Richard Taylor Member since Feb-14-05 · Last seen Feb-19-25 Here are some of my games on Chess games .com - Richard Taylor I live in New Zealand. I was born in the 1940s. So I am now 73. I have have a Blog - no Chess there as yet but some may find it interesting - it is called "Eyelight" http://richardinfinitex.blogspot.com/ Here is an interesting political/ poetical / historical/N.Z - Blog - but it also has history about NZ and many other matters it is run by a good friend of mine http://www.readingthemaps.blogspot.... But I have quite wide interests. (In fact I had about 50 or more jobs in my life!) I have only been to Fiji in 1973 and New York in 1993. Both fascinating places in different ways. But most of my life I have lived here in Auckland. I like all styles of play - sometimes in OTB I enjoy the complexities of double-edged tactical stuff - but also enjoy the 'Karpovian' manouevres in slower games - always learning. As to a favourite players: all the greats are there - Alekhine, Rubinstein, Keres, Capa, Lasker...Fischer of course, Tal, Botvinnik, Smyslov and many others. I have a penchant for Smyslov's and Karpov's games. Fischer and Tal are all important and I have used ideas of both, obviously not at a high level but in average club games.I see some similarities between Fischer and Karpov whose play I like. Kasparov's huge obsession with theory is too much for me, but of course many of his games are very great. There are many good chess players. I learned with Reinfeld's books and Capa's 'Chess Fundamentals'. I discovered chess while reading 'Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carrol. I was about 9 or 10. I then asked my father.."What is chess..." and he didn't really know so we went to libraries to get books and learnt the game and we both became addicts...but not my brother who was actually really naturally talented at chess and mathematics etc. (Not me. I am a "slogger" and learn slowly). He played soccer instead! He is the sane one of the two boys in my family! I am not a very highly rated player - I have played in two NZ Correspondence Championships and an International Teams Tournament for NZ about 1986. Chess is a struggle (but when playing try to feel for your opponent -he/she is also struggling) - it is rarely clear who is winning (we know the obvious positions) - most positions it is best to examine "strengths and weaknesses" - improve the position of pieces and so on. Be confidant but VERY wary while playing. Chess is infinite! Below is a good link to Australian and New Zealand live events. Link: http://www.aucklandchesscentre.co.n...

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Feb-12-25 E Hintikka vs T Pirttimaki, 1988    Richard Taylor: I played a Finnish player I think it was 1984, Timo his name was, but not this fellow I don't think. (I can check it but I am esconced where I am right now) It was in an International Tournament called The Zamenhof and I don't know what "board" I was on (Correspondence). ...      Jan-22-25 A Pomeroy vs D Guthrie, 1996   Richard Taylor: Yes, good game. Good win. I saw the Bc2+ ... How are you Jonathan? All the best, Richard.      Jan-20-25 T J Free vs A Pomeroy, 1973   Richard Taylor: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 b5 8.e5 dxe5 9.fxe5 Qc7 10.Qe2 Nfd7 11.O-O-O Bb7 12.Nf5 exf5 13.e6 Nf6 14.Bxf6 gxf6 15.Qh5 Bb4 16.Bxb5+ axb5 17.exf7+ Kf8 18.Rhe1 Nd7 This line by White is wrong but Computers and perhaps Nunn's book were not ...      Jan-20-25 Terry J Free   Richard Taylor: Weatherley also played at the then Auckland Chess Club in Queen Street, His Majesty's Arcade (demolished in the 90s by the Rogernomicas and Prebblers. He was in a wheel chair. He had to be helped up and players took his chair up. This is in the early 60s he may have played ...      Jan-01-25 World Blitz Championship (2024)    Richard Taylor: Yes, that was tragic, one of the greatest players. I've blundered in time trouble....my machine solves all Rf1 instead of Rg1. Ivanchuk had calculated that he could get his K on d4 it was ingenious by him!! But this is why I decided to avoid playing in the NZ Champs even ...      Dec-12-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    Richard Taylor: Richard Taylor: That is a well known winning position for Black. I have made similar moves thinking I could hold it. A kind of hallucination. Caused by the pressure of playing a game of chess. In the World Champs at the end, it can still be a draw if Black plays too quickly. ...      Dec-11-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024    Richard Taylor: Armageddon is rubbish indeed. This looks as though it was well fought. I don't think there is any strategy as Rapid Chess is too random. They split the point. Two World Champions...      Dec-11-24 Gawain Jones   Richard Taylor: I met Gawain briefly at a tournament, he was in a NZ international tournament, I was in the next 'tier' and had some interesting games. Murray Tatini told me Sue Maroroa had died. She was also a very good player (I had played her and seen her in quite a few tournaments) and ...      Dec-09-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    Richard Taylor: oops 'and' instead of 'an' perhaps that is because I am, for complex and perhaps absurd reasons, trying to learn German!      Dec-09-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024    Richard Taylor: Liren was ripe for a "blunder", his blunder was his long think, then later more unnecessary thinks. But Chess is a difficult game. He's come back before, and once seemed unbeatable but time deals with us all...

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