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Hommage à Igor Ivanov, par Boris Spasski
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Louis, comme les liens sur Chesstalk disparaissent avec le temps, je copie le message sur lequel tu pointes:
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Boris Spassky tribute to Igor Ivanov
Posted by Vlad Rekhson on October 29, 2006, 14:04:34
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The following was posted on the San Francisco, Mechanics chess club webpage:
A Tribute to Igor Ivanov By Boris Spassky
The following was written by Boris Spassky from his hospital bed in San Francisco and read to the players at the Western States Open. Prior to his stroke Boris had been scheduled to give a talk in Reno remembering the first anniversary of Igor's passing.
A Tribute to Igor Ivanov
By Boris Spassky
Igor Ivanov and I shared a similar fate. Neither of us could not adapt to the socialist paradise. Both of us received our living strength from Imperial Russia, which had over 1,000 years of culture. Igor was lucky and received a good musical education from his mother who died when he was only 14 years old. She dreamed to see him as a good pianist and cellist, but his passion was to become a professional chess player. Fortunately, Igor was very talented at chess.
As an artistic personality Igor was living like a careless bird, flying from one place to another, playing chess and piano and singing Russian romances. He did not have the persistence which is so important for getting the Grandmaster's title. Igor did not care about himself and became a Grandmaster only a few months before his death. He could have easily gotten it 20 years ago!
In 1979, Igor won a famous game against Anatoly Karpov. As a consequence of this victory, Colonel Baturinsky, Schach Fuehrer of the USSR, gave him a chance to participate in the Capablanca Memorial in Havana the following year. This was the first and the last invitation which he received from the "generous Colonel." Coming back from Havana to Moscow, the plane of the Soviet company Aeroflot made a stop in Gander, Newfoundland. Igor asked for political asylum and the socialist paradise lost one of its most talented masters.
Every time our chess diagonals crossed, I was very glad to meet Igor. Both of us liked the Russian operatic romances. We especially enjoyed the great bass singer Feodor Shaliapin and the beautiful soprano Nadezda Obuhova. We reminisced about our chess teacher from the Palace of Pioneers, Alexander Cherepkov, who is now 86 years old, and of course we talked of St. Petersburg.
Igor did not have any illusions about communists or perestroika. It is easy to change the State's flag and emblem, but it is not possible to change a head or a conscience. It takes decades.
Igor's professional life in the West was difficult. He played many tournaments with small prizes and really needed the Grandmaster's title to get the initiations for the big events The country where he started his new chess life, Canada, is not for chess. Both its chess leaders in the early 1980s - Kevin Spraggett and Igor Ivanov - had to move to another area: Kevin to Europe and Igor to the USA. In his new homeland, he won nine Grand Prix titles, which was a great accomplishment.
Igor was lucky to meet his wife Elizabeth who gave him everything, and he was very grateful to her. The last part of his life Igor settled with her in St. George, Utah, where he headed a chess school and almost became a "balanced American." He liked his friends, his wife, children, animals, music, and adventures. Two cats, Petrushka and Sasha, played an important role in his life. Igor liked to give concerts where he played piano and sang. He was good natured and people liked him for his excellent sense of humor.
We played in the last round in the Interzonal in Toluca, Mexico in 1982. Igor needed a point for the Grandmaster title, and I a point to qualify for the Candidates. Igor defended his inferior position like an ancient Greek hero and made a draw! Nether of us needed a draw! After the game,. we looked at each other with open mouths. Friendship is friendship, but sport is sport.
Last October, Igor being very ill, wanted to meet his friends one last time. Thanks to his good friend Alan Crooks he was able came to come to Reno but was only able to play two games.
Igor left this world courageously: no complaints, no regrets, just hiding his pain. Before saying good-bye, we pretended we would meet again, but our eyes were very sad: we knew that in this life we had met each other for the last time. Igor left us on November 17, 2005.
I will have warm feelings for Igor forever.
San Francisco October 5, 2006
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Boris Spassky tribute to Igor Ivanov
Posted by Vlad Rekhson on October 29, 2006, 14:04:34
User logged in as: Vlad Rekhson
The following was posted on the San Francisco, Mechanics chess club webpage:
A Tribute to Igor Ivanov By Boris Spassky
The following was written by Boris Spassky from his hospital bed in San Francisco and read to the players at the Western States Open. Prior to his stroke Boris had been scheduled to give a talk in Reno remembering the first anniversary of Igor's passing.
A Tribute to Igor Ivanov
By Boris Spassky
Igor Ivanov and I shared a similar fate. Neither of us could not adapt to the socialist paradise. Both of us received our living strength from Imperial Russia, which had over 1,000 years of culture. Igor was lucky and received a good musical education from his mother who died when he was only 14 years old. She dreamed to see him as a good pianist and cellist, but his passion was to become a professional chess player. Fortunately, Igor was very talented at chess.
