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Date: 22 Mar 2006 14:21:23
From: EG
Subject: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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If Kramnik played Alekhine, who would win? They are both super GMs and world champions. Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" so obviously Alekhine is the most talented.
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Date: 25 Mar 2006 16:18:51
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Uzytkownik "EG" <[email protected] > napisal w wiadomosci news:[email protected]... > If Kramnik played Alekhine, who would win? > > They are both super GMs and world champions. Kramnik is not a legal one. > Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" > so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. How did you find out that Alekhine invented Berlin Defence ?? He was a much more aggressive player and he used to play much more dynamic openings.
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Date: 24 Mar 2006 20:35:11
From: Knight1
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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EG Wrote: > If Kramnik played Alekhine, who would win? > > They are both super GMs and world champions. > > QUOTE] > > IF Alekhine defeated Capablanca then Alex would destroy Kramni -- Knight1
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Date: 25 Mar 2006 09:59:21
From: Luigi Caselli
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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"Knight1" <[email protected] > ha scritto nel messaggio news:[email protected]... > > EG Wrote: > > If Kramnik played Alekhine, who would win? > > > > They are both super GMs and world champions. > > > > QUOTE] > > > > IF Alekhine defeated Capablanca then Alex would destroy Kramnik Yes, and if Alex defeated Alekhine then Kramnik would destroy Capablanca... else EG questions are the worst of year endif Luigi Caselli
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Date: 24 Mar 2006 00:06:15
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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EG wrote: > If Kramnik played Alekhine, who would win? > > They are both super GMs and world champions. > > Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik > "borrowed" so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. So far their score is even. Alechine still needs a few years of hectoliters (if you know what I mean) before he dares to challenge Kramnik, who may retire in the meantime. ********* Wlod
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 19:38:50
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Ian Burton wrote: > Where'd you get the idea Alekhine invented the Berlin Defense? > That's simply ridiculous.. Welcome to rgcm! :-) Wlod
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 16:29:10
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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James wrote: > You are absolutely right, I messed up with colors. > I have in fact three games with Alekhine playing black: > Kan,V - Alekhine, Moscow 1909 That appears to be correct, per Skinner & Verhoeven. One of Alekhine's early club tournaments. After 4.0-0 a6 Bxc6 dxc6 it seems to have transposed out of the realm of a Berlin Defense per se. > Grigoriev Nicolai, Alekhine, Moscow 1919 Yes, as already indicated. > Kimuto, Alekhine, Tokyo 1933 S & K list this a consultation game, Kimuto and unnamed allies vs. Alekhine, blindfold simul, Tokyo January 20 1933, but also say there is some doubt about the game's actual circumstances; it may have been played in Shangahi, China. In any event, after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4 it transposed into a Four Knights Opening and lost any significance as a Berlin Defense to the Ruy L=F3pez.
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 09:37:46
From: Ian Burton
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Where'd you get the idea Alekhine invented the Berlin Defense? That's simply ridiculous.. -- Ian Burton (Please reply to the Newsgroup) "EG" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > If Kramnik played Alekhine, who would win? > > They are both super GMs and world champions. > > Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" > so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. >
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 12:34:24
From: Steve Grant
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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"EG" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > If Kramnik played Alekhine, who would win? > > They are both super GMs and world champions. Kramnik would win easily. After all, Alekhine's been dead for sixty years. Now Peter Leko, on the other hand ....
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 04:33:28
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Chess One wrote: > "Taylor Kingston" <[email protected]> wrote in message > > How did he accomplish that, if he played it only once in a > > little-known match in 1919, that got little publicity outside Russia? > > He gave it 'an outing'. Probably didn't get enough action from it, besides, > his other problem was to how to defeat the hypermodernists. > The same lapsus occured in the KID, when it was given up for dead in the > late 20s, then in the late 30s sove Soviet players found considerable new > resources, which didn't see the light of day until way after WWII. Checking my databases, I see no indication of any "lapsus" in the Berlin Defense. It seems to have been played quite steadily for nearly two centuries. I don't see much indication that it has ever been either very fashionable or totally out of fashion.
