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Mar-31-09
 | | wordfunph: Happy Birthday GM Andras Adorjan! You're one of the best! Black is REALLY Ok!!! |
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| Mar-31-09 | | WhiteRook48: Happy birthday! |
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Mar-31-10
| | wordfunph: Happy Birthday GM Andras Adorjan! You're one of the best! Black is REALLY Ok!!! |
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Apr-21-10
 | | GrahamClayton: Why did Adojan play under the name Jocha in his youth? |
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Jun-11-10
 | | wwall: He was born Andras Jocha in 1950 and changed his name to Andras Adorjan around 1970. He took his new name after Andras Adorjan, an internationally acclaimed concert flutist from Hungary, born in 1944. |
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Feb-19-11
| | wordfunph: 1994 Alushta: According to GM Mikhail Golubev, before the start of the tournament, GM Andras Adorjan proposed to play all his games with black. After some reflection, the other participants refused to support the idea. In the end, all three non-drawn games involving
Adorjan were won by black. |
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Mar-31-12
 | | Penguincw: Happy Birthday POTD! |
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Mar-31-12
 | | ketchuplover: and may it be better than black :) |
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| Mar-31-12 | | King Death: Thanks for providing us with an entertaining writing style instead of dry technical reading. There's enough of that out there and a change is always good. Happy Birthday! |
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Nov-25-14
 | | whiteshark: "You go through a lot of things in a game, let alone your entire life. <I was even suspended by the Hungarian Chess Federation in January 1995 for ridiculous reasons, < using a witness who could travel to the zonal tournament soon after that >> - TO FILL THE VACANCY CREATED BY MY SUSPENSION I sued them later of course, and received moral and financial compensation as a result. One of their charges happened to be true: I did name my dog after Gyula Horn, who was Prime Minister at that time. After the Hungarian uprising of 1956 was suppressed by the Russians, Horn was in a Communist detachment hunting for people who were still fighting for freedom against all odds. He's dead now. My dog, I mean, not the one-time Prime Minister. <I was forbidden to play in tournaments for a year and a half.> There is no reason to complain, though, worse things happen at sea. My father, for one, enjoyed <Russian hospitality> in Siberia for 3 years after the world war... " -- Andras Adorjan, "Black is OK forever!", Batsford 2005, p 185 Any background available on the 1995 events? |
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Mar-31-15
 | | FSR: Adorjan in his <Black is OK!> series of books hotly disputed the idea that White has any meaningful advantage. Yet even his personal statistics show him scoring better with White than Black. Using ChessBase, I compiled a "Dossier" on him. In 869 games as White, he scored 60%; in 911 games as Black, he scored 55%. |
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Mar-31-15
 | | eternaloptimist: Happy birthday to GM Adorjan! I remember when his book "Black is OK!" came out back in '89. It was really popular back then but of course some people disagree w/ his views in this book. He took the "Black is OK!" theme further by writing 3 more books based on it. |
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Jul-13-15
| | wordfunph: "To get my mind off chess, I like to listen to music or read a book, and making love is a good idea too!" - Andras Adorjan
Source: New In Chess Magazine 1986 #2 |
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| Feb-22-16 | | epistle: It is true. Black is OK Forever---
https://www.facebook.com/2103289657... |
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| Mar-31-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Andras Adorjan. |
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Mar-30-17
| | ketchuplover: I think he should move to Oklahoma :) |
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| Mar-30-17 | | Ironmanth: Happy birthday, Grandmaster! Saw you play, and win, in the '87 New York Open. Thanks for your passion for our wonderful game. |
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| Mar-30-17 | | henjutsu: <Yet even his personal statistics show him scoring better with White than Black. Using ChessBase, I compiled a "Dossier" on him. In 869 games as White, he scored 60%; in 911 games as Black, he scored 55%.> That could be related to self-fulfilling prophecy, with players giving up faster and not looking for winning moves as eagerly because they assume themselves to be worse as black from the start. If he plays equally well with both sides, we shouldn't expect him to have an equal ratio against other players and their trends. |
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Jul-21-17
 | | Marcelo Bruno: I know that the Musikhochschule Köln has a flute professor that has this name: does anyone know if it is the same person? |
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| Jul-31-17 | | diagonal: Andras Adorjan continues his mission: After "Black is OK!" (1988/89 Batsford), "Black is Still OK!" (2004, Batsford), and "Black is OK Forever!" (2005, Batsford), the recent (and final?) black hymn is arriving: <Black is Back!> (2016, New In Chess), his message remains just as emphatic, inspirational, and intimate: "Manisch im besten Sinne - ein sehr persönliches Vermächtnis Adorjans" (Frank Zeller, SCHACH, german monthly chess journal, no. 8/2017) https://www.newinchess.com/black-is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJA... |
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Jul-31-17
 | | Retireborn: Once you go Black, you never go back. |
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| Mar-31-18 | | ndg2: Nice spin on "Back in Black". Adorjan is an AC/DC fan? |
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Feb-12-19
| | louispaulsen88888888: Thanks FSR. Before compiling the statistics myself I looked through the comments to see if it was already done! |
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Aug-20-21
| | louispaulsen88888888: White has a statistical edge. You may argue this is due to a psychological element. So let’s examine players not affected by psychology. Alphazero lost 11 games to Stockfish. 10 losses as Black. One as White. |
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Aug-20-21
 | | MissScarlett: All that proves is that <AlphaZero> can't read. |
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