Also i dont think there are real doppelgaengers i think they are all very unique.
Chess "doppelgangers": Carslen = Capablanca, but what about the rest?
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TetsuoShima wrote:
GargleBlaster wrote:
I like the Tartakower = Nakamura idea: both play(ed) joke openings and are/were extremely clever and unconvential tacticians. Tartakower had funnier tweets, though. :)
Well i dont think you can compare Nakamura to him, as far as i know Nakamura is now compared to his competitors way stronger then Tartakover was. Even so Tartakover was probably funnier.
Actually stronger, yes. Relatively stronger, about the same. Tartakower at his best was ranked amongst the top half dozen.
you are correct.
ok now i stop talking about chess players
rooperi do you know how he became so strong a tactician?? did he just train tactics for eternity
Well, he had a gambling problem in real life, maybe that extended to his chess :)
rooperi wrote:
Well, he had a gambling problem in real life, maybe that extended to his chess :)
lol i ment Nakamura.
Suprised to not seeing Morphy = Fischer
Ubik42 wrote:
Good book of annotations on Karpovs games?
I own "Karpov's Strategic Wins 1961-1985: The Making of a Champion" By Tibor Karolyi. It's a great book with good annotations by Karolyi, I highly suggest it. There is also a volume 2 but I haven't purchased it yet.
Feb 27, 2013
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This is imo a beautiful game of Karpov in which he wins from Seirawan in his positional style. Seirawan is a very good positional player too. That makes his accomplishments even better.
Probably i know too little about chess to really honor such a great man as Karpov, for a beginner like me even the invention of the move bishop to a7 in one of Karpovs game(to control the a File). For me it just doesnt look any different than Fischers bishop move in Evans gambit against Fine. For a Patzer like me its absolutly the same idea, but what do i know finding all those moves great, like the rook block against Benko by Fischer i mean its like Fischer inventend something super cool nearly each day in his Career. But yeah probably Karpov is the man, im just not good enough to realize it.
LoekBergman wrote:
This is imo a beautiful game of Karpov in which he wins from Seirawan in his positional style. Seirawan is a very good positional player too. That makes his accomplishments even better.
Gorgeous play from Karpov in that game, thanks for showing.
Feb 27, 2013
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Napoleon = Kirsan
Two egotitsts. One thought that he understood chess. The other doesn't understand it and never will.
Feb 27, 2013
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One Player I have been noticing lately is Luke McShane. This guy will in one round be beaten by an obscure player with little resistance, and in the very next round beat one of the strongest masters in the world, who was having the best tournament of their career.
Is there anybody in the past you can think of this sounds like?
Feb 27, 2013
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#38
Hmmm. An absence of female dopllegangers so I suggest:
Ulf Andersson = Vera Menchik.
Both styles of chess are rather dry and defensive or as Menchik was described once "stodgy".
varelse1 wrote:
One Player I have been noticing lately is Luke McShane. This guy will in one round be beaten by an obscure player with little resistance, and in the very next round beat one of the strongest masters in the world, who was having the best tournament of their career.
Is there anybody in the past you can think of this sounds like?
Yeah..Larsen and Ljubojevic.
I like the Tartakower = Nakamura idea: both play(ed) joke openings and are/were extremely clever and unconvential tacticians. Tartakower had funnier tweets, though. :)
Well i dont think you can compare Nakamura to him, as far as i know Nakamura is now compared to his competitors way stronger then Tartakover was. Even so Tartakover was probably funnier.