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| Jan-08-16 | | Petrosianic: As opposed to what? What are you hoping he won't do? |
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| Jan-08-16 | | Dr. Overlord: <Petrosianic> My supposition is that <TheFocus> hopes that Kotov will not return as a vengeful spirit. Vengeful spirits return from the afterlife to seek revenge for past injustices. We don't want that. Have you ever watched the TV show "Supernatural"? Then you would know what I'm talking about. |
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| Jun-07-16 | | posoo: I see DIS man at da OTB all da time! He likes to have a tuna sandwich with a pickol spear and da ruffled potatop chippes! He loses a lot of money. |
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| Aug-12-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Alexander Kotov. |
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| Aug-12-16 | | brankat: Now <posoo> is thinking like a Grandmaster. |
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| Aug-12-16 | | thegoodanarchist: Playa o' de day is well deserved for this man who thought like a gm |
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| Dec-19-17 | | zanzibar: Wow, did a quick Google search on <Kotov gossip> and found this: http://www.vipfaq.com/Alexander%20K...
Let's have a vote on what he ate for lunch kind of stuff... |
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| Dec-19-17 | | zanzibar: And then there's this news center debate between Nimzo and Kotov, from <kingcrusher>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5c...
<"What godar are concepts...?"--Kotov> |
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| Jul-17-19 | | Chesgambit: Najdorf vs Kotov ( Zurich,1953) |
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| Aug-12-19 | | MrCarciofo: <the focus> the comment about staying seated for five hours is not from Kotov - it was Smyslov that said it, asked by Kotov (before that quote Kotov talks about the same question asked to Botvinnik). From "Think like a Grandmaster" |
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| Aug-12-19 | | Momentum Man: I drink plenty of water in the tournament hall because air conditioning dries out the air. So no problem with sitting still too much. Happy birthday to GM Kotov |
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| Jul-07-21 | | Helios727: Has anyone noticed significant position evaluation errors in his book "The Soviet School of Chess"? |
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Jul-07-21
 | | MissScarlett: I'm bracing myself for what'll happen when they go through Staunton's Handbook with Stockfish. |
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| Dec-21-21 | | jerseybob: <MissScarlett: I'm bracing myself for what'll happen when they go through Staunton's Handbook with Stockfish.> And that reminds me of a concern of mine: There is one person who posts to this site -forget their name- who only posts Stockfish analysis, no introductory human language, just Stockfish analysis, reams of it, as if that were the Settled Word. An actual person, or maybe a bot? Well, I jest on that, but he/she acts like a bot. |
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| Dec-21-21 | | SChesshevsky: While Kotov gives plenty of advice in his iconic "Think like a grandmaster". Some probably good, some maybe not so good. There is one part that might be a must read for anyone wanting to become a GM. There's a description of how, I think Smyslov, might go about evaluating the position on the board. Think the passage is either in the introduction or beginning of chapter 1. Think it offers a great explanation of what's going on in a GM's mind when you see them seemingly looking off into space while at the board. |
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| Dec-21-21 | | pazzed paun: An excellent translation
Is the science of strategy
Kotov talks about preferred pawn centers in explaining differences in style
Useful and easy to understand |
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| Oct-20-22 | | technical draw: There was a chess player from Puerto Rico with the last name Cotto. Not a rare name but not too common. We joked with him and when he would win we called him Kotov. The real Kotov was a pretty strong GM. |
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Apr-25-24
 | | perfidious: Quote of the Day:
<When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.> A practice which is now illegal under FIDE rules. |
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Apr-25-24
 | | fredthebear: Yet still legal under USCF rules, so long as the event is not sanctioned by FIDE. |
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Apr-25-24
| | perfidious: How would you be knowing anything about that? Your only action, if any, is in events sanctioned by Podunk Central, <stalker>. Now be a good little boy and go back to ground for a week or three. |
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Apr-25-24
 | | Sally Simpson: <Think it offers a great explanation of what's going on in a GM's mind when you see them seemingly looking off into space while at the board.> There is reference I read or possibly heard years ago that a GM studying a position is like a duck swimming across a pond. On the surface you see the duck calmly and apparently untroubled moving along. But unseen underneath the legs are paddling like mad. The chess player may appear to be dreaming at the board but their mind is going like the clappers. Some praise the Kotov book others don't. We all think differently. Imagine two dice showing a 7. Some will see 5+2 some, 6+1 or 4+3. Then there are the colours of the dice. Red/green/white... I see two white dice 6+2 :) Of course Perfidious being a racketeer (all poker players are villains) will see two loaded dice showing 6's. |
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Apr-25-24
| | perfidious: <Geoff....Of course Perfidious being a racketeer (all poker players are villains) will see two loaded dice showing 6's.> Gimme a total of seven on them bones and you've got a deal with this heah ol' reprobate. In my early days, I had a copy of Kotov's work and it has its points. I was too much a nonconformist to learn what I might have from it. As an aside, in poker literature, the protagonist of a hand, though not always the winner, is styled as 'Hero', while opponents are known as 'Villain'. |
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Apr-25-24
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Perfidious,
We all bought that book. I read it thinking "I do not think and analyse like that....I'm unique!" Then I heard others saying the book was wrong. That would be minority of players, most say it's OK but when you consider how well it sold that minority is quite large. It will work for some and not for others, but it is packed with good advice and examples. That was back in the day when chess books, apart from opening books, were cherished and discussed. These days there seems to be 5-20 new titles in English every month. I've no doubt there are some very good modern out there, the trouble is finding them. The next challenge is actually reading them. |
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| Apr-25-24 | | FM David H. Levin: I probably picked up some useful advice from <Think Like a Grandmaster>. My major criticism is that the book mostly shows the grandmaster's conclusions rather than the reasoning they resulted from. But I guess book titles that exaggerate are to be expected. An instance of exaggeration not in the title but in accompanying content on the cover, is where that of an edition of <Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess> says, "The world's number 1 player reveals his secrets." Cripes! |
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Apr-25-24
| | perfidious: Outlining the reasoning behind a player's decisions, for better or worse, would indeed be of far greater use to the student than merely handing out the conclusions. How are people supposed to learn from such didacticism? |
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