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| Mar-29-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, French Champion Wolfgang Uhlmann!! |
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Mar-31-16
 | | kingfu: We missed Uhlmann's 81st birthday. Alles das Beste zum Geburtstag! |
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Mar-31-16
| | kingfu: Thank you, TheFocus. Maybe it should have been I missed his birthday. Where's Dom? |
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| Mar-29-17 | | Ironmanth: Happy birthday, Grandmaster! Your games were instructive for me in my early chess development stage; many thanks sir! |
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| Mar-29-17 | | Petrosianic: Wishing happy birthday to someone still alive?? This is unheard of around here. |
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Mar-29-17
| | kingfu: Happy Birthday to 1 of 2 Greatest French Defense players ever (Korchnoi). I tried playing The French for decades. I studied many games by these 2. I failed. Nobody told me - Do not try The French Defense at home. The French Defense must be played by Professionals in a closed position. Uhlmann always played The French. Korchnoi played a variety of 1. e4 defenses. Most Grandmasters have more than one response. MVL is the exception. He always plays the Sicilian. |
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Mar-29-17
| | kingfu: Bizarre. Uhlmann and Korchnoi played each other 20 times. Not one French Defense. |
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| Apr-16-17 | | Taulmaril: Kingfu not so bizarre when you consider that neither of them were 1.e4 players as white. |
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| Jun-25-17 | | RookFile: Well, you might have gotten 1. c4 e6 2. e4 d5 in a game from these guys - that would transpose into a French Defense line. The only problem is, it didn't happen. |
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| Mar-29-18 | | Marmot PFL: happy birthday, 83 is a ripe old age but still not up there with Benko or Averbakh. |
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| Mar-04-19 | | SkySports: Why the "notable games" section has disappeared? The same happened in the pages of other GMs who peaked in the '60-70... |
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| Mar-04-19 | | whiteshark: <SkySports: Why the "notable games" section has disappeared? The same happened in the pages of other GMs who peaked in the '60-70...> Methinks cheesgames is kinda cheering on <Censorship Algorithms> ... "The lists of notable games are calculated by finding the games which most frequently appear in our users' game collections. Notable games are chosen using a proprietary algorithm sensitive to the behavior of Chessgames members. Its results do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Chessgames.com staff. If you want to "vote" for a game, simply put it in one of your game collections." -->
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| Mar-04-19 | | SkySports: I know but I suspect there is some glitch in the software. The list was there up to a couple of weeks ago. And the same happened to Gligoric, Todorcevic, Myagmarsuren (just some names I remember I checked few weeks ago)... For example, how is it possible that a game like this is does not allow a "notable games" section? It already appears in 18 collections...
Najdorf vs Gligoric, 1953 |
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| Jun-08-19 | | norami: Uhlmann is the only player alive who has defeated both Botvinnik and Fischer in official tournament games. |
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| Mar-29-20 | | diagonal: A trilogy, between January and March 2020, three former Candidate's (World Chess Championship Contenders) are celebrating their 85th birthday: the legends Fridrik Olafsson (born in January 1935), Oscar Panno, and Wolfgang Uhlmann (both born in March 1935). Health and Happiness to Wolfgang Uhlmann, who turns 85 today! <Plötzlich Grossmeister!> (Suddenly a Grandmaster, extract from an interview, 1:06 min., in german language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAG...
Uhlmann is remembering when he got the GM title by FIDE in 1959 after being invited and winning at Hastings a first time, and subsequently became further international invitation, and privileges in his own country, then East Germany. You can feel his excitement even now, when he is explaining what a grandmaster title does mean :) Well, around the year 1960 there were only about 60 living chess grandmasters throughout the world, not all were active (and some of the "Glorious 27" had already died: Maroczy in 1951, Mieses in 1954, Tartakower in 1956, Duras in 1957; Levenfish and Rubinstein died in 1961, Ragozin, Grünfeld, Vidmar, and Bernstein all died in 1962), plus Bogoljubov, GM in 1951 who died in 1952. GM Uhlmann calls <Hastings> in England his <Chocolate Tournament>, no other tournament (series) had such an impact for his chess career! He is a rare <triple sole or shared winner at Hastings Congress>, in these days a prestigious event: Uhlmann won in 1958/59 outright (ahead of Portisch), in 1965/66 (shared with Spassky), and tied for first again (with Bronstein and Hort) at Hastings Chess Congress 1975/76, ahead of Korchnoi. In addition, Uhlmann was runner-up at Hastings on four occasions: in 1959/60 (shared with Averbakh, behind winner Gligoric), in 1966/67 (behind winner Botvinnik), in 1970/71 (shared second, behind winner Portisch), and 1972/73 (behind winner Larsen). |
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| Aug-26-20 | | Eastfrisian: He died on 24 August 2020. RIP Meister Uhlmann. |
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| Aug-26-20 | | login:
'Anstelle eines Nachrufes'
https://de.chessbase.com/post/wolfg... |
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| Aug-27-20 | | wordfunph: rest in peace, GM Wolfgang Uhlmann.. |
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| Aug-28-20 | | norami: With Uhlmann’s passing there are now only ten living players who have defeated Fischer in tournament games, and only six after he started playing internationally in 1958. |
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Aug-28-20
 | | Benzol: Ivkov and Spassky are the only two that immediately come to mind. Who are the others? |
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| Aug-28-20 | | Retireborn: Kovacevic, Gheorghiu, Olfasson? (not sure if they are still alive) |
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Aug-28-20
 | | perfidious: <Retireborn>, all are still with us. |
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| Aug-28-20 | | vonKrolock: Dieter Keller ?! |
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Aug-28-20
| | perfidious: Keller is the other. |
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| Aug-29-20 | | Scuvy: I'll take a shot at the other four players: Milton Otteson, Ken Warner, James Sherwin and Viktors Pupols. |
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