“The boy doesn’t have aclue about Chess, and there’s no future at all for him in this profession.”
1. Who said the above quote?
2. Who was he/she talking about?
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I think it was Botvinnik about Karpov.
Kasparov about Carlsen?
That was Botvinnik on…Karpov!!!
Kamsky talked about Nakamura 🙂
Petrosian discussed about Fischer.
Botvinnik about karpov
No, It was said by Botvinnik about Karpov
Botvinnik on Karpov
something similar was said about tal when he was a boy, a very strong grandmaster said it. i guess this statement is about somebody different
Geoge Bush senior to Bush junior.
Think it was actually said about Karpov.
Mikhail Botvinnik about the 12-year-old Karpov
Botvinik about karpov
No idea. But my guess is that Botvinnik said that about Karpov (?????)
Anonymous said…
“Think it was actually said about Karpov.”
chyeah, by Mikhail Botvinnik in the 60s
Botvinnik said this about Karpov after their first sessions in Botvinnik’s chess academy.
Botvinnik about Karpov
Botvinnik about Kasparov 😛
botwinnik about karpov
Botvinnik said about a young 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov.
One thing’s for sure – it couldn’t have been the USA, because nobody would be talking about chess as a ‘profession’.
I believe it was Botvinnik’s comment about a young Karpov.
Kamalakanta
C’mon…that’s easy. Botvinik said this about Karpov a long time ago. I thought everyone knew that.
Mike Magnan
I think is was about Karpov by Botvinnik.
botvinnik about karpov
It was Botvinnik who said it, first about Karpov, but something very similar was said to Kasparov – though not by Botvinnik. I think the anecdote is recorded in Karpov on Karpov 1991 [English edition]
So… I win, where’s my tie?
Phil Innes
Vermont
About Kasparov Botvinnik said: “The future of chess lies in the hands of this boy.”
When Tal won his first Soviet championship in 1957, Mark Taimanov said that if Tal ever wins another Soviet championship with his style of play, he will retire from chess.
Tal defended his Soviet title in 1958, but Taimanov continued to play chess 🙂
This competition is rigged! Where is my Paul Truong Chess tie? Not only did I get Karpov and Botvinnik too, but said where Karpov said it. How good is that?
Disappointed in Vermont – but typical of chess politicians these days! ;(
PS: I have a novel, The Chess Garden – anyone here read it? It’s not centrally about chess, but about an American medico who goes to South Africa and encounters the Brit system of concentration of the Boers in camps, and this eventual sense of coming home to the USA and this patterned prospect in his own backyard, which has a sort of sense to it which his other experiences abroad had not.
Another day has passed and still no tie in the mail! I am becoming discouraged, especially about a guy who has thousands of ties, can’t part with one of them!
Maybe we could do a tie swap? I have something in mind.
Anyway, to extend this anecdote where did Kasparov also say that someone told him to go home sinc e he was useless, and who said it to him? [I actually forget who said that to him and where I read it, so the first answer is likely right]
Of course, Mr. Cheyne got it right first, about Karpov, and is maybe even now wearing /my/ tie…
Sadly, from Vermont, ( where there will be [another] frost tonight.)
;(
Phil Innes