In your opinion, what are the top 10 most special / historic chess moments in history?
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1. Fischer defeating Spassky in 1972
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kasparov at the top for as long as he was…
Paul Keres and David Bronstein never being crowned world champion…
the deep blue match…
tony miles beating karpov with a novelty opening…
the polgar sisters.
Capablanca.
1. MATCH OF THE CENTURY – Fischer -Spassky and Fischer’s victory.Chess craze in USA and in world.Chess appeared as top world news.
2. Computer(deep blue) beats world champion (Kasparov )
3.State support of chess in Soviet Union and emergence of many strong grandmasters.
4.Computers(chess software) became strong as grandmasters (2600)
and are available for everybody to play and analyse.
5. Opportunity to play,watch,study chess online
(chess servers ICC and Playchess)
6.Alekhine beats Capablanca 1927 and became world champion
7.In my opinion there are only 4 extraordinary geniuses in chess. Their style,life story and personality ,games,and
performance are unique. They are Morphy, Capablanca, Tal and Fischer
8.Kasparov beats Karpov 1985 and became joungest world champion ever.First of 4 matches between them.
9. Kasparov and Short left FIDE 1993. and organized match out of FIDE ”jurisdiction” causing split in chess world and FIDE inaugurates false ”FIDE world champions
like f.e. Khalifman ,Pornomariov and similar guys ( in my opinion world champion is somebody
who beats PREVIOUS world champion in a MATCH.
10.” The Laslo Polgar educational concept and experiment” (ie) all 3 daughters intensively studied chess in family surrounding,
and achieved many records and successes.
(by an IM from Europe)
1. Morphy beats all in Europe!
2. Steinitz is 1st Official World Champion.
3. Lasker still winning tournaments at advance age! Also longest World Champion reign ever 27 years.
4. Capablanca doesn’t lose a game in 8 years.
5. Alekhine defeats Capablanca in 1927 to become World Champion.
6. Alekhine dies while World Champion leaving void which Botvinnik/Smyslov/Tal/Petrosian/Spassky hold World Champion Title from 1948 to 1971.
7. Fischer defeats Russian dominance in chess in 1972 and achieves highest distance between World Champion and rest of top GM’s since Morphy’s dominance.
8. Karpov wins more 1st place tournaments than any World Champion ever has!
9. Kasparov stays at top for 20 years and heralds age of GM strength computer programs and chess databases as tools to improve preparation against opponents.
10. Fischer Random Chess and Fischer Clock.
Kasparov/Karpov 85 was a big thing, deep blue 97 is quite historic, maybe Elista 2006 also, since it was a reunification.
Morphy’s tour of Europe.
I can’t think of anything else right now.
Fischer turning chess into a sport of cheating and scandal and gamesmanship in 1972.
Now we see the effects today in Topalov, Kramnik, etc.
Before 1972, chess was dignified and had no money. Now its undignified and has no money.
I don’t want my defeat at the top.
It hurt me. :))))
Historically, how can anyone overlook the evolution of chess when discussing this topic.
There was a huge change in the way the Queen moves and other rules sometime around the 14th-15th century (forive me if I’m a bit off on the date).
I think this should be near #1 or at least mentioned in the top 10 rather than listing one’s favorite players.
On that note, though, I would say that Morphy’s “style” of play certainly influenced the next generation of chess masters. So, he (or his contribution) should be mentioned.
Finally, I think that, regarding computer chess, the first time a computer beat a human GM is worthy of being lower on the list. I certainly believe that everyone can agree that computers have influenced the evolution of chess theory in some manner (I leave that for the reader to decide whether it was good or bad)…but the advance of computer chess should be on the list.
The Fischer-Spassky match was quite important because it was more than a mere fight for the chess championship…it was also a reflection of Cold War attitudes and I the event, if studied sociologically (i.e. other than the moves in each game), and historically…it was a major turning point in more ways than just having the first American World Champ.
Just my reflections.
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Yeah ….. there was a lot of cheating in that match ……. MORON!!!
Why don’t you go contribute your stupid statements to the “ENQUIRER” blog ….. JERK.
