The Life and Chess of Paul Keres
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- In this lecture, given October 6, 2016, at Center64 (www.center64.com), Lucas Anderson and Warren Harper co-present Paul Keres. Lucas focuses on the troubled history of Keres' native Estonia, and how occupying powers dictated Keres' chess prospects. Warren presents four games showing Keres' style and resourcefulness versus the strongest players of his era.
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It's a tragedy that these stopped being made. They're a serious treat for us "serious" amateurs, and I've seen them all at least twice. Here's hoping both hosts are safe in the age of the virus and will return with more awesome presentations on historic chess players.
Thank you for this :) As an Estonian it was very interesting to see this. You did your research very well
In the footage the narrator actually says following - "In chess, the king never leaves the board after the last move, Paul Keres stays."
Thank you--that means a lot coming from a countryman of Mr. Keres.
Everything you (Lucas and Warren) do is epic!!! The views and likes you receive don't display how we all feel about the material you put out. Thank you!
Thanks! It's a labor of love for us.
Total agreement!
Keres married in 1941 and he and his wife Maria had two children, a boy and a girl. There are photos os them all in the second volume of Egon Varnusz excellent book "Paul Keres' Best Games", published in 1990 by Pergamon Press.
This is a good set of games to look at. Keres was a great player! What a life! I just noticed the comment on Smyslov. I think looking at Smyslov games from the point of view of great endgames. That and the influence he had on the endgames. Players who want to improve should learn endgames...
You're quite right that Smyslov was a skilled endgame player. We've never considered showing games just for their endgames, but that's a great idea.
Regarding his family: He had a wife and two children. His wide Maria died in 2014 at the age of 98 (chess-news.ru/node/17162, on the first picture is she with Boris Spassky and on the second one Paul Keres with his wife and two children in September 1944, they are in the second row on the right side).
Regarding suggestions and requests, it would be great if you could do a lecture on Akiba Rubinstein and one about Savielly Tartakower :)
Cheers!
Thank you for that clarification! We'll keep your recommendations in mind.
Lucas Anderson - Hey, I posted a player I would love to see a Life and chess of! Gioachino Greco, after simulating his games on my chess board, I just started playing at a higher level it was magical! like I am a nobody in chess but I beat the alberta junior champion, and Some of Our clubs best players, just because of his games! I always have to go back to study his games! there that powerful.
I truly belive he is the best player of all time! :)
the grandson peter keres speaks a little bit about his grandfather in an article about being in the shades of a celebrity.
he describes him as a normal person, a very close family member. delicate, well-balanced, a man who never emphasizes his fame. he kept his emotions about tourneys, wins and defeats to himself, chess was a seperate life to him.
the grandson didnt inherited the talent of his grandfather, the grandfather never forced him to play chess, he believes his grandfather may wanted him to play chess but never tried to talk him into it.
m.epl.delfi.ee/article.php?id=50794397
Amazing, touching video! Keres was a true gentleman and a legend! We appreciate the work you've done, it's huge!
oh if you are doing life and chess, of people please do Gioachino Greco, after studing his games I started beating 2250 rated players and I do not have a rating I play with my friends we all live in poverty but Grecos Games helped me alot! I believe he is the best chess player, hope you read this lucas! :)
Thank you so much! This is great as always.
I think your sound quality is even better this time.
You guys are awesome! Great job! Great work! Thank you for sharing!!!
Maria Riives Keres is still going strong at the ripe old age of 93!
His Brother Harold is still alive at 98.
WOW, how wonderful and how ironic simultaneously....
//...// Two months after death of Keres, the Soviet Nations spartakia was held in Riga. I was there as a trainer, but spare time I dedicated on writing book about tournament "Tallinn-75". To evaluate one standing I needed help from Boris Spasski. // On agreement I went to champions room. He was somewhat faraway.... "Juri Aleksandrovich, do you know, what I did? turned Spasski to me. "I felt bad. I wanted to to speak to a smart, good person [chelovek]. I ordered the call, to your [state], to Nõmme. I waited for a moment, and then I understood. Cancelled the call." // I looked to the floor. We held quiet moment. Then Spasski said: "Paul Petrovich loved chess. Show me the standing. Let's look." (memoirs of Jüri Randviir)
That Keres Spassky game is marvellous. Such visual poetry. Two years of these videos and it's still brilliant guys. Well done! Incidentally, there is plenty of biographical material in Sosonko's Russian Silhouettes (surely you know it?) in which Sosonko quotes from the KGB file on Keres' wife Maria: " a cultured, educated woman.... talkative (and with) a high opinion of herself."
Oh man--I have Sosonko's book and I didn't even think of looking in it.
