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Highest-ranked players list to visit Ottawa and give a chess simultaneous exhibition.
Jonathan, I have a different definition for hyperbole which really doesn't have anything to do with kidding. I take hyperbole an an obvious overstatement to make a point. Now whether the author of this statement intended the use of hyperbole, or believed this statement to be true, or was full of BS is a matter of opinion for each reader. I took the statement to mean that a player of Shirov's caliber visiting the chess community in Ottawa was a very good thing. Your opinion is that the author was full of BS. That's great, I appreciate that. What I don't appreciate is the attempt to prove that one opinion is correct over another.
and then considered whether the public might prefer ranked to rated
As a member of the public, I prefer to make my own judgements, especially on something insignificant as whether the absolute highest ranked player visited Ottawa and how it affected a well received simul in Ottawa and Scarborough.
Last edited by Andrei Moffat; Sunday, 21st February, 2010, 11:15 AM.
Good work guys! But I have an inkling that Spassky may have been here long before 1995. The photo Doug spoke of came from a dusty old box, and I think predates '95, but I haven't seen it myself. Maybe ask Alex Danilov? He's been here forever and would likely remember.
Spassky actually gave a simultaneous in Ottawa much earlier. It was in the early seventies (or even possibly 1969) at the RA chess club. Unfortunately my memory is so poor that I cannot even place the event as being pre or post the Fischer world championship match, but it certainly was prior to 1974, so Spassky would have been of world-champion standard about the time of the simul.
Of course, none of this should detract from the Shirov event; surely one of the highest rated/ranked players to do a simul in Ottawa.
My outstanding memory of the Spassky event was his game against Peter Stark (an anglicised version of his Hungarian name) a moderately strong, twenty-ish year old at that time. Peter achieved quite a lost position early on but continued to play for many many, more moves. Eventually he did resign (I think a move before he was to be mated) stating something along the lines, but a bit more eloquently: “I played on to protest about what you Soviets did to my country”. Spassky was a little bemused but being the perfect gentleman, gave his trademark smile and continued with the simultaneous.
Re: Highest-ranked players list to visit Ottawa and give a chess simultaneous exhibit
I just found that at least some years of the Ottawa Citizen are accessible via Google's program to digitize old newspapers - the search mechanism is not the greatest, though.
Bondarevsky and Kotov visited Ottawa in 1954:
"Among the field challenging Bondarevsky was a blonde Ukrainian refugee girl who kept playing 15 moves after she should have resigned, because: 'I just won't let them beat me!'"
I have now had a chance to view the photo held by Doug Burgess showing Boris Spassky giving a simultaneous exhibition at the R.A. Chess Club in Ottawa. On the back of the photo is written "Chess Club 1971." People we recognize are Archie Howard, Marie Scarabelli and, of course, Spassky. In 1971 Spassky was World Champion so that's a pretty high ranking ! In the summer of 1971 I was in Vancouver competing in my second Canadian Open in which Spassky tied for 1st-2nd with Hans Ree. And sometime later we know that Spassky played in Toronto where Lawrence Day held him to a draw in a famous game. So it would seem to me that it was during his time in Ontario that he came to Ottawa.
Re : Highest-ranked players list to visit Ottawa and give a chess simultaneous exhibi
I didn't know Ruy Lopez came to Canada in 1535. Thanks for the info! However, is it also specified that he gave a (blindfold?) simul, at the age of 5, on the actual site of Ottawa (because the city was funded in the 1800s)... Also, I thought that Cartier didn't go further than Montreal...
Even today's best players cannot do a simul at this age...
Last edited by Felix Dumont; Monday, 15th August, 2011, 09:29 AM.
Even today's best players cannot do a simul at this age...
ok , blindfold was just a poetic license.
The simul was just a regular one.
By the way …
The name "Ottawa" is derived from the Algonquin word adawe, meaning "to trade".
The word existed well before 1800 !
Did you know that Basque fishermen founded the first commercial enterprise in the New World (whale fishing products) in Labrador in 1497 !?
Also - this summer - Caravaggio is in Ottawa – until September 11. True, he lived between 1571-1610 … lots of (postal) stamps were issued last year commemorating 400 years since his death.
The exhibition includes 12 paintings of the great master – highly recommended!!
(He did not give a simul!)
Last edited by Emil Smilovici; Monday, 15th August, 2011, 10:10 AM.
I didn't know Ruy Lopez came to Canada in 1535. Thanks for the info! However, is it also specified that he gave a (blindfold?) simul, at the age of 5, on the actual site of Ottawa (because the city was funded in the 1800s)... Also, I thought that Cartier didn't go further than Montreal...
Even today's best players cannot do a simul at this age...
History is not so dry as some books would have you believe. As is well known, the original Parliament buildings in Ottawa were an exact replica, in marzipan, of the Haghia Sophia. The Ottawans of the time named their city, not Bul-town or Con-town, but By-town, hinting at its hidden antiquity. As we all know, those original Parliament buildings melted in the heat of a particularly typical Ottawa summer. Fortunately, some of the inhabitants, when told to "toe the line", misheard it as "hoe the line", and, mirabile dictu, liquid flowed uphill, and after swamp water reacted with almond paste, and centuries of tongue burnishing--the Rideau Canal. Whether Ruy Lopez visited the Haghia Sophia in (then) Istanbul, or its exact replica in By_zantium-town, is much an existential question. Until the Canada Council of the National Cash Register rules in its fullness, your Grisch is as good as mine.
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