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| Aug-06-23 | | ADmightywarriorIN: This man deserves posthumous GM title! |
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Jan-25-24
 | | perfidious: This may well be somewhere in the kibitzing for this brilliant master, but i do not propose to plough through all the content and will simply post the following link, a treasure trove of photos and information on Sultan Khan: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... |
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Feb-03-24
 | | kingscrusher: Mir Sultan Khan has been awared the Chess Grandmaster title: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... |
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Feb-05-24
| | kingscrusher: FIDE news confirms:
https://www.fide.com/news/2873 |
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| Feb-05-24 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: Better late than never! Without any doubts, a player, who beat J. R. Capablanca, S. Flohr, A. Rubinstein, F. Marshall, and S. Tartakower and drew against A. Alekhine, and M. Euwe, deserves the grandmaster title very much. |
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Feb-05-24
 | | FSR: About time! FIDE should have awarded him the title on its original list in 1950. |
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Feb-05-24
| | perfidious: <FSR>, given their position on posthumously awarding titles in 1950, it is understandable that FIDE chose not to bestow GM on all the former world champions amongst others, as well as Bogolyubov, due to Soviet influence at that time; but the omission of this players and others who might well have been named is incomprehensible. |
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Feb-05-24
 | | Williebob: A detail from the chess.com report: <Khan's granddaughter Atiyab Sultan commented to Chess.com... the correct name of her grandfather is Mian Sultan Khan, saying: "Mir was added erroneously by western writers."> |
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Feb-05-24
| | FSR: <perfidious> FIDE denied the title to Efim Bogoljubov on its original 1950 list. I've seen little if any discussion of this, but it must have been because of his support of Hitler. It did award him the title the following year, a year before he died in 1952. Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzowitsch, Tarrasch, etc. are in a different category from Sultan Khan because they, unlike him, died before 1950. SK lived until 1966. I also see that FIDE awarded him the title of "Honorary Grandmaster." Not sure the significance of that. He deserves the GM title with no qualifications. |
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Feb-05-24
| | perfidious: It seems that Bogolyubov was regarded as 'politically compromised' in 1950 and, unlike Alekhine, had to wait until the onset of perestroika to be 'rehabilitated'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efim_... |
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Feb-05-24
| | FSR: <perfidious> Un-fun fact: you and I are now older than Bogo and Sultan Khan were when they died. |
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Feb-05-24
| | perfidious: <FSR>, same as poker, this game is sedentary and takes its toll at an earlier age than might otherwise prove true if such things as exercise are left unattended. Two world champions left us at 53, two more at 55 and a further pair at that fateful age of 64. |
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Feb-05-24
 | | Check It Out: Addressing the small elephant in the room, should Sultan Khan's name be changed from Mir to Mian? |
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| Feb-05-24 | | Ninas Husband: I prefer his brother, Genghis! :) |
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Feb-06-24
 | | OhioChessFan: It's ridiculous he hadn't been awarded the title long ago. |
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Feb-06-24
 | | MissScarlett: Nigel Short was hoping to meet Imran Khan. Maybe on his <Chess in Prisons> tour. |
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Feb-06-24
 | | piltdown man: Well overdue. |
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Feb-06-24
 | | offramp: Yeah good luck mate! |
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| Feb-06-24 | | stone free or die: <<Check It Out>: Addressing the small elephant in the room, should Sultan Khan's name be changed from Mir to Mian?> It's probably too late now to correct it without causing more confusion than it's worth. At least in PGN headers, etc. The bio should mention the granddaughter's correction - with a proper source - at least in a footnote. But let's note that <FIDE's> announcement used <Late Mir Sultan Khan given Grandmaster Title> https://fide.com/news/2873
WHOA!
I'm wrote the above from memory of yesterday, when I checked FIDE's announcement. Today, going back to get the link I see that FIDE has changed his name to <Late Mian Sultan Khan given Grandmaster Title> https://fide.com/news/2873
The tweeter post referencing the news item since has the old spelling: <International Chess Federation
@FIDE_chess
Late Mir Sultan Khan given Grandmaster Title 👑 FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich presented Pakistan's officials with the document awarding the title of Honorary Grandmaster to Mir Sultan Khan. > https://twitter.com/FIDE_chess/stat... Like I was saying, changing his name now is destined to cause some confusion. But confusion is sometimes necessary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9... |
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| Feb-06-24 | | stone free or die: <The tweeter post referencing the news item <still> has the old spelling:> |
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| Feb-06-24 | | stone free or die: Here's a Wayback capture of the original FIDE announcement with the <Mir> spelling: https://web.archive.org/web/2024020... or
https://web.archive.org/web/2024020... |
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| Feb-18-24 | | Ninas Husband: khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!! |
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| Feb-18-24 | | Messiah: <Ninas Husband: khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!> Post this on <perfy>'s page. |
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| Feb-19-24 | | stone free or die: Give it a rest <Messiah>. |
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| Feb-19-24 | | Nina Myers: You will write him a strongly worded post? |
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