Damn, that kid solving all the tactics like it's nothing. I'm guessing he's a strong player?
She--yes, she is a strong player (1900ish). I'm glad she comes on a school night, as she contributes to our presentations. Her dad also happens to be a strong player who has actually played (in simuls) some of the players we've covered.
My mistake - that's nice to hear either way :)
Thanks for putting this together Lucas , thanks for these old films and pictures of Keres and details on Estonia, my father's homeland that he and his parents escaped after WWII. For what it's worth, I note that the NY Times reports that he was married with two children.
There is no such thing as AI since people are programing computers. The moves engines make are actually "human" moves. There is no such thing as computer moves, or "engine" moves.
Wow! Phenomenal documentary on the life of Paul Keres "the Crown Prince of Chess." Thank you!
This is the best yet congrats and keep it up can wait for steinitz
I wish Alekhine would have gone to Britain before WW2 and stayed there. Such greatness lost.
These lectures on chess history are a great treasure to the chess community worldwide. It would be sooooo good to have more of them!
a carl schlechter video would be awesome.
I have already looked at the videos about Fischer, Petrosian and Keres and I'll do look at them all. This is a terrific job and I cannot praise you enough. That said, I ask you: does the picture on 01:33:57 shows Geller and Keres? I recognize Keres very well, but the guy with the black pieces doesn't look like Geller. Thanks a lot and please keep up the wonderful work!
9:17 Photo of Flohr, not of Mikenas.
wow great documentary!, lived some time in estonia and everyone knows paul keres .. the picture halfway 1:02:56 i wonder if this is lenin, as other pictures, statues of lenin look quite different, maybe chigorin, maybe i am just wrong :)
Wow surprised to see another upload , thanks ☺️☺️☺️☺️
Hi Lucas, great work you do in this channel! The photo of Vladas Mikenas you show around 9:50 is actually young Salo Flohr - just one detail to correct ;)
Great video. Whose next ?
It might interest you to know that Keres' widow Maria died in 2014 aged 97. According to this report from Russian sports site Sport.ru, she lived in Tallinn on Keres Street - www.sports.ru/chess/1024730536.html
45:07 In my opinion .1.Be6+ Kh8 2. Ba3 d4? (< 2...Qe7 3.cd5 B:d5 black is better) 3. Qg4 white is better. What you think?
it's not Lenin's picture in that old video, that's Chigorin, which makes much more sense; and - for that time - it was much more likely to find Stalin's picture and (again) - not Lenin's.
The more of these lectures I've watched, the more I see the hours and hours of research and study put into these wonderful episodes. Thank you both so much for giving us hours and hours of fantastic listeng pleasures. You must have a love for Chess, history and reading or all 3 to dedicate so much time to it. I wish I'd seen them at the time they were produced to thank you back then. So hopefully you will see this comment.
Gratitude for this installment of this so very necessary series on the great players in the history of chess ! CONGRATS GUYS, SUPERB JOB !
Lucas this has been an incredible work you and Warren have make, I really appreciate you sharing this magnificent effort of putting the life and some of the iconic games of this chess players. I'd like to make a suggestion, if you guys have any time to do it, and that is Ivanchuks life, I don't know much about him but his personality and his games makes him quite appealing.
Thank you for the kind words and suggestion. Warren and I have done two series, and we don't know whether we should do a Life and Chess video on a living player (e.g. Kramnik, Ivanchuk).
Thank you for answering. If I may ask for another one, maybe Miguel Najdorf, he had quite a life and stablished some very interesting chess world records.
Najdorf would make for an interesting presentation. As an added bonus, we could cover my favorite variation of the Sicilian.
Nice, thanks Lucas, that would be cool.
Seems like Keres return the favour to Botvinnik, he saved him from being executed after all
@ 9:55 you say botvinnik played capablanca in a simul and it was a draw, botvinnik actually won I believe.
The photo you posted at 8 minutes 46 seconds is of Salo Flohr
Fabulous series. Thanks SO much. (British fan.)
1:01:19 "Under the picture of Lenin" ?! Its under the picture of M.Chigorin, a chess player who died 9 years before the Russian Revolution! Keep up the good work, I like your enthusiasm.
Thank you for pointing this out...I didn't even question that and just assumed it was Lenin!
the deepest chess player ever
he is the best to me :-)
I'd like to see a video about Tartakower's life and games. His life was very eventful. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for the suggestion!
Great job! Thank you for this video!
Nice video! :)
PS: 1:33:50 is that the UK flag on Tigran Petrosian?! :D
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country) ah yeah, for some reason the spaces between the red thingies seemed filled with blue
You guys got to do one on Euwe!!
@1:02:58 - It's Chigorin, not Lenin
"incidentally.."!!
super maletaja