Poor Kramnik.
He's going to be remembered as the man who missed a mate in one.
Chess history is has singled out a few individuals for this treatment completely
ignoring anything else they may have achieved.
Dufresne - loser in the Evergreen Game
Kieseritzky - loser in the Immortal Game.
Duke of Brunswick - Lost the Opera game to Morphy.
von Bardelben - Walked out on Steinitz at Hastings in 1895.
Staunton - refused to play Morphy.
Spasky - Lost World Champion Match to Fischer.
Reshevsky - A Child prodigy.
Marshall - The Gold Coins Game.
Originally posted by greenpawn34what about Larsen, gubbed by Fischer 6 - 0. did you have any dosh on the Hibees to win last night pawn dude?
Poor Kramnik.
He's going to be remembered as the man who missed a mate in one.
Chess history is has singled out a few individuals for this treatment completely
ignoring anything else they may have achieved.
Dufresne - loser in the Evergreen Game
Kieseritzky - loser in the Immortal Game.
Duke of Brunswick - Lost the Opera game to Morphy.
...[text shortened]... Champion Match to Fischer.
Reshevsky - A Child prodigy.
Marshall - The Gold Coins Game.
Yeah of course Larsen and Taimanov both had 6-0 defeats.
Taimanov's best games is a really an excellent book. He played some great
games of chess.
Hibs were not playing last night - we succeeded in getting knocked out
a few rounds earlier. It was the Jambo's who were playing and a good result too.
(Hibee but not a Hearts hater). Had £2.00 on Celtic to win 2-0 but did not mind
losing as dislike Celtic for taking all our good players.
Originally posted by greenpawn34sorry yes of course my mistake! it was the Jambos! Taimanov also got hammered six nuthin, gulp! Fishy must have been awesome in those days!
Yeah of course Larsen and Taimanov both had 6-0 defeats.
Taimanov's best games is a really an excellent book. He played some great
games of chess.
Hibs were not playing last night - we succeeded in getting knocked out
a few rounds earlier. It was the Jambo's who were playing and a good result too.
(Hibee but not a Hearts hater). Had £2.00 on Celtic to win 2-0 but did not mind
losing as dislike Celtic for taking all our good players.
They WILL be REMEMBER'D
Dufresne - isn't he a cartoonist?
Kieseritzky - for his wonderful first names (Lionel Bagration Felix Adalbert ... or something along these lines)
Duke of Brunswick - for his fine wine collection
von Bardeleben - for his outrageous opening repertoire & being banned from RHP
Staunton - for his chess piece set
Spassky - for being a good guy
Reshevsky - for checkmating someone, after which his move turned out not to be checkmate but to be losing a full Queen instead
Marshall - for some chess problems and his pipe lurking
Hi Robbie.
He [Fischer] was awesome however a bit of perspective needs to shown here.
Larsen spurned quite a few draws going for wins so it was not as one
sided a hammering as you would think. I'm sure Bobby offered a draw in one
game by repetition which Larsen turned down.
Taimanov was 3-0 down when he discovered this very good move that he
felt sure Fischer would walk into.
He was not allowed to use it and they (the Russians) gave it to Petrosian instead.
A down hearted and demoralised Taimanove gave up.
So Petrosian has the secret move (TN) and in game one of their match,
Fischer, as Taimanov predicted walks into it and he has a bad position.
Taimanov would have finished Fischer off from that position. He would not have
lost it.
Petrosian, as was his style, tried to do it his way.
Fischer played superbly, turned the tables and won the game.
That made 19 wins on the bounce v Grandmasters as previous to the WC macthes
Fischer won his last six games at the 1970 Interzonal.
(last 7 if you count his one move win v Panno - so that makes it 20 on the trot).
Yes he was awesome.