With all this nonsense about Bobby going
around I need something more cheerful.
An overview of the chess talent over the
two centuries or so will do the trick.

Keres had "light hand", and he initiated
the chess royal status of letter K.
Hm, or was Kolisch?!

However the dominance of K is relatively
recent, as we will see soon.

here are our chess K-heros:

Kolisch, Keres, Korchnoy,
Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik,
Kamsky, Khalifman, Kasimdzhanov

Let us observe that letter K is stealing
in English from other letters, especially
from H (or X if you like). Thus Khalifman
can be also listed as Halifman. I will add
such names under each letter, to have more fun.
Thus we may add:

Sultan Khan.

There were many other strong K-players,
e.g. Kotov or Kholmov (Holmov?). One may
also mention certain characters like Krylenko.

The leading chess letters are the initials of the
world champions (I am adding the chimps for a good
measure). This will push back other letters like
"R" of Rubinstein or "W" of Winawer, but that's
a part of this game.

Enjoy (or whatever :-), and feel free to add any
chess strong or interesting K-personalities,

Wlod

..
here are our chess K-heros:

Kolisch, Keres, Korchnoy,
Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik,
Kamsky, Khalifman, Kasimdzhanov

Let us observe that letter K is stealing
in English from other letters, especially
from H (or X if you like). Thus Khalifman
can be also listed as Halifman. I will add
such names under each letter, to have more fun.
Thus we may add:

Sultan Khan.

There were many other strong K-players,
e.g. Kotov or Kholmov (Holmov?). One may
also mention certain characters like Krylenko.

The leading chess letters are the initials of the
world champions (I am adding the chimps for a good
measure).

Enjoy (or whatever :-), and feel free to add any
chess strong or interesting K-personalities,


Kapablanka! How kould you have forgotten Kapablanka? Kaidanov. Kan.


This will push back other letters like
"R" of Rubinstein or "W" of Winawer, but that's
a part of this game.


Weinstein -- Garrik Weinstein.


Rubinstein/Ruebenfine/Reshevsky.


The "S"'s are very hard to beat, but for the recent dominance of the
"K"-factor.

(Wlodzimierz Holsztynski) wrote in message . com...

here are our chess K-heros:

Kolisch, Keres, Korchnoy,
Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik,
Kamsky, Khalifman, Kasimdzhanov

Let us observe that letter K is stealing
in English from other letters, especially
from H (or X if you like). Thus Khalifman
can be also listed as Halifman. I will add
such names under each letter, to have more fun.
Thus we may add:

Sultan Khan.

There were many other strong K-players,
e.g. Kotov or Kholmov (Holmov?). One may
also mention certain characters like Krylenko.

The leading chess letters are the initials of the
world champions (I am adding the chimps for a good
measure). This will push back other letters like
"R" of Rubinstein or "W" of Winawer, but that's
a part of this game.

Enjoy (or whatever :-), and feel free to add any
chess strong or interesting K-personalities,

Wlod

Soon Karjakin will show more of his potential.
And how could I forget the Woman Vice-Champion
Kosteniuk?! :-)

Let me add to the list of the strong players
also GM Michail Krasenkov (these days Michal
Krasenkow).

To make K extra strong one may adopt
a plausible (at least in Polish) spelling
Kapablanka (I do plan to list him under
"C" though).

----
Wlod

(Wlodzimierz Holsztynski) wrote:
With all this nonsense about Bobby going
around I need something more cheerful.
An overview of the chess talent over the
two centuries or so will do the trick.

Keres had "light hand", and he initiated
the chess royal status of letter K.
Hm, or was Kolisch?!

However the dominance of K is relatively
recent, as we will see soon.


Good post. I was watching Olympic diving and a Russian swimmer's name
stood out... Karpalov! The errorless positional play of Karpov mixed
with the error-enducing aggressive style of Kasparov. He should be a
chessplayer!

And looking into my crystal ball I have found the name of the next
great chess champion. It lies between hillsides covered with forest...
it lies at a difficult moral intersection... it lies somewhere on this
website :-)
http://www.vgd.ru/ENGLISH/k.htm

Kolisch, Keres, Korchnoy,
Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik,
Kamsky, Khalifman, Kasimdzhanov

Don't forget Kamsky!

(Etj718) wrote in message ...

Kolisch, Keres, Korchnoy,
Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik,
Kamsky, Khalifman, Kasimdzhanov

Don't forget Kamsky!

Should we mention him twice?
(Don't forget to read the post,
which you comment :-)

Wlod

Kamsky, Khalifman, Kasimdzhanov

I did not see Kamsky...That's what I usually say when I blunder..I did not see
"that".Sorry for being prematurely critical.