Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:26:52 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 03:41:39, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 20, 2002 at 03:38:29, Mike S. wrote: > >>On August 20, 2002 at 01:03:48, martin fierz wrote: >> >>>(...) >>>what i found really interesting about nunn's comparison is things like >>>tartakower's Qxf6+??, which i would not have expected. the problem is, of these >>>guys there are only very little games published, of course only their best. the >>>rest has been forgotten, and rightly so :-) >> >>Yes... I have compared your 2 examples with the Karlsbad 1911 tournament book, >>with comments by Vidmar. He gave ?? to Süchting's move O-O??, but did not >>comment on Tartakover's Qxf6?. >> >>(Süchting probably was happy that a6 was pinned, and overlooked that the d6 >>square was guarded by Black; without that, Nd6+ could have forked Black's K and >>Q after ...Qxb5.) >> >>I agree to what you wrote about Nunn + computer of course. > >Pardon my ignorance, but was Süchting a GM? I believe he was no GM or IM. It is the first time that I read that name. I do not know if he qualified to the tournament based on previous tournaments and I suspect that at that time everybody who wanted to play and was in the right place could play with the best players. I remember that I read about a case many years ago when a player who had no experience in tournaments played in a tournament only because the organizers wanted the number of players to be even and that player shared first place and only lost in a match to decide about the first place. Unfortunately I forgot the names of the players that were involved. Uri
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