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| Dec-07-05 | | Daodejing: Klovans became GM in 1997 by winning the World Senior Championchips at the age of 62. |
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| Dec-07-05 | | StraightLarsen: really? |
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| Apr-09-08 | | brankat: Yes. a late bloomer :-)
Happy Birthday, GM Klovans! |
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| Apr-09-08 | | whiteshark: Happy Birthday, Janis !
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%8... he also was World Senior Championships in 2001. Pictures: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... (scroll down, it's the last picture) with another World Senior Champ: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2006/... guess who...:D (article WSenCh_2006: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... ) |
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| Apr-09-09 | | wordfunph: [Event "EU-ch Seniors 07th"]
[Site "Hockenheim"]
[Date "2007.06.08"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Jansa, Vlastimil"]
[Black "Klovans, Janis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C99"]
[WhiteElo "2499"]
[BlackElo "2441"]
[PlyCount "105"]
[EventDate "2007.06.02"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2007.07.04"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 cxd4 13. cxd4 Rd8 14. b3 Nc6 15. Bb2 Bb7 16. Rc1 Qb6 17. Qe2 exd4 18. Nxd4 Nxd4 19. Qe3 Nf3+ 20. Qxf3 Rac8 21. Qd3 g6 22. Bd4 Qc6 23. Qf1 Qd7 24. a4 d5 25. axb5 axb5 26. e5 Ne4 27. Nb1 Nc5 28. f4 Ne6 29. Bb6 Bc5+ 30. Bxc5 Rxc5 31. Bd3 Rxc1 32. Rxc1 Rc8 33. Re1 Nd4 34. Nd2 Rc3 35. b4 Qe7 36. Rb1 Qh4 37. Bxb5 Ne6 38. Rb3 d4 39. Qf2 Qxf4 40. Bf1 Qxe5 41. Nc4 Qg5 42. Nd6 Nf4 43. Rxc3 dxc3 44. Qe3 c2 45. h4 Nh3+ 46. Qxh3 Qd2 47. Qd7 Qd4+ 48. Kh1 Qxh4+ 49. Kg1 Qd4+ 50. Kh1 Qf4 51. Qd8+ Kg7 52. Ne8+ Kh6 53. Qd3 0-1 
click for larger viewGM Janis Klovans clobbered GM Vlastimil Jansa in Ruy Lopez. Happy Birthday GM Klovans! |
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| Apr-09-10 | | wordfunph: "I am forced to be a chess professional. There is unemployment in my country; I cannot find a job. Thanks to chess I earn a living." GM Janis Klovans cheerful 75th birthday GM Klovans! |
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May-23-10
 | | Tabanus: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...
Winner of Liechtenstein Senior Open 7-15 May 2010:
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr279..., congratulations! |
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| Jul-27-10 | | Prugno: Today he won his game in the Czech Open (Pardubice), beating the strong GM Safarli who is nearly 60 years younger! Klovans now has 4 points out of 5 games. Let's hope he can keep up this level of play in what must be a pretty tiring event for him. |
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| Oct-07-10 | | whiteshark: † October 5th, 2010.
R.I.P. |
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| Oct-07-10 | | stanleys: R.I.P GM Klovans |
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| Oct-07-10 | | Eastfrisian: Sad, to hear that. He was one of only a few GM's I have seen life. R.I.P. |
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| Oct-10-10 | | wordfunph: farewell GM Janis "Iron John" Klovans, rest in peace.. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | Caissanist: From Chessvibes, Alexei Shirov remembers Klovans:
“What was most remarkable about him is that he was always in a good mood, a very good mood basically. Apart from being very kind to everybody I noticed that he would behave the same to all kinds of persons: small children, bad chess amateurs or great players, or the bosses. He would always talk in the same manner. He had his own style in everything; in chess, in life… this was really remarkable. I think he never had a single conflict with anybody. He was always working very hard on chess to find the truth about every position, to find the logical opening variation. Searching for the truth was both his life and his chess style. I think in away he was a very clean person and a very clean chess player in a way. He never worked as my coach but I knew him; sometimes we met, and we were almost neighbours in Riga. Our flats were ten minutes from each other so sometimes we would just meet in his flat or in my flat and look at some chess. That particular phrase was connected to my game against him in 1987, the story was also described in Fire on Board 1. We played a game, we analysed, and then a few months later we met again and I just asked him about this variation again, what he thought, and then he just smiled and showed me the refutation of the whole set-up and then he said: now you have some homework to do. Then I realized I should not be so excited about my own ideas – in that game I had developed my own analysis – and that I must be more careful whether these ideas are right or wrong, and to be excited whether they are mine or not mine.” |
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Feb-26-11
 | | GrahamClayton: One of the reasons why Klovans did not achieve the GM title at an earlier age was that his career as an officer in the USSR Army made it very difficult for him to travel to overseas tournaments. Hewon the USSR Armed Forces championship on three occassions. |
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| Apr-09-11 | | BIDMONFA: Janis Klovans KLOVANS, Janis
http://www.bidmonfa.com/klovans_jan...
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Apr-09-11
 | | Penguincw: Happy B-Day. |
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| Apr-09-11 | | theodor: most the piety, at a stage, game over! life vs death 0-1. any comments? all my valuation to Klovans! |
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| May-12-11 | | wordfunph: In Memory of Janis Klovans (1935–2010) by Chessbase.. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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May-12-11
 | | ketchuplover: better late than never
May he rest peace/piece fully |
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| May-12-11 | | ColdSong: I got the chance to play and discuss with Janis Klovans some years ago, to Cappelle La Grande.Peaceful,Opened and attentive, smiling, modest with the difficult task to find the chess truth, Janis was the kind of man that can't be easily forgotten. RIP |
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| Nov-30-13 | | Conrad93: 9 time Latvian Chess Champion.
That's seven more than Mikhail Tal. |
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| Nov-30-13 | | Conrad93: He also beat Tal in his prime. |
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Dec-07-13
 | | offramp: <Conrad93: He also beat Tal in his prime.> Was Tal waring a big red rosette on his butt-ocks saying "PRIME" & "FIRST CLASS". |
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| Dec-09-13 | | Conrad93: <Was Tal waring a big red rosette on his butt-ocks saying "PRIME" & "FIRST CLASS".> Not that I'm aware. |
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Dec-10-13
 | | perfidious: <Conrad>: Tal would likely have managed another Latvian title or three, had he not concentrated on winning unimportant events such as the world title and playing in higher-level tournaments, you worthless troll. |
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