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May-01-15
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| May-01-15 | | john barleycorn: good for Peking |
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May-01-15
| | offramp: I'm slightly unlucky in that I was born in Hong Kong to British parents but in 1997 I became a Chinese citizen and I was called up into the Chinese air force. I regret that I have killed about five thousand people. |
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| May-01-15 | | john barleycorn: Your profile says:
<I was born and I live and work in London. My father was from Limerick and my mother is from Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near Manchester.> |
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| May-01-15 | | Olavi: The 1957 book by Boleslavsky on his selected games feels good, but I don't read Russian. |
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May-01-15
| | offramp: <john barleycorn: Your profile says:
<I was born and I live and work in London...>Yes, indeed. Wonderful, wonderful days. |
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May-01-15
 | | Benzol: <Olavi> You might not have to read Russian. Jimmy Adams did a translation of Boleslavsky's book that can still be obtained although it maybe a bit pricey these days. See Game Collection: Isaac Boleslavsky - Selected Games as a sampler. :) |
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| May-01-15 | | zanzibar: The Russell-Cohn book is among a long list of books by the same: http://www.books.ru/author/russell-... For the Boleslavsky book there's this blurb:
<High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky (Ukrainian: Ісаак Єфремович Болеславський, Исаак Ефремович Болеславский) (June 9, 1919 Zolotonosha, Ukraine – February 15, 1977 Minsk) was a Soviet–Jewish chess Grandmaster.> Many (most?) of the other books are also wiki reprints. |
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| May-02-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <offramp: I'm in Peking.> I recommend that you try the duck. |
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| May-02-15 | | zanzibar: <offramp> you mean to say "I'm <off> in Peking" don't you? |
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| May-02-15 | | john barleycorn: <zanzibar> is that <off> related to an opium den? |
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| May-02-15 | | zanzibar: I don't really know where <offramp> draws his inspiration from. I always thought it a bit transcendental, but perhaps the source is indeed a bit more terrestrial. Who knows? |
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| Jun-09-15 | | TheFocus: Happy Birthday, Isaac!! |
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| Nov-02-15 | | zanzibar: A picture of the tombstone on his grave:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Is there a discrepancy for his dod?
<The picture features Boleslavsky’s son, Stanislaw, and his daughter, Tatiana (David Bronstein’s widow). Our correspondent mentions that Boleslavsky’s grave is about ten paces away from that of Bronstein, his son-in-law (see C.N. 5859).> http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (CN #6389) |
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Feb-10-16
| | offramp: <zanzibar: A picture of the tombstone on his grave: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
Is there a discrepancy for his dod? >
At first I thought you meant his month of death. The date of death looks like "14/11/77", but the middle numeral is a Roman II, i.e. 2. But that is not the discrepancy: the date given in his bio here at cg.com is 15/2/77. A day later. I suppose he might have died overnight, in his sleep. |
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| Feb-15-16 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, GM Isaac Boleslavsky. |
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| Jun-09-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Isaac Boleslavsky. |
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| Jun-09-17 | | Howard: Chess Life & Review had a brief article on his death, and said that it would have "an appreciation" article on him in a future issue, but the latter never took place. Probably lack of space I suspect. At any rate, Boleslavsky was best remembered as one of the leading Soviet players after WWII. |
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| Jan-01-22 | | jerseybob: Boleslavsky has been much on my mind this past year, and it's got nothing to do with chess. In February '21, I slipped and broke my ankle, badly. The rehab has been painful and slow. My running days are over, but walking is a blessing I'll never again take for granted. Also a blessing:the medical professionals who got me to this point in time. |
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| Dec-07-22 | | pazzed paun: On his visit to the Moscow chess club r.j Fischer praised a game collection off Boleslavsky games.if you take a discerning look ,you will see that rj Fishers repertoire is a carbon copy of Boleslavsky |
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Dec-07-22
 | | fredthebear: Never heard that before. |
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Aug-09-23
 | | kingscrusher: A brilliant dynamic player and major Kings Indian defence exponent - for good reason he was one of the early nominated Grandmasters by FIDE. His games are filled often with dynamic positional sacrifices - the first one I really liked was against Lisitsin ( Boleslavsky vs Lisitsin, 1956 ) but there are so many others as well. He really seems to have very strong dynamic evaluation of positions. |
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Aug-09-23
 | | plang: ...and on this sites list of players Boleslavsky is still not listed. The biggest omission in my opinion.
Particularly considering how close he came to qualifying for a championship match in 1950. |
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Aug-09-23
| | kingscrusher: <plang> If you mean the main search form of the site, I noticed if you do the tick box "Longer list", he comes up along with Bondarevsky, Kotov who were mentioned at Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand... "The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for (or been seeded into) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó." |
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Aug-09-23
| | plang: Thanks, I had never noticed that option - is that new? Being on that list is better than nothing but I still think he rates ahead of many on the main list (Kotov too). |
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