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| sitzkrieg: Happy newyear. I hope that you will continue your interesting posts in it! |
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Jan-28-07
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| AugustAle: <Gypsy> Thanks for the rook bio. I always think of a rook when i think of Bronstein; not so much dancing as stomp, stomp, stomping around the board. He could make one or two rooks seem like four or five. |
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Jan-29-07
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| AgentRgent: <Gypsy> I just noticed that I missed your post on 1/27 in the GM Shulman game. Please understand that I didn't take the vote against the Benoni personally. I realized from the beginning it was a longshot. That's not to say I wasn't disappointed, as I was certainly excited about what the team could accomplish in a Benoni. The QID is a solid opening choice, and it's an opening I've played quite a bit in the past (when I was trying to find a compliment to my Nimzo repetoire). My only concern is that I honestly believe there is less than 1% chance of us winning a QID vs GM Shulman, and while I think we will almost certainly be able to hold a draw, I had hoped for more. Again, I didn't take it personally, and I'm not upset with you in the slightest. Each of us has to trust our own opinion regarding our votes, and the game. |
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Jan-31-07
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| Gypsy: <AgentRgent> Thanks for clearing up my confusion. Happy to be a team-member with you!! |
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Jan-31-07
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| Gypsy: <AugustAle: ... I always think of a rook when i think of Bronstein...> Yes -- now that you mention it. Played through some rook-endgames by Bronstein, and they are often rich in these little clever tempo combinations -- winning a bit of time here, a bit of time there... |
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Mar-24-07
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| Artar1: <Gypsy:>
Thank you for your kind words of support. They mean so much to me. I am feeling better now, and hope to return to my duties soon. Thanks again for your kindness and consideration. I really appreciate it! |
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Jun-06-07
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| vonKrolock: Hello, Gypsy - nice to discover that You have your own forum here! Knowing that You are very well informed about Bohemian and Slovakian chess-players, maybe You know something more about Rudolf Pitschak!? |
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Jun-06-07
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| Gypsy: <vonKrolock> Until today, I wasn't actually aware that Mr Pitschak ever existed. Renaud/Kahn (The Art of the Checkmate) calls him "a very strong Czech player from Brunn" {Brno). I'll see if Brno chess-players still know of him. (I may be visiting there for a few weeks next month.) |
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Jun-07-07
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| vonKrolock: :) He played good chess - the Renaud&Kahn; information is new on-line (I remember this book from a Dover Edition, but from memories of long ago...) His home city is given (as here) as Rumburk (or Rumburg) - of course that Brno is a biger city, and we can suppose that he was playing there in determinated time - later he was in the USA, but, besides of a game vs R J Fischer in the fifties, I'm not founding further informations - Bon Voyage, and Thanks for the 'in loco' research in Brno!! - |
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Jun-07-07
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| Gypsy: <vonKrolock> Renaud&Kahn; can not be relyed on too much; for instance they give Salo Flohr as born in Prague. But born in Rumburk but settling and playing in Brno is easy to believe. (Well, I give it about 50-50 that we will find something.) |
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Jun-08-07
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| vonKrolock: <Gypsy> Oh :) let's wait for some news... Renaud & Kahn was an excellent tool for mating attacks' training, and for this reason i always found it recomendable, not for complete beginners, but for average club players wishing to sharpen their tactical vision... But I never had this book, only saw in libraries - By the way, wich of Pitschak's games is featured there?! |
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| Jun-09-07 |
| syracrophy: Does anyone know when did Mr. Rudolf Pitschak died? |
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Jun-09-07
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| Gypsy: <By the way, wich of Pitschak's games is featured there?!> Flohr vs R Pitschak, 1930 |
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Jun-09-07
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| vonKrolock: Curiously, is a Game that is not in all on-line bases...
