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Jun-08-06
 | | WTHarvey: Here are some crucial positions from Uhlmann's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/uhlm.html |
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| Jul-25-06 | | siggemannen: this guy surely knows his french |
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| Aug-27-06 | | Bonol: The French complex?. Do me a favour, try the Max Lange. |
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Aug-29-06
 | | Albertan: Oct-28-04
offramp: Does anyone have any idea about how many games Uhlmann lost with the French Defence? Hi Offramp,Uhlmann has lost 102 games with the French Defense in my chessbase database (which covers games he has played until 2003). |
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| Aug-16-07 | | SniperOnKN2: With black, this guy likes blockaded centers alright. Must have great patience. |
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Mar-29-08
 | | whiteshark: player of the day
Happy birthday, Wolfgang!!! |
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Mar-29-10
 | | wordfunph: At Hastings 1972-3, GM William Hartston turned down a draw offer against Wolfgang Uhlmann and lost the game. If he had accepted the draw offer, he would have become England's first GM. happy birthday Wolfgang! |
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Jan-05-11
| | wordfunph: Larsen-Uhlmann 1971 Match:
According to Bent Larsen's wife, Wolfgang Uhlmann is the nicest loser of all the chess masters she has seen. |
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| Mar-29-11 | | paavoh: A good choice for the POTD! I tried to emulate his game with the French defense when I was active in OTB and in CC, though I was less uncompromizing than he ever was. |
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Mar-29-11
 | | Penguincw: < paavoh: A good choice for the POTD! I tried to emulate his game with the French defense when I was active in OTB and in CC, though I was less uncompromizing than he ever was. > Indeed.Someone who defeated Fischer with black in a classical game should deserve to be Player of the Day eventually. |
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Mar-29-11
 | | theagenbiteofinwit: Uhlmann is second only to Psakhis when it comes to playing the French, IMHO. Actually it was probably Ulmann's French win and draw against Fischer that influenced Psakhis to make it his main weapon. |
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| Mar-30-11 | | paavoh: Some Armenian players are also active with the French, Vaganian comes to mind. |
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| Aug-18-11 | | Dionysius1: Uhlmann's home page here needs adjusting. He plays the French defence almost exclusively against p-k4, but as the text stands, the figures don't support it: about 38 percent of Uhlmann's black games are French defences - not "almost exclusively" |
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| Aug-18-11 | | TugasKamagong: Well, <Dionysius1>, the text in Uhlmann's bio here does indeed say he plays the French almost exclusively against 1.e4. We've had some help from <getReti>: on page 1 here, he says he found only 3 games where Uhlmann didn't play the French against 1.e4. That does sound almost exclusive. Uhlmann has 1772 games here. I'm too lazy to do the actual count, so let's just estimate he had Black in half of them or about 886. How many of those began with 1.e4? Let's go for a real low estimate, and call it one-tenth, or 88 games. If he didn't play the French in only 3 of those games, that would still mean he played the French in more than 96% of the games where he had Black against 1.e4. Now, where did you get that figure of 38%? Perhaps you included Uhlmann's Black games where White opened with 1.d4? |
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| Aug-23-11 | | Dionysius1: Hi <TugasKamagong>. <the text in Uhlmann's bio here does indeed say he plays the French almost exclusively against 1.e4>. It does now - I'm almost sure it didn't when I posted. Either way I'm happy now, and if someone changed the text that quickly - thanks! |
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| Aug-24-11 | | MartijnvanWingerden: I have a challenge for everyone. Try to find a game where Wolfgang Uhlmann didn't answher 1.e4 with 1...e6. Good Luck! |
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Aug-24-11
 | | keypusher: <MartijnvanWingerden: I have a challenge for everyone. Try to find a game where Wolfgang Uhlmann didn't answher 1.e4 with 1...e6. Good Luck!> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Sep-17-11 | | kingfu: I love Wolfy.
He has kept the faith in The French Defense for SIX decades. Death to the Sicilian!
And this includes a win against Vasiukov in the Botvinnik Memorial just one month ago. Great stuff. |
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| Oct-18-11 | | Stanley Yee: <MartijnvanWingerden: I have a challenge for everyone. Try to find a game where Wolfgang Uhlmann didn't answher 1.e4 with 1...e6. Good Luck!> And another in 1956!
Ujtelky vs Uhlmann, 1956 Cunning exchange that went wrong for his opponent. |
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Oct-18-11
 | | TheFocus: <Stanley Yee> Well, that game didn't start as an 1.e4 game. |
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Oct-18-11
| | TheFocus: <MartijnvanWingerden>< I have a challenge for everyone. Try to find a game where Wolfgang Uhlmann didn't answher 1.e4 with 1...e6. Good Luck!> Well, if you had read two posts before yours, you would have had your answer. Aug-14-04
<get Reti> <Airlock, I search through all of Wolfgang's games and I only found 3 where he didn't answer 1.e4 with the french, they were all robatsch: H Rossmann vs Uhlmann, 1974, A Hennings vs Uhlmann, 1968, and O Rogelio vs Uhlmann, 1968> |
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| Oct-19-11 | | Retireborn: <The Focus> Uhlmann liked to answer 1.Nf3 with 1...g6 (aiming for his beloved KID/Gruenfeld!) so after 2.e4 he could find himself playing the Pirc by transposition. I assume he played 1.e4 g6 a few times just to keep his hand in, so to speak. |
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Oct-19-11
| | TheFocus: <Retireborn> I agree. I am sure some players tried to lure him away from his KID/Gruenfeld in just such a way. |
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Oct-19-11
 | | AylerKupp: Being a French aficionado and Uhlmann fan (and having a little time on my hands), you guys made me curious. So here is what I was able to find out in the chessgames.com database. Of course, other more comprehensive databases will yield different results, but I doubt that they would change dramatically. Total number of Uhlmann games: 1,792
Total number of games with Uhlmann as Black: 898 (50.1%) Number of games White opened with 1.e4: 367 (40.9% of the 898)
Number of games Uhlmann responded with 1...e6: 360 (98.1% of the 367) Number of French defenses (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5): 343 (95.3% of the 360)
Number of non-French defenses (1.e4 e6 2.other): 17 (4.7% of the 360), all King's Indian Attacks Results when games (360) started 1.e4 e6:
a. White won: 93 (25.8% of the 360)
b. Black won: 125 (34.7% of the 360)
c. Draws: 142 (39.4% of the 360)
So apparently Uhlmann's faith in the French defense was justified. Non-French defense games (7), all Robatch/Modern: White won 0, Black won 5, Drawn 2. Csom vs Uhlmann, 1967;
Csom vs Uhlmann, 1967;
A Hennings vs Uhlmann, 1968;
R Ortega vs Uhlmann, 1968;
Kaplan vs Uhlmann, 1973;
Kaplan vs Uhlmann, 1973;
R Rodriguez vs Uhlmann, 1975; But, judging by his results, he should have been playing the Robatch/Modern defense all along instead of the French! ;-) |
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Mar-29-12
| | wordfunph: <At a time when the French Defense was taking one terrible hit after another, GM Robert Byrne asked one of its greatest proponents, the German GM Wolfgang Uhlmann, why he stubbornly
persisted in taking beatings with it. He scratched his head and said simply, "It's my defense!"> happy birthday, GM Uhlmann! |
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