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Lasker – Capablanca [D 61] Havana 1921
Capablanca – Spielmann [D 38] New York 1927
Alekhine – Capablanca [E 15] New York 1927
Capablanca – Czerniak [B 22] Buenos Aires 1939
Botvinnik, Mikhail Moiseyevich
Botvinnik – Alekhine [D 41] Amsterdam 1938
Botvinnik – Capablanca [E 49] Amsterdam 1938
Botvinnik – Euwe [D 49] The Hague/Moscow 1948
Botvinnik – Tal [E 80] Moscow (m/21) 1961
Karpov – Korchnoi [B 78] Moscow (m/2) 1974 – 18/433 (CI 18)
Karpov – Dorfman [B 81] USSR (ch) 1976 – 22/491 (CI 22)
Karpov – Korchnoi [C 80] Baguio City (m/8) 1978 – 26/286 (CI 26)
Timman – Karpov [A 28] Montreal 1979 – 28/40 (CI 28)
Karpov – Huebner [B 85] Bad Kissingen 1980 – 29/374 (CI 29)
Karpov – Sax [B 81] Linares 1983 – 35/299 (CI 35)
Capablanca, Jose Raul
| One of the best chess player of the 20th century, selected by | ||
| Birth: Nov 19, 1888 |
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| 1911 San Sebastian 1st
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| “Already in 1914 Capablanca played as well as Lasker. Never before or after have I met such a disheartening clarity of chess thought as that possessed by Capablanca.” A. Alekhine
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| “Without regard to all extraneous difficulties, which were much greater in this match than in my previous title defences, from the chess point of view it gave me pleasure. Playing Capablanca posed many complicated problems. His play is clear, logical and strong. There is nothing hidden, artificial or unnecessarily complex.” Em. Lasker “Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess another style could be victorians than the absolutely correct one.” M. Euwe “One can profit more from a single loss than a hundred wins.” Capablanca
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| Lasker – Capablanca [D 61]
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Botvinnik, Mikhail Moiseyevich
| One of the best chess player of the 20th century, selected by | ||
| Birth: Aug 17, 1911, |
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| 1935 Moscow 1st-2nd |
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| The Man – The Monument | ||
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| I am looking at the photograph of the participants of a match ‘ | |
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| He keeps the gusle* he was given in In the thirties, when it was an absolute rarity in the
Botvinnik was a Chairman of the Soviet-Dutch Association. After being invited to visit the | ||
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| On one occasion, Kasparov made a list of his ten closest friends, among which were his mother, Botvinnik and some others. Later, during the Soviet Championship, in a dispute, acting as a referee of the tournament and according to his own conscience, Botvinnik arbitrated against Kasparov. | |
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| Botvinnik always propounded four conditions on which success of chess players depended: talent, character, good health and special preparations. Kotov summarized in two words the entire Botvinnik’s contribution to chess: ‘SCHOLARLY NATURE’. |
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| The chess history records dual behavior of chess players in their old age. Some stay devoted or bound to competitive chess. The others however, including Botvinnik, after realizing that their talent and knowledge are not decisive, but staying awake on a night after a lost match, they do not to want to drag their names on the margins any more. | ||
| He turned the last page of his life and devoted himself to studying the use of computers in chess. Could computers play better than Grandmasters one day? Yes, they could’, says Botvinnik. ‘Yet chess will still be played. People invented cars and planes but they are still competing in a 100 and 1000 meters runs’. By A. Matanovic |
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| Botvinnik – Alekhine [D 41]
Botvinnik – Capablanca [E 49] Botvinnik – Euwe [D 49]
Botvinnik – Tal [E 80]
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Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich
| One of the best chess player of the 20th century, selected by | ||
| Birth: May 23, 1951 |
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| 1968 Moscow 1st |
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| Karpov versus Fischer? It is easier to earn than to keep. | ||
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| Within two years, Karpov became both the junior world champion and a grandmaster. No one had ever done it before. Chess experts directed their scrutiny at this twenty-year-old youngster from an unheard-of Siberian town called | |
| Already two years latter the Brazilian Mecking, who has a rather high opinion of himself, was forced to expand his list of the world’s best: “They’re Fischer, myself and Karpov.” Many years have gone by since | ||
| Now that the dust has settled, one question still remains unanswered or perhaps has too many answers: Why did Fischer not want a match with Karpov? Why did he set out his conditions to FIDE in 63 points? Why did one of the conditions call for the organizers to make available to the players the make of car of their choice, even if it is to be a fifty-year-old model? When the Soviet representatives objected that such a demand was unreasonable and that such old models might not be available in |
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| The other side acquiesced to this proposal, on condition that a player could demand, if he so wished, a Russian troika instead of a car. | ||
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| The negotiation of conditions had turned into a farce, and when FIDE offered as a compromise that the length of the match should not be limited, as demanded by Fischer, but that the challenger did not have to have two points advantage in order to win the match, negotiations broke down. Fischer did not want to accept FIDE’s ruling, and the match did not take place. Karpov is the world champion who after winning his title did not rest on his laurels but went on playing at one tournament after another-and winning-and so 30 years. | |
| By A. Matanovic | ||
| Karpov – Korchnoi [B 78]
Karpov – Dorfman [B 81] Karpov – Korchnoi [C 80]
Timman – Karpov [A 28] Karpov – Huebner [B 85] Karpov – Sax [B 81]
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