How come he always drew chess games with his opponents except for the
rare times when he won or lost?

I think this guy has to be the weakest chess player ever to become
world champion. Botvinnik was quite old by the time he played
Petrosian for the world championship and Tigran was lucky that he was
young.

From: (Ivan)
Date: 28/11/03 04:03 GMT Standard Time
Message-id:

How come he always drew chess games with his opponents except for the
rare times when he won or lost?

I think this guy has to be the weakest chess player ever to become
world champion. Botvinnik was quite old by the time he played
Petrosian for the world championship and Tigran was lucky that he was
young.







Keep banging those rocks together.

Oh, and take up fishing, or tic-tac-toe.

Ivan wrote:
How come he always drew chess games with his opponents except for the
rare times when he won or lost?

I think this guy has to be the weakest chess player ever to become
world champion. Botvinnik was quite old by the time he played
Petrosian for the world championship and Tigran was lucky that he was
young.

Petrosian weak? No sir. What Petrosian lacked wasn't chess strength, but
ambition. He was one of the strongest, most talented players of all time,
but he was too easily satisfied with a draw. He often contented himself with
a draw against players he could have easily outplayed just by playing on, if
only he had felt like it. He became World Champion largely due to his wife,
who compensated for his lack of ambition by having a big surplus of it. She
was his slave driver. If on some particular day she told Tigran that he
should win, he did. On other days, he happily drew.

Tobi

En/na Ivan ha escrit:
How come he always drew chess games with his opponents except for the
rare times when he won or lost?

I think this guy has to be the weakest chess player ever to become
world champion. Botvinnik was quite old by the time he played
Petrosian for the world championship and Tigran was lucky that he was
young.

It seems to me that Ivan has not seen any Petrosian games!!

From my database I can see, for some thousand games Petrosian only
draws a 50% of his games. 50% is not exactly "rare times", is not it?

And more, some Petrosian games are simply fantastic.

AT

"Ivan" wrote in message
om...
How come he always drew chess games with his opponents except for the
rare times when he won or lost?

I think this guy has to be the weakest chess player ever to become
world champion. Botvinnik was quite old by the time he played
Petrosian for the world championship and Tigran was lucky that he was
young.

Tigran had probably the worst childhood of any major player - he was
supporting a large family at the age of 14. This may have contributed to a
conservative, success-driven style.
You should also remember that his match with Botvinik was the first match he
had played.
Also, as the Oxford Companion to Chess points out, he was the first champion
to successfully defend his title to his strongest challenger.
His score in chess olympics is quite superb; I think it's something like +97
=12 -1. That's from memory.

I think you have to be a very very strong player to fully appreciate his
games. I only understand them a little, but I think the best ones are great!

Here is one of my favourite games of his - admittedly it is a draw but it is
not boring, and Tigran missed a win.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1106728
You need Java
Alan

From: "Alan O'Brien"
Date: 28/11/03 11:55 GMT Standard Time
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"Ivan" wrote in message
. com...
How come he always drew chess games with his opponents except for the
rare times when he won or lost?

I think this guy has to be the weakest chess player ever to become
world champion. Botvinnik was quite old by the time he played
Petrosian for the world championship and Tigran was lucky that he was
young.

Tigran had probably the worst childhood of any major player - he was
supporting a large family at the age of 14. This may have contributed to a
conservative, success-driven style.
You should also remember that his match with Botvinik was the first match he
had played.
Also, as the Oxford Companion to Chess points out, he was the first champion
to successfully defend his title to his strongest challenger.
His score in chess olympics is quite superb; I think it's something like +97
=12 -1. That's from memory.

I think you have to be a very very strong player to fully appreciate his
games. I only understand them a little, but I think the best ones are great!

Here is one of my favourite games of his - admittedly it is a draw but it is
not boring, and Tigran missed a win.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1106728
You need Java
Alan


Great link, thanks Alan!

Ivan is an idiot troll who doesn't appreciate chess *at all* I fear.

Mark

Even Fischer said that Petrosian was the most difficult player to play
against because his moves were just unpredictable.

EZoto

Even Fischer said that Petrosian was the most difficult player to play
against because his moves were just unpredictable.

EZoto

OK, where did Fischer supposedly say this?
More likely, Fischer would have said this of Tal, Korchnoi, or Spassky before
the 72 match.

Richard Peterson

Generally speaking we amateurs understand chess tactics better than we
understand positional chess. Hence we like GM's who are king hunters and are
less fond of GM's who play positionally or invest the middle game for endgame
advantages.

RSHaas

In article m,
says...

Even Fischer said that Petrosian was the most difficult player to play
against because his moves were just unpredictable.

EZoto

Was it Petrosian or Polegaevsky who said that Judit Polgar would end up
becoming a positional player? I forgot who made this famous remark about
her.