Re: Great Chess Quotes
Great Chess Quotes
May 22, 2018
Ohne Krawatte
Just two words in this quote. It means “without a tie” in German. I always thought it was a description of being casual but it appears that it means much more.
Bent Larsen had a monthly column in Kaissiber and in a little box in each column was this:
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“Ohne Krawatte”
Unter diesem Motto gibt es raum für alle möglichen Ideen und Fragen. Die Leser von Kaissiber sind eingeladen, Bent Larsen direct zu schreiben
Bent Larsen
Dorrego 180
RA-1640 Martinez
Prov. de Buenos Aires
Argentinien/Argentina
Sie können den Brief in Deutsch abfassen
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The use of the two words has recently been explained in Edward Winter’s column in Chess Notes Nos. 10828 and 10835
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...in_New_Orleans
10828 - “Bent Larsen, the former world no. 3 in chess, has revealed that he would never wear a tie while playing because ‘less blood would get to his brain’.”
10835 - Part of a contribution by Bent Larsen, entitled ‘Thoughts about chess in Buenos Aires, Winter 1990’, to his old grammar school’s jubilee book:
‘“You should not stop while the game is good. It is far too good for that.” Quoted from memory from a book by Knud Lundberg. Lundberg is the closest I have come to having an idol. After a national match there was a dinner with mandatory tie, so he ate elsewhere. Generally, I am not very dependent on other people’s ideas, but at an impressionable age I had the experience of Lundberg strengthening me in my own opinion of these scraps of cloth, whose apparent purpose is to restrict the flow of blood to an important part of the body. But as I have little confidence in violent revolutions, I have yielded at times. A hotel in Reykjavik on a Saturday night. The Munich Opera, a tournament opening in Puerto Rico. Searching my memory thoroughly, I think of an Interzonal in Mallorca during which I was installed in a hotel where I could have no supper without putting on a tie. I put up with that because during a tournament you should not let yourself become excited by such matters, as it would ruin your concentration. I also wear a tie for certain concerts at the Teatro Colón. Perhaps I should take it off during the interval.’
Source: Aalborg Katedralskole 450 år (Aalborg, 1990), pages 146-147.
Great Chess Quotes
May 22, 2018
Ohne Krawatte
Just two words in this quote. It means “without a tie” in German. I always thought it was a description of being casual but it appears that it means much more.
Bent Larsen had a monthly column in Kaissiber and in a little box in each column was this:
_______
“Ohne Krawatte”
Unter diesem Motto gibt es raum für alle möglichen Ideen und Fragen. Die Leser von Kaissiber sind eingeladen, Bent Larsen direct zu schreiben
Bent Larsen
Dorrego 180
RA-1640 Martinez
Prov. de Buenos Aires
Argentinien/Argentina
Sie können den Brief in Deutsch abfassen
_______
The use of the two words has recently been explained in Edward Winter’s column in Chess Notes Nos. 10828 and 10835
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...in_New_Orleans
10828 - “Bent Larsen, the former world no. 3 in chess, has revealed that he would never wear a tie while playing because ‘less blood would get to his brain’.”
10835 - Part of a contribution by Bent Larsen, entitled ‘Thoughts about chess in Buenos Aires, Winter 1990’, to his old grammar school’s jubilee book:
‘“You should not stop while the game is good. It is far too good for that.” Quoted from memory from a book by Knud Lundberg. Lundberg is the closest I have come to having an idol. After a national match there was a dinner with mandatory tie, so he ate elsewhere. Generally, I am not very dependent on other people’s ideas, but at an impressionable age I had the experience of Lundberg strengthening me in my own opinion of these scraps of cloth, whose apparent purpose is to restrict the flow of blood to an important part of the body. But as I have little confidence in violent revolutions, I have yielded at times. A hotel in Reykjavik on a Saturday night. The Munich Opera, a tournament opening in Puerto Rico. Searching my memory thoroughly, I think of an Interzonal in Mallorca during which I was installed in a hotel where I could have no supper without putting on a tie. I put up with that because during a tournament you should not let yourself become excited by such matters, as it would ruin your concentration. I also wear a tie for certain concerts at the Teatro Colón. Perhaps I should take it off during the interval.’
Source: Aalborg Katedralskole 450 år (Aalborg, 1990), pages 146-147.
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