In no particular order
1. Fischer-Spassky championship match
2. Macdonnell-LaBourdonnais match (sort of a first world championship)
3. The positional revelations of Steinitz
4. Computers overtake humans in chessplaying strength; Kasparov-Deep Blue match
5. Chess becomes available on the internet
6. Kasparov-Karpov championship matches
7. Polgar sisters inspire women all over the world to take chess to the next level
8. Topalov-Kramnik Ellista match/scandal
9. GMs earning their titles younger and younger (if this pattern keeps up we may soon have 10-year-old GMs)
10. Morphy conquers the European chess scene.
Well, very nice to fly off the handle with words like ‘moron’ and ‘jerk’.
Fischer was not confident of his ability to beat Spassky honestly, so he went into that sleazy psychological warfare. It is hard to focus and prepare when every minute for weeks your opponent is changing and twisting about even showing up.
Fischer maybe invented ‘total warfare’ in chess, that winning by chess is not important, just destroying your opponent by any means is important.
Karpov would have been more resistant than Spassky to these tricks, so of course Fischer didn’t play him.
Yeah, you’re right Fischer wasn’t actually better than Spassky and Karpov would’ve beaten him.
I love how you throw these statements out there like they are facts.
Could you be any more obvious that you’re a Fischer hater??
Susan Polgar World Champion four times.
#2. Deep fissure caused by the Kasparov breakaway.
Kasparov is the best chess player ever but his political schemes in chess and outside of chess stink. This naturally begs the question does chess really make people better in the mind??? This is an extremely fundamental question, because most of GM Susan Polgars initiatives are based on this premise.
1. introduction of the bishop’s move order
2. introduction of the king’s move order
3. introduction of the queen’s move order
4. introduction of castling
5. introduction of the en passant rule
6.introduction of stalemate being a draw
7.the never ever happened Murphy – Staunton match – and it’s devastating results
8.Alekhin’s mysterious death in Lissboa
9.Mikhail Tal
10. i have no number ten!
Kasparov lost to Deep Blue
The Lazlo Polgar experiment.
Deep Thought defeating average grandmasters.
Victor Korchnoi’s toughness by defecting and still being successful.
Sofia Polgar’s 2900+ performance in Italy.
Danailov becoming a chess manager
10. Emanual Lasker losing twice to an amatuer while having queen odds.
9. Victor Korchnoi enjoying his favorite flavor of yogurt.
8. Garry kasparov vs. Judit Polgar touch-move.
7. Deep Blue finally surpassing “The Turk”.
6. Alekhine bravely taking on Bogoljubov twice in a row.
5. The magnificent struggle Paul Keres put on against Botvinnik at AVRO.
4. The Deep Blue/Joel Benjamin consultation match against Garry Kasparov.
3. The FIDE cleanup, no more bribes now, just dictatorship.
2. Bobby Fisher turning down a million dollar shampoo commercial because he didnt use the product.
1. Kramniks incredible move he came up with while in a bathroom in Elista.
1) The Queen Move Rule change in the 13th. century + The Castling Rule change. This should be #1 event because it layed the groundwork for making chess popular.
2) The internet chess phenonemon. This will revolutionize chess for the next millenium.
3) Polgar Family’s emergence. For 2 reasons: a) Women in chess and b) training innovation.
4) Computers vs. Humans for obvious reasons.
5) The first chess tournament in 1851 puts chess on the map as a serious activity.
6) Emergence of China as a top world power makes chess more than just a product of Western Culture.
7) The Soviet juggernaut pressures the West to ostracize players the Communist Regime disapproves of. The biggest moment was when the USCF caved in and disinvited Korchnoi from playing in US invitationals. (2nd. biggest was West Europe’s ostracism of Ludek Pachman.)
8) Arab boycott of Israel succeeds. FIDE will never again award an Olympiad to an Israeli sponsor. (Runner up: FIDE boycott of South Africa, now over.) Political boycotts are now a fact of life in chess.
9) Fischer’s flawed challenge to the chess powers-that-be in his winning the World Championship.
10) Steinitz establishes the first World Championship.
“kasparov at the top for as long as he was…”
That’s hardly a “moment”. Far from it.
“Paul Keres and David Bronstein never being crowned world champion…”
And that’s an anti-moment.
