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Aug-27-16 | | morfishine: <offramp> Speaking of look-alikes, I always thought Robert Vaughn looked like Efim Geller: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe... Perhaps Geller was a KGB spy chess playing actor all along lol ***** |
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Aug-27-16
 | | offramp: <morfishine>. Wow. You are right. He is the uncle from Murmansk. |
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Aug-27-16 | | morfishine: <offramp> Vaughn and Geller both have that dimple on the chin that makes them appear virtually indistinguishable. According to ancient Persian Lore, the dimple on the chin is a sign of great beauty, though in this case, I find neither Vaughn or Geller beautiful Whats that dimple on the chin called medically? Oh yes: chin dimple or dimple chin; or the less popular cleft chin or chin cleft Thats all I've got
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Aug-27-16
 | | offramp: Dimplus simplex normalis mandibilis. |
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Dec-13-16 | | TheFocus: Quote of the day:
<Players who are devoted to certain opening systems know how unpleasant it can be to play against oneself in the purely psychological sense> - Efim Geller. So says the man who beat Fischer with his own pet variation, the Poisoned Pawn Variation of the Sicilian. Fischer vs Geller, 1967 |
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Dec-16-16 | | maelith: <How did Kortschnoi know what was going on inside Geller's head?> Perhaps it is based with Korchnoi playing many times against Geller. There maybe situations against Korchnoi where Geller took lots of time before making a move,and that move is a mistake. Classical games: Viktor Korchnoi beat Efim Geller 11 to 6, with 15 draws. This positive score by Korchnoi against Geller is maybe because Korchnoi is a great defender. Korchnoi also loves complication. Tal also has a negative score against Korchnoi. I am impressed that even a young Kasparov can dominate Korchnoi. |
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Mar-08-17 | | CountryGirl: Happy birthday in heaven, Efim Petrovich.
It's interesting that Geller had plus scores against the great 'strategists' Petrosian, Smyslov and Botvinnik, but minus scores against those with a more similar style to himself, including Keres and Spassky. |
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Mar-08-17 | | RookFile: Geller was one of the more prepared players in the world with regard to his openings. |
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Mar-08-17 | | Sularus: One of the greats who didn't become world champion. happy birthday! |
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Mar-08-17 | | Howard: Regarding CountryGirl's comment, Geller also had a plus score against Bobby-what's-his-name. In fact, he beat him in tournament play more often than anyone else, including three times in a row from 1965-67. |
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Mar-08-17 | | Petrosianic: You can't always go by that kind of thing, due to the fact that top GM's often simply stop playing real games with each other after a while. When Petrosian and Geller drew their final game in 1983, they hadn't had a decisive result with each other in 20 years, and most of their games stopped being real ones. There are a lot of other long-time opponents who do the same thing. One who DIDN'T do it was Tal vs. Spassky. After Spassky won their Candidates Final in 1965, he never won another game from Tal in his life. Spassky turned Russian Bear against him. Tal, on the other hand, still had a lot of fight left against Spassky, and managed to win 5 games in that time. As a result, he reduced his lifetime deficit against Spassky from 9-1 to 9-6. |
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Mar-08-17 | | Petrosianic: Another funny thing about Petrosian and Geller. They drew most of their games through their whole life. But they had two decisive games in the 1956 Candidates. Vasiliev's book explains that in their Round 1 game, Petrosian was amenable to another draw as usual, got a slightly superior position, and offered it. But Geller was in a fighting mood, said no, Petrosian got rattled and lost. The next time they played, Petrosian had to avenge that loss, of course, so he went out and played one of his all-time best games. So, two decisive results. But had Geller taken that draw offer in the first game, probably both games would have been drawn. Petrosian vs Geller, 1956 |
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Mar-08-17
 | | plang: OK - so I had to check - it is true that all their games after 1963 were drawn but from 1949-63 they played 8 decisive game which is mot unusually low. |
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Mar-08-17 | | Petrosianic: True, they did play a decent number of real and decisive games before 1963. But they also had plenty of non-games. I show they played 20 draws in 30 moves or less between 1949 and 1963. In fact, I only see ONE draw that went more than 30 moves in all those years, and only three lifetime (out of 32 total draws). |
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Mar-08-17 | | Petrosianic: It's always tough when friends play each other. Aren't there those two sisters (I forget their names), who not only draw all their games, but play the SAME game each time, move for move? |
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Mar-08-17 | | Petrosianic: The Kosintseva sisters, that's it. But it's been a few years since I last checked them out (figuratively speaking) and I see that they were actually forced to play real games (with some decisive results), when they met in the 2012
FIDE Knockout Women's Championship.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Dec-21-17 | | The Boomerang: Dominated Fischer...are rare feat. |
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May-16-18 | | Senk: https://de.chessbase.com/post/zum-g... |
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Jul-01-18
 | | stoy: According to Bronstein's widow her late husband thought that the greatest KID player was Efim Geller. |
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Jul-01-18 | | ughaibu: Stoy! You posted the same comment on March the eighth 2014! |
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Jul-01-18 | | ughaibu: And on the first of October 2009!! |
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Mar-08-19 | | saturn2: <Speaking of look-alikes, I always thought Robert Vaughn looked like Efim Geller:> Good point that I have never observed though I like both of them in their respective profession. |
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Mar-08-19 | | gars: "A very great player who didn't become World Champion because he studied too many openings." I have read it somewhere. |
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Mar-08-19 | | saturn2: 1.e4 d6 2 d4 Nf6 3 Nc3 g6 4 Nf3
that is how he played against me a sinultan.
Somewhere else I read it is the way Geller and Karpov play against the Pirc defence. So one could conclude even in simultan he relied on his opening principles. |
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Mar-08-19 | | stridergene: Efim P. Geller is the bete noire, the jinx, the contra pelo, and the boogeyman of Robert James "Bobby" Fischer |
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