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| Aug-28-09 | | MaxxLange: <HeHateMe> great stuff. That agrees more or less with what I have heard about Yaz and RJF and the 92 match. I'd like to read that book. another interesting Seirawan effort is "Take My Rooks", an anthology of games with double Rook sacrifices. |
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Aug-29-09
 | | HeMateMe: In fact, are there enough double rook sacrifices at the master level to write a book on? |
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| Aug-29-09 | | Jim Bartle: Yes, and I assume they were dug up primarily by the co-author Nicolas Minev. |
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Aug-29-09
| | HeMateMe: I've got the rook book by Minev, very readable. Is the double rook sac a variant of 'Alekhines gun', the rooks and Queen all piled on one file, usually a rook file? |
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| Aug-31-09 | | Everett: Does anyone have a list of Seirawan's games from 2008 and 2009? According to the FIDE site, he's still (infrequently) active. http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtm... It looks like he's had 5 games in '09 and 6 in '08... |
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| Aug-31-09 | | Everett: It seems all the 2008 games are in (the other five were actually played in '07), but he has five wins from '09. |
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| Aug-31-09 | | Everett: http://www.chessclub.org/news.php?n...
<Yasser says that he was lucky to score 5-0 in the Dutch league this season, that three of the games could have been draws, but look how he takes apart the experienced Belgian GM Luc Winants who is strategically lost out of the opening.
Seirawan,Y - Winants,L [E12]
Rotterdam-HSG, May 10, 2009
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.a3 g6 6.Qc2 Bxf3 7.gxf3 Bg7 8.Bg5 d5 9.cxd5 exd5 10.e4 dxe4 11.0-0-0 0-0 <11...exf3 12.Bxf6 picks up a Rook.> 12.fxe4 h6 13.Bh4 g5 14.Bg3 Nh5 15.e5! Nd7 16.Qf5 Re8 17.Bc4 Qe7 18.h4 Nf8 19.Ne4 b5 20.Ba2 c5 21.hxg5 Nxg3 22.Nxg3 cxd4 <Trading Queen does not provide relief - 22...Qxg5+ 23.f4 Qxf5 (23...Qxg3 24.Qxf7+ Kh7 25.Qg8+ Kg6 26.Bb1+) 24.Nxf5 Ng6 25.Rdg1 Kf8 26.Bxf7 Kxf7 27.Nd6+> 23.gxh6 Bxe5 24.f4 Bf6 25.Nh5 Rac8+ 26.Kb1 Rc6 27.Bd5 Rd6 28.Rhe1 Qxe1 29.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 30.Ka2 Nh7 31.Qg6+ Kh8 32.Bxf7 1-0> |
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| Aug-31-09 | | Everett: Found them!
http://www.365chess.com/players/Yas... |
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Sep-04-09
 | | GrahamClayton: <MaxxLange>Another interesting Seirawan effort is "Take My Rooks", an anthology of games with double Rook sacrifices. MaxxLange,
"Take My Rooks" is one of my favourite books. It is great to see that a writer like Seirawan can write books for entertainment as well as instruction. Here is a video about the changes that Seirawan proposed to the game, under the name of "Seirawan Chess": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nht2... |
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| Dec-04-09 | | whiteshark: <DaringSpeculator> That's right. |
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| Jan-11-10 | | I play the Fred: So what was the "Incident at Estes Park", in 1987? I only know the most basic details, that a hotel room was damaged when US Championship participants got out of hand one night. |
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| Mar-24-10 | | Birthday Boy: Happy Birthday!!!Yasser Seirawan!!! |
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| Mar-24-10 | | wordfunph: Happy 50th Birthday Yasser!! |
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Mar-24-10
 | | Stonehenge: Happy Birthday :) |
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| Mar-24-10 | | I play the Fred: Wow, Yaz is 50 now. Looking forward to his new book. So. Incident At Estes Park? Anyone? |
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Mar-24-10
 | | kingfu: Happy Birthday, Yasser. I hope you may remember me. I hope you are surveying this website. I was the person sitting in the orange Volkswagen in the parking lot at the Seattle OIC. You were waiting to pick up a family member and so was I. I am sorry that I did not know who you were at the time. We should have doing Chess while we were waiting. I love The French Defense. How much could you have taught me! |
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Mar-24-10
| | HeMateMe: ....this sounds like one of the 'personals' from the village Voice. |
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| Mar-24-10 | | TheFocus: Happy Birthday, Yasser Seirawan. After Fischer, Yaz is my favorite American chess player! I just read that Seirawan has been mostly in retirement the last few years. He does play in the Dutch Team Championship League (for the last 7 years), where he has played 30 games...and won all of them! That is amazing! |
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| Mar-24-10 | | Shams: Yasser, Seattle misses you. Come back for a simul and play bughouse with the kids. |
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| Mar-24-10 | | talisman: happy birthday Yasser. i want your book "No Regrets"...it costs a lot of money...so if you can send me one????...don't need to sign it or anything. |
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Mar-24-10
| | HeMateMe: Send Talisman a book, if he has the Chutzpah to want one for free. |
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Mar-25-10
 | | Troller: Happy 50 Yasser! I always enjoyed your chess & writings - I often still leaf through old issues of Chess Inside. |
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Mar-25-10
| | kingfu: I found out way after the fact that I was sitting in a parking lot looking at a great chess player and did not know who he was. I did this for many months. Would I be a better chess player having had 30 minutes of Yasser Seirawan's guidance everyday? I think so. I simply included details that Grandmaster Seirawan would recognize as genuine. At that time he had a huge Afro! Very cool. It would be like seeing Fischer playing over one his games in a coffee shop in Pasadena and walking right past him. The dreams of youth become the regrets of old age.
The Village Voice rag has nothing to do with it. |
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| Mar-25-10 | | rapidcitychess: Too bad but, happy B-day Awesome st GM Ever!! |
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Apr-08-10
| | HeMateMe: This is why chess masters, Sharon Stone and FIDE presidents shouldn't dabble in unknown subjects: Yasser: My answer to the Fermi paradox is the simple and obvious one: advanced extraterrestrial societies became virtual. They built expansive virtual worlds of astonishing beauty and complexity. They learned to put their bodies in solar-powered machines of cryonic states so that they could extend their life cycle and avoid injuries as well as viruses. They created complex avatars of themselves in their virtual worlds that were far more resilient than their own bodies. |
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