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May-02-15
 | | offramp: <Petrosianic: Isn't that true of pretty much any game?>
What about noughts & crosses? |
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| May-29-15 | | TheFocus: <One bad move nullifies forty good ones> - Israel Horowitz. |
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| Nov-15-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <parisattack: Happy Birthday, Al! > He went by "Al"? I just assumed he went by "Izzy". |
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| Nov-15-15 | | parisattack: Happy Birthday, Big Al!
Fifty years on I still enjoy reading the best chess magazine ever, “Chess Review – The Picture Chess Magazine.” I don’t know anything I more looked forward to each month as a teen than your fine periodical, especially the instructive ‘Spotlight on Openings’ and Gligoric’s awesome ‘Game of the Month.’ Thank you for bringing so much joy and entertainment to so many of us. Alas, my moniker, from a Chess Review Spotlight on Openings, may have to go soon but I will always be greatful. |
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| Nov-15-15 | | Petrosianic: Chess Life was also a pretty good magazine in those days (incredible as that seems now). |
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| Nov-15-15 | | parisattack: Yes, indeed it was <Petrosianic>. Half the pages, twice (or more) the content. The old CL newspapers were excellent also - although mine are in such poor shape the pages crumble as you read them. |
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| Nov-15-15 | | TheFocus: You can get those old <Chess Life>, <Chess Review> and <Chess Life & Review> on CD now. |
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| Nov-21-15 | | Howard: I still have the 1975, 1976, and 1977 issues of Chess Life and Review---and browse through them quite, quite regularly ! Those were the golden years for that magazine. |
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| Jan-18-16 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Israel Albert Horowitz!! |
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| Nov-15-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Israel Horowitz. |
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| Dec-09-17 | | reztap: Had a simul draw against him in 51or52. He was tall over six feet. A nice guys. |
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Apr-10-18
 | | GrahamClayton: Nice portrait here: http://www.paintingsoncanvas.net/pr... |
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| Nov-15-18 | | saturn2: mulitalent
good chessplayer
good mathematican
good pianist
like armstrong
good trumpet player
winner of tour de france
first man on the moon |
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| Nov-16-18 | | Granny O Doul: <like armstrong
good trumpet player
winner of tour de france
first man on the moon>
As for (b), no longer. But you can add "all-American boy" and "religious founder" (and not just ANY religion!). |
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| Jul-29-19 | | transpose: my first chess book was his tome on chess openings. i think it was published in 1957 - ish. As a 16 year old, I remember seeing the book in a bookstore and thinking how remarkable that chess can be so systemic. I still use it to brandish some older variations when I want to surprise an opponent. |
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| Aug-30-19 | | Parachessus: Around 1967 Horowitz felt there was a potentially very promising line for White in the Center Game that goes: 1. e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6. Here he suggests 4.Qa4 instead of the Paulsen Attack (4.Qe3). He admits that it had been met with tournament reverses, but believed that it was due to be bolstered and that "White will enjoy the benefit of a new opening weapon." I suggest we call it the "Horowitz Attack." |
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| Aug-30-19 | | whiteshark: <1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qa4 > 
click for larger view
Only a few strong chess players have tried the white pieces... Opening Explorer |
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| Aug-30-19 | | parisattack: <transpose> I used it as a complement to MCO 10. It is a good book and, indeed, some lines since forgotten...one for White in the KID that I am recalling. <whiteshark> I will try it in an email game and report back on results with the <Horowitz Attack>. I need a break from 1. P-QN3. |
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| Aug-30-19 | | Parachessus: It's from his book "Modern Ideas in the Chess Openings" (1953, reprinted 1967). |
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Sep-02-19
 | | steinitzfan: In one of Horowitz's books -- a small book as I recall -- there's some fascinating material on Shatranj. He didn't call it that though. I think he called it old chess or ancient chess. Anybody know what the book is? I can't remember but I would like to have the book again. |
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| Sep-12-19 | | Parachessus: <steinitzfan> I am going to familiarize myself with the rules of shatranj, since it is the direct ancestor of modern chess. In Shatranj the king and queen can be placed as they are in modern chess in the opening array or they can be switched. That would be great if you were doing some chess coaching to be able to show the very limited moves of the Shatranj pieces to a student and deepen their appreciation of chess history. |
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Sep-28-19
| | steinitzfan: <Parachessus> I've heard Shatranj is a bit weak tactically, but Horowitz's endgame problems were quite interesting. Somewhere I read that a Shatranj game opens so slowly that opening systems can be pursued without much regard to what the opponent is doing. |
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Dec-08-20
 | | Korora: <steinitzfan> One thing I noticed about Shatranj is that the ♗ can only affect the center indirectly, by guarding a piece that in turn guards a center square. But in no Chaturanga-based game is any piece, however weak, to be underestimated. In more than a thousand years in India, the Middle East, Europe, and northern Africa even the weak ♗ was doubtless vital in arranging countless checkmates, stalemates and bare Kings (the three ways to win) and in staving off countless others. FWIW, The Best in Chess, a collection of Chess Review magazine classics up through 1965 that I have (and that I compiled a collection of games from here), includes a story set in the Old West, of two guys who investigate a legend of lost treasure for which a dying Shatranj-obsessed sixteenth century hidalgo had thoughtlessly had his two benefactors play a game. The whole point behind writing the story seemed to be to show a position that was an all-but-won game for one player in Chess but a mate in two for the other in Shatranj. |
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Nov-20-21
 | | saffuna: Anand's first chess book:
<My sister once picked up a copy of Chess Openings: Theory and Practice by Israel Albert Horowitz for me from a local bookstore, which I devoured from cover to cover and swore by with complete and unshakeable faith. For me, everything that book said was the word of god, to be believed, followed and never questioned, and for many years after that my opening repertoire, the collection of openings I dipped into regularly, was drawn solely from the book.> |
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Jul-05-23
 | | mifralu: < Simul in Wilmington, DE, on January 8, 1941. Horowitz scored +16 -0 =1. > https://books.google.de/books?id=Pc... |
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