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 13:25:33
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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"Taylor Kingston" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Chess One wrote: >> "Taylor Kingston" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> > How did he accomplish that, if he played it only once in a >> > little-known match in 1919, that got little publicity outside Russia? >> >> He gave it 'an outing'. Probably didn't get enough action from it, >> besides, >> his other problem was to how to defeat the hypermodernists. >> The same lapsus occured in the KID, when it was given up for dead in the >> late 20s, then in the late 30s sove Soviet players found considerable new >> resources, which didn't see the light of day until way after WWII. > > Checking my databases, I see no indication of any "lapsus" in the > Berlin Defense. It seems to have been played quite steadily for nearly > two centuries. I don't see much indication that it has ever been either > very fashionable or totally out of fashion. I suppose that is a point worth making. Well, not exactly a point, but a something. Phil Innes
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Date: 24 Mar 2006 00:25:44
From: Roadkill
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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"EG" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > If Kramnik played Alekhine, who would win? > > They are both super GMs and world champions. > > Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" > so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. > So, everyone who plays the Nimzo-Indian is worse than Nimzowitsch ?? Everyone who plays the Sicilian is worse than Greco ? Everyone who plays the Philidor ... oh wait, that's true ...
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 14:27:02
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Roadkill <[email protected] > wrote: > So, everyone who plays the Nimzo-Indian is worse than Nimzowitsch ?? > Everyone who plays the Sicilian is worse than Greco ? > Everyone who plays the Philidor ... oh wait, that's true ... Man, I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that. Dave. -- David Richerby Impossible Miniature Monk (TM): it's www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ like a man of God but you can hold in it your hand and it can't exist!
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 04:08:58
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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James wrote: > [email protected] wrote : > > EG wrote: > >> Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" > >> so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. > > > > Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was > > widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played > > it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August > > 1919 in Moscow. > > > I have another game, against Bernstein, Saint Petersburg, 1914. N/A. Alekhine plays White in that game.
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Date: 24 Mar 2006 00:41:57
From: James
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Taylor Kingston wrote : > James wrote: >> [email protected] wrote : >>> EG wrote: >>>> Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" >>>> so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. >>> Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was >>> widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played >>> it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August >>> 1919 in Moscow. >>> >> I have another game, against Bernstein, Saint Petersburg, 1914. > > N/A. Alekhine plays White in that game. > You are absolutely right, I messed up with colors. I have in fact three games with Alekhine playing black: Kan,V - Alekhine, Moscow 1909 Grigoriev Nicolai, Alekhine, Moscow 1919 Kimuto, Alekhine, Tokyo 1933 That doesn't make a lot of games anyway... The players who often used it in the past were Anderssen, Zukertort and Lasker. Here are scid statistics (with chesslib.no database): http://www.chess-lovers.org/scid/c65a.html
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Date: 22 Mar 2006 15:22:21
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Chess One wrote: > <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > > > EG wrote: > >> Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" > >> so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. > > > > Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was > > widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played > > it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August > > 1919 in Moscow. > > Muller-Behting, 1899. I can find no such game. The closest match seems to be Moller-Giersing, Nordic Congress 1899 (1-0, 17). > It is an adaptation from Polerio who played the same move in a Vienna [with > #. Bc4 in 1850]. This seems unlikely, since Polerio died in 1612. You trying to pull my leg, Phil?
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 12:04:15
From: Chess One
Subject: Polerio, Leonardo, Lopez Greco, a question...
