A recent article on Edward Winter's Chess Notes called 'Jews in Chess'
started me thinking about an all-time Gentiles v Jews match. Here are my
pairings. I think most of the matches would be fascinating!
Gentiles Jews
Bd 1 Alekhine Lasker
Bd 2 Capablanca Rubinstein
Bd 3 Smyslov Tal
Bd 4 Schlechter Fine
Bd 5 Karpov Chigorin
Bd 6 Pillsbury Kasparov
Bd 7 Morphy Steinitz
Bd 8 Spassky Bronstein
Bd 9 Staunton Paulsen
Bd10 Euwe Reshevsky
Bd11 Kramnik Botvinnik
Bd12 Keres Kortschnoi
Bd13 Timman Zukertort
Bd14 Andersen Petrosian
Bd15 Larsen Nimzowitsch

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:04:04 -0000, "Alan O'Brien"
wrote:

A recent article on Edward Winter's Chess Notes called 'Jews in Chess'
started me thinking about an all-time Gentiles v Jews match. Here are my
pairings. I think most of the matches would be fascinating!
Gentiles Jews
Bd 1 Alekhine Lasker
Bd 2 Capablanca Rubinstein
Bd 3 Smyslov Tal
Bd 4 Schlechter Fine
Bd 5 Karpov Chigorin
Bd 6 Pillsbury Kasparov
Bd 7 Morphy Steinitz
Bd 8 Spassky Bronstein
Bd 9 Staunton Paulsen
Bd10 Euwe Reshevsky
Bd11 Kramnik Botvinnik
Bd12 Keres Kortschnoi
Bd13 Timman Zukertort
Bd14 Andersen Petrosian
Bd15 Larsen Nimzowitsch


Hmmmm. Did you leave anybody out?

"Mike Murray" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:04:04 -0000, "Alan O'Brien"
wrote:

A recent article on Edward Winter's Chess Notes called 'Jews in Chess'
started me thinking about an all-time Gentiles v Jews match. Here are my
pairings. I think most of the matches would be fascinating!
Gentiles Jews
Bd 1 Alekhine Lasker
Bd 2 Capablanca Rubinstein
Bd 3 Smyslov Tal
Bd 4 Schlechter Fine
Bd 5 Karpov Chigorin
Bd 6 Pillsbury Kasparov
Bd 7 Morphy Steinitz
Bd 8 Spassky Bronstein
Bd 9 Staunton Paulsen
Bd10 Euwe Reshevsky
Bd11 Kramnik Botvinnik
Bd12 Keres Kortschnoi
Bd13 Timman Zukertort
Bd14 Andersen Petrosian
Bd15 Larsen Nimzowitsch


Hmmmm. Did you leave anybody out?

I left out Akopian.
Alan

So, the Jewish reserves must be:

Winawer
Tarrasch
Spielmann
Tartakower
Janowsky
Fischer (remember him?)
The Polgar sisters
Gelfand
Smyslov (who is Jewish)
Spassky (who is Jewish)
Averbakh

There is also some doubt about Kramnik or Kramnick, which is of Jewish
origin.

You need to find a couple of gentile replacements.

"Alan O'Brien" wrote in message
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A recent article on Edward Winter's Chess Notes called 'Jews in Chess'
started me thinking about an all-time Gentiles v Jews match. Here are my
pairings. I think most of the matches would be fascinating!
Gentiles Jews
Bd 1 Alekhine Lasker
Bd 2 Capablanca Rubinstein
Bd 3 Smyslov Tal
Bd 4 Schlechter Fine
Bd 5 Karpov Chigorin
Bd 6 Pillsbury Kasparov
Bd 7 Morphy Steinitz
Bd 8 Spassky Bronstein
Bd 9 Staunton Paulsen
Bd10 Euwe Reshevsky
Bd11 Kramnik Botvinnik
Bd12 Keres Kortschnoi
Bd13 Timman Zukertort
Bd14 Andersen Petrosian
Bd15 Larsen Nimzowitsch

Simon wrote:
So, the Jewish reserves must be:
[...]
Fischer (remember him?)

He'd probably conspire against himself by playing 1.a3 or something.


Dave.

--
David Richerby Microsoft Hi-Fi (TM): it's like
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a music system that's really hard
to use!

: ) or move his king around, as in the Short v Fischer games, f2, Kf2, Ke3
etc, etc.

Simon

"David Richerby" wrote in message
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Simon wrote:
So, the Jewish reserves must be:
[...]
Fischer (remember him?)

He'd probably conspire against himself by playing 1.a3 or something.


Dave.

--
David Richerby Microsoft Hi-Fi (TM): it's
like
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a music system that's really
hard
to use!

If the by jews you mean israelis you'd better run like hell if they start
losing because they'll bomb your ass off just to win the game.


"Simon" wrote in message
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: ) or move his king around, as in the Short v Fischer games, f2, Kf2,
Ke3
etc, etc.

Simon

"David Richerby" wrote in message
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Simon wrote:
So, the Jewish reserves must be:
[...]
Fischer (remember him?)

He'd probably conspire against himself by playing 1.a3 or something.


Dave.

--
David Richerby Microsoft Hi-Fi (TM): it's
like
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a music system that's
really
hard
to use!

"Simon" wrote in message
u...
So, the Jewish reserves must be:

Winawer
Tarrasch
Spielmann
Tartakower
Janowsky
Fischer (remember him?)
The Polgar sisters
Gelfand
Smyslov (who is Jewish)
Spassky (who is Jewish)
Averbakh

There is also some doubt about Kramnik or Kramnick, which is of Jewish
origin.

You need to find a couple of gentile replacements.

Simon, one reason I stopped the list is that I was running out of
strong-enough gentiles; I would love to have put in those two quite
brilliant players Gulko and Kavalek - but I decided to stop at 15 boards.
As for Fischer - I suppose 'Fischer v Fischer' on board 2 would be the best
bet. He hasn't actually walked under Titus's Arch - but do you think he
would play on a Jewish team?

Are you sure about Spassky and Smyslov? I have Miles and Nunn in reserve!
Alan

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:48:49 +0800, "Simon"
wrote:

Fischer (remember him?)

Which team would he play for? :-)

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Hi Alan,

Well, they are both listed in www.jewsinsports.com, use chess as your
keyword search term.

all the best

Simon

"Alan O'Brien" wrote in message
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Are you sure about Spassky and Smyslov? I have Miles and Nunn in reserve!
Alan