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Max Euwe world champion
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Dec 17, 2010
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FWIW, it's my prediction that Anand will be judged a gentleman among champions.
Yeah Anand is one of the nicer ones for sure.
I wonder though, when he said (after the Topalov match): "I woke up today, and I didn't know if this day is going to be the happiest day of my life, or the saddest." How did his wife feel about that ?
Dec 17, 2010
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Atos wrote:
I wonder though, when he said (after the Topalov match): "I woke up today, and I didn't know if this day is going to be the happiest day of my life, or the saddest." How did his wife feel about that ?
What was he getting at ?
NickYoung5 wrote:
Atos wrote:
I wonder though, when he said (after the Topalov match): "I woke up today, and I didn't know if this day is going to be the happiest day of my life, or the saddest." How did his wife feel about that ?
What was he getting at ?
I mean, was the happiest day of his life supposed to be when he won the match, or when he got married or something ? Lol just wondering...
Dirt on Euwe? Let me see...
Bent went on to explain that Max Euwe was in poor health and that he had received a telegram from Euwe. It asked him, Bent, to forgive him so that he might pass in peace. That day, Bent sent back a one-word telegrammed response. "No."
The passage comes from Yasser Seirawan's Chess Duels, recently published. What was it that Bent Larsen could not forgive Euwe? You'll find it in the book...
Crazychessplaya wrote:
Dirt on Euwe? Let me see...
Bent went on to explain that Max Euwe was in poor health and that he had received a telegram from Euwe. It asked him, Bent, to forgive him so that he might pass in peace. That day, Bent sent back a one-word telegrammed response. "No."
The passage comes from Yasser Seirawan's Chess Duels, recently published. What was it that Bent Larsen could not forgive Euwe? You'll find it in the book...
That was incredibly annoying. Do you work for the publisher?
Dec 18, 2010
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Atos wrote:
NickYoung5 wrote:
Atos wrote:
I wonder though, when he said (after the Topalov match): "I woke up today, and I didn't know if this day is going to be the happiest day of my life, or the saddest." How did his wife feel about that ?
What was he getting at ?
I mean, was the happiest day of his life supposed to be when he won the match, or when he got married or something ? Lol just wondering...
Nice catch, I never thought about it like that, interesting situation. I think it's pretty OK to be happier for winning the WC. It's a gigantic accomplishment. Besides, Aruna is his manager, so she'd probably understand what it's like.
Sofademon wrote:
Crazychessplaya wrote:
Dirt on Euwe? Let me see...
Bent went on to explain that Max Euwe was in poor health and that he had received a telegram from Euwe. It asked him, Bent, to forgive him so that he might pass in peace. That day, Bent sent back a one-word telegrammed response. "No."
The passage comes from Yasser Seirawan's Chess Duels, recently published. What was it that Bent Larsen could not forgive Euwe? You'll find it in the book...
That was incredibly annoying. Do you work for the publisher?
No, but I meant to tease... Great nickname, BTW.
goldendog wrote:
It was also said he overlooked "long moves" and blundered more than his more talented peers.
This happens rather often in chess, when discussing players, according to Kasparov his strength, and the thing he was known for was his strong "long moves".
Anyhow, I think it was Alekhine that said Max Euwe is a strong tactical players, that tries to hard to be strategical.
Crazychessplaya wrote:
Dirt on Euwe? Let me see...
Bent went on to explain that Max Euwe was in poor health and that he had received a telegram from Euwe. It asked him, Bent, to forgive him so that he might pass in peace. That day, Bent sent back a one-word telegrammed response. "No."
The passage comes from Yasser Seirawan's Chess Duels, recently published. What was it that Bent Larsen could not forgive Euwe? You'll find it in the book...
I don't remember all the details, but breaking it down roughly, Bent was angry at Max Euwe because Bent had to play a qualification tournament of some sort in Soviet. I can't remember for sure if Bent felt he should have been allowed to skip the qualification completely, or if he just wanted it outside Soviet, for obvious reasons.
Dec 18, 2010
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Tricklev wrote:
I don't remember all the details, but breaking it down roughly, Bent was angry at Max Euwe because Bent had to play a qualification tournament of some sort in Soviet. I can't remember for sure if Bent felt he should have been allowed to skip the qualification completely, or if he just wanted it outside Soviet, for obvious reasons.
While Euwe was president of FIDE, Larsen was asked to play in Leningrad Interzonal 1973. As if that wasn't bad enough, Karpov, Korchnoi and Tal were all playing in Leningrad IZ making it probably a tad stronger than the other IZ in Petropolis with Geller, Smyslov and Bronstein. Karpov and Korchnoi went on to play in the Candidates final.
It seems to me that the Soviets had at least a plausible case that the Interzonals weren't supposed to make sure that several non-Soviet players make it into the Candidates even if their playing strength didn't warrant it... although I haven't checked all the details.
I admire Euwe, have read some of his books on chess and found them very acessible.
Tal had too many fingers.
Quite the contrary, he had too few!
I read that, despite this handicap, he was quite an accomplished pianist.