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| May-07-15 | | TheFocus: <Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-09-15 | | TheFocus: <After a bad opening, there is hope for the middlegame. After a bad middlegame, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-09-15 | | TheFocus: <The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated by youngsters and amateurs> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <The key to ultimate success is the determination to progress day by day> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <Winning isn't everything … but losing is nothing> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-13-15 | | TheFocus: <One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-15-15 | | TheFocus: <You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-15-15 | | TheFocus: <Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-16-15 | | TheFocus: <In chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth> - Edmar Mednis. |
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| May-17-15 | | TheFocus: <Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost> - Edmar Mednis. |
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Aug-09-15
 | | offramp: <TheFocus: <Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere> - Edmar Mednis.> What about <Reading without being able to comprehend Edmar Mednis>? Is that recommended? |
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Aug-09-15
| | offramp: It always looks to me as if someone has been trying to write a name like <EDGAR MENDIS>, made a few mistakes but couldn't be bothered to change them. |
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Aug-09-15
| | offramp: Fellow Latvian-American Charles I Kalme had a similar life orbit. Kalme was born in 1939 in Riga. He died a month after Mednis. |
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Aug-09-15
 | | perfidious: Both Latvian emigres <Beat Bobby Fischer>. |
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Aug-09-15
| | offramp: <perfidious: Both Latvian emigres <Beat Bobby Fischer>.> Tal also did well. I wonder which country did best against Fischer. The USA, then Russia, I suppose. Then what? Ukraine, Georgia, Latvia, Hungary, Serbia? Countries like Norway, China, India, Philippines, England won't even be on the radar screen. |
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| Feb-13-16 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Edmar Mednis. |
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| Feb-13-16 | | hemy: Rest in peace, Edmar Mednis.
In the "From the Middlegame into the Endgame" book, page 113, Mednis published my endgame (Kasimov-Komay, Israel 1979).
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... White achives a thematic stalemate draw as as follows: 1. Ke5 2. Kc5 Kxe4 3. Kc4! Ke3 4. Kc3!
Losing is 4. Kd5? Kf3 5. Kd4 Kg2 6. Ke3 f1=Q!
4. Kf3
It is no good going to the e-file, since 4. Ke2 allows 5. R:h2 and the f-pawn is pinned.
5. Kd3 Kg2
6. Ke2!! Draw
After 6. Kxh1 White stalemates Black with the normal 7. Kxf2 or the "fancy" 7. Kf1 |
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| Mar-22-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Edmar Mednis. |
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Jan-26-21
 | | doogie: I played Mr. Mednis in a simultaneous exhibition at Stony Brook University, I think it was in 1970, and was very happy to have drawn him in that game. It was an honor to have played him. I was very sad when I heard of his passing back in 2002. RIP, and thank you. |
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Jan-27-21
 | | Dionysius1: <<Winning isn't everything … but losing is nothing> - Edmar Mednis.> My goodness, I wonder if he believed that or if it's just an exaggeration for effect. I love chess, and some of my favourite chess moments have been in games I've ultimately lost. Some ideas that worked (even when my opponent saw them coming), some stellar moves of my opponent that made me laugh out loud with pleasure. And much more. The attitude expressed in GM Mednis' quotation is too restrictive to allow for my enjoyment of playing a game of chess. So regrettably on this occasion he was wrong. |
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| Sep-05-21 | | Granny O Doul: Re: "Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing", Barry Popik, chess player and historian of quotes and phrases (there is probably a more concise expression) investigated just this adage: https://www.barrypopik.com/index.ph... . Several versions are quoted, including this precise one which first appeared in print at least as early as 1971. I found the page by searching for the line's "Peanuts" appearance, which I was pretty sure I remembered. Even so, I found funnier this "Bazooka Joe", which puts the punch line in the optimist's mouth: https://me.me/i/bazooka-joe-gange-y... |
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Nov-08-21
 | | Diocletian: Here are some pictures of Edmar Mednis. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Ed...
If you beat Bobby you deserve a pic. |
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| Jan-25-22 | | jerseybob: <offramp: <perfidious: Both Latvian emigres <Beat Bobby Fischer>.> And don't forget Uncle Vik, Fischer-Pupols 1955. He's still very much alive though, and I'm not trying to hustle him offstage! |
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| Jan-07-23 | | thegoodanarchist: < offramp: It always looks to me as if someone has been trying to write a name like <EDGAR MENDIS>, made a few mistakes but couldn't be bothered to change them.> Tree MENDIS! |
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