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"Taylor Kingston" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Chess One wrote: >> <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >> > >> > EG wrote: >> >> Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" >> >> so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. >> > >> > Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was >> > widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played >> > it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August >> > 1919 in Moscow. >> >> Muller-Behting, 1899. > > I can find no such game. The closest match seems to be > Moller-Giersing, Nordic Congress 1899 (1-0, 17). > >> It is an adaptation from Polerio who played the same move in a Vienna >> [with >> #. Bc4 in 1850]. > > This seems unlikely, since Polerio died in 1612. You trying to pull > my leg, Phil? :) just checking if anyone is awake to an origin [and the move is indeed attributable to Polerio over 250 years earlier] Polerio was an apprentice of Leonardo, or a sort. Much is owed to Polerio for correcting the outright lies and exaggerations of Boi, Salvio and Carrera - Boi, eg, contrived to play chess on horseback against 'the Arabs' who did not actually play chess at the time. Both Salvio and Boi were 'taken by pirates', and so on... He also seemed to be the recorder of a game Leonardo v Lopez, which may have been as early as 1560. Apart from the court of Madrid, the other patron of chess at this time was in Italy, Giacomo Buoncompagno, Duke of Sora who also dies in 1612, and who was the illegitimate son of Pope Gregory XIII. I think the Buoncompagno family still possess two original Polerio manscripts. This was a high point in the 'invention of openings' despite considerable printing difficulties, and Sam Sloan might be interested to know that Damiano was REpublished in 1606 [Bologna], and Tarsia's Lopez [1584]. Polerio was interesting particualrly because his analysis was so much better than anyone else's. But also secret! Not widely known and in fact closely held. Some MSS of the time required the author as a sort of mentor [paid, of course] to unravel the secrets... which were as encoded as a Portugese rutter. Nothin much happened in northern Europe pre 1610, which was pretty much limited to Tarsia's Lopez, an inferior work to that of Polerio. This situation was eventaully relieved by Greco, who travelled north, hung out in Paris and in London a decade later. In 1621 he was at the French court, and in 1622 or 1623 in London. He made quite a stash by chess-teaching select rich clients. Unlike other books, Greco's made no concessions at all to the weak player, and can be seen to have distributed some of the high-level Polerio material, or material of equal intensity and depth to stimulate more serious play in Northern Europe. A Question... I should be interested to learn from anyone here what they know of the fate of Greco. His last sure sighting was in Paris in 1624, and then is thought to have gone to Spain. It is said, if later writers are to be believed - that is, retrospective writing of unclear provenance and date - that he went to the West Indies and died there about 1630. There is no certain evidence that he did so, and no established motive for doing so either. Cordially, Phil Innes
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Date: 22 Mar 2006 15:05:13
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Chess One wrote: > <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > > > EG wrote: > >> Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" > >> so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. > > > > Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was > > widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played > > it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August > > 1919 in Moscow. > > Muller-Behting, 1899. Heck, it goes back way before then, Phil. The first examples I have date from no later than London 1851, with Anderssen, Staunton, Szen and Horwitz playing it. Morphy too, at New York 1857. > It is an adaptation from Polerio who played the same move in a Vienna [with > #. Bc4 in 1850]. What Alekhine did was ressurect it to current tournament > play. How did he accomplish that, if he played it only once in a little-known match in 1919, that got little publicity outside Russia? Nor is it mentioned in his "Best Games 1908-1923." > Gulko plays it. True.
