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Kenneth Sterling
Member since Nov-25-02 · Last seen Jul-07-04

Born 18 March 1931 in Manchester, England.

I learned chess from Lasker's Manuel, and from him discovered Anderssen. I am still drawn to the games of both men. Alekhine was world champion during my youth and I greatly admired his first game collection. Of the Soviet world champions, I warmed only to Spassky. I did rather like several Soviet players who failed to reach the summit: Keres, Boleslavksy, Bronstein (200 Open Games was a favourite), Geller and Korchnoi. Smyslov's 'comeback' at the age 63 placed him in my Pantheon. There are some English players I like as well: Staunton, Blackburne, Penrose, Miles and Speelman.

Kenneth Sterling has kibitzed 179 times to chessgames [less...]

Nov-18-03 X3D Fritz vs Kasparov, 2003

Kenneth Sterling: One of the cable stations has it scheduled for 10am out here (California) Tuesday morning.

Nov-18-03 Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander

Kenneth Sterling: Having been a youngster in England during the war, I owe them a great deal. What happened to Turing remains a disgrace.

Nov-18-03 M20 (Computer)

Kenneth Sterling: This may be it. Bronstein vs M20 (Computer), 1963 All of the earlier games I have seen were with programmers and other amateurs.

Nov-18-03 Milner-Barry vs C H Alexander, 1933

Kenneth Sterling: These are two of the four men (along with Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman) who signed the famous 21 October 1941 letter to Churchill which led to their work on Enigma being given extreme priority.

Oct-23-03 Larry Evans

Kenneth Sterling: Evans is a really nice guy. He was sometimes in chess clubs which I frequented in New York.

Oct-22-03 Howard Staunton

Kenneth Sterling: <I'm not sure anybody else could have played Morphy in this. Okay Anderssen probably, but at this pt in time, who else could have stayed with him, let alone beat him?> Anderssen had a few chances at Morphy. On pure tactics I think of Tal, but do not recall any famous ...

Oct-22-03 Kibitzer's Café

Kenneth Sterling: It is fitting that Mr. Kasparov appear on television. In our culture, those who emerge from the mad scramble for money and fame are rewarded with that distinction. I understand the man and woman in the street now also have some opportunities other than as game show ...

Oct-16-03 Geza Maroczy

Kenneth Sterling: Maroczy suffered greatly during the war. He did not come emerge from it with his health intact.

Oct-15-03 Peter Leko

Kenneth Sterling: Leko came up at a lunch with a retired gold broker from South Africa. He was certain that the Petrosian Leko married was the daughter of his trainer, and not related to the late world champion.

Oct-12-03 Boris Spassky

Kenneth Sterling: I dislike defending Fischer, but your statistics are specious. All four of Tal's wins came in one event when Fischer was but a lad. I think the Curacao collusion was demonstrated beyond reasonable objection long ago. How one judges the participants, who were not free ...

Oct-12-03 Geller vs Smyslov, 1965

Oct-11-03 Efim Geller

Oct-11-03 Robert James Fischer

Sep-23-03 Reti vs Alekhine, 1925

Sep-22-03 S Atalik vs Miles, 1993

Sep-22-03 Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Sep-22-03 Kramnik vs Naiditsch, 2003

Sep-19-03 Isaac Boleslavsky

Sep-19-03 Mikhail Tal

Sep-18-03 Nigel Short

Sep-15-03 Jonathan Speelman

Sep-15-03 Kasparov - Ponomariov World Championship Match (2003)

Sep-14-03 Lasker vs Chigorin, 1895

Sep-08-03 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1960

Sep-08-03 50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003)

Aug-23-03 Spassky vs Miles, 1978

Aug-23-03 TV viewers

Aug-20-03 Opocensky vs Alekhine, 1942

Aug-20-03 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972

Aug-20-03 Chigorin vs W Pollock, 1889

Aug-20-03 Mikhail Chigorin

Aug-20-03 Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1892

Aug-18-03 Grischuk vs Shirov, 2002

Aug-18-03 Shirov vs Kramnik, 2002
Aug-17-03 Leko vs Kramnik, 1995

Aug-17-03 Spassky vs Avtonomov, 1949

Aug-17-03 Miles vs Korchnoi, 1986

Aug-17-03 Alexander Shabalov

Aug-15-03 English (A25)

