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    Great Chess Quotes

    September 18, 2015

    In the World Cup Baku 2015, a random set of games is transmission-delayed by 15 minutes as an anti-cheating measure.

    However, the online commentators often ask that the cameraman to go over and “shoot” the board so they can see what is happening.

    Hence this quote from chess vibes:

    What is the point of delaying game transmission if the commentators talk about the live position anyway (as they should)?

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    • Re: Great chess quotes

      Great Chess Quotes

      September 20, 2015

      You know the basic situation – it was the last game, an Armageddon, of World Cup Baku 2015, third round, between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura. Supposedly Nakamura castled using two hands, Nepo appealed the game and lost the appeal.

      Peter Doggers in Chess.com had this quote:

      In most cases the members of an Appeals Committee don't have anything to do at a tournament. They spend some weeks in a hotel, enjoy the chess and go home with substantial pocket money.

      Jorge Vega, the Chairman of the Committee in Baku, receives U. S. $10 000. The two other members, Hesham Mohamed Elgendy and Zurab Azmaiparashvili, receive $14,000 in total.

      This time they actually had to work for their money. Ian Nepomniachtchi today filed a written appeal against his loss in the Armageddon game with Hikaru Nakamura.

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      Colin McGourty in chess24.com details an exchange between Azmaiparashvili and Nepomniachtchi and talks of Nepo having a “combustible character”.

      Actually, I think Nepo was very hard done by indeed.

      Nepomniachtchi, whose combustible character once saw him expelled from Evgeny Bareev's chess school for throwing a shoe at a trainer (his basic defence: "I missed"!) would tweet,” Azmaiparashvili, who took a move back in a classical game, is now a member of an appeals committee. Feel the irony.”.

      Colin also refers to an interesting effect that may have been in play, which prevented any one of several arbiters from stopping the action when the infraction happened:

      Perhaps, as in more everyday situations, the large number of arbiters present actually made it less likely that any one of them would get involved due to the "bystander effect", the paradox that "the probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders".

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      • Re: Great chess quotes

        Great Chess Quotes

        September 26, 2015

        The young Chinese, Wei Yi, has been playing magnificently this year. He played an “immortal” king hunt game against Bruzon at the Sixth Danzhou International in July.

        Alas, even the best and brightest can succumb with one weak game in a knockout. And this happened against Peter Svidler in the quarterfinals of the World Cup Baku 2015.

        This prompted one viewer on chess24.com to say:

        Now we are witnessing Wei Yi's mortal game

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        • Re: Great chess quotes

          Great Chess Quotes

          From the English Chess Forum

          PigGate

          Posted by Gerard Killoran Wed. Sept. 30, 2015

          The British Chess Magazine, Volume 25 1905 p.70-72 carries a report of the 100-board match between Croydon and The Rest of Surrey held on Saturday January 14th 1905 in the Public Hall, Thornton Heath.

          Board 21 for The Rest of Surrey was Mr. W. P. Pigg and Board 20 for Croydon was Mr. C. H. Bacon. Nearly a great match-up.

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          • Re: Great chess quotes

            "The move 1.e4 is so not bad in itself." GM Mikhail Tal, 1936-1992, World Champion 1960-61.

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              "The opponent can only capture one piece at a time." :) GM Mikhail Tal, explaining his sacrificial style.

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                "Tactics is what you do when there is something to do. Strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do." GM Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)

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                  "Karpomanes." GM Boris Spassky (1937--), World Champion 1969-1972, describing then-FIDE President Florencio Campomanes' alleged preference for GM Anatoly Karpov.

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                  • Re: Great chess quotes

                    Great Chess Quotes

                    October 1, 2015

                    My number one problem in typing up chess reports is Ian Nepomniachtchi’s surname. Evidently I am not the only one:

                    Chess by the Numbers - My spell check wants me to change "Nepomniachtchi" to "Kleptomaniac".

                    I found that amusing and worth sharing.

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                    • Re: Great chess quotes

                      "I have only three words to say to you, Herr Lasker: 'Check and mate'." Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch, addressing Dr. Emanuel Lasker, on the eve of their 1908 World Championship match, won convincingly by Lasker.

                      There is a fascinating pre-history here. Tarrasch, six years older than Lasker, came to world-class prominence first, in 1889, when he won at Breslau; Lasker won a secondary tournament there at the same time. The two Masters were both German. Tarrasch turned down a chance in 1892 for a World Championship match against champion Wilhelm Steinitz, as he claimed he was too busy with his medical practice. Steinitz then faced Russian Mikhail Chigorin, winning a close struggle. While Steinitz was still World Champion, in 1893, Lasker, by then a rising star, challenged Tarrasch to a match, and was refused in humiliating terms. Lasker then made his way to the United States, where he proceeded to raise funds for a challenge to Steinitz for the World Championship. Steinitz accepted, and lost the match, a surprising result to most. Lasker held the title for a record 27 years, until 1921, when he lost to Cuban J.R. Capablanca.

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                      • Re: Great chess quotes

                        Great Chess Quotes

                        October 5, 2015

                        The World Cup Baku 2015 Tiebreak Round has finished between Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler. Both players were exhausted playing six rapid games today. For most, it was a heart-stopping final. The commentators said that there was an ambulance parked outside of the tournament hall during the event in case anyone should have to be rushed to the Emergency Ward.

                        To some, it was not really chess but a blunderfest not worthy of the game. One said: Chess is supposed to be a game of thought not a gladiatorial lottery. Another: Well, it’s either something like this or spinning a roulette wheel/tossing a coin.

                        The champion though was David Robertson on the EC Forum:

                        Dismal lack of imagination. FIDE needs to set up one of its world-famous Commissions to explore alternatives. Here's a few:

                        * mud-wrestling
                        * spaghetti-eating
                        * smashing one another with inflated pig's bladders

                        My proposal: a bout of urtication
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                        OED - The flogging or pricking of a benumbed part or paralytic limb with green nettles, so as to restore sensation, etc.

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                        • Re: Great chess quotes

                          I don't know who the moniker 'OBIT' belongs to, but he had this gem at the Bogdanovic vs Planinc 'Notable Game':

                          Feb-06-09 OBIT: Planinc always plays like Tal on acid.

                          http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1296917

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                          • Re: Great chess quotes

                            "Paul Morphy could have given Wilhelm Steinitz pawn-and-move." (Henry Bird, English Master, 1830-1908).

                            Irreverant trash-talking isn't just a 21st century phenomenon, as the above quote makes clear! :)

                            Bird's statement has some merit, but only when discussing the relative playing strengths of Morphy and Steinitz BEFORE 1860. By then, Morphy, born in New Orleans in 1837, was essentially retired from serious chess, after defeating Adolf Anderssen, theretofore considered the world's strongest player, convincingly, at their match held in Paris. Steinitz, born in Prague in 1836, was just beginning his ascent to the top; he would become the first official world champion in 1886, after defeating Johannes Zukertort in a match held in three U.S. cities. Steinitz was among the top five from the early 1860s until a few years before his death in 1900. So far as can be determined, Morphy and Steinitz never faced each other over the board, while Bird faced both players.

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                              "It's always best to sacrifice your opponent's pieces." :) (GM Savielly Tartakower, 1887-1956, perhaps the wittiest chess person of all time!)

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                                "I have known many chess Masters, but only one chess genius: Capablanca." :) (Emanuel Lasker 1868-1941, World Champion 1894-1921; he lost the 1921 title match to Capablanca.)

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