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 11:19:58
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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"Taylor Kingston" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Chess One wrote: >> <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >> > >> > EG wrote: >> >> Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" >> >> so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. >> > >> > Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was >> > widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played >> > it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August >> > 1919 in Moscow. >> >> Muller-Behting, 1899. > > Heck, it goes back way before then, Phil. The first examples I have > date from no later than London 1851, with Anderssen, Staunton, Szen and > Horwitz playing it. Morphy too, at New York 1857. I believe it, the '99 game was the earliest in my MCO. Shamkovitch and Schiller don't metion it at all, even though they have 'non-a6' lines, they cover Cordel proper, Cordel/Konikowski, and Jaenisch. I imagine opening became 'an item', circa 1830, with Petrov and Jaenisch plus a group of Hungarian players, all centered on Berlin. >> It is an adaptation from Polerio who played the same move in a Vienna >> [with >> #. Bc4 in 1850]. What Alekhine did was ressurect it to current tournament >> play. > > How did he accomplish that, if he played it only once in a > little-known match in 1919, that got little publicity outside Russia? He gave it 'an outing'. Probably didn't get enough action from it, besides, his other problem was to how to defeat the hypermodernists. The same lapsus occured in the KID, when it was given up for dead in the late 20s, then in the late 30s sove Soviet players found considerable new resources, which didn't see the light of day until way after WWII. > Nor is it mentioned in his "Best Games 1908-1923." > >> Gulko plays it. > > True. And lots of other GMs, it was a minor fad in the 90s, and very dangerous for the unprepared. Phil
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Date: 22 Mar 2006 14:31:58
From:
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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EG wrote: > Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" > so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August 1919 in Moscow.
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 01:31:17
From: James
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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[email protected] wrote : > EG wrote: >> Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" >> so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. > > Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was > widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played > it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August > 1919 in Moscow. > I have another game, against Bernstein, Saint Petersburg, 1914.
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Date: 22 Mar 2006 22:48:24
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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<[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > EG wrote: >> Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" >> so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. > > Not true at all. The Berlin Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) was > widely played decades before Alekhine was born. He almost never played > it himself, the only known instance being against Grigoriev, August > 1919 in Moscow. Muller-Behting, 1899. It is an adaptation from Polerio who played the same move in a Vienna [with #. Bc4 in 1850]. What Alekhine did was ressurect it to current tournament play. Gulko plays it. Phil
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Date: 23 Mar 2006 02:00:38
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claus-J=FCrgen_Heigl?=
Subject: Re: Alekhine vs. Kramnik
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Chess One wrote: >>>Alekhine invented the Berlin defense which Kramnik "borrowed" >>>so obviously Alekhine is the most talented. The Berlin defense of the Ruy Lopez has its name because it was analyzed = by the players of the Berlin Chess School, also known as "The Pleiades". = They were the foremost players of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft in the = middle of the 19th century. The Pleiades consisted of Ludwig Bledow,=20 Karl Schorn, Bernhard Horwitz, Carl Mayet, Wilhelm Hanstein, Paul=20 Rudolph von Bilguer and Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa. The=20 last two wrote a famous chess book, the Bilguer handbook of chess. The=20 club often had guests masters like Adolf Anderssen, Max Lange, Jean=20 Dufresne and Carl Friedrich J=E4nisch. Here is a chess game featuring two players of the Pleiades playing the=20 Berlin defense: [Site "Berlin"] [Date "1840.??.??"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Von Der Lasa Tassilo"] [Black "Hanstein Wilhelm"] [ECO "C65"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Bd6 5.Bxc6 dxc6 6.d4 Bg4 7.Qd3 Bxf3 8.gxf3 Nh5 9.Nc3 exd4 10.Ne2 Qh4 11.Ng3 O-O 12.Qxd4 Rfd8 13.Qc3 Nxg3 14.fxg3 Bxg3 15.hxg3 Qxg3+ 16.Kh1 Rd6 17.Qe1 Qh3+ 18.Kg1 Rg6+ 19.Kf2 Rg2+ 20.Ke3 f5 21.e5 Rxc2 22.Bd2 Rd8 23.Bc3 f4 24.Kxf4 Qh6+ 25.Ke4 Qg6+ 26.Kf4 Qh6+ 27.Ke4 Rh2 28.Rd1 Rh4+ 29.f4 Qg6+ 30.Ke3 Rh3+ 31.Rf3 Rxf3+ 32.Kxf3 Rxd1 33.Qe2 Rd3+ 0-1 Certainly not Kramnik style. Claus-Juergen
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