| Nov-06-03 | | Kenkaku: Talk about a multiplayer chess dream team, at this time period I doubt you could put together a team that could rival them. |
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| Nov-06-03 | | PinkPanther: Indeed, Lasker and Pillsbury were a hell of a combination. I can only think of two combinations that would probably be more potent, 1. Capablanca+Alekhine or 2. Capablanca+Morphy. I think either one of those two teams would probably rival god himself. |
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| Nov-07-03 | | aragorn69: In the first game (Evans G), white seems to play more "like" Lasker; in the second, more "like" Pillsbury. In both, the other teams plainly plays like Chigorin (ah ah ah ah) ! |
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| Dec-04-03 | | MoonlitKnight: There is a picture of the match at the Chessbase website: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Apr-19-04 | | Vischer: The best team would be Fischer/Anand |
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| Apr-19-04 | | iron maiden: The pairing of these players reminds me of a sort of match-tournament (you could call it a mini-Olympiad) that was proposed in the 1960's by some Argentinian chess enthusiasts. There were to be three pairs of players, with one pair each from the Soviet Union, the USA and Argentina. One player from each "team" was supposed to represent the older generation and the other the rising stars. Specifically the pairs were to be Fischer/Reshevsky, Botvinnik/Tal, and Najdorf/Panno. The contest never took place due to lack of time by the players and lack of funds by the organizers. |
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| Apr-19-04 | | Kenkaku: I think that in consultation games the team most likely to win is the team whose members have the most compatible styles. The above games seem to be a decent indicator of this. |
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| Apr-20-04 | | Bobsterman3000: Last year there was a male/female tandem chess exhibition in China featuring four top GM's (Short, Seirawan, Bareev and Ye Jiangchuan) paired with a top Chinese female player. Each team alternated between male making 2 moves and female making 2 moves. The GM's did not know their female partner until arriving in China, and only had a day or so to prepare. Of course, Nigel Short complained when his partner was announced because she is not fond of 1d4 and Short thought this meant that their opening systems weren't compatible. Her reply was something like "just shut up and play 1Nf3 then..." Here's the link:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Apr-20-04 | | Minor Piece Activity: Xue and Short both play 1. e4 bobsterman. =D |
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| Apr-20-04 | | Bobsterman3000: <Minor Piece Activity> I got it backwards. Thanks for the correction. I just wanted to tell a funny anecdote about how Nigel got some of his own medecine... |
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| Apr-20-04 | | ruylopez900: I think a cool team would be Kasparov, Deep Junior, Alterman and Shirov. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | ruylopez900: Kasparov=Who can argue with this? Easily top 2 in the business. Deep Junior=For raw calculating power =D
Alterman=The world's finest computer killer
Shirov=To add an attacking flair! |
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| Apr-21-04 | | Kenkaku: <ruylopez900> Bronstein is no slouch at silicon slaying either. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | ruylopez900: <Kenkaku> True, but I don't believe Bronstein stills plays at the GM level. Meanwhile Alterman has the famed famed Alterman Wall to his name, something modern players would recognize him for. |
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