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| Sep-06-08 | | just a kid: One of the most least kibitzed great games of Polugaevsky.Polugaevsky vs Kudrin, 1989 |
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| Nov-13-08 | | Andrijadj: Polu seemed to have good all time scores against GMs of today,beating Short and Polgar for example,and losing to Vishy Anand by a narrow margin...Kasparov beat him 4:0,but I think 2 of that games are from simultaneous exibitions Polu gave... |
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| Nov-13-08 | | Andrijadj: I think that is because of his opening knowledge,as he was able to match the preparation of younger players... |
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| Nov-20-08 | | brankat: R.I.P. Lev. |
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| Dec-26-08 | | M.D. Wilson: He was a concrete calculator and an openings maven. Widely respected by the USSR chess elite. Very sad he died from a brain tumour. |
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| Jan-18-09 | | M.D. Wilson: How difficult is it to get a photo of Lev Polugaevsky up on this site? |
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| Mar-03-09 | | Dredge Rivers: Once you've played a match behind bulletproof glass, nothing else is ever the same! |
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| Jun-28-09 | | M.D. Wilson: Polugaevsky had a great record against the bane of World Champions: Efim Geller. |
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| Nov-20-09 | | 19842009: I have his book "The birth of Variation".
There He wrote a lot of Himself.
And my impression is that ... He is a very charming man, very ... (and very honest...)
A Great Man! |
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| Nov-20-09 | | Sem: Who has the prerogative of including a picture in a biography on this website? Will chessgames.com upload a photo offered by one of its members? |
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| Nov-20-09 | | talisman: happy birthday Lev!
one of the all-time greats.
Rocky got a locker so there is still hope...Lev might get a picture. |
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| Nov-20-09 | | WhiteRook48: he beat everybody!! |
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| Nov-20-09 | | SakoTRG22: Happy Birthday to one my favorite classical players, Lev Polugaevsky! |
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| Dec-17-09 | | mysql: Who is the equivalent of Polugaevsky in our modern crop of players? |
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| Dec-17-09 | | returnoftheking: Topalov with black? Kramnik with white? |
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| Dec-27-09 | | Karpova: Lev Polugayevsky: <Ninety per cent of all chess books you can open at page one and then immediately close again for ever. Sometimes you see books that have been written in one month. I don’t like that. You should take at least two years for a book, or not do it at all.> 7/1990, New in Chess, page 57 |
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| Mar-26-10 | | thegoodanarchist: What is the proper pronunciation of his name? Can anyone help? Thanks. |
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| Jun-05-10 | | Archswindler: <MoonlitKnight: What he lacked was the ability to make good practical decisions OTB.> In one of Nigel Davies' books (Play e4 e5), he mentions that it was said in Russia that the one failing of Lev Polugaevsky was that he never had a proper education in the open games. |
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Aug-16-10
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| Aug-16-10 | | TheFocus: Well, most of Fischer's games against e4 were also Sicilians. I think he did alright with it. Course, Polu is no Fischer! |
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| Sep-19-10 | | wordfunph: Mecking-Polugaevsky 1977 Lucerne Match: In his book "Grandmaster Achievement", GM Lev Polugaevsky claimed that GM Henrique Mecking lost his self-control and made endless protests; for instance, regarding the fact that Polugaevsky's pieces stood two millimeters closer to one edge of the square than the other! |
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| Nov-20-10 | | brankat: R.I.P. GM Polugaevsky. |
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| Nov-20-10 | | I play the Fred: What is the proper pronunciation of his name? Can anyone help? Thanks. <Pohl-oo-guy-EV-ski>, as far as I know. |
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| Nov-20-10 | | brankat: <I play the Fred> Correct! |
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| Feb-07-11 | | wordfunph: collection of GM Polugaevsky's statements..
"Damn! No sooner had I a good hand, it looks like the plane is going to crash!" (on a card game that was interrupted due to an emergency landing) "All forced opening lines favor White!"
"A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... what if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!" "The greatest master of the initiative." (on Nezhmetdinov) "Ninety per cent of all chess books you can open at page one and then immediately close again forever." "I get very nervous and experience cowardice when conducting attacks in unclear, double-edged positions." "Most of all, it's necessary to use book to avoid inventing the bicycle." "My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master." "I often end up in time trouble."
"My nerves let me down, I lacked self-control…"
"I play badly in positions where something has to be sacrificed…" "I am poor at realizing an advantage…"
most of the quotations were taken from GM Genna Sosonko's book Russian Silhouettes.. |
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