Showing posts with label From the Archives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label From the Archives. Show all posts
Friday, May 6, 2016
Stylin' and profilin' back in the day....
A stylish young gent, at a simul against Mikel Petersen in the Altamonte Mall, circa 1975.
And when not busy at the chess board, I could be found in various pool halls.
Note the rockin' balance board under the pool table. I loved those things!
Sunday, October 11, 2015
From the Archives: Tal - Tolush, 1956 USSR Championship
This is a very long post. I've set it to publish in a few hours when several players will be involved in this weekend's tourney. I don't want them getting distracted by any of this before their rounds! - TD
In ancient times (i.e., pre-2000), an average chess player had the hope of going one-on-one with the best in the world and winning. Not at the board, but in the pages of a book or magazine. A game would be published, often with analysis appended, and any player could look for holes in the game or, especially, in the analysis. Finding holes in analysis, or cooks in problems, was a great joy.
These days that joy is largely gone. One still sees letters to the editor in magazines pointing out occasional mistakes, but the advent of extremely powerful computer engines has largely killed the fun, especially in quality books.
But I remember some of the old joys, having found a couple of problems here and there myself. Tonight I'll share one of them. It concerns the game Tal-Tolush from the 1956 Soviet Championship, and the story features Tal himself, the Hungarian chess writer Jozsef Hajtun, me (naturally), Garry Kasparov, and the programs Fritz 7 and Stockfish 6.64.
In ancient times (i.e., pre-2000), an average chess player had the hope of going one-on-one with the best in the world and winning. Not at the board, but in the pages of a book or magazine. A game would be published, often with analysis appended, and any player could look for holes in the game or, especially, in the analysis. Finding holes in analysis, or cooks in problems, was a great joy.
These days that joy is largely gone. One still sees letters to the editor in magazines pointing out occasional mistakes, but the advent of extremely powerful computer engines has largely killed the fun, especially in quality books.
But I remember some of the old joys, having found a couple of problems here and there myself. Tonight I'll share one of them. It concerns the game Tal-Tolush from the 1956 Soviet Championship, and the story features Tal himself, the Hungarian chess writer Jozsef Hajtun, me (naturally), Garry Kasparov, and the programs Fritz 7 and Stockfish 6.64.
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