| Jun-27-05 | | Knight13: Zvulon Gofshtein. Zvulon is his first name. |
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| Aug-30-06 | | BIDMONFA: Z Gofshtein
GOFSHTEIN, Zvulon
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gofshtein_z...
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Apr-14-07
 | | Phony Benoni: Is this the same person as Leonid D Gofshtein? |
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| Jul-30-08 | | eyalbd: for <chessgames.com> The names "Zvulun Gofshtein" and "Leonid Gofshtein" are two different names for the same person. Leonid Gofshtein changed his name to a Hebrew name ("Zvulun") after immigrated to Israel. |
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Feb-14-10
 | | Tabanus: Did I write a bio on <Leonid D Gofshtein>? Anyway the postings there are gone now. |
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| May-16-10 | | myschkin: . . .
<Lucky find> ?!
“In certain position, it is easy to find moves, because one’s choice is limited. In these types of positions, a club-player and a Grandmaster will pick the same moves. In other positions you have to choose between two or three approximately equal moves, and you have to reach a decision based on your style, your feeling your opponent. This is one of the hardest things in chess.” [B.G.] Zvulon Gofshtein has quite a different approach to chess than Boris Gelfand. He states straight out that he is not the calculating type. That his analysis is frequently flawed and that his tactical ideas rest upon his strong intuition. He confesses that you cannot always play intuitively, that in some critical positions you must calculate, but that by and large playing by intuition is good. Gofshtein answers the questions of how far to calculate and when to stop as follows. “When you feel that you position is good, that’s where calculation should end. You shouldn’t exert yourself unduly when effort is not required. This might cause harm.” “If you continue to analyze beyond a certain point, you can miss something simple, and doubts begin to creep in. When you see too many things (some real, others imaginary) you may lose confidence. “Moreover, by investing extra effort, you lose strength that may be needed later on in the game.” (takeouts from The Grandmaster's Mind by Amatzia Avni) |
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Aug-11-10
 | | OhioChessFan: <“Moreover, by investing extra effort, you lose strength that may be needed later on in the game.” > I think that was a fundamental problem in the Man vs. Machine contests. Beyond the inevitable time trouble, the GMs wasted their energy staring at obvious moves for a longgggggg time. I suspect now the competition is so one sided it doesn't matter. |
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| Jan-03-16 | | Eastfrisian: He died on 23. December 2015 after long illness. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoni...
RIP GM Gofshtein |
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Jan-03-16
 | | perfidious: RIP to another opponent of long ago--we met in the Quebec Open blitz event at Montreal in summer 1997. Although I lost both games--the first on time in a balanced position from a Taimanov Sicilian, the second after hanging my queen in a won position--he complimented my play. While I have never read Avni's book, I consider Gofshtein's advice above an excellent, pragmatic approach. In particular, from the excerpt given by <myschkin>, this was long a failing in my play and tended to lead to chronic time shortage: <“If you continue to analyze beyond a certain point, you can miss something simple, and doubts begin to creep in. When you see too many things (some real, others imaginary) you may lose confidence.> |
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Jan-03-16
| | perfidious: RIP to another opponent of long ago--we met in the Quebec Open blitz event at Montreal in summer 1997. Although I lost both games--the first on time in a balanced position from a Taimanov Sicilian, the second after hanging my queen in a won position--he complimented my play. While I have never read Avni's book, I consider Gofshtein's advice above an excellent, pragmatic approach. In particular, from the excerpt given by <myschkin>, this was long a failing in my play and tended to lead to chronic time shortage: <“If you continue to analyze beyond a certain point, you can miss something simple, and doubts begin to creep in. When you see too many things (some real, others imaginary) you may lose confidence.> |
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Apr-21-17
 | | offramp: His adopted first name is a version of the biblical name Zebulon, a son of the patriarch Jacob. He would have been 64 today. |
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| Dec-01-18 | | ColdSong: Mr Gofshtein had what is needed not to be forgotten by receptive people.RIP Grandmaster. |
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May-01-19
 | | Fusilli: I am surprised to find a GM of his generation I never heard of before. When did he get his GM title? His Wikipedia bio doesn't say. A quick Google search led me to the Wikipedia text in other places, and a couple pages in Hebrew that I can't read. |
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| May-29-20 | | sultanmir: I just learned that he passed away in 2015. I had taken some chess lessons with him ~15 years ago. He was a kind man with a keen mind. I still remember his advice to me that we should avoid justifying our faults saying that it is our 'style' to play certain way or that we 'like' to take certain approach in game. He asked me to constantly question my style to see if it makes sense logically. From then on, I have been surprised to see how much we all justify our actions just because it fits our conception of our style - both in chess and in life. I am sad to hear that he passed away. May he rest in peace. |
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