about the rules of chess as they existed at the time in
Russia, under the auspices of FIDE?)
More critically, we learn (assuming GM Bronstein was
telling the truth) that he had a problem with focus, that
he wasted valuable time thinking about the past during
play. That is no way to become world champion. On
average, a player might have but three minutes per move,
and this hardly allows for "daydreaming" even at the
lower levels of play. Next up:
"Of course I, like any other player, strive to win...".
I think this comment contradicts much of the tripe
regarding "beauty" and "creativity" insofar as it relates
to being a cause of failure. In reality, drawing the world
championship is not a failure at all, but a great success!
Not every challenger who comes along will be able to
overcome the advantage of the titleholder and wrest away
the title for himself. Calling an unsuccessful challenge a
"failure" is just plain silly. Next:
"Life was not easy for Bronstein because he was Jewish
in an anti-Semitic land. He refused to join the Communist
party."
Hmm. So Jews were allowed to join the Communist
party? Here in America, there was a time not so very
long ago when women and Blacks were not allowed to
vote. I'm a bit surprised that Jews were treated so well
(compared to how the Nazis treated them, for instance).
On down:
"We went to see a movie starring ilyn Monroe, an
actress we both admired...".
What amazing standards! In keeping with them, I
would like to recommend watching John Wayne's
early flicks, and of course all the Jerry Lewis and
Dean tin films.
"Bronstein's book about Zurich 1953 is widely
considered a classic because it explains not only the
games but also how top players think."
Absolutely correct. In fact, seeing one of these
commentaries here in the chess newsgroups a
long time ago, I decided to give the book a try.
However, the much-ballyhooed game analysis
often skips right over complexities in the opening,
as if the reader is expected to be intricately familiar
with every nuance. One game included baffling
tactical skirmishes early on, yet the notes did not
start until what many would consider to be the
middlegame! I was disappointed and put it down.
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Right below GM Bronstein's autograph, positioned
just below the picture of the cover of his book, there
is a link for us to click on in order to read the
remainder of this article. Clicking the link yields an
"Internal Error" message. Because of this some
8,200+ bytes were lopped off the end of the article.
-- help bot
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Date: 30 May 2007 20:29:11
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Who is your favorite chess player of all time?
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EVANS ON CHESS
"David Ionovich Bronstein was my boyhood hero. In an era when Soviet
sources were hard to find I wrote the first book about him in English
on a mimeograph machine by cranking out a limited edition of his 39
best games from 1944 to 1949."
http://wcn.tentonhammer.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1074&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
EG wrote:
> My favorite player is David Bronstein because he is very creative and
> imaginative.
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Date: 30 May 2007 17:56:48
From: Offramp
Subject: Re: Who is your favorite chess player of all time?
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On May 30, 10:49 pm, EG <[email protected] > wrote:
> My favorite player is David Bronstein because he is very creative and
> imaginative.
Pillsbury and Emory Tate.
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