Allanur has kibitzed 196 times to chessgames   [less...]

Mar-03-23 Spassky - Larsen Candidates Semifinal (1968)    Allanur: <Larsen did a good job not answering the question, or rather gave the poor organization and prize funds experienced by <both> players as the reason for his loss. Not convincing.> But that would have affected Larsen more than it would have affected Spassky. After all, ...      Feb-18-23 Karpov - Timman FIDE World Championship Match (1993)   Allanur: Here is how that Gligorich match proceeded (and failed), compiled from Gligorich's interview he gavein Antwerp in 1989 and other contemporary newspaper reports: At first Fischer was keen to play but he was negotiating everything as privately as possible. Yugoslavs were granting him ...      Feb-18-23 Spassky vs Botvinnik, 1970   Allanur: Preposterous style of Spassky always made me his fan. This game is one of those examples. At 16.Nc5 for example could lead to tripled pawn - something we would try to avoid but it is Spassky, he just plays it. 20.Na4 could end with the opponent winning pawn back as well as locating ...      Jul-30-22 Fischer vs Larsen, 1971    Allanur: Bobby Fischer on this game: "we started our first game and around the 10th move he threw something at me. He figured to catch me by surprise. But when I looked at the position, I remembered it was something that Steinitz had tried against Lasker in the 1894 championship match. If I      Jan-13-22 Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966)    Allanur: Yes, Willibob. I do agree that other non-Soviet player fared worse than Fischer did against the Soviets. But what makes Fischer's case different than theirs is: 1) Fischer had been asserting that he is the best frequently, yet failed. 2) Fischer, by many, is considered the best ever      Jan-10-22 Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978)    Allanur: Moreover, I believe, Korchnoi should have demanded that he is not gonna play unless his family is released from the Soviet Union. Karpov won the title by defeault and if he was to 'defend' his title by default, the world simply would not have accepted him second time by default. The      Jan-05-22 Boris Spassky    Allanur: @beatgiant, I even forgot he was a world Champion.It seems, as far as I know, he is on the side of Spassky and Smyslov      Dec-21-21 Larsen vs Spassky, 1970   Allanur: Fischer called 1.e4 the best. So, why not call 1e4 a6 line as "Best opening - Incorrect defense"? :-) Btw, Spassky was not the white side in the opening he named - nor was Karpov the black side in the defense he named ;)      Dec-21-21 Geller vs Gligoric, 1970   Allanur: Geller was awarded the best game by a Soviet player prize for this game. The RotW equivalent went to Larsen's victory over Stein. Though I would say Spassky's victory over Larsen should have been awarded the brilliancy prize.      Dec-20-21 Spassky vs Karpov, 1982   Allanur: It is good to see Spassky being able to not bottle a leading endgame to Karpov. I know of 3-4 games where Spassky was superior yet somehow managed to lose to Karpov but in this endgame he somehow managed to win.      Dec-18-21 Fischer vs Petrosian, 1971     Dec-18-21 Karpov - Fischer World Championship Match (1975)     Dec-14-21 Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Match (1969)     Dec-14-21 Fischer - Petrosian Candidates Final (1971)     Dec-12-21 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1988     Mar-28-21 Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2006)     Mar-09-21 Fischer - Spassky (1992)     Mar-09-21 Kramnik - Leko Classical World Championship Match (2004)     Feb-20-21 Petrosian - Korchnoi Candidates Semifinal (1971)    Feb-19-21 Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Match (1966)    Jan-22-21 Petrosian vs Fischer, 1971     Jan-16-21 Korchnoi - Petrosian Candidates Quarterfinal (1980)     Jan-07-21 Curacao Candidates (1962)     Jan-07-21 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972     Dec-19-20 Lone Pine (1979)     Jun-06-20 Korchnoi - Petrosian Candidates Quarterfinal (1977)     Jun-06-20 Polgar - Spassky (1993)    May-25-20 Karpov - Spassky Candidates Semifinal (1974)     May-24-20 Steinitz - Zukertort World Championship Match (1886)     May-24-20 Spassky vs Chekhov, 1972    May-21-20 Spassky vs Taimanov, 1955     Apr-26-20 USSR vs. Rest of the World (1970)     Apr-23-20 Anderssen vs Steinitz, 1866    Apr-02-20 Karpov vs Spassky, 1974     Mar-26-19 Spassky vs W Dobrich, 1971     Mar-19-19 Bled (1931)     Feb-15-19 AlphaZero (Computer)     Feb-08-19 Geller vs Spassky, 1964     Nov-16-18 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018     Nov-10-18 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018     Jul-26-18 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Apr-13-18 Kasparov - Short PCA World Championship Match (1993)     Mar-26-18 World Championship Candidates (2018)     Mar-05-18 Fischer vs Stein, 1967     Mar-02-18 Kasparov vs Karpov, 1981     Mar-02-18 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1975     Feb-26-18 Spassky - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1968)     Feb-26-18 Fischer vs Korchnoi, 1970     Feb-26-18 Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1974)     Feb-26-18 Fischer vs V Kovacevic, 1970     Jun-19-17 Keres vs Fischer, 1959     Feb-25-17 Bad Kissingen (1928)     Feb-25-17 Karlsbad (1929)     Jan-29-17 Fischer vs Petrosian, 1971     Jan-26-17 Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Rematch (1986)     Nov-30-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-29-16 Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship Match (2016)     Nov-26-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Nov-21-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-17-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016     Nov-15-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Oct-15-16 Alekhine - Bogoljubov World Championship Match (1929)     Oct-09-16 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927     Oct-08-16 Capablanca - Alekhine World Championship Match (1927)     Oct-04-16 Korchnoi - Polugaevsky Candidates Semifinal (1977)     Oct-01-16 Robert James Fischer     Sep-30-16 Botvinnik vs Fischer, 1962     Jun-28-16 D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956     Mar-28-16 Karjakin vs Caruana, 2016     Feb-17-16 Alekhine vs V Nenarokov, 1907     Feb-17-16 Alekhine vs Colle, 1925     Feb-17-16 E Canal vs NN, 1934     Dec-07-15 Fischer vs R Burger, 1964     Dec-07-15 Fischer vs F Rummel, 1964    Oct-03-15 Fischer vs Unzicker, 1959     Aug-05-15 Alekhine vs Vasic, 1931     Aug-05-15 Juliks vs Tal, 1950

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