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Wednesday, April 11. 2012

Best chess game ever?

An enjoyable game to watch, and the play-by-play is wonderful. The moral is that when your opponent sacrifices a rook in the early-middle game, watch out because he has a plan. H/t Dino


I'd enjoy playing this game out with the lad on a chessboard, but I think we are scheduled to do some brush-clearing instead, this weekend.


 





And for some pretentious (but stunningly-filmed) Bergman fun 'n games:


 


Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:43 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Billions of billions of chess games have been played.
How could the narrator know that this particular game was the best ever.
A bit of hyperbole, perhaps?
#1 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2012-04-12 04:20 (Reply)
--i told that narrator a billion times not to exaggerate!
#1.1 buddy larsen on 2012-04-12 05:09 (Reply)
Gary Kasparov --a great man, brave anti-communist Russian even in the closing, dangerous days of the USSR. Wish he'd stayed away from Big Blue, though --besmirched his reputation as chess genius to the wider world of non-students of the game.

Anyhoo, he and Bobby Fisher both had the same favorite player, a Spanish Cuban, world champ in most of the decade of the 20's, name of Jose Raul Capablanca. Having played through many Capablanca games (my oilfield years, if/when drlg ahead routinely, a drilling rig far out to sea is the perfect chess-study hall --you can't mow your yard, play with the kids, barby que, wax the car, clean the gutters, service the wi...oops), i have to (fatuously) agree with the titans --Capablanca may have been the greatest ever.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1012971

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ra%C3%BAl_Capablanca

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#2 buddy larsen on 2012-04-12 04:36 (Reply)
Best game?

Not by a long shot.

Instead the wonderful game (postal) between Yakow Estrin and Hans Berliner for the 1965 World Correspondence Chess Championship.
In this game, Berliner used the defense Estrin was the world's acknowledged expert on - The Two Knights Defense.

Great psychological ploy, especially when Berliner used the
Ulvestad Variation/Gambit.

BTW - this game was number 1 in GM Soltis' book "The 100 Best Games of the Twentieth Century" and is a distinct favorite of mine.
#3 RileyD, nwJ (Link) on 2012-04-13 22:19 (Reply)
--thanks! --i'm going to find and play it --
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2012-04-14 10:55 (Reply)
You can find the game here or email the Dayton Chess Club and they will email you a copy of the game they use for in house instruction.
Simply put "Estrin vs. Berliner game request" as the subject line.
#3.1.1 RileyD, nwJ (Link) on 2012-04-15 09:02 (Reply)

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