Author: Albert Silver
Date: 18:24:04 02/26/02
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On February 26, 2002 at 19:31:14, Derrick Ford wrote:
>pitiful a 2700 loses to a low class player like that, kaspyarov never lost that
>way
Actually, I was looking and discovered that they're ALL a bunch of patzers. Here
is the critical proof (all serious games):
[Event "Ch URS"]
[Site "Tallinn (Estonia)"]
[Date "1948"]
[Round ""]
[White "Korchnoi Viktor (SUI)"]
[Black "Spassky Boris V (FRA)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B71"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.f4 Bg4 7.Bb5+
Nbd7 8.Bxd7+ Qxd7 9.Qd3 e5 10.Nf3 Bxf3 11.Qxf3 Qg4 12.Nd5 1-0
This was in the Soviet Championship!
[Event "Ch Manhattan Chess Club"]
[Site "New York (USA)"]
[Date "1957"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Euwe Max (NED)"]
[Black "Fischer Robert J (USA)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "D35"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Bb4 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4
c5 8.Bd3 Nc6 9.Nge2 cxd4 10.exd4 O-O 11.O-O Be6 12.Bc2 Be7 13.Nf4
Qb6 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.Qd3 Rfd8 16.Rfe1 Nb4 17.Qh7+ Kf8 18.a3 Nxc2
19.Ncxd5 Rxd5 20.Nxd5 1-0
The same year Bobby became US champion.
And look at this. This has to be a record for a genuine game played by a 2600+
player:
[Event "It"]
[Site "Biel (Switzerland)"]
[Date "1988"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Zapata Alonso (COL)"]
[Black "Anand Viswanathan (IND)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "C42"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Bf5 6.Qe2 1-0
[Event "It"]
[Site "Naestved (Denmark)"]
[Date "1988"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Bareev Evgeny (RUS)"]
[Black "Zsinka Laszlo (HUN)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "E44"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Nge2 Ne4 6.Qc2 Bb7 7.Ng3
Qh4 8.Bd3 f5 9.O-O Bxc3 10.bxc3 O-O 11.Ne2 Rf6 12.Bxe4 Bxe4 13.Qd1
Bf3 0-1
[Event "It"]
[Site "Linares (Spain)"]
[Date "1991"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Ivanchuk Vassily (UKR)"]
[Black "Gelfand Boris (ISR)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "D77"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d5 6.O-O dxc4 7.Na3
c3 8.bxc3 c5 9.e3 Nc6 10.Qe2 Qa5 11.Bb2 Nd5 12.Rac1 b6 13.Nd2
e6 14.Nb3 Qa6 15.c4 Ndb4 16.Nb5 Qa4 17.Nc3 Qa6 18.a3 1-0
And now another breath-taker:
[Event "It"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands)"]
[Date "1993"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Christiansen Larry M (USA)"]
[Black "Karpov Anatoly (RUS)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "E12"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Ba6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.Nc3 c5 7.e4 cxd4
8.Nxd4 Nc6 9.Nxc6 Bxc6 10.Bf4 Nh5 11.Be3 Bd6 12.Qd1 1-0
Oops!
And how about *two* 2700+ players?
[Event "It"]
[Site "Novgorod (Russia)"]
[Date "1994"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Shirov Alexei (ESP)"]
[Black "Bareev Evgeny (RUS)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "C00"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.Ngf3 b6 5.c3 c5 6.g3 Ba6 7.c4 dxe4
8.dxe4 Bb7 9.Bg2 Qc7 10.e5 Ng4 11.O-O Nc6 12.Ne4 Rd8 13.Qa4 Qd7
14.Bg5 Ncxe5 15.Rad1 1-0
[Event "Ch World FIDE"]
[Site "Las Vegas (USA)"]
[Date "1999"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter (ROM)"]
[Black "Ivanchuk Vassily (UKR)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "C45"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nxc6 Qf6 6.Qd2 dxc6
7.Nc3 Qe7 8.Be2 Nf6 9.O-O Nxe4 10.Nxe4 Qxe4 11.Re1 O-O 12.Bd3
Qd5 13.b4 Bxf2+ 14.Qxf2 1-0
Albert
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