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What was the score? Did anyone manage to draw?
@ Susan Polgar
You asked in another post what will make your blog better? I think some simul in New York or Philly will not make it better. This is local stuff.
Not very interesting for the community.
It also slams down the more important posts that went about the WC.
Why posting several pics in a row (pushing down other threads) in which not many people are interesting in?
A blog is imo something like having an opinion about things that make you sick (but not a simultan in Philly).
That is just nonsense. I’m in Europe, but still likes to see Susan play simuls in Philly! This is what I want to see. Great of you to do such things Susan. Your work is greatly appreciated in the chess-community!
I love seeing her. Period. Even if she showed photos of her doing the laundry!. Keep up the good work Susan!
Dear Susan,
I was always fascinated by the simuls, because it suggests something more than the ability of good logic and combinative ability to be a great chess player. I never forget the simul I participated in against Walter Browne, the post-Bobby Fischer era american champion. We were 32 of us in the room, he barely stopped between moves, just took a glimpse of the chessboard and made his move. He beat all 32 of us. For years I was thinking, how is that possible. It is an ability one can not LEARN, one must have it at birth. Later one can improve that by studying, practicing, but the innate ability must be there.
But what IS that ability? Obvious it can’t be a “chess gene” since chess in an artificial activity, people invented it. Yet, it must be something what enables some people to be a great chess player. Some special “visualization ability” combined with memory (or perhaps THAT IS the memory) and logic and combinative ability only a “plus”.
Most great chess players can play “blind”. If it was only the combinative ability and logic, that would be not enough. Some form of incredible memory must be involved, but even that, not in a traditional way. I don’t know. If anyone, you could tell the real secret.
Gabor