I desire to make some time in order to post something about a (the?) true citizen of the Competitive (and Creative) Chess Kingdom!!!

 It' s about a rather difficult and terrifying character but neither a liar nor a hypocrite, a hyper-specialist but not a Specialist, the human GM Victor Korchnoi.

 See you soon...

 Difficult character isn't the exact exression, I would rather say (said?!?...) that he is an extremely, a really demanding judge of everybody including himself... So let's speak about Korchnoi's sharp character!

 The point is that his terrible criticism always tends towards improvement, correction or encouragement!!!

 Of course this is my personal point of view... Lovers of the late USSR tend to dislike him and do share the same dislike -or feeling of frustration- as many chessplayers who do hate Communism!... But many friends of the game of chess do admire him or respect him immensely!...

 So there is a great controversy about his character! I remember Miguel Najdorf's criticism about his character, he had said that he is a killer during the game, he is playing like he is trying to eliminate his opponent's mind, so Najdorf had said that he would prefer not to invite this assassin in an Argentina's tournament! But ... he did invite him!!...

 What is the real source of this very controversy, is it Korchnoi's strong EGO?!? Let's see again that:

...he is an extremely, a really demanding judge of everybody including himself... So let's speak about Korchnoi's sharp character!

 The point is that his terrible criticism always tends towards improvement, correction or encouragement!!!

 Let's accelerate a bit. Someone could ask the question of the status of a citizen in a kingdom... I wrote this word having in mind responsibility and caring, let's say: a caring Prince in the World of Kings, Bishops and Kingdoms.

 The true meaning of the word caring is that Korchnoi's direction of action was towards the acknowledgment of the virtue and the perspectives of everybody AND the improvement of everybody capable of, even of the improvement of the performance of his greatest opponents. He did that by struggle, offences, criticism... Karpov felt that in many occasions, Spassky too, Geller also, Kasparov of course twice, Short, Khalifman, Ivan Sokolov, Filip, even Petrosian!!!...

By the way, in Wikipedia a Victor's quotation about Karpov's play: "In rare occasions he presents something new in the game" or something like that... But when did Korchnoi said that, maybe immediately after the Baguio match? At 1975 he mention(n)ed (sorry...) his observation about Karpov's enormous willpower...

 And eventually Karpov came with something much more than simple creativity, a synthesis of deepest understanding and ultra-stability ... but mainly after 1981-1984 ... and up to 1995 etc.  

 In my opinion that result was exactly the aim of Korchnoi's  deepest criticism, to direct and motivate towards CHESS truth and beauty. Korchnoi had understand very well the probable result of his criticism on Karpov's thoughts...

 Somewhen, hopefully I will insert the 1985(86?) Korchnoi-Polugaevsky 1. Nf3 c5 game with the manoeuvre g1-g2-h3 of the white king or another (Korchnoi-Nijboer or Korchnoi-van Wely?) King's Indian Defence with the manoeuvre g1-h2-(Rh1!!)-g1 of his king and attack from the h-file!!!...

 By the way I never understood his dislike towards the KID!... I don't play this -extremely rich in variations- opening but it's very spectacular, I mean that spectacular play comes of it!... Why the Grunfeld Defense is superior to KID?!? Both defences have their own merit!.....

 Anyway, about chess movies and other Tarkovski-like artistic efforts and essentially about the very representation of the part of the very-chessgame-thoughts but in a tempo similar to that of a Beethoven or a Paganini masterpiece, somewhen fast like the Godfather, somewhen much more faster (!!!...) and somewhen slow like a Tarkovski movie in its slowest or even more: it's a matter of the volume per time of the effective amount of information, so you have to use different levels of ideas-images and different speeds and focuses in retrospection. Firstly "pieces contacts", then possible moves, then squares, then complexes of squares, then (possible) moves in quick succession, then an important observation, the error of the trial and error process?!? Then again a similar process quickly and then focus not to the virtual (into the brain) picture of the game but in the eye movements of each player and then a quick succession of actual moves by both players! It goes without saying that a mental process happens simultaneously to each player, most elements (not all of them!) are the same, ask some strong and eager grandmasters, not me!!...

 This has to be the main theme of this very representation but there will be turning (and "turning") points also, this is necessary! The camvas, the frames of their mental pictures also have to be somewhere different but "personnalized" too!... Maybe the frames of the same person will present some changes somewhen for the one or the other reason...

 That's for free of course, it's appropriate in a topic for such a citizen.  

 Korchnoi in his extraordinary book "Chess is my life" ( I have the old edition, the 1976-77 one) had made a complain(t) about a soviet "chessmovie" (movie about chess in fact) in which he had taken part: failure due to weak scenario...

 In my opinion an advantageous scenario has not at all to be some fiction story, the movie has to declare that it's about a true story!  That's why I proposed a given Capablanca-Alekhine (1936) game as axis of the script in a related article.  

 In fact is not an article but a blog, SonofPearl's blog entitled: "Does chess make for perfect novels?" Instead I presented an idea of mine about an allegedly perfect scenario!

 However such a movie would have very limited success regarding the number of tickets and regardless the very artistic achievement... The same holds for a movie based on the fascinating Karpov-Korchnoi Baguio-1978 match with respect the turns of history and the true (and sometimes either ironic or tragic) historic importance of a famous event...

 The same is not true for a movie about five-six-...- ten moments ("periods") from the tragic life of Bobby Fischer, moreover I am fully convinced that this movie WILL take place somewhen, I just hope that this will be for the best...

 Moreover its very scenario is already present in Youtube plus an initial version of it!!!

 But there is a lacking scene, the one concerning the fourtyeight or so hours of Bobby Fischer being surprisingly humiliating into the Pasadena jailhouse while he was convinced that he has been admired and almost omnipotent in his deep and lifelong despair... plus his efforts during the next year to communicate with influential or responsible persons in order to ... find justice and protection of his rights like every american citizen or at least to find some moral and legal support...