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| Aug-13-12 | | savagerules: Viktor looking really frail these days but if you watch the video even though he's being pushed in a wheelchair he's furiously using his hands on the wheel to help move it along faster and he did score 7/10 against young players of IM strength, which shows that nothing is wrong with the brain. |
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Aug-13-12
 | | alexmagnus: Btw what happened to Korchnoi's health during the last year? He had some moderate (for this age) health problems before, but looks like it suddenly got worse - he needs a wheelchair and his chess became - within this one year - very unstable. Anyone knows what happened? It's not just being old - too sudden was the change. |
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| Aug-13-12 | | polarmis: <alexmagnus>, he already had some issues a year ago: http://whychess.org/en/node/1527 <Let me know if this isn’t a polite question, but there were some rumours about your health. How do you feel at the moment?Well, you can see I’ve got a walking stick. I’ve got an acquaintance of about the same age and I told her that a stick spoils your gait, but she replied that even without a stick your gait deteriorates. I walk with a stick and it’s not so easy. I tried to do some exercises to improve my gait, but it turns out I’ve also got problems with my heart. So I started to do less of those important exercises. But at my age if nothing hurt it wouldn't be normal. (laughs)> Probably using a wheelchair is just a natural progression and more comfortable if you're going to sit for hours playing chess. In terms of chess he only had one bad tournament (the Swiss Championship). Otherwise as far as I can see he picked up rating points in two events and lost some in Gibraltar, but he still did absolutely fine (losing to Judit Polgar in the last round). |
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| Aug-13-12 | | Dionysius1: <diagonal>. Thank you for the link, and thanks to Agterdenbos for the great record of the event. It lifts my heart to see such a tournament: friendly, luxurious and respectful of the great players. |
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Aug-13-12
 | | Wyatt Gwyon: Korchnoi fans: What would you say was Victor the Terrible's last masterpiece? (not to imply there won't be more) |
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| Aug-13-12 | | Petrosianic: <keypusher> <Well, not to be cruel to one of chess's all-time nicest guys, but Keres didn't get a shot because he didn't qualify> I know he didn't. I just said it was a shame he didn't play a title match, I didn't say it was unfair. He was good enough to win a Candidates Tournament, but just never did. It's also a shame that Pillsbury, Marcozy and Rubinstein didn't qualify, but in Rubinstein's case, I think his "window" was very small (maybe 1910-1912), while Keres' window was open for a couple of decades. <Keres only came really close to qualifying in '62.> He also came close in 1959. If Fischer hadn't blown that won game against Tal in the next to last round, thing might have been very different. Without a blow like that, Keres might not have lost to Olafsson in the last round with White. That's a couple of big ifs, I realize, I'm just saying that Keres came a lot closer than the final score might indicate. And he did beat Tal 3 games out of 4. |
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Aug-14-12
 | | twinlark: <Wyatt>
Last year's game against Caruana was cool. |
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Aug-14-12
| | Wyatt Gwyon: That was cool indeed. |
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Oct-01-12
 | | whiteshark: Victor? Victor! You'r doin it r8: http://dq34rq3yey5ud.cloudfront.net... |
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| Oct-22-12 | | masterwojtek: Is he a jew? |
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Oct-22-12
 | | perfidious: < masterwojtek: Is he a jew?> Does it matter? Who cares?
The above question sounds rather like 'Is he a disease carrier?' Maybe one day, there will be an end to bigotry in the world, and I hope to see that day. |
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Oct-22-12
| | alexmagnus: Huh? It sounds this way only to someone who is anti-semitic himself :D. I am a (non-religious) Jew and I see nothing wrong with this question. As for Korchnoi, AFAIK the same. |
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Oct-22-12
 | | Gypsy: <... ,but Keres didn't get a shot because he didn't qualify> This is arguable either way: AVRO '38 was meant as a qualifying tournament by FIDE. Keres won it, but Alekhine nixed the motion and started talks with Botvinnik. |
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Oct-22-12
 | | Caissanist: Korchnoi is said to have had a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. |
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Oct-22-12
| | perfidious: <Caissanist: Korchnoi is said to have had a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father.> If this is indeed the case, then Korchnoi is Jewish under religious law, descent being through the mother.
I wonder, though, because his patronymic (Lvovich) means his father's forename was Lev. |
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Oct-22-12
| | perfidious: < alexmagnus: Huh? It sounds this way only to someone who is anti-semitic himself....> Believe that if you wish-I'll not bother you with particulars, since you have already drawn your own inference from my post. <....I am a (non-religious) Jew and I see nothing wrong with this question....> Fair enough. On the other hand, the form of the question could certainly have been improved upon, in my opinion. |
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Oct-22-12
 | | brankat: <AVRO '38 was meant as a qualifying tournament by FIDE. Keres won it, but Alekhine nixed the motion and started talks with Botvinnik.> In 1938, FIDE, for all intents and purposes, had very little say (and sway). <Keres won it.> He shared the first place with R.Fine. Despite Keres/Fine winning the AVRO, by 1938 Botvinnik had more successes overall. Not to mention that he was a stronger player, too. Then, and for decades afterwards. |
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Oct-22-12
 | | TheFocus: Didn't Alekhine say that he was not bound by FIDE's intentions? I believe he also said he would not compete in AVRO if it was to be a qualifying tournament. After the Flohr match fell through, he stated that regardless of who won AVRO, he would consider a match with ANY master. |
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| Oct-22-12 | | RookFile: The answer is yes. Reshevsky in his book of best games says that at the beginning of the tournament Alekhine announced he was under no obligation to play the tournament winner. |
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| Oct-22-12 | | ughaibu: Anyway, Keres did have a shot, in 1948. |
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Oct-22-12
| | brankat: He also had a bit of a longer shot (Candidates) 1950-65. Six times Keres came up short. Just was not quite good enough shot. |
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| Oct-23-12 | | RookFile: A shot? Yes, I do believe Keres was afraid of getting shot. |
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Oct-23-12
| | brankat: And he always turned out to be right about it, just couldn't avoid the experience :-) |
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Oct-23-12
| | brankat: Korchnoi, on the other hand. was never afraid of anything or anyone, but that didn't help either :-) |
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| Nov-01-12 | | Conrad93: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUZS...
Korchnoi vs. Cow |
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