Leonid Stein. He died too young.
Here's one of my all time favorite games from him (which I almost listed in the "10 favorite games" thread). An anthology game in every book on the King's Indian Attack.
Apparently Hort was really chapped about Stein's sacrifice (22. Nxe5!) in the game, and tried to show a refutation to it, but it stood the test of post-mortem analysis.
Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Nimzovitch, Keres, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Spassky....
To name but a few great players who are often left out of top 10's.
Vanganian, Hector, Nunn, Miles and Sax are players games I always enjoyed going over.
Great chess players.
Lesser well known local heroes too should be included.
Scotland has a player called Roddy McKay.
Some of is tournament and league games are brilliant. I mean brilliant.
When Karpov gave his simul in Scotland the organisers gave Roddy a board.
A couple of minutes before the start Karpov had a word with the organisers.
insisting Roddy be removed.
Now that Ladies and Gentlemen is indeed an honour.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandlerarticle.php?ChandID=149
Originally posted by greenpawn34Enjoyed the McKay games (Nd5!) on your Corner.
Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Nimzovitch, Keres, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Spassky....
To name but a few great players who are often left out of top 10's.
Vanganian, Hector, Nunn, Miles and Sax are players games I always enjoyed going over.
Great chess players.
Lesser well known local heroes too should be included.
Scotland has a player calle ...[text shortened]... ntlemen is indeed an honour.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandlerarticle.php?ChandID=149
I am looking at a few more at chessgames.com now.
Was Karpov dodging him in a simul before or after they played in a real tournament? It would make since that he would not want to meet someone good enough to compete with in a tournament in a simul. He did draw Karpov in one of the two tournament games in 1969 (although really Karpov just equalized with black in a Ruy Lopez and didn't play on).
He has some absolutely brilliant games under his belt alright.
Roddy was reluctant to take a board when he turned up but the
organisers pleaded with him.
That is true. This bit however...
On that link I made up that book of Roddy's Best games.
No such thing exists which is something I tried to address in Rampant Chess.
( I gave him more games than anyone else including Rowson & Aagaard and neither complained).
I have already, 5 minutes ago, had a PM on here asking about his book. 🙂
Ruxon was plagued for months about his ficticious copy from all over the globe.
When he played in Gibralter some foreign lad even asked him about it. 🙂
He wanted me to admit it was joke.....No. 😏
Of course chess book collectors go potty over things like this and it
becomes a 'must have'.
When I did CapaTal Chess I had orders from all over Britain.
When I discovered they were being collected I jump from issue 14-16.
Missing out 15 all together.
I then of course kept mentioning No.15 and thanked people for saying
how great it was etc...etc...
It's true about the University players setting up the combination that Danny
Kopec missed on every board before an Edinburgh v University match.
Danny (my team captain) just smiled. We won the match, we won the Cup
and I played a brilliancy that was publish all over the world.
(well it made the Scottish Sunday papers).
Originally posted by greenpawn34John Nunn's original Secrets of Grandmaster Play with Peter Griffiths is the best chess book I have ever read, in terms changing the way I think about the game. I own almost all of John Nunn's books, and I feel like he taught me how to play.
Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Nimzovitch, Keres, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Spassky....
To name but a few great players who are often left out of top 10's.
Vanganian, Hector, Nunn, Miles and Sax are players games I always enjoyed going over.
Great chess players.
Lesser well known local heroes too should be included.
Scotland has a player calle ...[text shortened]... ntlemen is indeed an honour.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandlerarticle.php?ChandID=149
Yusupov has a very tough style, very solid with great endgame technique. He just doesn't play the kind of games that amateurs appreciate, even Karpov plays more 'exctiting' moves sometimes.
Although the games of Yusupov in the Dillworth attack (variation of the open spanish) are very nice, usually turning into endgames with very interesting material balances.