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CopyBlanca
Member since May-23-13 · Last seen May-30-23
Retired from competitive chess since 1980's. Highest ranking was just below 2000. Favorite player Capablanca obviously.

   CopyBlanca has kibitzed 32 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Dec-16-22 Bronstein vs Keres, 1950 (replies)
 
CopyBlanca: Botvinnik was the best...just ask Botvinnik..
 
   Aug-20-21 Tartakower vs Yates, 1924
 
CopyBlanca: the last move is R-a7 which is shown in the book of the 1924 tournament written by Alekhine..
 
   Dec-15-20 Alekhine vs Claret, 1935
 
CopyBlanca: I have only one win against a grandmaster and it was the same opening...exchange of the Spanish Game (Ruy Lopez). It was against Peter Biyasis in the 1970's and also a simul. Game went in a similar direction and Peter offered a draw which I should have accepted but being a jerk I
 
   Apr-24-20 Khismatullin vs S Sjugirov, 2009 (replies)
 
CopyBlanca: I came up with 37 N takes pawn on D6. I think that is pretty good too. as the threat of mate with a B-H6 lurking a few moves down gives black a lot of problems.
 
   Dec-07-19 Pachman vs Bronstein, 1946 (replies)
 
CopyBlanca: The pun is on the video game PAC MAN that was one of the first video games and very popular. Pac Man was always being chased by GHOSTS in the video as he maneuvered around the maze.
 
   Apr-24-19 Yanofsky vs Fischer, 1962 (replies)
 
CopyBlanca: Why even bother talking about Karpov in the same breath as Fischer. Karpov is not even one of the top ten players of all time. Fischer is never rated lower than third by anyone.
 
   Mar-30-19 Fischer vs E Mednis, 1957 (replies)
 
CopyBlanca: Greatest ever definitely. This game played when he was 15 or 16.
 
   Jan-30-19 Ribli vs Adorjan, 1983 (replies)
 
CopyBlanca: Looking back on my mediocre playing days it was definitely looking at every reasonable move would have made me a much better player.
 
   Nov-18-18 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018 (replies)
 
CopyBlanca: How is this going to be anything else but a draw ?
 
   Feb-11-18 Kasparov vs Spassky, 1983 (replies)
 
CopyBlanca: You guys are dreaming. Morphy,Greco,Philidor all these guys would take you to the cleaners. Lets just discuss Morphy for a bit. He was able to play multiple blindfold games at once. None of you dreamers could even begin to play a single blindfold game. When I played tournament ...
 
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