<syracrophy> I can agree that someone born in 1902 can be 'statistically' dead, but the same about this person from my state, born in 1880, the same Year of a match Zukertort-Blackburne - She's statistically out of this world http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7090143/ |
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Jun-10-07
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| vonKrolock: 1880 was the year of a Zukertort vs Rosenthal match; Zukertort vs Blackburne was in 1881 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Aug-31-07
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| vonKrolock: hi Gypsy :) - It ocurred somewhere a doubt on the right spelling of Anton Nowotny 's surname - It seems that being he a xixth Century personality, the Austrian form with 'w' and 'y' would be historical, but someone said that the Czechs would prefer to write Novotny with a 'v' - That's right?! |
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Sep-03-07
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| Gypsy: <vonKrolock> Czech spelling is always <Novotny> (with 'v' pronounced as in 'victory', and with the long y'). It is one of Czech most common names. (I had a classmate of that name in elementary school; we still keep in touch sometimes.) When Czechs move abroad, they often change the spelling of their names in order to keep the pronunciation approximately correct. ---
On a different topic, I still owe you my report on the little bit I learned about <Mr. Pitchak>. The conversation went something as follows: --Dad, do you know anything about an old Brno chess-player -- Rudolf Pitchak? -Yeah, <starej Kucik> ('old Kutchik' being an intellectually spray chess-player in his 80's) talks about him all the times. I can not ever get into a street car with him; Kucik is liable to yell at me randomly across the whole tramway: <Karle, ten Pitchak, to ti byl ale sachysta!> (Karel, that Pitchak, that was a chess-player!) So I have to drive him [Kucik] whenever we go to play somewhere together. (The untranslatable point here is that 'Pitchak' is a rather unfortunate name to have in a Czech city. 'Pitchak', even if pronounced extremely diligently, is just a millimeter away from a very vulgar description of a man; one that derives from a part of a female-specific anatomy and one you would not use in a polite company, nor in one that includes ladies.) In the rest of our conversation (and from Kalendovsky's Chess-player's Dictionary), I learned that: 1. Rudolf Pitchak once was the head of the Brno (Brunn) German Chess Club. 2. Despite of his long and prolific life Pitchak was indeed long dead (<Ty, ten uz je ale dlouho mrtvej.>) 3. And that I may get more info later, if 'old Kucik' can be found feeding pigeons by one of Brno's two meager rivers. |
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Sep-09-07
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| vonKrolock: Cher ami:
Ce sont vraiment des histoires extraordinaires que tu racontes là... Je voudrais bien te demander la permission de copier quelques morceaux - pas le tout - chez la page chessgames.com de Monsieur Pitschak - d'accord!? |
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Sep-09-07
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| brankat: <The untranslatable point here is that 'Pitchak' is a rather unfortunate name to have in a Czech city. 'Pitchak', even if pronounced extremely diligently, is just a millimeter away from a very vulgar description of a man; one that derives from a part of a female-specific anatomy and one you would not use in a polite company, nor in one that includes ladies.)> Yep, the same in Serbian/Croatian :-)
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Nov-04-07
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| brankat: <Gypsy> On Oct-21-07 You left a brief post for me at B.Kostic page, and I just saw it today. Here is one link with a bit more info on Borislav Kostic: http://chess.vrsac.com/vrsac/BoraKo... |
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Dec-31-07
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| brankat: Hi my friend.
Just dropped by to wish You a very Happy New Year.
May it be joyful and successful!
I'm looking forward to enjoying more of Your well-informed and eloquent posts. Cheers! |
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Jan-12-08
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| brankat: <Gypsy> Sad news yesterday. Sir Edmund Hillary passed away at the age of (almost) 89. |
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Jan-15-08
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| Gypsy: <brankat> He led a great life. Hillary was such an inspiration to so many of us. |
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| May-07-08 |
| tihoracio: hi, i just want to congrats you for your really nice coments of the games.
I discover duras because of you! |
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Sep-30-08
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| Gypsy: <tihoracio> Thanks for stopping by to tell me that; it definitely cheered me up! |
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