Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian Number of games in database: 1,915

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yes I'm armenian, i don't know about <whiterook> or <murphyman>.

what is it that I can do for you?

Good day! Perhaps I might do my inquiry in a more private area, an email perhaps?

my e-mail is davolni@hotmail.com

please let me know if I can help you with something.

;)

Thank you. I have emailed you.

I am not Armenian, and have never been to Armenia.

I am Scottish. Petrosian's writings, approach to the game and some of his great games (Game 7 Petrosian - Spassky 1966 for example) are the reasons why I got interested in finding out more about Armenia and its peoples.

On a chess front, one cannot fail to be impressed by their support for their national hero in the 1960's and for the strength they show in the modern day game.

Murphyman

you're missing out on a lot of really unique and creative games, then.

Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

I am fully aware that this request sounds strange.

Thank you and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Good evening. I have replied to you on Nezhmetdhinov's page. Thank you.

here is a little excrept about Petrosian

<We can call Petrosian the first defender with a capital D. He was the first person to demonstrate that it is possible to defend virtually every position. Petrosian contributed a defensive element to chess - an element that is being developed more and more today. He showed that chess contains an enormous number of resources, including defensive ones.

Petrosian was a very intensive chess player who was hard to understand. I don't think he has been presented to the public in the correct way. He is one of the few chess players of whom I have failed to form a clear opinion after going through his games collection. There is something mysterious about Petrosian. He was a brilliant tactician and an excellent strategic player, although his positional understanding was not as good as Smyslov's. >

<The World Champion has penetrated deeper perhaps than anyone into the secrets of positional manoeuvring. He is finely sensitive to all the nuances of the struggle on the chess board. Who will win: Petrosian or Spassky? It is hard to say. I wish to make just one remark. There is a Russian saying: "Repetition is the mother of understanding." In 1954 I could not win the crown from Botvinnik, but three years later I succeeded in doing so. Why should not Spassky also do the same? He has every ground for achieving it.>

either Kramnik is wrong, or Smyslov was too humble to claim his supremacy in positional play over the Champion :)

Between 1953 and 1980, Petrosian played in 10 consecutive world championship cycles at the candidates level or higher, a remarkable feat that has never been duplicated.