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| Sep-22-03 | | sleepkid: Hungarian who took first in the 1982 Las Palmas Interzonal and participated in the Candidates matches for the World Championship. Easy come, easy go. |
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| Jun-26-04 | | fred lennox: Ribli has the distinction of never loosing to Kasporav with the latter being white four times in six games. This shows he is a tough man to beat. Then again, Kasporav never lost to Ribli, showing another quality, he draws a lot. |
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| Jun-27-04 | | HailM0rphy: +132 -88 =<485> ..you can add his wins + losses together, double it, and you still wont have his # of draws. And he participated in the candidates match for WC? Wow what a talent pool |
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| Jun-27-04 | | iron maiden: He went on to make it into the semifinals of the Candidates before Smyslov knocked him out. Results of that cycle are here: http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/828.... |
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| Oct-19-04 | | fred lennox: Ribli said Lasker was his hero. This being true, his games remind me more of Reti. He handles closed positions with grace and delicacy, his games often lead from a small advantage to endgame play which he is superb. He also shares a couple of Reti's weaknesses, a lack of competitive fire, in the WC sense, and handling 1.e4 as black. |
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| May-19-05 | | platonov: Ribli if the second most professional hungarian GM of all time -- just after Leko. He learned everything, what can be learned in chess, altought never invented anything. The big number of his draws is just because of this professional approach, he did not wanted blood in every game, but preferred to make short draws especially with black. He still has got a rating over 2600. He was team captain if the hungarian olympiad team in 2000, if i can remember. |
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| May-19-05 | | hintza: Is it entirely coincidence that more and more Zoltans are being seen around here? Looks like my campaigning on the Systemsson page got somewhere after all... |
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| May-19-05 | | WMD: <Ribli if the second most professional hungarian GM of all time -- just after Leko.> In what sense could Portisch be considered amateurish? |
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May-19-05
 | | WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles from Zoltan's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/ribl.html |
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| Aug-12-05 | | BishopofBlunder: I like anybody with a cool name like Zoltan. It sounds like a comic book super-villain. |
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| Aug-13-05 | | jcmoral: He is the rival of Zoltan Almasi for the continuum transfunctioner. |
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| Apr-20-06 | | Maatalkko: While not acting in classics such as "Dude, Where's my Car?", Zoltan is famous for being the greatest drawmaster of all time. He played in a bunch of top-level tournaments in the late 1980's, drawing about 80% of his games (so he always scored between 40-60%, quite respectable against top-flight competition). For most of his career, Zoltan and his bubble-wrapped homies were so busy looking for the continuum transfunctioner that he often needed to leave his games early and took quick draws. Eventually he got so good at this that he was able to do it against the best, while keeping his groupies entertained at his parent's barn. Finally, when Ashton Kutcher & Co. helped him find the transfunctioner in 2000, Zoltan could focus on his games and has actually won a few games against weak grandmaster class opposition, including the Hotel Opatija tournament in 2002. You can read more about Zoltan at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005452/. |
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| Sep-06-06 | | BIDMONFA: Zoltan Ribli RIBLI, Zoltan
http://www.bidmonfa.com/ribli_zolta...
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| Jun-21-07 | | kellmano: Boring, boring Ribli. |
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| Jun-21-07 | | ahmadov: <kellmano: Boring, boring Ribli.> It is not fair to accuse only Ribli... The other players are also drawing there games in the Bazna tournament... However, I am trying to understand them: chess is just an excuse for them to enjoy their time in Romania... |
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| Dec-11-07 | | Brown: Certainly when all of you played Ribli and got crushed, the games were boring. |
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| Aug-18-08 | | Jim Bartle: Ribli didn't dispute his reputation as a conservative player in 1988: "A loss disturbs me too much. I'd rather wait. I'm never ready to take charge of weaknesses in my position to gain potential winning chances. There are many who do this, but it would be contrary to my personality to imitate them." |
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| Sep-25-08 | | Sularus: no pic for this ancient eh |
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| Sep-06-09 | | wordfunph: GM Zoltan Ribli Happy Birthday.. |
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| Sep-06-09 | | WhiteRook48: i believe i have heard of this guy |
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| Mar-22-10 | | ozmikey: How to tell a chess tragic. When my baby daughter spills some of her milk during a feed, I now refer to her as Zoltan Dribbly. |
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| Jun-16-11 | | Antiochus: Ribli achieved a definitive-artistic win with a creative opening Ribli vs B Thorfinnsson, 2005 |
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| Sep-06-12 | | Abdel Irada: <BishopofBlunder: I like anybody with a cool name like Zoltan. It sounds like a comic book super-villain.> You mean to say you've never heard of Spider-Man's great adversary, Joltin' Zoltan? Under Hungary's Soviet-aligned former regime, he ran a museum of curiosities: Ribli's Believe It Or Else. |
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Sep-06-12
 | | HeMateMe: Best chess name ever. |
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Sep-06-12
 | | Eggman: It'd be nice to have a pic for this two-time candidate and former world top ten. Oh, and happy birthday! |
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