As an artistic personality Igor was living like a careless bird, flying from one place to another, playing chess and piano and singing Russian romances. He did not have the persistence which is so important for getting the Grandmaster's title. Igor did not care about himself and became a Grandmaster only a few months before his death. He could have easily gotten it 20 years ago!
In 1979, Igor won a famous game against Anatoly Karpov. As a consequence of this victory, Colonel Baturinsky, Schach Fuehrer of the USSR, gave him a chance to participate in the Capablanca Memorial in Havana the following year. This was the first and the last invitation which he received from the "generous Colonel." Coming back from Havana to Moscow, the plane of the Soviet company Aeroflot made a stop in Gander, Newfoundland. Igor asked for political asylum and the socialist paradise lost one of its most talented masters.
Every time our chess diagonals crossed, I was very glad to meet Igor. Both of us liked the Russian operatic romances. We especially enjoyed the great bass singer Feodor Shaliapin and the beautiful soprano Nadezda Obuhova. We reminisced about our chess teacher from the Palace of Pioneers, Alexander Cherepkov, who is now 86 years old, and of course we talked of St. Petersburg.
Igor did not have any illusions about communists or perestroika. It is easy to change the State's flag and emblem, but it is not possible to change a head or a conscience. It takes decades.
Igor's professional life in the West was difficult. He played many tournaments with small prizes and really needed the Grandmaster's title to get the initiations for the big events The country where he started his new chess life, Canada, is not for chess. Both its chess leaders in the early 1980s - Kevin Spraggett and Igor Ivanov - had to move to another area: Kevin to Europe and Igor to the USA. In his new homeland, he won nine Grand Prix titles, which was a great accomplishment.
Igor was lucky to meet his wife Elizabeth who gave him everything, and he was very grateful to her. The last part of his life Igor settled with her in St. George, Utah, where he headed a chess school and almost became a "balanced American." He liked his friends, his wife, children, animals, music, and adventures. Two cats, Petrushka and Sasha, played an important role in his life. Igor liked to give concerts where he played piano and sang. He was good natured and people liked him for his excellent sense of humor.
We played in the last round in the Interzonal in Toluca, Mexico in 1982. Igor needed a point for the Grandmaster title, and I a point to qualify for the Candidates. Igor defended his inferior position like an ancient Greek hero and made a draw! Nether of us needed a draw! After the game,. we looked at each other with open mouths. Friendship is friendship, but sport is sport.
Last October, Igor being very ill, wanted to meet his friends one last time. Thanks to his good friend Alan Crooks he was able came to come to Reno but was only able to play two games.
Igor left this world courageously: no complaints, no regrets, just hiding his pain. Before saying good-bye, we pretended we would meet again, but our eyes were very sad: we knew that in this life we had met each other for the last time. Igor left us on November 17, 2005.
I will have warm feelings for Igor forever.
San Francisco October 5, 2006
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François Dorion
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Ça fait deux fois en peu de temps que je vois dans un texte de Spassky la mention que le Canada n'est pas un pays pour les échecs; et il est certain que cette mention s'applique aussi au Québec, puisque l'exemple qu'il donne des deux joueurs qui ont dû s'expatrier, Spraggett et Ivanov, concerne des joueurs québécois.
Je suis certain que Spassky ne parle pas seulement du manque de commanditaires, il y en a plus en dehors du Québec qu'au Québec; faut-il croire que Spassky fait allusion à l,attitude des Canadiens vis-à-vis le jeu d'échecs, et en particulier des joueurs et des amateurs? faut-il croire que nous sommes tous des Topalov qui attachent plus d'importance au résultat qu'à la performance? Comment expliquer le faible taux de participation dans les tournois et le désengagement des amateurs?
Il est certain que nous avons des leçons à prendre sur la façon de se comporter devant un jeu d'échecs, et que ces leçons doivent être prises au plus haut niveau pour redonner une prestance au jeu d'échecs qu'il a perdue au fil des héros locaux et des vedettes de salon.
François Dorion
Je suis certain que Spassky ne parle pas seulement du manque de commanditaires, il y en a plus en dehors du Québec qu'au Québec; faut-il croire que Spassky fait allusion à l,attitude des Canadiens vis-à-vis le jeu d'échecs, et en particulier des joueurs et des amateurs? faut-il croire que nous sommes tous des Topalov qui attachent plus d'importance au résultat qu'à la performance? Comment expliquer le faible taux de participation dans les tournois et le désengagement des amateurs?
Il est certain que nous avons des leçons à prendre sur la façon de se comporter devant un jeu d'échecs, et que ces leçons doivent être prises au plus haut niveau pour redonner une prestance au jeu d'échecs qu'il a perdue au fil des héros locaux et des vedettes de salon.
François Dorion