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| May-22-15 | | zanzibar: What's wrong with quantum gravity? |
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| May-26-15 | | TheFocus: <Too often amateurs get the impression that grandmasters are calculating wizards who constantly think 10 and 15 moves ahead. Actually, there are few times in a game where you have to look more than 4 moves ahead> - Andy Soltis. |
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| Jun-02-15 | | TheFocus: <Masters…know when to panic> - Andy Soltis. |
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| Feb-02-18 | | Howard: The latest issue of CL has an interview with Soltis on the very last page, and in it he alludes to a game he played at a NY Open in which he resigned...in a won position! Any idea what game that was ? |
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| Feb-02-18 | | Olavi: <Howard> Have a look here. Soltis' game isn't featured. https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2... |
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Nov-19-18
 | | MissScarlett: Soltis and McFarland are threatening to release the book <Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games> .https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/... Multibiography? God, that's horrible! |
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May-09-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
"You can't visit my website. I don't have one.
You can't e-mail me. I don't have an address.
In fact I don't have a personal computer or a chess program. I don't even have a toaster."
That is how Andrew Soltis began one of his entertaining columns in ‘Chess Life’, April 1999. He reckons the time chess computers and a chessbase became a 'must have' was during this match and in particular this game. Yusupov vs K Spraggett, 1989 Spraggett was using chessbase data files, Yusupov (and before him Sokolov) were using the old card index system held in the Moscow Chess Club. They had no Spraggett games on file. This lack of technology helped Spraggett defeat Sokolov and nearly cost Yusupov the match. In the above linked game. Andrew writes that Deep Thought here gave: 
click for larger viewYusupov's 37.Rdd8 a ?? pointing out the mate with 37.g6+ Kxg6 38.Bf5+ Computers had muscled in and were here to stay.
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| May-09-20 | | Granny O Doul: Computers could not have helped Yusupov find that mate, unless his preparation was very deep. Possibly he saw the idea but didn't notice that ...Kh6 is met by the same 38. Bf5 (without check this time). |
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May-10-20
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Hi Granny,
The point of the Soltis article is that everyone, the players and commentators missed it . The computer pointed it out right away. My take on it that the move Yusupov played is also good. If there was not another attractive looking move in the position maybe Yusupov would have dug in and found it. Why Soltis points to this match and computers is because of the databases. Team Yusupov had no computer and it could not buy one as back then it was illegal to sell or even rent a computer to a Russian! Kevin Spraggett explains it better here.
http://www.spraggettonchess.com/mar... *** |
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| May-10-20 | | Olavi: Vesma Baltgailis puts the computer story rather differently in New in Chess 3/1989, explaining that the difficulties were purely logistical: a 500 dollar deposit was required for the rent... "Even the insistence of Mark Spraggett was to no avail." |
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May-10-20
 | | perfidious: <Geoff>, I annotated that game for <Chess Horizons>: while I do not recall for certain, it is distinctly odds-on I overlooked the snap mate as well in my annotations. |
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May-10-20
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Hi Olavi,
It sounds like it's one of those differing tales from different sources. Andrew's comes out 10 years later, Vesma Baltgallis at the time the game was played and another from Kevin Spraggett who was one of the players. (I do not have that particular NIC thank you for the heads up.) Hi Perfidious,
In the old days, Chess B.C. (before computers) a lot of quick kills were missed. They used to be discovered by Russian schoolboys and of course Mr. A.R.B. Thomas Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas (kibitz #9) *** |
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| May-11-20 | | Olavi: Yusupov does give 37.g6+ Kh6 38.Bf5 in said NIC - it would be too much to miss it -, mentioning time trouble. After 37.Rdd8 he gives 37...g6 with just a big advantage. |
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| May-28-22 | | Albertan: Congratulations,Andy Soltis turns 75:an interview: https://en.chessbase.com/post/congr... |
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| Nov-27-22 | | jerseybob: Looking today through a stack of yellowed Al Horowitz columns from the NY Times, I found this gem, dated 11-26-1970: White: Soltis Black: (Karl?) Burger. 1.e4,Nf6 2.e5,Nd5 3.Nc3,Nxc3 4.bxc3,d6 5.f4,g6 6.Nf3,Bg7 7.d4,00 8.Be3,c5 9.Be2,Qa5 10.Bd2,Qa4 11.00,Nc6 12.d5,Na5 13.Bd3,Bg4(13..Nc4!? my question) 14.h3,Bxf3 15.Qxf3,Nc4(15..dxe5 16.f5 - Horowitz) 16.Be1,dxe5 17.Qe2,Na3 18.fxe5,c4 19.Be4,Bxe5 20.Bh4,Bxc3 21.Rad1,Rae8 22.Qf3,Nb5 23.d6,Nxd6 24.Bxe7,Rxe7 25.Rxd6,Be5 26.Bxg6!,f5 27.Qd5+,Kh8 28.Rxf5,Rxf5 29.Rd8+,Re8 30.Bxf5,Bf6 31.Qf7 1-0. I'm guessing an NYC game, @ the Marshall maybe. A shame to let games like this be forgotten. |
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Jun-27-24
 | | Gottschalk: Andy Soltis interview:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/congr... |
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| Jun-27-24 | | FM David H. Levin: <jerseybob: Looking today through a stack of yellowed Al Horowitz columns from the NY Times, I found this gem, dated 11-26-1970: White: Soltis Black: (Karl?) Burger.> I am pleased to report (although I had nothing to do with it) that it's in the chessgames.com database, as A Soltis vs K Burger, 1970. |
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Aug-27-24
 | | FSR: His new book <Deadline Grandmaster> is delightful. Highly recommended. |
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Dec-14-24
| | FSR: I just noticed today that <Andrew Soltis> contains the words win, loss, draw, won, lost, drawn, drew. Every letter in <Andrew Soltis> is used in at least one of those words. The same is true if you add his middle name, <Eden>. |
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| Dec-15-24 | | Olavi: He is the complete player. |
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| Dec-15-24 | | stone free or die: Here's a link to his book, with a 40-page preview (I believe): https://books.google.com/books?id=-...
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Dec-15-24
 | | HeMateMe: <pointing out the mate with 37.g6+ Kxg6 38.Bf5+ Computers had muscled in and were here to stay.> A super GM missed a three move mate? Seems impossible, especially with so little material on the board. |
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| Dec-16-24 | | stone free or die: <<HMM> A super GM missed a three move mate?> Re: Yusupov--Spraggett
We've seen super-GM's missing a M1. And this isn't just a simple M3 with the bishop move (it's really a M6). It's not like the actual move (37.Rdd8) wasn't totally winning too. On CT you'd give Yusupov a redo for finding an ALT. Another consideration, the time control was coming up, so who knows how much time White had on the clock. |
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Dec-16-24
| | perfidious: As mentioned at that page, I annotated the game for <Chess Horizons> in 1989 and am quite sure I overlooked it as well. |
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| Dec-17-24 | | stone free or die: Say it ain't so <perf>! |
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