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| May-11-15 | | TheFocus: <Black's d5-square is too weak> - (on the Dragon variation) - Ulf Andersson. |
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| Feb-05-16 | | dehanne: Mark Hamill lookalike. |
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Feb-05-16
 | | MissScarlett: Based on the recent Star Wars, looks more like Carrie Fisher. |
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| Jun-27-16 | | waustad: Happy 65th! |
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| Jan-04-17 | | shalgo: From readings "Grandmaster Chess Strategy," one thing emerged for me: although Andersson is very much a positional player, he is not a static player. On the contrary, many of the endgames in the book are characterized by his attempts to maximize the activity of his pieces rather than by static positional advantages or material advantages. A fascinating book. |
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| Jun-27-17 | | Ironmanth: Happy Birthday, Grandmaster! You have provided us with many fascinating games over these years. Sincerest thanks! |
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| Jun-27-17 | | Howard: From the mid-70's to the mid-80's, Anddersson was clearly one of the strongest players never to make it to the Candidates stage. There was speculation back then that perhaps one reason was because he simply didn't WANT to qualify. Someone briefly mentioned this theory in Chess Life once, but I don't recall who. Not only that, New in Chess once touched about this idea when presenting the final position in a game Andersson played against Kasparov at the Moscow 1982 interzonal. In this rather well-known encounter, Andersson offered a draw.....in a winning position for him! Kasparov, naturally, accepted. |
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Jun-27-17
 | | keypusher: <Someone briefly mentioned this theory in Chess Life once, but I don't recall who.> Larry Christensen did, in his article about the 1982 Moscow interzonal. |
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| Jun-27-17 | | schnarre: ...Happy 66th! |
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| Nov-17-17 | | Ilkka Salonen: His birthplace Västerås means West ridge. Thank you chessgames. I was just thinking yesterday if it was Västerås or Västeräs. |
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| Feb-03-18 | | south tex: While browsing followchess I learned that Ulf is presently playing in the Montevideo Open in Uruguay! Does anyone have information on how this came about? |
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| Mar-31-18 | | south tex: He is now playing in AAG tournament in Netherlands Games on follow chess |
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| Mar-31-18 | | whiteshark: Can't wait to find 9 more quick GM draws with Uffe in this database. |
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| Mar-31-18 | | Caissanist: If he ever plays in a tournament with Ribli again, they really need to put that game in ChessBookie. |
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Mar-23-19
 | | Fusilli: Nice photo of young Ulf:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvWIsCv...
I think I'd prefer players' pages to have photos of the players while on their prime, whenever those photos are available. |
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| Aug-31-19 | | siggemannen: There's a newly released book about Ulf in swedish: https://schack.se/extra-ny-svensk-b... For those interested to buy, you can get it for a cool 30$ here: http://sportforlaget.com/schackets-... |
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Sep-30-19
 | | Diademas: From the article: <During the 1972-82 period he was in the World's top ten> This seems to be incorrect.
Anderson's first top 10 on the rating list comes in 1982 and the last in 1991. His best placement being #4 on both lists in 1983. https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/playe... |
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| Sep-30-19 | | ewan14: Brilliant victory over Karpov in 1975 which IIRC led to Karpov's comment about
Andersson not moving his pieces beyond the third rank |
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| Oct-10-20 | | Retireborn: Recent picture of Ulf here:-
https://www.rilton.se/
Completely unrecognizable as the skinny kid of the 70s! |
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| Aug-22-21 | | Marcelo Bruno: I took part at one of his two simuls in Brasília: I was the last to end my game against him (he won doing his 61st move with the White pieces and after that seemed to be completely exhausted). After 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 I replied to him with 2. … d5: it was an epic battle that ended in a complex ending with king, one rook and few pawns. |
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| Jul-31-22 | | DieHard: Wish you all the best of your 70s Ulf! When your book comes out in English I will be first in line! |
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Jun-27-23
 | | ketchuplover: DRAW? |
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| Jul-31-23 | | fabelhaft: I was listening through the Perpetual Chess Podcast episode where Andersson talks about his encounters with Fischer, Karpov, Larsen, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Kasparov, Tal etc and he is in general just very appreciative of everyone. He even talks about how Korchnoi was nice after losing to Andersson, and their analysing the game in great detail afterwards together with Petrosian. The funny thing is that when asked if he has any favourite games of his or others, one expects him to mention something like Karpov vs Andersson, 1975 or some old classic, but he surprises with choosing Carlsen’s wins against Fedoseev in the 2021 World Cup: <Those two games I like so much! I haven’t seen games that I like so much for many years! It was wonderful to see those games, for me super games, for me it was like a beautiful picture or film, fantastic> etc etc V Fedoseev vs Carlsen, 2021 Carlsen vs V Fedoseev, 2021 https://open.spotify.com/episode/63... |
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Jul-31-23
 | | HeMateMe: In the 1980s, considered the world's greatest endgame player? I think he has a book out of selected games, thought I saw it somewhere. |
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| Aug-01-23 | | savagerules: I remember Korchnoi writing somewhere that in a game with Andersson in 1971 he was somewhat disturbed by the way Andersson was sitting cross-legged on the chair with both hands grasping a coffee mug and with a muffler wrapped around his neck. Korchnoi had lost the game so he had to come up with some excuse. |
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