My favourite GM is Ediz_Gurel.
The reason I like EDIZ_GUREL so much is that he plays very well. He has a very exciting game.
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Over time, Viktor Korchnoi, for his efforts in his 40s, against Karpov, especially his comeback in the Bagaio (sp?) match, after defecting from the Soviet Union. Then his victory in Biel (Cat 16, avg rating 2650) at age 70 and winning the World Seniors Championship at age 75.
Boris Spassky he has few books with all his games I have the best games book by Andrew Soltis from the 1970s and the red book Bobby Fischer studied for his 1972 match but it's a terrible xerox copy all washed out (really regret buying it on Amazon) and Spassky's 100 Best Games by Bernard Cafferty. Bright spot there's two-volume books by GM Tibor Károlyi. The first one was just released. I want to get that. Capablanca doesn't have many complete editions of all his games either I have the German red book from the 1960s its original not a xerox copy (scarce) there were two volumes that were released by Chess Stars in the 1990s both now scarce as the red book. My other favourite players are Adolph Anderssen Mikhail Tal Mikhail Chigorin and Paul Morphy.
nice. When Spassky was on his game he was very highly regarded as a brilliant attacker. But then came Bobby Fischer. If it had not been for that, who knows? We can say the same thing about Karpov, but then along came Kasparov. Respect to Karpov for proving himself after taking the title by default. He might not have beaten Fischer in 75 but he would have done soon, maybe in 78. In the sense of proving oneself, he is like tennis great Steffi Graf, who really got it done, when she assumed the #1 spot after Monica Seles was stabbed by a deranged Steffi Graf worshipper during a match, against Graf herself I think.
edit: Who can remember the following quote from Karpov...
"Those so-called K-K matches were among the worst times of my life"
I put Petrosian ahead of Spassky in terms of ability. From what I could gather from his book Python Strategy, a great book, it would appear that Petrosian just lost the will to fight, in their second match. Petrosian talked a lot about the "will to fight", a characteristic that more or less defined his career. He certainly could win when he wanted to, a very nice example from the book was game 5 from the Botvinnik match. An then there is his astounding record of +79, =50, -1 in Olympiad play.
edit: Who can remember the following quote from Karpov...
"Those so-called K-K matches were among the worst times of my life"
I put Petrosian ahead of Spassky in terms of ability. From what I could gather from his book Python Strategy, a great book, it would appear that Petrosian just lost the will to fight, in their second match. Petrosian talked a lot about the "will to fight", a characteristic that more or less defined his career. He certainly could win when he wanted to, a very nice example from the book was game 5 from the Botvinnik match. An then there is his astounding record of +79, =50, -1 in Olympiad play.
I took lessons from, and later ended up being the technical assistant for a well known old school Sovietski trainer, whose coach in turn was Efim Geller. My coach, link below (R.I.P.) says that Geller was the most brilliant of the Soviet GMs, but his search for perfection led him to frequent time trouble, which prevented him from reaching the top. His well known success against Bobby Fischer, and also a very nice +2 record playing the black side of the King's Indian against Petrosian..
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The gallery page is very interesting. Many historically interesting photographs that I scanned myself, most of the captions were mine, as his written English was not that great.
chessacademycanada.com/
The gallery page is very interesting. Many historically interesting photographs that I scanned myself, most of the captions were mine, as his written English was not that great.
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