Aug-15-03 Ivan Turgenev

Aug-15-03 Michael Adams

Aug-15-03 Anderssen vs M Lange, 1859

Aug-14-03 Polgar vs Shirov, 1994

Aug-14-03 Anderssen vs G Neumann, 1866

Aug-14-03 Saint-Amant vs Staunton, 1843

Aug-14-03 J Penrose vs Tal, 1960

Aug-13-03 Shirov vs Leko, 1991

Aug-13-03 H Goldhamer vs Fischer, 1956

Aug-13-03 Two Knights (C58)

Aug-13-03 Fine vs Fischer, 1963

Aug-12-03 S Bouaziz vs Miles, 1979

Aug-12-03 Dortmund Sparkassen (2003)

Aug-12-03 Reuben Fine

Aug-12-03 Anthony Miles

Aug-12-03 Balashov vs Shirov, 1988

Aug-12-03 Albert Einstein

Apr-11-03 Viktor Korchnoi

Apr-11-03 Reshevsky vs Smyslov, 1948

Feb-02-03 Deep Junior vs Kasparov, 2003

Feb-02-03 Loewenthal vs Anderssen, 1851

Feb-02-03 Paulsen vs A Gohle, 1864

Jan-24-03 Alekhine vs Nimzowitsch, 1930

Jan-24-03 Bronstein vs Ljubojevic, 1973

Jan-23-03 David Bronstein

Jan-23-03 Adams vs S Agdestein, 1994

Jan-23-03 Khalifman vs Short, 1996
Jan-22-03 Svetozar Gligoric

Jan-20-03 V Yemelin vs Kaidanov, 2002
Jan-19-03 Anatoly Karpov

Jan-18-03 Miguel Najdorf

Jan-16-03 Fischer vs Petrosian, 1959

Jan-16-03 Alexander Alekhine

Jan-16-03 Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1997

Jan-16-03 Saint-Amant vs Staunton, 1843

Jan-15-03 Kasparov vs Anand, 1995

Jan-15-03 Leko vs Adams, 2001

Jan-15-03 Wilhelm Steinitz

Jan-13-03 Sergei Prokofiev

Jan-13-03 Ruslan Ponomariov

Jan-13-03 Denker vs Boleslavsky, 1946

Jan-13-03 Fischerandom Chess

Jan-11-03 Korchnoi vs Boleslavsky, 1966

Jan-09-03 Lasker vs Alekhine, 1914

Jan-08-03 Kasparov vs Anand, 1995

Jan-08-03 Mikhail Botvinnik

Dec-09-02 Karpov vs Miles, 1980

Dec-09-02 Jonathan Penrose

Dec-09-02 Henrique Mecking

Dec-08-02 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1913

Dec-07-02 Karjakin vs Shirov, 2002

Dec-07-02 R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963

Dec-07-02 Nicolas Rossolimo

Dec-06-02 Speelman vs Fedorowicz, 1978

Dec-06-02 Morphy vs Loewenthal, 1859

Dec-06-02 Anderssen vs Morphy, 1858

Dec-06-02 Janowski vs Lasker, 1914

Dec-05-02 Keres vs Botvinnik, 1941

Dec-05-02 Geller vs Petrosian, 1963

Dec-04-02 Speelman vs M Stean, 1980

Dec-04-02 John Nunn

Dec-03-02 Shirov vs Oll, 1992

Dec-02-02 Short vs Speelman, 1991

Dec-02-02 Speelman vs Short, 1988

Dec-02-02 Samuel Reshevsky

Dec-02-02 Pachman vs Weber, 1947

Dec-02-02 Gligoric vs F Olafsson, 1957
Dec-02-02 Jose Raul Capablanca

Dec-02-02 Short vs Beliavsky, 1992

Dec-02-02 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972

Dec-01-02 Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895

Dec-01-02 Fischer vs Gligoric, 1962

Dec-01-02 A Planinc vs Gligoric, 1977

Dec-01-02 R Calvo vs Gligoric, 1977

Dec-01-02 Paul Morphy

Nov-30-02 Gligoric vs Smyslov, 1959

Nov-30-02 Joseph Henry Blackburne

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