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| Jul-13-10 | | jerseybob: Concerning the claim in the intro that Geller had a plus score against Euwe, they only played 2 games that I know of, splitting the 2 at Zurich 1953. |
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| Jul-13-10 | | TheFocus: Paul Keres defeated nine world champions and drew both games with Karpov. Much more impressive than Geller's run of 8 WCs. |
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| Jul-31-10 | | I play the Fred: One of my favorite Geller creations is his protest letter during the 1972 match. It's a gem of unintentional comedy. |
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| Aug-06-10 | | drnooo: flat out, this guy was just amazing. Look at his bloody record against
anybody, anybody. About the only one
who seems to have had his number was
Soassky. He more than held his own
against all the top ones, at least
the ones I have checked.
Very curious his relatively slow rise
to the top. But what an amazing record. |
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| Dec-04-10 | | wordfunph: At the closing ceremony of IBM tournament, Dr. Max Euwe told the famous story of how he was introduced to Yefim Geller by Paul Keres some twenty years ago. Said Keres: "This is Geller. He always plays for mate." Source: Chess Life & Review 1975 |
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| Jan-05-11 | | wordfunph: 1970 The USSR Versus The World:
At one time during his game, Efim Geller had three cigarettes going simultaneously. :-) |
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| Mar-08-11 | | selfmate: A recent article that touches upon Geller (though mostly about Fischer): < "...On the boards the sharpest tactician amongst the Russian players, Efim Geller, was the first to play. After 30 minutes he played a three-move combination, sacrificing a knight, offering a bishop and then playing a quiet bishop move: 10.fxg5 Nfd7 11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.Qh5+ Kf8 13.Bb5 Ne5 14.Bg3. Spassky and Keres took almost an hour to find the same moves, which marked the end of the Argentinean dream..." > referring to this game:
Geller vs Panno, 1955
Article at:
http://www.chessbase.com/columns/co...
Interesting stuff. |
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Mar-08-11
 | | kingfu: On your feet peasants.
Raise a glass to Efim Geller.
He was +3 with Botvinnik.
He was +2 with Petrosian.
He was +2 with Fischer.
He was +3 with Smyslov.
He was even with Tal.
He was even with Bronstein.
This is Grandmaster Efim Geller, he ALWAYS plays for mate. Spasibo , maestro. |
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Mar-08-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Here, here! (AJ Downs a glass of root beer.)
Geller was amazing ... and if not for Boris Spassky ... he might have been a World Champion. (I have several books on Geller.) |
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Mar-08-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: Darn! Where is GM Keene when you need him? I wonder what the mutual consensus of Geller's best game would be? I used to have a GeoCities site that had a title like "Great Games of the Champions," but it has been erased now. |
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| Mar-08-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @kingfu
I think I shall open a bottle of red wine tonight, light a candle in memory and re-play his section of world champion games in "The Application of Chess Theory". Skål Geller. |
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Mar-08-11
| | kingfu: Monaco 1967
Fischer v. Geller, Sicilian Poisoned Pawn.
Geller uses Fischer's own favorite variation of The Sicilian back at him and smokes him in 25 moves from the Black Side. Great stuff.
Efim Geller ALWAYS plays for mate. |
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Mar-08-11
 | | ketchuplover: I hereby forgive herr Geller for beating herr Fischer. Oh and happy birthday. |
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| Mar-08-11 | | WhiteRook48: Geller smashed Fischer when they played... it's a shame he didn't become world champion |
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| Mar-08-11 | | ughaibu: When would've been the suitable period for Geller to have held the post? |
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Mar-08-11
 | | Penguincw: R.I.P. Efim Geller. |
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| Mar-08-11 | | mojonera: gueller was lucky against fischer , |
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| Mar-08-11 | | drnooo: as usual The Focus has his lens screwed on tight: he is right to put Keres above
Geller. Keres seventy percent total is still one of the best of all. Geller vrs Spassky shows however just how good Spassky was. Spassky in his prime when he still wanted to be champ. Probably I am the only one here who always rated Fischer as lucky to find a desireless Spassky to play. Notice Karpov made even more of a mess of Spassky than Fischer did. But I digress. Geller was great and had Fischer faced him instead of Larsen...well he sure as hell would not have turn through him like Hitler through Poland. Geller would have lost but Fischer would have walked away with some bruises. |
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Mar-09-11
 | | perfidious: For all those who would rate Geller above Keres career-wise: why, despite his great success vs all the WCs, did he manage to finish no better than =2nd (ironically, with Keres) at Curacao in any of his Candidates tournament appearances? In Candidates matches, it went even harder with him, though in the interests of objectivity, he was 40 at the time of his first appearance in that format. While there's no question that Geller was a great player, particularly in attacking positions, something was missing; I've long suspected a psychological weakness played a role in keeping him from challenging for the supreme title, same as Ivanchuk in the present day. |
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| Mar-09-11 | | ughaibu: By the way, are there any who "would" rate Geller above Keres? If you would, please explain. |
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Mar-10-11
| | kingfu: Keres was +3 with Geller over 38 games. That is not dominant. On the Fischer page and the Kasparov page , many of our fellow Chess players are spewing vitriol at each other about "THE GREATEST CHESS PLAYER EVER." How much dark matter can fit on the head of a pin?
Perhaps a better exercise could be the best players of all time who NEVER became Champion. Keres and Geller are a good start.
How about Ruben Fine, Leonid Stein, David Bronstein, Max Euwe and Victor Korchnoi? |
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| Mar-10-11 | | ARubinstein: <Perhaps a better exercise could be the best players of all time who NEVER became Champion. Keres and Geller are a good start.
How about Ruben Fine, Leonid Stein, David Bronstein, Max Euwe and Victor Korchnoi?> ? Euwe did become world champion. |
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Mar-10-11
| | perfidious: <kingfu> Here's my view of this particular question............ http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1... |
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Mar-10-11
| | kingfu: My bad.
Ok, we replace Euwe on the list with Samuel Reshevesky. |
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| Mar-10-11 | | TheFocus: I just was going over the five Fischer losses to Geller in <Application of Chess Theory> by Geller. Good games and good annotations, but Fischer blew two wins according to Geller, which would have reversed their final record. I really do think that Geller saw some things in Bobby that others just did not see. And he had the right temperament to take advantage of Bobby's "weaknesses." I think that this is another example of one of those matches that should have been. It would have been like two tigers fighting. One would lose, but the winner would have been mauled and bloody. |
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