Jul-16-07 Kasparov vs Anand, 1995 
| |
| John Thornton: The man's obviously a fool. |
|
|
|
Jul-15-07 Kibitzer's Café
| |
| John Thornton: I know not of what you speak. In future, I would prefer that you only address me when spoken to. |
|
|
|
Jul-15-07 Reuben Fine
| |
| John Thornton: Alekhine had longer arms! |
|
|
|
Jul-15-07 Keres vs F Villard, 1936
| |
| John Thornton: To beat Keres you had to i)invade his country, ii)threaten him with the firing squad iii)pit him against Botvinnik. |
|
|
|
Jul-15-07 Lasker vs von Bardeleben, 1889
| |
| John Thornton: < I assume this is the game referred to here:> You assume wrong, boy. The incident, to which you refer, occurred in round 7, so the game is missing from the DB. Berthold Lasker competed with his brother in this tournament (they shared first place) so, assuming the ... |
|
|
|
Jul-14-07 Yue Wang
| |
| John Thornton: Raymond Kerr Wang Yue |
|
|
|
Jul-13-07 Mikhail Tal
| |
| John Thornton: From John Donaldson's review of Korchnoi's Chess Is My Life (2005 edition): <Every chess player of a certain age knows about Tal getting hit with a bottle in a Cuban bar during the 1966 Olympiad but here you get the details and ramifications.> ... |
|
|
|
Jul-13-07 Ray Robson
| |
| John Thornton: <After that, however, Putnam maintained virtual radio silence on the subject of his huge study for five years, until he gave an indiscreet interview to John Lloyd, a columnist for the Financial Times, in the fall of 2006. Lloyd wrote: "His research shows that the more ... |
|
|
|
Jul-13-07 Garry Kasparov
| |
| John Thornton: <A Brazilian judge has ordered Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky to be arrested following money-laundering allegations linked to a Sao Paulo football club. The judge also ordered the arrest of two of Mr Berezovsky's associates, including Kia Joorabchian whose MSI company has ... |
|
|
|
Jul-12-07 Bobby Fischer
| |
| John Thornton: I don't think Vietnam was an immoral war, but the main argument against Ali is that he simply wasn't a very good boxer. Heavyweight boxing, even then, had very little do with ring craft. |
|
|
|
|
Kibitzing
