Are we talking about Russians or Soviets? it's just that Tal was from Riga,Latvia not Russia.
Your favorite Russian player of all time
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batgirl wrote:
Alvis Vitolins andLembit Oll were noted jumpers too.
lol
Mar 27, 2013
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#64
paulgottlieb wrote:
We must be talking about Soviet players. If you remove Bronstein, Geller and Stein (Ukraine), Petrosian (Armenia), Keres (Estonia), Tal (Latvia) the list of "Russian" grandmasters is a bit less impressive
It is less impressive but it stays quite impressive. Have you checked the list of Russian players who were world champions (my first post)? Alekhine, Botvinik, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Kosteniuk,...
thefrenchpawn wrote:
paulgottlieb wrote:
We must be talking about Soviet players. If you remove Bronstein, Geller and Stein (Ukraine), Petrosian (Armenia), Keres (Estonia), Tal (Latvia) the list of "Russian" grandmasters is a bit less impressive
It is less impressive but it stays quite impressive. Have you checked the list of Russian players who were world champions (my first post)? Alekhine, Botvinik, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Kosteniuk,...
Kasparov wasnt russian and Kosteniuk i believe is also not russian though, even though i cant recall Kosteniuk being world champion. But i guess Khalifman was russian though
Mar 27, 2013
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#66
Kasparov could qualify as Russian two ways: first his parentage is half Russian and second, his country of choice is Russia.
каспаров - prycckий.
If I say it in Russian does it make him more russian? (or at least if I tried to say it in Russian, I'm not very good).
Mar 27, 2013
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#68
shepi13 wrote:
каспаров - prycckий.
If I say it in Russian does it make him more russian? (or at least if I tried to say it in Russian, I'm not very good).
In Russian, it's Russkii or Каспаров - русский. You added a latin letter to the cyrillic spelling.
My bad. I'm not exactly fluent in russian. It sounds like an r, I put an r, even if I do remember to also put in a p.
Yes, Nezhmetdinov was an unbelievable player. HIs tactics and combinations are amazing.
Mar 27, 2013
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#73
It's actually easier to spell in Russian than English:
Рашид Нежметдинов. Russian is mostly a phonetic language. There are only a few exceptions to spelling rules in Russian.
SmyslovFan wrote:
Kasparov could qualify as Russian two ways: first his parentage is half Russian and second, his country of choice is Russia.
i thought Kasparov was half armenian and have from azerbaijan or something like that.
Fischer.
kasparov
Mar 29, 2013
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#78
Obviously, I really like Vasily Smyslov. My current favorite Russian is Vladimir Kramnik. He combines the best chess of Smyslov, Petrosian and Karpov and manages to be friendly with almost all of his competition.
It looks fairly likely that Kramnik will face Anand in November. That will be a fantastic rematch, reminiscent of Alekhin-Capablanca and Karpov-Kasparov in terms of chess style. If this happens, it will be fantastic for chess! Carlsen will come back in two years hungrier and meaner than ever! He should be able to tear through the field in two years and then play a match against the old guard.
What a great time to be a chess fan!
I probably pick Boris Spassky.
However David Bronstein twice played a simultan in our chess club. Once after he had played the Zurich/Neuhausen Candidates 1953. The second time about 50 years later - I don't remember the correct year because I wasn't there - missed him (what a shame and a pitty). 
Alvis Vitolins andLembit Oll were noted jumpers too.
So wrong, and yet so damn funny!