>>Yeah, you’re right Fischer wasn’t actually better than Spassky and Karpov would’ve beaten him.
I love how you throw these statements out there like they are facts.
Could you be any more obvious that you’re a Fischer hater??>>
Could it be any more obviouis that you don’t read posts before responding to them? He didn’t say that Fischer wasn’t better than Spassky, he said that Fischer wasn’t confident about it. It’s pretty obvious he wasn’t. And not for the first time. Heck, he wasn’t even confident enough to play in the 1969 Zonal unless it were doubled in length.
>>1. Kramniks incredible move he came up with while in a bathroom in Elista.>>
LOL. How about how the Internet makes it possible for a players supposed friends to help him destroy his reputation? Poor Veselin. He’ll never be able to put his bad behavior behind him. His so-called friends will see to that.
Some chronologically sorted evolutions and moments:
1.The creation of the ‘modern’ chess rules. Castelvi vs Vinyoles
2.The great attacking games of the 17th century Italian masters like Greco, Polerio, Lolli and their first opening analysis.
3. The founding of positional chess by Philidor. The publication of L’ Analyse du jeu d’échecs.
4. Morphy combines positional understanding with great attacking spirit to master the art of the open game like no one before him and very few after him ever did. His European tour.
5. The principles of chess strategy as laid down by Steinitz. Steinitz becomes the first world champion.
6. The hypermodern movement. Publication of works like My System by Nimzovitch and Modern ideas in chess by Reti
7. The effortless perfection achieved by J.R. Capablanca. His match against Lasker
8. The development of the soviet chess machine before and during WWII and the culminating point of this evolution in the 1948 WC tournament.
9. Kasparov introduces modern attacking play during his matches against Karpov.
10. Computers can compete at equal level with the best human players.
The various Man-Machine matches.
1. Zurich Interzonal 1953
2. Fischer runs over Larson, Taimanov, and Petrosian, eventually psyching out Spassky to win world championship.
3. Kamsky makes it the semis in PCA and FIDE playoffs, loses to Kapov in FIDE final
4. Kasparov’s period at over 2800
5. Korchnoi admits not having his wife around improved his chess in hs match vs Karpov
6. Kramnik beats Kasparov for WCC
7. Fischer wins all games to win US Championship.
8. Kasparov plays the Caro-Kann vs Deep Blue. Why???? “And instead of bringing his bishop out with bishop to e6, Kasprov has instead played the move h7 to h6 and Deep Blue has instantly sacrificed with knight captures on e6….” – Maurice Ashley
9. WCC Kramnik loses to mate in one, latest match vs computer.
10. Tal beats Botvinnik to become WCC 1961.
1 Fischer Spassky 1972 Championship 2 Russian controlled FIDE refusal for another Soviet World Championship defeat and was prepared to fight Fischer over Match conditions forever if necessary, resulting in robbery and tragic loss of Chessic innovation due to the loss of Robert Fischer for good. For even Garry Kasparov said that Bobby was at least 15 years ahead of his time theory wise! 3 A World Champion loses to a machine Deep Blue! 4 Susan Polgar breaks through as a legitimate GM World contender 5 The Polgar sisters in general proving that women could indeed play the game with great result leading to Judit achieving Super GM status. 6 Korchnoi blackmailed by Communist Russia so they could hand pick their golden boy Karpov to compete for the World Crown. 7 Invention of the Fischer clock to prevent chaotic endings due to time pressure. I’ll have to think about the rest.
Fischer’s 20 game winning streak
against GM’s leading up to finish-
ing off two world champions,
Petrosian and Spassky. For sustained brilliance, anyone who
held the world title for at least
a decade.
Dale said…
1. Zurich Interzonal 1953
10. Tal beats Botvinnik to become WCC 1961.
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Interesting that two of your most significant moments never happened at all. Though there was a Zurich Candidates, and Tal did win in 1960.
The fischer winning 6-0 straight against Larsen and Taimanov.
I thought that is an incredible achievement at his time.
Eventually if everybody or computer can calculate chess moves correctly with no mistake, the game will be a draw one.
Is this true ?
Yes, R. Fischer stated that a long time ago, since then also other grandmasters.
Judit Pólgar x Kasparov , Linares-1994 !
Judit knows why !